Just got back from Commerce. It was my first time ever to step foot on a track. I brought my sentra which is na, to see what it would do. I knew I was not gonna do good, as it was my first time, so I joked about running a 16, which was actually better then my first run lol. I ran on 185/60/14’s touring tires that held no power and actually about broke my car though I’ll get into that latter. I only got to run two times, so I didnt have the seat time to get a hang of everything
First run, I sat in line and asked people nearby how the tree worked which was help full lol. Running those turd tires, I knew launching from 3k was too much, so I pulled up and launched from 2500 which was too much. It spun instantly and wheel hopped so bad, it popped 1st gear back out to neutral. I put it back in first and took off again, and it wheel hopped like crazy again, so I pushed in the clutch and tried once more with the same results so I threw it in 2nd and went down the track. That was the 17.07 @ 98.9mph. The wheel hop was so bad it bent the shift linkage, and I could no longer go in reverse or 5th, and now 1st was where 3rd used to be lol.
Second run, I decided RT did not matter, and I was going to launched from 1800rpm which is not a launch lol, as well as let the clutch slip then ease on the gas while easing off the clutch. That worked better than I thought. It started to spin and wheel hop a little, but nothing like the first time. I smacked the revlimiter before I knew it, threw it in 2nd spun and wheel hopped a little, and smacked and sat at the rev limiter again before shifting to 3rd for the rest of the run. That one was much better with a 14.09 @ 101.2mph.
Im sure if I got 10 or so runs it would have been better by not bouncing off the revlimiter and perfecting the launch, but I pretty sure I would of broke something with the spinning and wheel hop of those little donuts of mine. Either way it was fun, I never witnessed the track before, so it defiantly was a great experience. Now I got some 205/55/14 drag radials on order, so I’ll have them for next weekend which should not give me nowhere near the traction problems I had tonight. But before then, I got to fix what the wheel hop broke lol. I also have a lot of learning to do. Tonight I was out and had no clue what was going on or what or the procedures were lol.
PS: It’s a 92 Sentra with sr20ve with 195-200whp @ 2170-2200lbs.