First time at dragstrip

[MarkoBarko]

Well, my first time at the drag strip was labor day weekend. I went to Long Island Motorsports strip. Way too fun.

There were a lot of dragster type cars there. A whole lot of Novas, Chevelles etc. Doing their 10s like it's nothing.

Then there was a real race car. Like the ones you see on TV. Sooo cool. I was talking to the people who were working on it (a team of 8-10). They said it was a 6.2xx car. Fukin fast man!! They did one run while I was there. Everyone else stopped what they were doing and watched! He wound up running only the first gear. Didn't run the entire quarter. Ran only the 1/8th and coasted the rest of the way. But guess what. Still ran a 10.4 or so in the 1/4. SICK!!

As for me, I had trouble getting traction. I was on stock track wheels and there was no way to avoid the water box. So every green light I lit up the tires no matter how much I tried not to. I was even considering turning on the VDC...LOL

I was the slowest car there Although a Mustang came by and was doing 14.77 runs off of near perfect launches. Not trying to start a flame war, just stating what I saw. (Mustang 5.0, looked like a mid-90s body)

Then next slowest car was a turbo eclipse. Nice guy. talked to him a while. Car was AWD and boosted 20lb. Had smoke coming out of the exaust. Said it was running very rich. His times were around the 12.8 territory.

There was a turbo rx-7 there but I didn't see his times...

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Best run (which also has my best 60'. wonder why? )
RT 0.316
60' 2.353
330' 6.264
1/8 ET 9.457
1/8 MPH 77.27
1000' ET 12.118
1/4 ET 14.449
1/4 MPH 99.80

Best trap of the day: 101.16

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Conclusion:

If anyone has a set of slicks(rim and tire) that they want to sell me please PM. Must fit over the track model brembo