Gone very far to the Dark Side

3 minute(s) of a 189 minute read

Some extras from yesterday. Behind the dash am cleaning up the rats nest & bundling the wires. The yellow box is around an ECU connection that I had a question about for the guys on the FFR forum.

Mostly cleaning up the wiring this week. Main bus is in & engine ECU are completed. Some secondary, switched, wiring to go, plug in the dash harness to the chassis harness & then a test start YEAH.:thumbsu

In honor of my elevation to "clowndom' & BS'ing with my 0-60 claims in the TLX thread where I said, among other things, the FFR COBRA out of the box is an 11 second car. One of the guys is shaking down his ride with the first 1/4 miles. Two good runs then on the third & last where he had an excellent 1.8 60ft his throttle cable let go.

In Ryans words


'It was a very busy day at the track with lots of subarus breaking at every chance, but got a few passes in finally.

First pass, no burnout. Easy shifting... shake down pass.

Observations, brakes easily haul it down from 120 with no issue. She goes straight as an arrow. Spun through most of first gear. Shifted at ~5800. 1.8 60' time

Ran an easy 11.8 @ 121

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_qMD...wbCM0-zNE70Etg

Second pass

Attempted a burnout, but pushed through the line lock. Line lock doesn't seem to be holding pressure, so I need to check and replace I think. This is the third one I have had, the first two leaked. I am not very satisfied. Same 60' time, same spinning through first. Shifted a bit more aggressively and at 6000 rpms.

Ran a 11.6 @ 119

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-S19_...wbCM0-zNE70Etg

And that was it... well I got a third pass in and finally managed to get a little heat in the tires. Improved the 60' time to 1.6 and was going to easily see an 11.3, but the throttle cable ball on the pedal pulled through the plastic insert and I had to abort the run.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_G_XS...wbCM0-zNE70Etg

Ryan is using a normal throttle cable. Mine is drive by wire so hopefully it will be less problem prone once its tuned.

Ryans' dyno is 370whp & 400ftlbs. The Coyote should be between 395 & 405whp so if it can get traction it will have good potential for quick times.

The guys on the FFR builders forum think Ryan should make 10 seconds with some tire work. These cars carry about 22psi on a normal DD. The plan for drag racing is to drop them to 18 & heat them with a solid burnout. Rayan was running 24/25psi so the tires were just to hard.

Not sure what tires he runs but mine are Nitto 555R in a 315 width. Most of us drive on Drag Radials every day.