Took the 69 Camaro to the 1/8th mile last night

[69MyWay]

Went with a buddy that has a pro-street 68 chevelle. Thought it would be fun to see what the 69 would do.

I have a philosophy when I run at the track. I like to run the car on street tires with the exact air pressure that I run on the street and full street gear. I think it is silly to lighten the car, run funny fuel, etc. because then it is apples to oranges when you are taking it out for a Friday night cruise.

With that said I had fun and improved on each of my 4 runs. I decided not to run in the actual race.

I had two problems. One, is obviously the Goodyear EMT 18" rubber on the rear that has serious traction issues. Two, when I leave the 4L60E in Drive, it shifts really mushy and dumps into the next gear pre-mature. When I shift manually, the trans will stick in gear for a second or two and cause the engine to bounce off the rev limiter. All we did to the trans is install a stall converter, the rest of it is bone stock put together from left over parts out of my buddies tool box (I am not kidding here). I need to put a wake up kit in it for more positive shifting, etc.

My best run:

.570 Reaction
2.012 60'
89.64 mph
8.204 ET

I am pretty postive that a bit more practice and squeezing that down to a 1.8 60' and getting the trans to shift right would have dropped me in the 7s with 90 plus mph.

With only four runs and the trans hanging on street tires...that aint too bad.