Re: 3.1 5 speed. cell phone time app..
Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 8:23 am
Ok...
Try using that app on a paved clean road and not a sand covered one... It will be amazing at what the results read when the sensor is actually picking up the right g-forces. Also where are you placing this phone when doing the run? It should be securely mounted to a surface that will not move during the run, such as a windshield mount or similar.
Also the fact that you think you can take on a N* Caddy with your 3.1 5-speed tells me that you are just being a kid and thinking you have a little bit more than what you really do... Trust me we all went through that phase.
I started out with a stock 3100 4t60e combo and thought it was great... Then I did a 3400 and was thrown back in my seat... Then I brought it to the track... 15.7.... all day long... after some more work I finally got the car to a 15.4 consistent with 3400 manifolds and down pipe and such... Then I started playing with laughing gas.... thats when I nabbed my 14.5's then a 14.2 and then my beloved 13.8 in 2006. After I got that I got the bug... I bought headers and a tuner and did a OBDII swap on my car, I also bought a 3400 and a 3500 and combined them and installed a Milzy motorsports Stage 1 Cam... Did some porting on the heads and some on the intakes and bought a rebuild kit for my trans and a different gear set and different torque converter... All said and done I got the car to do a 14.8 N/A. I never got to run the juice on that setup.
Fast forward to today... Many bills later new cam lots of porting and much more in the trans I was able to break the 13 barrier on a 4 speed automatic in N/A form... I then decided to use the laughing gas since I really did buy the cam to work with that... Lots of wheel spin and I got a 12.67....
All I'm trying to say is when your young you think that what you have is really fast... but to be honest you really have nothing to compare to... My 13 sec run started to feel like merging onto the highway and I got used to the feel of it, where as before when I was running 15.7's I thought I was screaming.
Don't rely on those times at all... Go to a track and do not expect anything out of the high 16 sec realm or you will be greatly disappointed. Once you've done that then try the same phone app on that track and see what comes up, If it's very accurate there then as noted when testing at home make sure to find an area thats not covered in sand, otherwise your just wasting your time. Every second your car is spinning while using that app you are sending it false data and it's interpreting it wrong.
I have the dynolicious... and if you want I can go run my Legacy to see what it puts down for a number... I know my car should be 14.2-13.9 in stock form and I've raised my boost and messed with the tune since then so I should easily be in the 13's no matter what. Maybe the app will roll an 11... lol
Try using that app on a paved clean road and not a sand covered one... It will be amazing at what the results read when the sensor is actually picking up the right g-forces. Also where are you placing this phone when doing the run? It should be securely mounted to a surface that will not move during the run, such as a windshield mount or similar.
Also the fact that you think you can take on a N* Caddy with your 3.1 5-speed tells me that you are just being a kid and thinking you have a little bit more than what you really do... Trust me we all went through that phase.
I started out with a stock 3100 4t60e combo and thought it was great... Then I did a 3400 and was thrown back in my seat... Then I brought it to the track... 15.7.... all day long... after some more work I finally got the car to a 15.4 consistent with 3400 manifolds and down pipe and such... Then I started playing with laughing gas.... thats when I nabbed my 14.5's then a 14.2 and then my beloved 13.8 in 2006. After I got that I got the bug... I bought headers and a tuner and did a OBDII swap on my car, I also bought a 3400 and a 3500 and combined them and installed a Milzy motorsports Stage 1 Cam... Did some porting on the heads and some on the intakes and bought a rebuild kit for my trans and a different gear set and different torque converter... All said and done I got the car to do a 14.8 N/A. I never got to run the juice on that setup.
Fast forward to today... Many bills later new cam lots of porting and much more in the trans I was able to break the 13 barrier on a 4 speed automatic in N/A form... I then decided to use the laughing gas since I really did buy the cam to work with that... Lots of wheel spin and I got a 12.67....
All I'm trying to say is when your young you think that what you have is really fast... but to be honest you really have nothing to compare to... My 13 sec run started to feel like merging onto the highway and I got used to the feel of it, where as before when I was running 15.7's I thought I was screaming.
Don't rely on those times at all... Go to a track and do not expect anything out of the high 16 sec realm or you will be greatly disappointed. Once you've done that then try the same phone app on that track and see what comes up, If it's very accurate there then as noted when testing at home make sure to find an area thats not covered in sand, otherwise your just wasting your time. Every second your car is spinning while using that app you are sending it false data and it's interpreting it wrong.
I have the dynolicious... and if you want I can go run my Legacy to see what it puts down for a number... I know my car should be 14.2-13.9 in stock form and I've raised my boost and messed with the tune since then so I should easily be in the 13's no matter what. Maybe the app will roll an 11... lol