[Scottyfox]

Hi,

I was wondering if any members have taken your cars to the drag strip. I have taken it quite a few times and my findings are as follows. I would say you definitely need to use the manual shifting to get anywhere in the 12 second range. You also need to kill your traction control. Another thing that you have to do is wind out the gears before shifting. My best runs have been 12.6 seconds in the 113 mph range. My silver IS-F is stock. Just to give you guys a quick comparison, my friend has a C63 benz and he got a 12.2 at 115 the same day. You have to take into consideration that the C63 has about 45 more horsepower and weighs pretty much the same as the IS-F. I plan on getting the intake and exhaust done for next season so lets see how i compare next time. =). Anyone have any numbers? I'm curious how I stack up with other IS-F's.

 

[Scottyfox]

bigmike, I always have it on sport mode.
My time slip reads as follows,


R/T - .869
60' - 2.027
330- 5.488
1/8 - 8.272
MPH - 89.31
1000 - 10.64
1/4 - 12.63
MPH - 113.59

 

[Scottyfox]

I would disagree on the comment about the soft compound tires not helping. My best 60 foot time was about 1.9 without loosing traction. If i had soft compound tires i could easily launch at a higher RPM without losing traction. I figure i could get a 60 foot somewhere in the 1.7 or so range which would translate to a good 3-4 tenths at the quarter mile. Two of my friends have bone stock C63's and we all went to the track the same day. The only difference was one of them had soft compound tires. His results were exactly as i outlined. He was getting consistantly better 60 foot times than my other friend which made the difference at the quarter.

 

[Scottyfox]

Hey thanks for the link Mike. Based on what i could see this appears to be the same guy that goes by the name Cole on dragtimes.com. If you look at some of his earlier runs on that site (pre drag radials) he was doing 12.5-12-6 so i would say the tires helped him out a bit. http://www.dragtimes.com/Lexus-IS-F-Timeslip-16388.html

http://www.dragtimes.com/Lexus-IS-F-Timeslip-16175.html

 

[Scottyfox]

Hey thanks for the clarification caymandriver. I will be looking to add some performance to my car next season and maybe drop on some drag radials.
I have been to two tracks so far atco and englishtown raceway park.

By the way i would love to set something up for next season to rent out a track for a day. If i can get enough people to pitch in, it allows you to race your car all day and against whoever you like. It would be great if we can put together a day of isf vs c63 v m3. It will cost about $200 per person but the price will probably go down if more people are willing to do it. A friend of mine was part of one of these events last season at Atco raceway and said it was great. No pressure etc. I already know two guys with C63's that would be down for it.
Let me know who might be interested and i will look into setting something up for maybe springtime or something.