Is your car a Dyno Queen??
10-16-2006, 09:53 AM
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Originally Posted by Sharif@Forged
My tuning skills are a lot better than my drag racing skills...so I will stick to dyno stuff...and street racing. 
10-16-2006, 10:03 AM
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where I live it's like $8 a run at the drag strip and you gotta wear a helmet and do inspection and all that crap and the track is only open so many days a week and only at certain times. It's way too easy to drop $50 just to do like 5 passes down the strip after waiting in line etc. Hell even a $120 speeding ticket is probably worth getting every now and then instead of spending $50 every week
i just see it as a pain in the butt vs going to some deserted areas of town and having some fun
as far as road courses, I've decided this car is too expensive to have to pay your entry fee which is like $150 usually for five 20 minute sessions, then you go thru tires, brake pads, rotors, engine oil, brake fluid and that crap adds up. I can't stand waking up at 6-7am to get there by 8am. Not to mention if you had some sort of accident that was yours or someone else's fault. Then autocrossing you'll spend 4 hours working the track so you can get 5-7 1 minute runs in... it's time well spent, but I'd rather be driving
At this point I'm just going to stick with street driving and doing kart racing. Maybe if I had a small dedicated 1 seater racecar where tires and pads were dirt cheap I'd go more often
what I wish someone would do is open up a "drift pen" sorta thing - just an area where you pay a few bucks and you get to spend like 5 minutes and go nuts driving around doing whatever the hell you want around some cones or something on a big slab of concrete - and be perfectly legal. Better use of time than 11-14 sec down the 1/4 mile and better than the 1 minute autoxing. And won't cost a bunch of money and shoot your whole day like a full road course does
i just see it as a pain in the butt vs going to some deserted areas of town and having some fun
as far as road courses, I've decided this car is too expensive to have to pay your entry fee which is like $150 usually for five 20 minute sessions, then you go thru tires, brake pads, rotors, engine oil, brake fluid and that crap adds up. I can't stand waking up at 6-7am to get there by 8am. Not to mention if you had some sort of accident that was yours or someone else's fault. Then autocrossing you'll spend 4 hours working the track so you can get 5-7 1 minute runs in... it's time well spent, but I'd rather be driving
At this point I'm just going to stick with street driving and doing kart racing. Maybe if I had a small dedicated 1 seater racecar where tires and pads were dirt cheap I'd go more often
what I wish someone would do is open up a "drift pen" sorta thing - just an area where you pay a few bucks and you get to spend like 5 minutes and go nuts driving around doing whatever the hell you want around some cones or something on a big slab of concrete - and be perfectly legal. Better use of time than 11-14 sec down the 1/4 mile and better than the 1 minute autoxing. And won't cost a bunch of money and shoot your whole day like a full road course does
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10-16-2006, 10:11 AM
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Originally Posted by Sharif@Forged
My tuning skills are a lot better than my drag racing skills...so I will stick to dyno stuff...and street racing.
Get some sticky tires man, Im telling you, you aint lived until you felt a 600+ whp 350Z actually hook up at the strip and throw you back into the seat like you wouldnt believe!!
10-16-2006, 10:18 AM
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Dyno numbers???
cant dyno numbers be manuipulated to say whatever you (or the guy doing the dyno) wants them to say? how accurate are they really?
there have been guys on here that have claimed X amount of power then they came back said it was less, or their car was fetured in a magazine with an independent dyno and the numbers were a lot less.
cant dyno numbers be manuipulated to say whatever you (or the guy doing the dyno) wants them to say? how accurate are they really?
there have been guys on here that have claimed X amount of power then they came back said it was less, or their car was fetured in a magazine with an independent dyno and the numbers were a lot less.
10-16-2006, 10:33 AM
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Originally Posted by MRC Motorsports
I wouldnt go around saying that, unless you plan on loosing alot of $$$$ at the street races..Of course unless that is your poker bluff..
Get some sticky tires man, Im telling you, you aint lived until you felt a 600+ whp 350Z actually hook up at the strip and throw you back into the seat like you wouldnt believe!!
Get some sticky tires man, Im telling you, you aint lived until you felt a 600+ whp 350Z actually hook up at the strip and throw you back into the seat like you wouldnt believe!!
10-16-2006, 10:38 AM
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Neither. I've never been to a real track and my car only gets on the dyno for tuning. If you're going to tell me that I wasted $40K on my car cause I don't take it to the track I'll tell you to *** off. It's my money and I'll do what I want with it. I track my car everytime I get in it even though I never stepped foot on a track if you know what I mean.
