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Is straight line traction all that is important to you on the street? Drag radials should be better with the right weather temperatures I suppose. You need to work on your suspension a bit at that power level to try and put power down. I'd hate to have to sacrifice street cornering ability...

I once ran into a guy who had a KR Shelby at a gas station. We spoke a bit about our cars, he was more proud of the fact that it's a KR edition from 2008 if I recall, he went on and on about how fast he had gone in it, being chased in it too lol. Anyway, some folks are obsessed with the name...

If something had happened to your wife would you have sued ford? If the answer is yes, do something about it. You can also look into whether there are existing class action lawsuits on the 10r80 and join that. Personally, I don't own a 10R80 car and will never own a car with one for reliability...

I ran at the local drag strip test and tune today. With Michelin Pilot Sport All Season 3 street tires, I only ran 11.9 but I also didn't expect to run good, I just wanted to drive the car and go fast lol. Launch will be imperfect so yeah without drag radials don't expect anything perfect. My...

You're describing a Michelin Pilot Sport 4S. Now if you're going with a drag radial, that secure cornering feeling you're describing depending on what you consider it to be will not be the same. If you're considering pure drag radials, just go with M&H street drag radials. It's really difficult...

Thanks for the detailed answer. I can somewhat relate but I am not even remotely on your power level. I remember sitting down one time, adding up parts cost and labor costs that I had spent and I realized that I could have picked up another brand new latest premium GT with extra money in my...

It's a tune issue. I once had this P0316 about 3 years ago, switching tune fixed it, mine happened on cold starts. Hope your car isn't going into limp mode. Don't hurt your engine, bite the bullet and switch tuners and I hope you haven't hurt your engine. If it's not a mechanical problem on...

What does your motor refresh consist of? What gets replaced exactly? How many passes are you making a season to require yearly refresh? Just trying to make sense of things. Your power level sounds too costly, cost prohibitive to maintain. If the engine is rated for certain power, why would it...

When something is not measurable or well defined, it becomes very subjective to varying personal opinions. I do however understand your point. In the general sense, I've always thought of it as simply lack of tire spin or loss of traction during a launch.

@engineermike For a street car, not on a drag strip, what would you consider good dead hook? This is out of just out of curiosity. I already had plans to test a wide range of tires this summer. I was very impressed with the All Seasons personally, non aired down and no burn outs. What 60ft times...

I did a 60ft comparison with Traction control on vs off since you mentioned. Tires were 33psi. The car will have better 60ft with radials I'm sure or perhaps with tires aired down.

Summary on the video. The A6 car shifted out of first gear in maybe about 3.96 seconds at close to 33mph I have been told my throttle was only at 20% by some magical eyeball. So then the question is how long should a person expect the car to be in "first gear" for quick launch before shifting to...

20% throttle or whatever, I don't even know how you determined that. Not like you saw a datalog. I've posted a video, RPM shows and speed shows. You disagreed, I'll leave it at that. This car couldn't do what I just posted 2 years ago without traction control flashing, car dancing in first gear...

I'm not sure what you were expecting on a non prepped street surface.

Thanks. I haven't turned off the nanny TC / advaced trac while driving on the street so yeah it's still on. It's been pouring like crazy here frequently this season as well, we'll get another dry day after 4 days, that's why I had to quickly make the video tonight lol. I'll turn it off on a dry...

Here's a video I shot tonight, hard to video record and drive, but you can judge for yourself, dashcam was helpful. This is my street driving car from stoplight to stoplight. I had one passenger in front, and 60lb weight in back which I drive with all the time. First part of video is dashcam...

The road you're about to go on is expensive. You need to build out your suspension and I would not want 1500whp on stock ECU for a street car. With that said, for engine building, get with Will at RPG Racing Engines. He built my engine so I can speak for what I know. I'm making about 860whp...

Thanks Angrey. Apologies for any typos, phone typing just sucks.

Thank you very much, it's so hard to find stuff out there. I've been recently intrigued by Motec, making bigger power eventually and using Motec to manage that much power for drivability and not crashing. I've always restrained myself from going with bigger power over 1000whp since the OEM...

Side curiosity question, how do you like the MOTEC M150? Did you mainly get it for better torque management during launch/traction control? Has it been worth it for you personally?