Thread: DragNRacing running his 2.0T Coupe at the strip!

We had a good friend/customer of ours who took his Coupe to the track this weekend. Trevor Jones who is also the owner of our old Time Attack Evo.

This was his post off of the Coupe forums:

DragNRacing:
I was bit disapointed today with the car. I did not realize there is a factory rev limit when the clutch is engaged at a stand still. It will not rev over 5K. Bouncing off the limiter does not seem to build boost either so the tires were definitely over kill. I tried unplugging some switches under the dash to see if I could trick the ECU and no go. I also continued to bump into the rev limiter (torque governance) cut. I still managed to squeek out a 14.76@92.77 with about a 5-10MPH head wind. My best 60' though was a measly 2.053. Here is how the slip breaks down...

60 2.053
330 6.1117
1/8 9.451 @ 73.17
1000 12.334
1/4 14.765 @ 92.77

Most of my times were in the 14.9x range with 91.xx MPH. I will get the time slip scanned and also have some in car/out of car vids to upload.

It felt more like a .1 of a second but I still was hititng it and it was still slowing the car down. I am not sure on the reflash part, I have not asked the dealer but maybe the car came with it. With the 5K limiter removed and the governance removed, I am fairly certain a low 14 sec quarter would be fairly easy. With an aftermarket tune, boost controller, and drag radials some 13 second times should be easy.

Here is the out of car vid. It was the first time my friend Lil Man used my camera so it is a bit shaky on the top end with him trying to figure out the zoom.

Outside video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMGMa9WJ5FI *CLICK*

In car vid:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01ppUa90BUk *CLICK*