BigBadBuford

I've been waiting all winter for Beaver Springs to open up for Friday Night Street Racing, but the weather didn't want to cooperate and there was a slight drizzle all night. I was hoping to pull some good 60's but with a wet track that wasn't going to happen. I only managed to get 2 runs in before the track was deemed to slick to run anymore, but I was at least able to get some more insight into how to best launch the Z. I set the my tires to about 25-26 psi for the runs. Both times before I ran I spun my tires very quickly to clean off the mud/stones before the run. The bad wheel hop makes this pretty nasty. My first run I tried to be pretty agressive, and just dropping the clutch at 2600 rpm. This gave me nasty wheel hop and then it finally caught when it hit a dry patch of track and it bogged, and I only got a 2.47 60'. The next run I tried something different, revving to around 3500 rpm and I let the clutch take some of the abuse. This worked MUCH better. It launched hard despite the wetter track and I got NO wheel hop (and I even beat the 3000GT VR-4 out of the hole!) and ran a 2.325 60'. This run would have been better, but I shifted very agressively into 2nd and the tires broke loose and spun hard on the wet track and I had to let off so I didn't lose it. They closed the track right after this run. Overall it wasn't such a bad night, I was quicker on the light than I thought I would be since I haven't done much racing lately, and although I didn't get a great launch I at least got a little practice, plus they gave us all a rain check. Hopefully next weekend will be nicer so I can pull some good 60's and hopefully some 13's!

wadd3456

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I feel yoru pain. My times werent too much better then that. Same problem, bad wheel spin and/or hop EVERy time. Errrr.

My 60foots were something you would see outta a stock PINTO!