Just cause I don't have a clock timing me doesn't mean I am not putting my car to use. I didn't spend all that money to drive like grandma.
Just cause I don't have a clock timing me doesn't mean I am not putting my car to use. I didn't spend all that money to drive like grandma.
10-16-2006, 11:06 AM
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Originally Posted by JimRHIT
So when your 600whp hooked ... what time did you pull?
10-16-2006, 11:15 AM
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Does garage ***** count??? LOL. My ride sees more time in a garage than the streets, track, or dyno. 
Soon enough though, all will be right with the world .
Soon enough though, all will be right with the world .
10-16-2006, 11:34 AM
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Does garage ***** count??? LOL. My ride sees more time in a garage than the streets, track, or dyno. Soon enough though, all will be right with the world .
Soon enough though, all will be right with the world .
10-16-2006, 12:22 PM
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Originally Posted by MRC Motorsports
11.3 @124 with a 1.60 60 ft. Clutch was slipping and only made 13.7 psi where we normally see 18-20 on the street.
Not bad for a bad night at the track. You guys around ~500whp at 13-14psi?
10-16-2006, 12:36 PM
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Originally Posted by JimRHIT
Not bad for a bad night at the track. You guys around ~500whp at 13-14psi?
10-16-2006, 12:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Gman2004
Neither. I've never been to a real track and my car only gets on the dyno for tuning. If you're going to tell me that I wasted $40K on my car cause I don't take it to the track I'll tell you to *** off. It's my money and I'll do what I want with it. I track my car everytime I get in it even though I never stepped foot on a track if you know what I mean. Just cause I don't have a clock timing me doesn't mean I am not putting my car to use. I didn't spend all that money to drive like grandma.
Just cause I don't have a clock timing me doesn't mean I am not putting my car to use. I didn't spend all that money to drive like grandma.and, track or no track, you can run 11s all day, but the street is totally different. i see it all the time, people talk crap about what they run at the track, then they come out to the street races and get their *** handed to them by slower cars. my car hooks better on the street than on any tracks around here.
so your question should be, "is your car a dyno queen, track queen, or street queen?"
sentry, damn thats $$$, here its 10 bucks to get in, and you can make as many passes as you want.
10-16-2006, 01:04 PM
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Originally Posted by tig488
awesome, i totally agree.
and, track or no track, you can run 11s all day, but the street is totally different. i see it all the time, people talk crap about what they run at the track, then they come out to the street races and get their *** handed to them by slower cars. my car hooks better on the street than on any tracks around here.
so your question should be, "is your car a dyno queen, track queen, or street queen?"
sentry, damn thats $$$, here its 10 bucks to get in, and you can make as many passes as you want.
and, track or no track, you can run 11s all day, but the street is totally different. i see it all the time, people talk crap about what they run at the track, then they come out to the street races and get their *** handed to them by slower cars. my car hooks better on the street than on any tracks around here.
so your question should be, "is your car a dyno queen, track queen, or street queen?"
sentry, damn thats $$$, here its 10 bucks to get in, and you can make as many passes as you want.
10-16-2006, 01:08 PM
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because you are teh ****! must be a lot of slow cars where you live if 600hp rules the streets. lol. there are 4 cars within 2miles radius from mine that would walk you all day long, not that they streetrace either. and those are people i know personally. not that im saying, im just saying. im sure you car is fast too.
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10-16-2006, 01:15 PM
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well we all know it's all about having THE fastest car to ever drive a public street. It doesn't matter if you never find other 600+whp cars to race on the street. If they're out there, you can do nothing except to live in FEAR that you might fine a chance encounter with one
if your car ain't got 800+whp, then it's a slow POS and you don't deserve to enjoy it.
big hp is so damn noisy, it's a cop magnet. If you get caught "street racing" even if it's against no one, you lose your license and possibly car.
if you're messing around with taking corners fast, tire screaching is fairly quiet by comparison. Maybe a cop might give you a 5 pt reckless driving ticket
if your car ain't got 800+whp, then it's a slow POS and you don't deserve to enjoy it.
big hp is so damn noisy, it's a cop magnet. If you get caught "street racing" even if it's against no one, you lose your license and possibly car.
if you're messing around with taking corners fast, tire screaching is fairly quiet by comparison. Maybe a cop might give you a 5 pt reckless driving ticket
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