Congrats on the first time out with a lot of new stuff. Your 60' times are pretty soft for what it is so no doubt it will go quicker. As for the dyno numbers don't sweat naysayers just keep chipping away. I stand by my prediction and bet that's where you end up. Just keep chugging away.

As for killing ET up top. most any bracket racer will tell you it is VERY hard to kill much ET up top. You can scrub a fair amount of MPH and loose very little ET. As Dustion pointed out do the splits, but since it picked up on all the incriments it would likely have been a tad quicker than .82, but honestly it is all the "hard" data we have to work with. Basing it off the 1/8 mile I'd bet had you legged it out would have been close to 9.78 or so.