In search of an 11 second slip.... again, but the track was kind of cruel to me, yet again so no luck on the 11. But it sure ran consistent, five 12.0's in a row in fact! Trapping a decent 120 mph each time with pretty weak 1.9-2.0 60' times. Getting a stick car down the track that consistently was surprising. My fastest of the day was 12.005 @ 120.39mph with a 1.904 60' the other four runs were 12.030 @119.98mph, 12.083 @ 120.44mph, 12.039 @ 120.18mph, 12.044 @ 118.93mph and my first shakedown pass of the day which was 12.201 @ 118.97mph which was my first pass this year in fact. I've been track shy ever since I put valves into pistons on a bad shift a couple years back. The clutch was dragging and not releasing properly but I put a trusty LS7 clutch back in and replaced the valves and its all good now.

Im running old tired and dried up et street DR's 275/40/17 so there was no bite at all through first gear. I will head back again this year if possible to see if I can get my goal of 11.99 or quicker.

If I put some real slicks and skinnies on it along with a gear swap this thing would produce a lot better times, but its a driver, not a race machine. Met a couple fellow TGO members down there unexpectedly which was cool, both real solid guys and had SUPER clean cars and that added some even more excitement to watch them run as well. Weather was great and my crew of six cars all ran decent with no breakages so all in all a dang good day.

 

Nice job... It's a good day at the track when nothing breaks! I'm just finishing my swap and hoping to make our tracks last street car day in 2 weeks. I'm not looking for too great of times though due to a T56/4:10's, but it should be fun.

Good luck with the 11 second hunt!

 

That trap speed is good for a mid 11 second pass. It's definitely not easy getting it done with a 6 speed(vs stalled auto.) Good stuff, post up a vid!!

 

Just having new tires could possibly get you a 1.6 60ft. I'm sure you could do it.

 

Damn wish i knew you were headed down with a crew.I was contemplating going with my buddy in his srt10 ram and trailoring my car for a few final passes of the year before doing the turbo project.Wouldve been fun, I assume you went to cayuga?

Or almost skipped work to go to the Picton armdrop races too which was a huge turnout.

 

Well done Cam. Get yourself some tires and you'll be golden. The fall air helps to build some power too. At least from my experience anyway.
Where did you race? I had intended to get to TMP myself.
.005 you say. Missed it by THAT much!

 

When I bought these tires I had the LS1 in there and after messing with the suspension and pressures I got it dead hooking for a while. It would always pull a 1.6x 60' but this engine makes a lot more grunt and I have changed the suspension set up again although I did run the same springs that worked so next time I'll make some LCA changes and see. I think I could net 1.5's if I put a true slick on it, especially with a gear change ( 3.73 currently ) as I shift at 7K or so. This one loves to buzz up high and it goes through the traps with plenty left in 4th.

86TA I'm going to try and get out one more time this year, i'll let you know when.

0.005, yup. So close TMP correct.

 

It's a funny thing this drag racing.
I had a best 1.7 flat 60' with the previous engine, old McCreay dirt track tires and less gear (3.27). With the new and improved engine (lots more trap speed), a better tire and 3.73 rear gear, I can't do better than 1.8x.
Go figure.

 

Gosh, so dang close! At least you had a fun day at the track.

 

Ya funny indeed. If I had more time to make more passes im sure by the toss of the coin I would have squeaked in there. But it was a great day, no breakages, good weather, no crashes, lots of cool cars out, good eats, good people, good times and more ahead

 

That's what it's all about. That and a personal best each time out!

 

Nice numbers Cam. get that thing to 60 foot and it will be an 11.50 car. I ran 11.78@113.5mph as a best in my old LT1/auto setup With consistent 1.66 60's. Get that suspension dialed in!

Jay

 

Theres lots I could do to make it perform much better at the track but its a street car and it drives exactly how I want in that regards so Im not going to change much. The tune up is very safe and mild as well so theres plenty of gains if I were to go max effort but not this car, its too fun to drive plus it has t tops and no cage.

Im slowly putting together another build with a boosted LS for a more wicked track machine. Caged, mini tub etc.

I'll get an 11 out of this thing yet though. Im going to adjust my IC and try again now that we have some footage to review.

 

completely understand! Pretty well the old Iroc-z got parted and sold. Started becoming more of a racecar and got real boring lol. Im trying to keep my current an 11 second streetcar without cutting the car apart. Keyword is trying lol

Jay

 

I hear that. Thats EXACTLY why I started another build. I was originally planning on boosting this 6.2 but as it is I can barely get into it until 3rd or 4th on the street anyways so adding more jam seemed pointless, not to mention I'll break out of no cage land at the track so truly a waste.

Your old red car lives on, Its been partly welded onto Schmitt tunings race car and is making the circuit around CASC this year lol.

 

OMG thats what happened to it? wow. I guess it more lives in race form now....well like 1/5 of it haha. Crazy.

Jay

 

Haha yep that car likes to get around and play hard!

