Thanks for the info Ron. Turns out, it was only minimally different from my other car and it didn't cause me any mental hiccups.
Here's sort of some bullet point things from the outing..
1 - The car didn't et great, but the track had all sorts of vehicles on it(4wd's, minivans, etc) so they couldn't exactly keep it well groomed. Sixty footed low 1.5x's and ran between 6.95-6.97 on the four passes I made. All in all I have no complaints about the et since my '19 started off life even slower than that and now it's badass.
2 - 1-2 Shift --- There is no 1-2 hiccup but the car shifts HARD. It does that rattle the tires thing on every pass. Based on how Rons car looks in his in car video I'll say the shift of my car is similarly hard to Rons SS. It is nowhere near as smooth as a factory car should be on a wide open shift. I doubt I'll be comfortable leaving the shift this way. It will break something running in like this.
3 - The car averaged 20.6 mpg on the way to the track.
4 - Toward the end of the outing the car began to idle rough and the check engine light came on. Fortunately a new friend that is a Dodge tech was there(running his wife's Trackhawk). He had his scanner with him and offered to pull the codes. It was P0307 "misfire on #3 cylinder". So we called it a night, aired up the rear tires and headed home.
I had to stop for gas. I shut the car off while there and when I restarted it it rolled some pretty good smoke out the tailpipe. If I had to guess I'd say that was fuel and it has an injector stuck somewhat open.
In all last night was more about finding out if the car would go start to finish without the dreaded hiccup. As a bone stock car it seems to be ok. I do not like the 1-2 shift and I certainly am worried about the #3 cylinder deal. Otherwise I suppose it's fair to call it a pretty decent first outing.
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