I went to the Bradenton , Florida 1/4 mile racetrack last night and saw a new Lancer Evolution run last night! His best time that I saw was a 14.3. This guy had temporary tags on. My first thought was "why would you drag race a brand new $30,000 car and not break in the engine first? "

 

Wellllllll maybe he drove alot the first few days/weeks he had the car and put whatever the required mileage is on it?? Slow time due to the heat maybe??

 

I know a lot of people that believe in driving the car like you plan to drive it, during break-in.

One of my truck drivers gets a brand new 350Z Convertible on Wednesday, and he's taking it to the track on Friday night to run it.

 

Did he launch the car with all tires spinning, or just do a regular take off? I'm trying to get a feel for what my car would do without a launch--I'm too afraid to launch .

 

ask scot, he went to the track alot

 

Alot of people don't believe in breakin in a car...I myself wont run it too hard but will still get on it...plus the best times i've seen from the cars I own were done with the temp. tag...go figure.

Lightning- a tuner bought it took it to the track same night and ran a 13.2@103/4
Cobra-Some guy on his 2nd attempt at the track with less than 1000 miles goes 12.3@115
Z06-Temp. tags on it goes 11.8@118 I believe.
Those times are some freaks.

Also in the last Motor Trend the Evo went 13.1@105 i think...couldnt have had that many miles.

 

I saw one at the track a couple weeks ago and he got a decent launch and ran a 13.8

 

I ran a 13.46 @ a measly 98mph with 500miles on my Evo.... the weather was perfect, but the car was hot....plus I was overreving it. i shifted all gears at 7700rpm... redline is 7000... i assumed (incorrectly) that it was making power all the way up there.... hence the low trap speed.

I ran 1 more time with a cool car and misshifted from 2-3 (i tried to power shift) but had 13.99X and a trap speed over 100mph....

so somehow combing the two would probably have been 13.3-13.40 @101mph....which is pretty decent.

I will go to Maple Grove one of these fridays to retest...car has 3600 miles now.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Thoe99
[B]Did he launch the car with all tires spinning, or just do a regular take off?

 

"Break-in" period is overrated. The mfg. test each motor with high revs multiple times. Just don't rag it out.