[KRRZ350]

Originally Posted by Aaron92SE

Thanks Kevin. At MAXUS 09, I ran from 12.76 to 12.85.

On the .400 pro tree, a perfect R/T would have been .000. If you cut a .400 light, that means, you left 4 tenths after the green light. It's not that bad of a R/T, but you can do a lot better if you launch as SOON as you see the full ambers. Do not wait for the green light. My R/Ts ranged from .287 to .376 all day. It's tough to get better than .287 while foot braking without a faster car, deep staging, or anticipating the ambers, which you never want to do. That's how you redlight.

On the 5 tenths bracket (aka sportsman) tree, I launch right at the 3rd amber without anticipating it. Every car and every driver is different. But, I am able to average between .040 - .070 RT on a normal bracket tree. But I've been out of practice for a while since I haven't been bracket racing recently. I'd like to get back in the game now that I have my car back together.

I've got a few more things I can do to squeeze out some more HP and reduce weight by this winter before I start spraying nitrous. So I'll probably just be doing some normal TnT sessions for right now.

I think I threw you off with my wording above, I didn't mean I got a perfect reaction time, I meant I got a perfect light, which is what I was going for the whole time, hence the staging deep- I was trying to have a roll going before I left the line and the green came on, that produces higher e/t's right? That's what I've always thought, and from looking at my slips it looks to be the case.

As we said earlier, a Full Tree counts down at half-second intervals. The cycle goes: Amber on, delay, amber off and next bulb on. Here's the important part. The reaction timer starts when the third amber comes on. Since there is a half-second (or .500 seconds) delay until the green light comes on, a .500 reaction time is perfect. (In the same way, the four tenths delay of the Pro Tree makes a .400 a perfect light on that one) Now, the reaction timer stops when the car leaves the starting line. To understand this better, we must examine the starting line, and how it relates to the Tree.