I went drag racing Sunday with my buddy Ken (Ferg met him, has a turbo'd 16 valve stroked 4cyl in his Volvo wagon) and ran the car three passes. I could really smell the clutch on the 3rd pass so I put it on the trailer.
I had been noticing the car not hitting the same speed on the straight at Pueblo (getting slower) and clearly I have been slipping that clutch for awhile. I sorta smelled something on the first two passes but the third was very distinct.
Here is my first pass ever with the car. Damn near killed it trying to soft launch it but ran a 12.88 at 113 mph. I hit almost 115 on the last pass. Oddly enough, after the first pass a new 997 Turbo ran and he put down a 114-115mph pass at 11.97, so if my car had AWD, traction control, etc I would have been around 11.97.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=o_RI7ZHkrQwMitsu ran 120mph!
And the turbo behind me in line
Click to view attachmentThe only two Porsches out there (and technically he was the only Porsche out there) but mine drew more attention hahaha, nanner nanner
at half the price.
'Course, power to weight ratio I should have been around 118mph by my guesstimation here at altitude. So I knew something was a bit off after the first pass. Fricken Kennedy clutch - it didn't look that great after only a few track days before doing the tube chassis and I called them, they said everything sounded fine, blah blah. I should get WAY more use out of the clutch than I have and they assured me it was good for even more torque than I was putting down at sea level.