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Re: Problem cutting a light
No street driving. Engine has no power above 5250 rpm and I go through at 5500 in 1/4 mile. Thats with a 4 spd automatic. Every one has given me some great ideas. Thanks for the help.
I don't know about the slack in the cable. But maybe I need to mess with the eccentric the cable sits in. The gas pedal has alot of travel also. Any body else have any expierence with a slow moving accelerator pedal? Last edited by russellauto1; 09-23-2014 at 02:36 PM. |
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Re: Problem cutting a light
There were a lot of good suggestions on this thread. Let us know if anything helps.
Also, a 4.56 gear seems a bit short. I would think a taller gear in the 5.00/5.13 range would help also. I think that small block of yours would like a taller gear.
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Out of curiosity, what were your 60 foot times?
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My LT-1 Stocker ran pretty fast with a 4.56 gear.
I changed it to a 4.88 and it did not go faster. Just pushed the rpm up. One of the best runs I ever made was shifting out of low gear a good 1000rpm lower than normal. The car went up in the air pretty high and I was manually shifting it.......just pushed the shifter before the shift light went on....... 60' times were down in the lower 1.30's back then in good air...
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It may like a steeper gear, if the transmission will make a WOT 3-4 shift. Sounds like you go though the traps in third gear. This would give you more starting line ratio, which might help your reaction time.
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It Goes through the traps in 4th gear. Rich you may be on to something. I let the transmission shift itself for the 1-2 shift. I think the trans may be shifting as the front of the car is raising from the higher stall speed.As in, as soon as I hit the throttle on the starting line, it shifts gears because of the WOT shift points with the stock governor are 4500 rpm. I put that governor in there because It likes to get out of first gear ASAP. I did not think it would shift that fast though. I am going to try and shift it manually out of first gear and see if that helps. Sounds like this is self-inflicted....... Thanks Guys, I will let you all know how it works.
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Re: Problem cutting a light
Some factory stock ECMs will retard timing when going to the floor off the line. Also on the shifts.
Ed Wright could tell you more about this.
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