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Im considering making a drag run at Island Dragway in Mansfield before they close up for the season. My car is running fine, transmission shifts strong, so I don't see any reason not to go out and make a couple runs to get a baseline on the car before I start modifying her.
Essentially i can expect to run between 16-17 seconds in a stock SVX with the auto trans?
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The SVX is a 15.4-15.6 second car. If you are running slower than that there is something wrong or you're engine is just tired/beat. I ran 15.67 without AWD. I think if I had traction I would have got right on the 15.5s.
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You could also consider a timed run, here to there keeping a record of the markers used, up a known slight incline on a known piece of little used and safe road, as a truly reliable basic standard.
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When my SVX was bone stock i ran in the 16's the two times i took it down the track. Now that I have a 5MT i fully expect to drop 1/2 second off my previous times. Shifting won't be a problem with a sawed off short shifter, about 2" throw from first to second. I can't wait to take it to the strip again, but I think i'm going to wait to get the stage 2 installed, and perhaps exhaust.
NikFu - The SVX was 15.4-15.6 second ¼mile off the factory line. 100+k miles later, you can't possibly expect it to hold the same times, without modification and very good maintenance. Ricochet - 17 seems awfully high for what you have done to your car. I'd defidently pull the codes for that CEL sooner rather than later, too.
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I really don't see ours having much change when the 5 speed starts working with all the gears and a clutch that holds it. Launches are very tough to do when you don't have the weight to help keep your tires planted. |
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I wasn't there for cash, trophies, or fame, that's for sure! I was only looking for a measure of what it'd do when driven to an old car/rare car/my only car level of drivetrain abuse. Considering the stats on the machine otherwise, I was pleased.
Ah, here's the rest: 60 ft: 2.3068 ET@594ft: 9.4548 1/8 ET: 10.0918 1/8 MPH: 70.64 1/4 ET: 15.7400 1/4 MPH: 86.52 If it's anything like my last car (2000 Legacy GT wagon), it'll probably be the only time I run it down the quarter mile. (Incidentally, the Legacy, weighing in at around 3400 lbs and being tugged by a massive stock 165hp, scored a blistering 17.2 second quarter at Maple Grove!)
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I think if the car is babied it will run fast at any mileage. I maintain to this day my SVX was faster when I bought it, before the mods and the beating I gave it. I think if I took it to the track the day I got it, it would have ran low 15s.
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BUT your 60' times should be closer to 2.0 or better Tom |
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I agree. Just FYI, my 60' was 2.46 on my 15.67 run, again, to note 2 years after breaking the car and it was running poorly.
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hey, you guys might even be able to take a minivan at the drag strip.
maybe.
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Fixed your post!
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I thought YT's 5spd had one of the faster 1/4 mile times? -Bill
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14.53 is slow nowadays
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Look at the results for 90s subies in car and driver or motortrend. The autos were faster to 60 and about even at the 1/4 with PROFESSIONAL drivers behind the wheel. Heck the real Legacy turbo auto was nearly a second faster to 60 than the 5 speed.
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