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Second time at the track, I'm still hooked... This racing season is gonna be nuts!

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#1 ·
So if you remember the great thread over here: https://www.lxforums.com/board/at-the-dragstrip/413002-time-track-im-hooked-found-calling-life.html. I'M BACK! This time the setup is a little different, I'm not rocking the Scat Pack anymore (some other soul will learn to love her). This time I'm rocking a Hellcat, I named her Victoria. Current setup is a stock engine, no mods, zilch, nada, nothing... Car was dynoed at 640 RWHP after purchase. I am running the same Racestar Dragstar92's and still repping MT ET Street Rs (best tire ever made, fight me). It's like learning how to drag race all over again and I feel alive.

First run was abysmal. Forgot to go through my gameplan. Didn't drop PSI on tires. Didn't take it out of Sport. Complete waste of a run: 14.129s@115.93MPH. Spun first, second, third and fourth gears. Car got sidways and had to lift. This car is less forgiving than a ScatPack, lesson learned. Rust was shaken off, back to my training from 2019. Next run: 11.06s@122.29MPH. Had a grin from ear to ear. Best run of the day was the last. Temps were cooling down it was around 75 degrees and DA was improving, still was **** though at ~2000.

Tires were @ 20psi.
Three second burnout or till smoke then roll.
Turn off traction control before staging. (It cannot be said, any mode other than off will hurt your times, if it is unsafe LIFT!)
Power break to about 1800 RPM.

Release all the raging Uncle Sams! 10.942@125.66

 
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#5 ·
They will definitely be incoming!

Thats a great 60 foot time. Your race track is open? Is your Hellcat a Auto?
It's about where I was at with the Scat Pack, looking forward to learning how to get better launches. Seems 1800 is the best for power braking. Anything higher cuts the wheels loose and launch control is a joke in these cars.
 
#6 ·
So if you remember the great thread over here: First time at the track, I'm hooked... found my calling in life.... I'M BACK! This time the setup is a little different, I'm not rocking the Scat Pack anymore (some other soul will learn to love her). This time I'm rocking a Hellcat, I named her Victoria. Current setup is a stock engine, no mods, zilch, nada, nothing... Car was dynoed at 640 RWHP after purchase. I am running the same Racestar Dragstar92's and still repping MT ET Street Rs (best tire ever made, fight me). It's like learning how to drag race all over again and I feel alive.

First run was abysmal. Forgot to go through my gameplan. Didn't drop PSI on tires. Didn't take it out of Sport. Complete waste of a run: 14.129s@115.93MPH. Spun first, second, third and fourth gears. Car got sidways and had to lift. This car is less forgiving than a ScatPack, lesson learned. Rust was shaken off, back to my training from 2019. Next run: 11.06s@122.29MPH. Had a grin from ear to ear. Best run of the day was the last. Temps were cooling down it was around 75 degrees and DA was improving, still was **** though at ~2000.

Tires were @ 20psi.
Three second burnout or till smoke then roll.
Turn off traction control before staging. (It cannot be said, any mode other than off will hurt your times, if it is unsafe LIFT!)
Power break to about 1800 RPM.

Release all the raging Uncle Sams! 10.942@125.66

Nice, I guess I'll have to try and beat it with my NA scat pack this winter.
 
#9 ·
Congrats! I traded my Scat in for a Cat also. It's definitely a different experience at the track. I was on Scat leftover 555Rs for these runs in March. Best was 11.1@124, car 50X. I started at 18 psi and ended up at 15 psi. My 1/4 mile track just opened last weekend but I couldn't make. I've got new MT Street Rs 305/45 r18s on Bravados waiting to go on. I've added a dif brace since March. I'm shooting for the 10s this season.


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#13 ·
I don't want to go completely off topic and I'll have to do some more research on the fusion but I think that it looks really cool how it pans towards who you're up against.
Very cool footage. Do you have any in car stuff? I'm looking forward to you getting deeper into the 10's.

How has the track been as far as post tech/required safety equipment ?



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#14 ·
Thats my only video so far. Track events have been far and few between. Wanted to have a go this weekend and unfortunatley the drive shaft died on me. I use Davinci Resolve with the Open FX plugin. Since its 360 video I can stitch together any angle, top notch studio level software. Thinking about mounting a go pro inside for interior and editing in clips.

The first few edits were frustrating but I figured it out. MDIR is good. I bet if Capitol was open with their track prep I would have shattered my diff already. Good thing it has a brace now.
 
#16 ·
Had a chance to get to the track this weekend. Went to Cecil Dragway. Can't say that I'm a fan there. Prep was meh, and the temp was 100, 60% humidity and the DA was 2600. The humidity plays a huge factor with our cars as the more water that is in the air, the less oxygen you can burn in your cylinders so you are kinda down a little bit in power. Things you learn as you go and listen to the elders at the track. I'm trying to up my YT editing game so I got RaceRender and am syncing it with my VCM Scanner data from HPTuners. Very cool tool and if you guys like it I'll buy the full version and start working on scripting in a Hellcat UI. I could be perhaps tempted to script in a ScatPack or custom UI for the right price (I work for beer or car parts or beer and car parts or beer while installing my car parts...).