It almost went to the yard when i saved it. I had it sold to a buddy with a rotten LB9/5spd car too just before but the race track destiny called it back out, so off it went. I'll see if I can get a pic

 

It was a bit of a ***** down here before I got it as well lol. I follow Schmidt on instagram. Actually saw the pics of it being fixed a few months back. Poor thing lol

Jay

 

You're running an L92? Anything done? Ls3 conversion or cam swap?

I'm doing na LS3 conversion to an L92. If i hit those numbers i'll be very happy. lol

 

07 L92 with LS3 intake, truck tb, 4" intake with LS7 maf, 222/230 custom VVT grind from Geoff at EPS, PAC1518 springs, stock retainers, Hawks 1 3/4" lt's, 2.5" y into single 3" cat and cat back, hooker aerochamber, t56, LS7 clutch, 3.73 8.8 diff, 275/40/17 mt et street dr's but they're old hence the poor 60's.

 

BTW im going to have to talk with you about these 8.8 swaps....if your still doing them.

Jay

 

EXACTLY my situation too. In fact, next week, I'll be driving it to Edmonton (where I'm moving). With any luck, 22 mpg on the highway AND a 12 second time slip at Castrol Raceway. Which, happily for me, is 30 minutes from where I'll be living.
Good luck with whatever you have up your sleeve.

 

Thanks man, have a safe fun trip and best of luck out west. Lots of work in the patch... pays for lots of mods hahahaaa

 

Oh yeah! Can you say supercharged LSX? (I like the blown 327s they've built for the 5th gen COPO Camaro too.)

 

^ Indeed that COPO is incredible. Its big bore short stroke 327 as well. Not at all like the truck 327 ( 5.3L )

 

If you got 4th gen hydraulics I'd point out the restrictor can be drilled, but if you had that you'd be missing shifts. So congrats on the no breakage, the consistency, and the trap speed.

 

Thanks. Tick master, drill mod done. I had a bad clutch that dragged and wouldnt release. I thought it was air in the system and tried two OEM masters and then a TICK which seemed to be working fine but the track put a little too much heat in the disk and at 7K WOT on the 2-3 it didnt release properly and I went 2-1 instead and BOOM. Happens fast up there. Log said 8400RPM

Replaced clutch with a new LS7 from SDPP and its been great since. Was tired of working on it so I avoided the track for a couple summers is all. Wanted to drive it. Its a driver not a race car. That outta clear it up for anyone curious

 

I'm also in for an 8.8... I thought I was going to be nice to this car, but on it's maiden tour around the block with the LS1 swap I was spinning it in 2nd gear... I have no 4th in this used T56 I got so I'll be dropping that off to him.

I like that LS7 clutch so far, nice and firm and not heavy... Of course it's not broken in yet. I'm using the stock T5 master for it, works great! I drilled my line out before I installed. I'll probably be getting the Tick sometime next summer once things are more sorted out.

 

Really? Now there's something I didn't know. I wonder if it'll end up in the GMPP catalogue.

 

LOL @ nice. It is being nice when you wind them up to that special place where the mechanical limits of mercy exist and hear it say, GIVE ME MORE!!!! Its a beautiful relationship

As for the Copo 5.3 yep its a gem of an engine. I doubt very much that GM will sell them as a crate to keep the COPO Camaro provenance intact, but if you want to build one similar its not hard its just kind of a waste of coin when you could build a 414 for the same kind of coin and have that much more engine to play with. LS engines at this point are value wise power uo to about 1000whp at which point they become exotic ( read that as more expensive and less reliable ) than a BBC would be but that bar keeps rising, which is incredible for the little engine that could.

 

Went back today. Cant believe how consistent this thing runs. Id kill a 12.0 bracket class, which I may very well do just because it seems so easy to do this

 

Nice job,Wish i couldve gone but i had a passing of a relative over the weekend.But my car is now committed to be tucked away while i pool sources for do my turbo build and repairs on my t/a.

 

^ Im sorry to hear that. Theres always another track day.

But I was teasing a little in this thread, heres my last two passes of the day

 

Nice!!! Congrats on the 11's!

J.

 

There you go. Well done. And the difference came from...?
I see the 60 is better. Did you get some better tires?

 

Thanks Justin, it was a looooong and curvy road to get that dang 11 second slip without butchering the car out of street trim. Its been set up this way for a few years now and im going to leave it this way for a few more at which point I will be doing some minor mods and rework a few things that should push the mph up to about 125 or so. In the meantime I have other projects to clear out and work on. I think we have some sloppy cel phone footage of one of the 11 passes from one of our crowd that I will post up when I get it.

 

Same tires but I put the suspension back to the older set up ( didnt work any better, in fact it was worse I had a few 12.5's through the day ) but my seat time made a big improvement as I gained more feel for the car. The last two passes where the 11 slips happened I basically rode the hell out of the clutch to ease it out, while keeping the RPM high to avoid bog but also to avoid bad wheel spin. The clutch was hating life, but I was going to get that 11 slip yesterday no matter what lol.

If I track the car again I think im going to swap out the rear brakes to something I can fit a 15" over and run true slicks and skinnies.

 

nice runs