Motorplex Tonight

[kryten2001]

Going to the 'plex tonight to try my hand at some quarter mile times in the yellow beast...

Will post slips tomorrow.

[Fanaki]

have fun man!

be interesting to see what times you come up with

[schoona]

High 12/low 13 traction permitting?

Good luck mate. Pioneer of sorts :p

[tinto]

awww yeeeeaaaah

good luck

[VOLKSMAN]

Goodluck, try not to bust blow or fry anything on the way , have fun

[kryten2001]

Well I only managed to get 2 runs in coz some guy in a cortina station wagon blew the guts out of his engine.. Oil all over the track.. 2 hour stoppage....

Too bad for him, looked like it was ready to pull a high 19 for sure.

Anyway I screwed it up pretty bad (never been down the strip before) and had huge wheelspin on my first run, and bad bogging down on the second.

Ran 14.1 @ 168km/h (104.04mph).

Pretty crap quarter time, but the terminal speed wasn't too bad.

I gotta learn how to launch this thing. It's a real beyotch.

I got owned off the line by a stock standard Mazda 6.. It took me half the track to catch up with him - but when I caught him I blew past him going about 30-40km/h faster.

Sucks off the line. Or maybe it's me, I can't drive. Pretty depressing.. I also ate the worst hot dog I've ever had in my life. I'm sure I'll be suffering tomorrow.

[VOLKSMAN]

Pretty good considering it was your first time at the runs, is yours dsg or manual? You should practice on dead roads for good launches, also study your or someone elses dyno graph with similar mods to see where your car reaches peak torque in your rev range, and learn to feather te accelerator when you wheel spin, try not get totally on and off the throttle , an pretty much you will see these times drop pretty fast. Also use wet weather To devlop your experience with wheel spin , learn to feather the pedal rather then transitioning the pedal (on/off).

[paolob]

Pirelli's here only came in DSG

yeah definitely learn how to feather the throttle. There was someone here in NSW who has a pirelli with just the flash everything else stock getting 13.6. He mentioned in his thread that launch control made his times slower so just had it in sports mode.

I haven't gone down the 1/4 for warranty issues, but i was able to race a tuned up jap spec s15 from a dig, i won twice by having it in sports mode and flooring it and shifting just before redline. But if i used the launch control method i'm pretty sure i would have lost due to the slight delay as well as too much wheelspin i think.

say no to street racing!

[VOLKSMAN]

never noticed he owned a pirelli, i suggest to invest in some slicks for runs as pirelli tyres are too dear for such a purpose and then use the launch control (making sure esp's off) , which will cut time of your 60ft mark.
wheel spin will be somewhat reduced if you just add on experience to your take off's. also try and stick the the darkest rubber patches and burnout trials on the track, which will aid grip. by doing such things will bring out the best time possible with the car your running.

[isaw]

Ran 14.1 @ 168km/h (104.04mph).

My first run ever was 14.1 with semis, stock intake and a BF reflash. good to know we get to the end of the track at the same time a 2k launch and feeding the power gradually will help. with a 104mph trap you should get a 13.8 with a good launch. my trap was 98 so I almost had a perfect run.

[Kiel_GTI]

dont know much about drag racing but i'd say getting only 2 runs in on your first go 14.1 is a pretty good effort. did you have your tyre pressures way down?

[kryten2001]

dont know much about drag racing but i'd say getting only 2 runs in on your first go 14.1 is a pretty good effort. did you have your tyre pressures way down?

No, stock pressures, and very cold tyres and cold track.. I was waiting in the cold (13 degrees c) for nearly 2 hours to do that second run.

My feeling is it's probably good for a high 13 the way it is now. To get better times would need slicks and probably some suspension work....

The majority of the time was lost in the launch though, and there's probably not a lot I can do about that. There must be a trick to getting good DSG launches, but I'm stuffed if I can figure it out... It comes in after a slow creep (thus setting off the timer), then nothing.. nothing.. MONSTER WHEELSPIN.....

And here's the other thing... On the drags, when you take off, there's 3 amber lights then green... My first launch had a reaction time of 1.2 seconds (yeah I know)..... So on the second I launched it just as soon as I saw the first amber light... Still had a reaction time of 0.6 seconds...

I realise the reaction time doesn't affect the ET (right?) but this is why I got left for dead by that mazda 6 for the first 50-100 metres or so....

Power in 2nd/3rd was really good (head jerking stuff)... I noticed a few dropoffs in power in 4th/5th though around the gearchange..

The other poster is probably right. I should be shifting near the peak of the power curve and not waiting for the DSG to do its thing near redline. That'd no doubt be worth a few tenths as well..

haha, something that caught me off guard was the end of the run.. There's no markers telling you when to stop (and it was at night).. I saw the end of road coming up pretty quick, barely thinking I was going around 200km/h... Those brembos got a SERIOUS workout at the end of the straight.... Almost ran off the end of the strip (knobhead or what).

Top fuellers can pull it up in heaps of time, yet here I am almost running off the end in my yellow golf.

They could draw a nice white line or put a flag on the side of the strip or something though...

[kryten2001]

My first run ever was 14.1 with semis, stock intake and a BF reflash. good to know we get to the end of the track at the same time a 2k launch and feeding the power gradually will help. with a 104mph trap you should get a 13.8 with a good launch. my trap was 98 so I almost had a perfect run.

What are you running mate? Pirelli or regualar GTI?

[tinto]

I think it is all in the launch. IMO you almost need to abandon using LC to get it going.
Mark (banned member zz2) on standard GTI/DSG achieved a 13.9 with an intake and BF tune on the same track.
Street tyres / slightly lower pressures IIRC.

It was nice to see the VW hurt applied to bogan utes / big turbo forrester
I'd like to get down there in the coming weeks to give it a squirt!

[GeorgeS3]

Kryten,

Next time you go try using Manual mode and not Sport Mode. Do a normal take off and if it starts to spin to much shift straight into second. This should help your 60ft time but you just really need to try a few different options.