I went racing yesterday. I dicided to drop my tires air pressure to 27psi. I've read for many years that is the best pressure for our F-1's. Anyway, it would not hook at all. I did my burn out, lined up, and took off. The problem was hooking up, it spun like they have never spun before. I had to lift twice, so I could hook them up. Second run, I did not burn them as bad, thinking I my have got them too hot. So I did my second run, did my little burn out, lined up again, still had to lift twice, too hook up. What do you guys think I did wrong?? A FYI, my first past I left them at stock pressure, and ran my normal 13.89 at 100mph, the other two were awful with the tire pressure dropped. Ran a 14.134 at 97, and a 14.343 at 96mph. My truck as never ran so slow in it's life. I'm still stock to BTW. Any help with my problem will be greatly appreciated. One more thing, I put them back to stock tire pressure, and ran an 13.98 at 99mph, and did not have to left at all. So what do you think??

 

sounds like the track sucks

 

i contrary to even my own belief have found out that i get my best times leaving from idle and slowly rolling into the throttle.

 

I always leave at idle, and slowly roll into it. (I give it any were from 1/2 to 3/4 throttle, then slowly roll into it) My second try, I went 1/8 throttle, and it just lite them up. Like I said above my first run was stock pressure, and my last was with stock tire pressure. Both runs were in the high 13's, which is normal for my stock L. O-well, guess I'll never try that again, cause I hate running slowly then I should.

 

I think that may be part of it. I was running consistant 13.40's & 13.50's on my F1's at about 30psi with low 1.9 60' times. Even leaving well above idle.

I also had better luck doing shorter dry burnouts than longer wet burnouts. There is always a chance of retaining water in the tread.