Shoman, I'm not using the traction bar setup, however, FirstSHO and my 60ft's have been very similar this season. I think the coilovers are the way to go honestly. He's running a bigger tire up front, but I'm still running Circle D's torque converter. Theyre not exactly the same, but they've ran pretty much the same this year.
As far as fuel, I usually run 93 octane at the track. This fall (meaning the last couple of weeks) I mixed a couple gallons of VP Racing MS109 (check out their website for specifics, but it's motor octane is 101) because of the winter grade fuel that's in our pumps here. We were actually at the track the week before but it started raining literally as soon as Dan uploaded the tune with what I believe was another help...lowered shift points. We were running up to about 6300rpm and we lowered down to factory shift points. It seemed to run better on the street and then when Livernois secured the track again I had a commitment I couldnt get out of and Mike (FirstSHO) luckily could make it and turned his 11