OVA1
06-22-2013, 07:27 PM
Just cruising yesterday, returning to the house having not found anything of interests and just a few streets back from the house, I see a gray 5th-Gen that seems to be coming on about a 1/4 mile back.
So I slow down to let the light ahead change and pass my turn, hoping to get a little action.
The problem, of course, is that the old Performabuilt Lvl 2 is quickly succumbing to the two years of sitting between builds and a subsequent terrible tune, which I never got straightened out.
Prior to this build that tranny was flat out amazing. Shifted like a Ninja… quick and clean with the Yank SS3600 screaming peak revs…; since the rebuild and the new tune, not so much.
These days she shifts S L O W and feathery at WOT and around town, she up-shifts way to early, posting OD at around 45 mph. So as a band-aid, I've been manually shifting… which works, I just have neither had the time, nor the coin to really do anything about it and, as a result up until this encounter, OD has started slipping badly; meaning that if I'm in OD, there's no means to throw the hammer without manually shifting down to third (I know… it's a no-no, but she's gotta eat…).
Anywho… The light at the intersection cooperates, turning red which gives the 5th Gen time to catch up. It pulls in behind me and a car back, to the outside.
Light turns green, the field opens up, I check the rear flank and seeing it's clear take to the outside, in manual 2nd… she revs out to around 5500, where I toss her into third for a casual level off and find that the 5th gen didn't follow. "WTF?"…
Next light I get the lane, and while I'm expecting the 5th gen to pull in behind me, it pulls up to my right, again on the outside. But all signs are indicating that it's a 'no-sale' and, upon the green I roll out for a quick little pass to the next light and begin to make my way to a waterin' hole I favor on this particular route. But I notice the 5th gen is still back there, just not playing.
I catch the next red-light and all three lanes are open on a clear and open road… It pulls in to my right, but despite having the lane, it stays back a car.
Oh well… clearly not a contender, so when the green hits I check the coast and seeing that its clear, roll out for a nice punchy hole-shot.
Low and behold, truly, OUT OF NOWHERE a very sharp black on black 5th-Gen is on my inside rear bumper and dude was flat getting on it… so I'm like "Crap" (due to the aforementioned slippage, I wasn't sure how this was going to turn out, I'm completely out of shape… already at speed and this isn't good considering the tranny's terminal state)!
But I drop her down into 3rd, throw the hammer whereupon she responds as well as she ever has, rolling dude up in short order, putting a car on him in virtually no time, when he understandably gets out of it, as we were approaching the legal limit at that point and no one wants to violate the law and, we're quickly coming up on the next light.
But, being incorrigible and all, I pop the throttle a few times, to coax those who show promise, but who otherwise seem a tad hesitant, and I am after all, a smart-ass.
We pull to the next light, which takes us to a NOTORIOUS right hand sweeper, which delineates the City Limit… leading to a stretch of road posted at just over a school-zone and I'm hoping dude is local… cause if he ain't, he's likely to roll past the little 1/8 mile stretch locals use as a slow-down zone before we hit the trap; speed trap that is… and friends, this stretch is a ticket production zone, let me tell ya!
Well that light is a longy and I'm wanting to let dude know, but I can't break the code and look over, so now I'm trying to decide, 'if he goes, do I just let him go or take the near certain risk of a ticket-hit?'.
Long story short, he goes… BIG!
The first thing ya notice is that he's definitely cammed up, his car's a screamer… But I gotta give him first, because it's pointless to do otherwise and decide to do the only thing I can, given the circumstances and, put him away within the the safe zone, breaking hard, using the tranny to get down to within the bounds of good taste through the 'zone of death' and make my right to get to the waterin' hole, for a frosty cold soda pop.
Well, to my delight, dude follows me around the corner and jumps ALL UP ON IT, rolling to my inside, which was a truly great move, cause in doing so, he shut me out giving me only two options: get out or get behind… .
Well, I throw what's left down to the money hole and light the afterburner, once dude rolls by me…
I push her thru 2nd which still feels 100%, but she hits the limiter way early and despite having punched the stick up into 3rd, she labored bumping off the top and slowly feathers out into gear, whining through the slip something awful. We immediately catch the next light and upon the green roll out hard, 2nd again holds up fine, but before I could coax her into 3rd, while I am clearly pulling on him, inexplicably, he slams the breaks and pulls a u-ee… I give a quick thumbs up, go down to the next slot, drift a u-ee and take it on back to the Chiki, where I find dude.
Turns out to be a car guy, we had a couple of sodas and discussed our respective rides and sure enough he's a cam, headers Bolt-on, dyno-tuned, state of the art Ls3. So I felt pretty good about the 520 he said he dyno'd out at, considering the old gal was besting it, with a slush box for a transmission. The best part, beside the dose of adrenaline, was that he turned me on to his tuner over on the east coast and who I have already called and confirmed that they have a LTx tuner, sent in a build sheet this morning, for what will be our first dyno tune, after I get the new tranny and TC installed week after next (ordering it up on Tuesday, figure a week for delivery).
