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Old 04-24-2017, 05:15 PM
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Originally Posted by 54nomore View Post
Here's the results of my experimenting at the track just yesterday. The first timeslip is me shifting manually at 5000. The second is with the trans. in DRIVE shifting it's self at 43-4400. My car is on the right on both slips. The pics aren't super clear, but they read 15.301 and 15.328
Better 60 foot by a tenth on the second pass should have equated to close to 2 tenths quicker ET, but you slowed down. That tells me that short shifting the car on your second pass hurt your ET, likely by more than your slips are showing.