went down to the local 1/8th
 

last night and, i know i cant drive the car to save my life yet, but i was disappointed. the track is by far NOT the best track in the world but my head wasn't on right last night. My best 60' was 2.36 cuz I was spinning till tomorrow (letting the clutch out too fast). What disappoints me, however, is that my best trap speed was 75.5mph on a 9.702 run. With the calculators online that translates to a 95mph 1/4th trap which is pretty sucky. DA last night was 1980ft or so but that wouldnt make up for 5mph. The only thing i could think of is that I'm throwing third almost exactly at the 1/8th mile and that might be killing my trap speeds. Anyone else trapping similarly in the 1/8th? or is my car just slow?

RE: went down to the local 1/8th
 

Your 60fts are hurting your 1/8th mile traps... You just need to work on launching and the times will come down...

RE: went down to the local 1/8th
 

practice is the name of the game I'm going to go back next Wednesday. Thanks, I was under the impression that traps were sort of independent of 60ft (you know, 1000hp supra syndrome) but i guess the relationship is stronger in the 1/8th

RE: went down to the local 1/8th
 

No... trap speeds are strange... sometimes you can have a 2.2 ~ 2.3 60ft and your traps are the same... sometimes ive seen 2.6~3.0 60fts and rediculously higher traps than normal...then other time 2.6 ~ 3.0 60fts result in lower traps.... it really depends on what happens during the spinning. When my old car would spin off the line (2.6 60ft) I would end up shifting into 2nd gear out of powerband and the car would bog really really bad... then I would end up losing a ton of time and mph because I was waiting for my RPMs to come up into powerband.