Back in March on the 2nd day of the month I ran my new 2013 Challenger
many times up and down a side highway road less driven - old country blacktop. My car had 255 miles on the clock and figured it's had enough break in time.
This was my results for that day and it was right around 34 degrees outside, nice and cold.
Best run was 6.43 seconds out of 6 runs on same road
1st going east 6.50 left from just above idle
2nd west........6.56 left from idle
3rd east.........6.43 above idle not sure what rpm best launch
4th east.........6.50 above idle didn't see rpm
5th west........6.60 maxed out convertor to much wheel spin
6th east.........6.55 2500 rpm launch
Over the summer I tested and tuned, I was looking high and low for
any extra power, I had set backs , I was testing what works and don't work, I enjoyed
finding every ounce of power I could out of a few areas. The areas
I concentrated on was intake manifold, tb, cai, exhaust.
My mods are a lightly ported intake with "cool tape" under the upper intake and lower intake, fastman standard port tb, K&N cai 63 series kit wrapped with "cool tape" and lava wrap, also installed the much larger
AFE blue cone filter, installed the solo exhaust cat back system and
Lava wrapped the exhaust from the heads to the start of the solo exhaust
system.
Since the weather was pretty close to the same now as in March
and I feel there is no more to gain from these mods- a balancing
act of keeping low end torque and increases high end power.
I took my car back out to the same road. It was 33 degrees out.
My car has over 3,000 miles on it now.
1800 rpm launch from the brake and floored it, heading
west the tires scratched a little and I ran a 6.13
turned around, brought the rpms down a little trying for less wheel
spin, staged with 1500 rpms against the brake
and floored it, tires scratched just a little, little less then first
pass and I clicked off 6.10
I was happy with those two passes, maybe with a couple more passes
get a clean no spin launch I could bring it down some more
but figure this is proof enough that the mods do work.
many times up and down a side highway road less driven - old country blacktop. My car had 255 miles on the clock and figured it's had enough break in time.
This was my results for that day and it was right around 34 degrees outside, nice and cold.
Best run was 6.43 seconds out of 6 runs on same road
1st going east 6.50 left from just above idle
2nd west........6.56 left from idle
3rd east.........6.43 above idle not sure what rpm best launch
4th east.........6.50 above idle didn't see rpm
5th west........6.60 maxed out convertor to much wheel spin
6th east.........6.55 2500 rpm launch
Over the summer I tested and tuned, I was looking high and low for
any extra power, I had set backs , I was testing what works and don't work, I enjoyed
finding every ounce of power I could out of a few areas. The areas
I concentrated on was intake manifold, tb, cai, exhaust.
My mods are a lightly ported intake with "cool tape" under the upper intake and lower intake, fastman standard port tb, K&N cai 63 series kit wrapped with "cool tape" and lava wrap, also installed the much larger
AFE blue cone filter, installed the solo exhaust cat back system and
Lava wrapped the exhaust from the heads to the start of the solo exhaust
system.
Since the weather was pretty close to the same now as in March
and I feel there is no more to gain from these mods- a balancing
act of keeping low end torque and increases high end power.
I took my car back out to the same road. It was 33 degrees out.
My car has over 3,000 miles on it now.
1800 rpm launch from the brake and floored it, heading
west the tires scratched a little and I ran a 6.13
turned around, brought the rpms down a little trying for less wheel
spin, staged with 1500 rpms against the brake
and floored it, tires scratched just a little, little less then first
pass and I clicked off 6.10
I was happy with those two passes, maybe with a couple more passes
get a clean no spin launch I could bring it down some more
but figure this is proof enough that the mods do work.