New track times, went to the 1/4 mile Options

[mywhite94celicag...]

i went to the race track on saturday and it was import day so i decided to send my celica down a few times. heres my times

1st pass 17.392
2nd pass 17.247
3rd pass 17.279


i was told by a guy that knows alot about cars and drag racing that low 17s for a celica with only a few mods was pretty fast. he said that most celicas will run mid to low18's stock. i was like SWEET. i felt pretty good about that cause the guys that i went there with had a civic hatchback with amildly modified ZC 1.8 engine and he only ran a 16.893. that was his fastest time, all 4 or so other passes were slower then mine they were like 17.4 or 17.5. so that also made me feel pretty good. let me know what ya think, if they are slow or fast for the celica gt????

[mywhite94celicag...]

sorry took so long to get back to my topic.

the civic hatchback has the jdm ZC 1.8

and with me supposedly not being able to shift worth a crap, no no no, thats not the problem. i can tell you a couple of problems with my car. i have lowered springs and brand new monroe sensatrac struts = most of the weight of the car is on the struts = which means that i had a lot of wheel hop off the line. also my reaction time was alot slower then yours zigy, so take another second off my reaction time to equal it to your time, well im guess im runnin a 16.2 then huh. also another problem is the previous owner rodded the crap out of it, he got too many tickets thats why he had to get rid of the car. another thing is that is fixed now was the long throw of the shifter. well now i have a short throw shifter. i wonder what my time will be now.

i dont know what the elavation is here but next time i go to the track ill find out for ya.

there is nothing wrong with my car either, its just been rode hard and put away wet by previous owner.

another thing, one of the mechanic wizzes in my town ask me my time, and he did some equation and told me that with my times, that my engine was pullin 127 HP. Let me think a sec but if i remember right the 2.2 5sfe had an output of only 135 HP. So being a 9 year old car with hot rod previous owners, that doesnt sound too bad to me. but since i custom ground my sturts to rid of wheel hop and with the short shifter my time will go down some. ill post it next time i go.