Hey, you two, should be a crime against the forum - recycling posts from another thread into yet...a different thread. LOL.
Anyhoo, I went to the dragstrip again tonight, to the one I typically have zero interest in going to, if I'm running a motorcycle.
The deets...EACH TIME the track marshall instructed my group to approach the waterbox, I started the vehicle, turned off auto stop, then traction control by quickly pressing the squiggly line car button, then disabled Avancetrac by pressing and holding the same aforementioned squiggly line button for 5-9 seconds until confirmation in the driver's driver's information cluster between the tach and speedo.
It should also be painfully obvious, from the handwritten entries next to some of the results, the previously posted results from the OBDLink MX calculations are proven to be just that, calculations, which are erroneous at best. I used the same fuel as last week, 100% non ethanol 93 octane, only difference, is I had close to 18-19 gallons onboard last Friday, this Friday I started with the leftover
3/8ths ~ 6-8gallons.
Not the same track either, however the difference I've personally noticed from years past between Richmond to VMP vs MIR is on the order of a tenth 1/4 mile ET. Take it for what it's worth, believe or not.
That is to say, as close to equal conditions as possible Richmond is the slowest ET generator by a tenth, versus VA Motorsports Park versus Md Int'l Raceway...10.45 v 10.35 v 10.26 (2015 BMW S1000RR bone stock, 265 lb rider with full leather suit/gloves/boots/helmet stock wheelbase, ride height, gearing, etc...as delivered from Munich.
Anyway from left to right, the corresponding times are in order of first to last...
6:26:26
6:30:34
6:34:29
6:56:45
7:04:48
7:23:37
7:35:33
8:14:36
https://photos.app.goo.gl/H5ztgxuJvX9atyZ1A
No tomfoolery instituted, other than cracking the hood open on the return road, then straight to the staging lanes, where I'd raise the hood completely, until the next run, save for a few times I was allowed to hotlap. No burnouts, just a little dryhop in an effort to remove the moisture from the tires, as these wonderful officials left no dry patch of the waterbox, had to cross water to get on the pad.
The fourth run, I forgot to turn off auto start/stop, and after the dry hop, the engine killed itself. Not sure if as a result of the restart the traction control and advancetrac were enabled???
https://photos.app.goo.gl/CM6TSDvfFykuv1iF9
Unfortunately I failed to screen cap last Friday's conditions, but the humidity was in the high 70-low 80% range and ambient temperature was 15°F higher, last Friday than it was tonight.
As such, I'm confident my results tonight are an accurate reflection of what the HD Tow pkg on the short wheelbase XLT 2018 can accomplish given the most advantageous conditions, except for zero heatsoaked runs which the last few passes were a little more indicative of that, but we're far from a truly non heatsoaked pass. From the time I arrived at the track to the first run was no more than 10 minutes. Nobody was at tech, signed the waivers, armband in check, straight to the lanes, where I might have waited, 2 minutes tops, for the first run. This track was a 50 minute drive from my house in Friday afternoon traffic.
All the conjecture aside, I believe at best, if I would have taken the time, to bring fans, ice, and waited for appropriate time to cool the transmission and intake, the 14.3 best ET, would possibly, have been bettered by 2/10ths but no more. So I'm conceding that my firm belief that this 5825lb party bus (not including my 240lbs) is NOT a high 13 second vehicle stock.
I'm not committed to turning it to one, but there are some goodies already purchased, some I have in my possession, others yet to arrive, and I feel mildly confident that I will get to 13.66 or less, with less than $1500 in crap. Or I won't, and I really will have $1500 in crap, which I will share the results with the group, regardless.