Let me know what you think, this will also be the last time I mount on the trunk, I think the roof is where it will be next.

 
#18 ·
In first gear the shift point is 5700 based on the stock PCM. That's the only gear that is short. The rest of the gears are at 6k which are the stock shift points. Went back again last night! Roof mounted 360 video > anything. :) Hope yall enjoy this short video.

 
#19 ·


Had some fun at Cecil County on Saturday. The purpose was not to put a big E/T or trap at a huge MPH it was to learn how to launch the car as that is what I am struggling with the most. Unlike my Scat Pack I try to launch at 2k RPM with this thing power braking and always push through the brakes (I suck at the Memphis shuffle), after about the second run today I was heated to say the least. Time to adapt and overcome. I wanted to learn how to launch the car so I decided to spend some time with Launch Control (LC) as an alternative. I know a dreaded subject but today I did quite well with it and launched hard as hell at 2k RPM and had a great time, cutting good trees, and people were coming up to me after telling me my car sounded amazing on the line before launching. I'm going to keep an excel file of the times and log them after each event. I now have the dreaded task of backfilling and getting some sorts of metrics going. Here are that days entries.



I am upgrading to the PowerStop pads as I think the stock ones are **** and I am also not ruling out that my converter might be on the fritz. Of note, the .585 R/T was because I got double bulbed by another test and tune driver and panicked and forgot that I don't need to worry and should just focus on myself. I got up to 2k, pushed through and then tried to get up on it but by then it was green already. It was at that point and after multiple F bombs I decided to spend the rest of the afternoon using LC. If I can keep my trees to sub .04, I'm ahead of the game. When the launch control is working, it's a nice treat for bracket racing and that's what I want to focus on. The technique and key to success for using LC is keeping in mind the 5 second timeout on the system. Only after both yellow bulbs on the second stage are lit do I mash the pedal to get it to come up (most trees are autostart). I started with 1500 on the .011 R/T, moved to 1750 on the .028 R/T and then moved to 2k on the .037 tree. Right now I'm getting the video into editing so stay tuned. I cooked my tablet (Race Render data) and go-pro in the heat.
 
#20 ·
Street Fighter - Hellcat edition. The reason I added the Street Figther effects for this was the dude called me out and said I didn't have a stock Hellcat after our first run. That's okay we ran it again and I showed him the GapFather, GapSon and the GapHolyGhost. He said he'll be back from Philly with work done and that it won't matter how good I tree him. That's okay, my PCM arrives on Tuesday and I'm looking potentially talking to OST Dyno about a package. :) Enjoy!



I didn't loose sight of cutting a better tree but I'm learning that Launch Control (LC) has it's place. LC is great for bracket racing, consistent launches if you can figure out the tree (.2xx and .1xx when leaving on the third yellow, might have to leave when the second bulb goes out) but I think mastering the memphis shuffle is going to get me better trap speeds. I don't get it though cause at Cecil I was cutting .0X trees. But the best part is, more toys on the way!
 
#23 ·
I enjoy your videos.

Nice to see some one else actually taking things to a Dragstrip.

Chasing that tree gets really addictive.
Yeah the track is my place of Zen, the speed and top end are there so I don't even worry about those, now it is about cutting a better tree.

Launch RMP has a direct inverse effect on RT. 100 RPM more will lower your RT by .010. Like wise lower the launch RPM by 100 will increase your RT by .010, Something is wrong if you increase your launch RPM and got worse on the tree.
I'm using the Hellcat launch control (LC) at 2k rpm. Anything else and it spins the wheels at the tree (tried the next bump up and it pushed through the light on a test). For these lights I left late, if you watch the replay I'm almost leaving on green which is a no no. I also don't think RPM is the key to a better RT. RPM will help your 60' but becaues of rollout increasing your RPM and not planning for it can cause you to red light. Here's the game plan:

1.) Burnout: Radials don't like long burnouts. Activate line lock then head count 01.02.03 and get out of it and roll foward.
2.) Activate launch control while rolling forward
3.) Stage first bulb, wait. Stage second bulb, wait. When both are stage activate two step. (2015 Hellcat has a 5 second timer before it drops LC).
4.) Instead of leaving later on the third yellow leave earlier, rollout is going to make sure you don't red light if accounted for properly <--- key to a better RT.
5.) Enjoy a better RT on the slip.
 
#24 ·
So I'm still at it, setup has changed. Moved the hellcat to full slicks, haven't really had a fun time with this car like the Scat Pack till last night. Videos are incoming. Best run of the night was 10.80. Got treed and bounced out of the third round of eliminations but it was a fun time.
 
#27 ·
Yes 1/8 mile

1.802 60ft ..not spinning, just have not figured out how to launch a hurt whale. Mph was only 94.94. Older set of Mickey et streets. Camaro I ran up the final was 7.83 on a 7.80 dial in with .117 reaction.

Buddy of mine ran a hero pass 7.33 in his Scat Challenger. Don't remember his mph but I think his 60 was like a 1.68. Got to wake up and get his numbers.
 
#34 ·
HAHA Im the SC scat aka hellbee :rock:
 
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