My First and Probably Last Trip to the Drag Strip
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Al,
To show your power, You should try the Texas Mile. You may be
a contender for the 200mph club with those mods. The car sounds nice.
I didnt think anybody sucked more than me at the drag strip but...
A much better way to measure the effectiveness of your mods would
be a 0-300 kph run or a 0-1 mile run (sanctioned).
Good luck,
Marty K.
To show your power, You should try the Texas Mile. You may be
a contender for the 200mph club with those mods. The car sounds nice.
I didnt think anybody sucked more than me at the drag strip but...
A much better way to measure the effectiveness of your mods would
be a 0-300 kph run or a 0-1 mile run (sanctioned).
Good luck,
Marty K.
Marty,
I am not a street racer and never intend to have the car to 186 MPH on the street. I don't know a place around here to attain that kind of speed legally.
In my office, we plan every day off a year in advance and I commit to X number of days per year. My team members get bonuses based on collections and they would be upset if I start arbitrarily taking extra days off.
Making the Texas mile over a weekend would be very difficult for me to do.
The Maxton Mile event is much closer for me, and I think that would be feasible over a weekend. Do you know of anyone who has ever done that standing mile run? I never hear anyone mention it on this forum. It is done by the East Coast Timing Association and the track is located in North Carolina. Maybe some of we east-coasters could attend an event together.
http://www.ecta-lsr.com/
Joe,
I'll look for a big spring event in this area and keep you posted. Atlanta Dragway is about 45 minutes from me, and Silver Dollar Raceway is a little over 2 hours.
Last edited by Al Norton; Dec 5, 2007 at 05:16 PM.
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Al,
That is why I said Sanctioned! Yes, I know that some East Coast guys have
done that one and that would be great fun for you to try! You are one of the few
that has 0-200 potential.
Good luck!
MK
That is why I said Sanctioned! Yes, I know that some East Coast guys have
done that one and that would be great fun for you to try! You are one of the few
that has 0-200 potential.
Good luck!
MK
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Al, we may have to take a trip the Steele, dragway in Alabama, everyone raves about that one, and there is one in Tennessee and in SC that are good.
I think we got shafted because it was the end of the year so they didnt prep it well, I know the owner of the track, I'll call him from now on so that we dont get shafted driving 2 hrs for nothing.
But you and I still will have to get better alignments or it wont help anyways, -3, -2.5 isnt condusive for drag racing.
I think we got shafted because it was the end of the year so they didnt prep it well, I know the owner of the track, I'll call him from now on so that we dont get shafted driving 2 hrs for nothing.
But you and I still will have to get better alignments or it wont help anyways, -3, -2.5 isnt condusive for drag racing.
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Wow how did I miss this.. Awesom trap as its been mentioned, your setup seems SICK, pm me details please? Funny seeing how all of these different car's, exhausts and setups sound and go, that's some serious spinning for AWD damn!
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