Piedmont Dragway last sunday. I took my showroom stock '05 A4 with 539 miles and beat a 2004 Mustang GT waaaaaaaaaaaaaay bad and beat a 2004 Cobra 2 out of 3 runs. Whoever came out of the hole best won the Cobra races.

You've got an 05? NICE DUDE. Nice killz

What times/speed did you run?

This is a copy and paste from my turbobuick post.

My first time up I floored it of the line and just sat there spinning the tires. The car never moved for about a second. After the first run, I rememmbered 97 GTP's advise and I started to ease into the throttle for a bit until I got out of the gate and then nailed it after I was rolliing pretty good and things slowly started to improve. I don't know why they were running the PRO Tree with so few cars there but I hate that thing. 1 Yellow boom Green.
Any way I raced a 2004 Mustang GT 3 times and wiped his butt everytime (not even close). Then a yellow 2004 Cobra showed up and I asked him to race. He was pure stock like me but with standard transmission.
I wheel hopped bad and he beat me. I said lets go again and this time I beat him. He said best 2 out of three and I beat him again. I think he was having worse traction problems then me but a race is a race no excuses and I feel good I beat a 2004 Cobra 2 out of 3.
Here are the runs. They start with my first run and end with my 10th.
The runs for the most part were back to back runs 3 in a row. You could have done a circle track there were so few cars.

Temp 45* Baromater 30.37 Humidity 64% full tank gas 35# tire Showroom Pure stock (539 miles)

60 ft 1/8 ET 1/8 MPH
2.877 10.187 81.84 (1st run wasted my tires)
2.322 9.03 84.26
2.563 9.749 82.86
2.29 8.995 84.55 (beat the 2004 GT)
2.191 8.857 84.25
1.981 8.61 84.21
2.047 8.654 84.21 (beat the 2004 GT)
2.173 8.828 83.75 (2004 Cobra beat me)
2.066 8.677 83.56 (Beat the 2004 Cobra)
2.086 8.873 82.78 (Beat the 2004 Cobra)

What was the elevation at that track? My first 3 runs with my bone stock A4 with 750 miles or so were 2 8.74s and one 8.73 with MPH of 80.7-80.9. Quarter times were 2 13.61s and one 13.59. I had less baro, 30.03 with 63% humidity and 52 degrees temp. It looks like I'll be putting a hurting on some stock 05s now that I installed a mild cam....

2.563 9.749 82.86

Ouch, 2.5.

Yup prety poor 60' s but as the track got warmer my 60's got better. Not sure of the elevation but prob about 500 - 600 ft ASL.

Yup prety poor 60' s but as the track got warmer my 60's got better. Not sure of the elevation but prob about 500 - 600 ft ASL.


Tek GTO--your MPH looks low. according to our MPH in the 1/8 I am putting out 50 more HP but can't get it to the ground.
When I tune my cars at the drags I always use MPH not ET. MPH=HP

You are making more power, chalk up the ET to my 60' times, I didn't see all the 2.XX you had. My 60' times were 1.98-1.99 as I have experience walking the car out from my C5 that would annihilate ET Streets if I wasn't careful. I'm doing a converter in a couple weeks and looking for low-mid 12s, I can't wait to surprise some '05 owners that think my car's stock B)

Your '04 made some nice runs.
I had the same problem trying to launch. Some good street radials and you'll be in the 12's no problem. The converter will make the tires even more important. I went from a stock 2400 stall to a 3000 in my GN and forget about traction. I had some stock GN wheels built out to 10" wide rims and mounted a set of MT ET Street radials on them. I haven't run them yet because I just added a CPT65 ceramic BAll bearing turbo, and just getting it back running again after breaking another flywheel. :)
Good luck with your mods I think you got a good one there.

I still miss my 87 T, only mods were K&N, adjustable actuator, and a restalled D5. Went 13.1@107 at 19 lbs, mine had an open rear so traction sucked. I go by NJVetteGuy on turbobuick, you probably saw me over there a few times. I'm going to pick up another '87 by the end of the year, I miss that car and I love my Buicks. My old C5 got me hooked on these **** LS series motors though...

I know what you mean about the turbo Buicks. I took my wife for a WOT ride up to 120MPH in the GTO when I came back from the drags. I asked her what she thought of the acceleration. She said it felt real fast but...................she said " When you took me out in the GN and punched it I wasn't able to lift my head off of the headrest".
I bought my GN new in 1986 and have 138,000 on it now.
What I missed in the GN was the sound of the V-8, Burble Burble. I love them both and can't wait to start to mod the Goat. But for right now it is a very cool ride.