You need to get that 60' time below 2 seconds. You probably need a better converter. http://v8buick.com/index.php?threads/tsp-9-5-street-strip-converters-lifetime-warrantee.147066/ Good job though, that's very respectable times and a huge improvement.
Nice pics and glad you finally got it into the 13s. Your 98 MPH still suggests that you are down on HP. Your stock converter suggests that your 2.0 short times are probably the best you can expect until you can flash the RPMs higher at the launch. With even a very mild converter 1.7 short times are possible making your E.T.s dip into the mid to low 13s.
Nice pics! Congrats on getting into the 13s.....believe me, I understand your wanting to keep the stock converter. But IF you ever get the desire to go quicker, take these guy's advice and get a higher stall.....
Yeah..but when is quicker ever quick enough?...believe me, I know what its like chasing quicker times...never ending! If I wanna run 12.1@111 MPH all I gotta do is ride my Victory out there (bikes are more fun to go fast on anyway!)
Talking to the guy that owns the local transmission shop here, hes renting a shed 2 doors down from my shed, asked him what it'd cost me at mates rates to get him to pull the trans and change convertors in my Buick? Nothing!...zilch...apart from whatever trans fluid has to go into it..could do it one Saturday at his workshop. Says he doubts I'd pick up half a second just from a convertor change,... so should we prove him wrong? At a cost of zero to pull the box, fit the convertor and bolt it all back up again, and whatever fluid I use I must say the idea of fitting one of Jim's 9.5" convertors is getting a little tempting....
I have nothing but good things to say about Jim's 9.5" converters. In my car, you can't tell it has a converter until you jump on it. It even plays nice with my Gear Vendors. My prior converter was 37 lbs, Jim's is 25. That is 12 lbs. of rotational weight off the crank. That has to be worth something all by itself. I say go for it Oz. A lot of your ET depends on that first 60'.
1 tenth reduction in the 60' = 2tenths in the 1/8 or 1/4 The only curve ball is so much hp can only provide a certain 60' in a certain weight
