since my local quarter mile track has shut down for the year i have been going to
some eighth mile tracks. my car ran a 1.78 60 foot/ 7.21 at 103 mph.could anyone with experience drag racing hondas give me a close estimate on my quarter mile time

 

dman whats ur car got.....im not an expert or anything but im sayin low 12's

 

its way to hard to say, all cars are different.. A supra that does a 7.2 1/8 could possibly break 10's.. but a Mustang GT w/ Nos or sumthin may run low 12's... Id like to guess u r inbetween, somewhere in the 11's..

 

car has a 2.3 v-tec running a fully upgraded t3/t4e. it has allready been 11.87
running very bad. car runs great now so it should be much faster than this.

 

This has nothing to do with your question but I wanted to add a formula I use to find out whp by using ET and trap speeds. Its not 100% accurate but it sometimes comes out close.

(MPH^2 / ET) * (total weight/1000) / 9.1 = Horsepower to the wheels.

 

my car did 8.10 1/8 mile and 12.51 1/4 mile.yours should be deep in the 11's easy.

 

Art I tried that formula and it did not work to well.. I plugged in the total weight of my car as 2900(eduacated estimate) when I ran it, and came out with 143.9whp.. theres no way thats possible.. Im gonna find some statistics and see if i can come up with a formula..

(85^2/16.0) * (app. 2900/1000) / 9.1 = 143.9 is what i got.. it should be about 110-115 in a LS w/ IE and 17's..


[Modified by DIRep972, 2:36 AM 10/8/2001]

 

This is a rough estimate, but is usually very close.
For those of you who have a timeslip with both 660' and 1320' times and speeds, give it a try and see. The only cars I've seen a with big variance in this guestimate is AWD cars. They usually have much better 1/8 mile times and slower than expected in the quarter mile due to the better than average 60' times. For those cars, the ".65" in the formula is usually modified to a .62 to .64 or so.
1/4 mile to 1/8 mile e.t. conversion:
1/4 e.t. * .65 = 1/8 e.t.

1/4 mile mph to 1/8 mile mph conversion:
1/4 mph * .8 = 1/8 mph

so...

1/8 mile to 1/4 mile e.t. conversion:
1/8 e.t. / .65 = 1/4 e.t.

1/8 mile mph to 1/4 mile mph conversion:
1/8 mph / .8 = 1/4 mph

From this, I'd guess you'd pull a 11.092 @ 128.75 mph in the 1/4!
That's an awesome ride speedworks! Congrats!