Just trying to decide what stall rating to go to… the SS3600 seems insufficient. So do I just bump it to 4000 or take it up to the 4400?
Your thoughts…
So I slow down to let the light ahead change and pass my turn, hoping to get a little action.
The problem, of course, is that the old Performabuilt Lvl 2 is quickly succumbing to the two years of sitting between builds and a subsequent terrible tune, which I never got straightened out.
Prior to this build that tranny was flat out amazing. Shifted like a Ninja… quick and clean with the Yank SS3600 screaming peak revs…; since the rebuild and the new tune, not so much.
These days she shifts S L O W and feathery at WOT and around town, she up-shifts way to early, posting OD at around 45 mph. So as a band-aid, I've been manually shifting… which works, I just have neither had the time, nor the coin to really do anything about it and, as a result up until this encounter, OD has started slipping badly; meaning that if I'm in OD, there's no means to throw the hammer without manually shifting down to third (I know… it's a no-no, but she's gotta eat…).
Anywho… The light at the intersection cooperates, turning red which gives the 5th Gen time to catch up. It pulls in behind me and a car back, to the outside.
Light turns green, the field opens up, I check the rear flank and seeing it's clear take to the outside, in manual 2nd… she revs out to around 5500, where I toss her into third for a casual level off and find that the 5th gen didn't follow. "WTF?"…
Next light I get the lane, and while I'm expecting the 5th gen to pull in behind me, it pulls up to my right, again on the outside. But all signs are indicating that it's a 'no-sale' and, upon the green I roll out for a quick little pass to the next light and begin to make my way to a waterin' hole I favor on this particular route. But I notice the 5th gen is still back there, just not playing.
I catch the next red-light and all three lanes are open on a clear and open road… It pulls in to my right, but despite having the lane, it stays back a car.
Oh well… clearly not a contender, so when the green hits I check the coast and seeing that its clear, roll out for a nice punchy hole-shot.
Low and behold, truly, OUT OF NOWHERE a very sharp black on black 5th-Gen is on my inside rear bumper and dude was flat getting on it… so I'm like "Crap" (due to the aforementioned slippage, I wasn't sure how this was going to turn out, I'm completely out of shape… already at speed and this isn't good considering the tranny's terminal state)!
But I drop her down into 3rd, throw the hammer whereupon she responds as well as she ever has, rolling dude up in short order, putting a car on him in virtually no time, when he understandably gets out of it, as we were approaching the legal limit at that point and no one wants to violate the law and, we're quickly coming up on the next light.
But, being incorrigible and all, I pop the throttle a few times, to coax those who show promise, but who otherwise seem a tad hesitant, and I am after all, a smart-ass.
We pull to the next light, which takes us to a NOTORIOUS right hand sweeper, which delineates the City Limit… leading to a stretch of road posted at just over a school-zone and I'm hoping dude is local… cause if he ain't, he's likely to roll past the little 1/8 mile stretch locals use as a slow-down zone before we hit the trap; speed trap that is… and friends, this stretch is a ticket production zone, let me tell ya!
Well that light is a longy and I'm wanting to let dude know, but I can't break the code and look over, so now I'm trying to decide, 'if he goes, do I just let him go or take the near certain risk of a ticket-hit?'.
Long story short, he goes… BIG!
The first thing ya notice is that he's definitely cammed up, his car's a screamer… But I gotta give him first, because it's pointless to do otherwise and decide to do the only thing I can, given the circumstances and, put him away within the the safe zone, breaking hard, using the tranny to get down to within the bounds of good taste through the 'zone of death' and make my right to get to the waterin' hole, for a frosty cold soda pop.
Well, to my delight, dude follows me around the corner and jumps ALL UP ON IT, rolling to my inside, which was a truly great move, cause in doing so, he shut me out giving me only two options: get out or get behind… .
Well, I throw what's left down to the money hole and light the afterburner, once dude rolls by me…
I push her thru 2nd which still feels 100%, but she hits the limiter way early and despite having punched the stick up into 3rd, she labored bumping off the top and slowly feathers out into gear, whining through the slip something awful. We immediately catch the next light and upon the green roll out hard, 2nd again holds up fine, but before I could coax her into 3rd, while I am clearly pulling on him, inexplicably, he slams the breaks and pulls a u-ee… I give a quick thumbs up, go down to the next slot, drift a u-ee and take it on back to the Chiki, where I find dude.
Turns out to be a car guy, we had a couple of sodas and discussed our respective rides and sure enough he's a cam, headers Bolt-on, dyno-tuned, state of the art Ls3. So I felt pretty good about the 520 he said he dyno'd out at, considering the old gal was besting it, with a slush box for a transmission. The best part, beside the dose of adrenaline, was that he turned me on to his tuner over on the east coast and who I have already called and confirmed that they have a LTx tuner, sent in a build sheet this morning, for what will be our first dyno tune, after I get the new tranny and TC installed week after next (ordering it up on Tuesday, figure a week for delivery).
Just trying to decide what stall rating to go to… the SS3600 seems insufficient. So do I just bump it to 4000 or take it up to the 4400?
Your thoughts…