Wednesday night Drags AIR 15/10/03

[Busky2k]

When me and Nightcrawler spoke to one of the organisers of the events about the shit track conditions he didnt seem to inclined to do anything about it. And yeah the track was slippery as all hell (everyone was having horrendous axle tramping), and coupled with my dodgy launch techniques and shithouse tires I couldnt manage a better 60ft than 2.27. Im still quite happy with a 13.41 tho. Ah well. Im sure eveyrones times will improve greatly if they prep the track even just a bit in the future.

Well done to Nightcrawler too. Hot damn, netting a 12 on his normal street tires aswell..

[Redback]

missed it all.

next month is a definate but i dont think im anywere near most of you guys. i think ill be luckly to get a 15. never tested it so ill never know.

[32godzilla]

I know I had a bit of an advantage, but I've never launched as hard as I did last night, the track seemed grippy as all hell - strange...

Andrew, with that MPH and a really good launch you'll have 12.5's in the bag - I'd love to line up then

Nothing better than a door handle to door handle drag!

[N/A®]

Originally posted by 32godzilla

Andrew, with that MPH and a really good launch you'll have 12.5's in the bag - I'd love to line up then

Nothing better than a door handle to door handle drag!

Originally posted by MissNismo

lucky pawley's isn't standard hey! then again, with his clutch's efforts lately i might be able to beat him in my pulsar lol  

DRAG DRAG DRAG!!!!!!!!!

[N/A®]

9kRPM,

What colour is your car?

[32godzilla]

Redback, as long as you don't run 25 seconds like this bloke in a red VK Commo did last night you'll be right!!

Although doing a burnout the WHOLE length of the strip is quite an achievement, wonder what drugs he was on??

[Miss*33]

That was funny as! And the guy in the old Falcon who was running 17s! LOL

[TIMMMAYYY]

with all this baggin of slow cars its lucky I didn't go out lol

32Godzilla no doubt the VK owner had one or two cones before he went out on the track.. lol isn't that what bogans do?

[32godzilla]

Got to give him credit for getting it out on the track and giving it a go. My mate wouldn't race his rex cos he was thought it wasn't quick enough to race!!

When is your car going to make an appearance on the track Miss*33?? Hey hey???

[Nightcrawler]

How come I didn't see you there Miss*33? Or did I speak with you? All that adrenaline and too many faces ....

I think the slippery track was helping you 32zilla, as you didn't bog down (for a change). The other drag meets I've seen you race at you got too much traction, which is ok if you have enough revs, but bad if don't (then you bog down). Whereas last night it was so slippery that you got a little bit of wheel spin, so it didn't bog. But later on in the run you would've still been slipping a tad on gearchanges which affected your times. (Well that's my thoughts anyhow). But I was doing 3rd and sometimes 4th gearies - that's how slippery the track was. I think they didn't clean it properly, and there was certainly no VHT past the start line (and only a tiny bit on there). The other issue is that on street meets the proper drag cars lay plenty of rubber on the track, which gives us grip later in the night. Obviously that didn't happen last night.

[32godzilla]

Timmmayyy, one or two?? How many cones have you been smoking!!

I think you'd need more like 10 or 20 to do a burnout all the way down the strip! :burnout: :burnout: :burnout:

[TIMMMAYYY]

smoke cones? helllll no.

I'd rather spend my money on making my garden look beautiful!

[32godzilla]

Do you mean your green garden!!

[9krpm]

Originally posted by Miss*33

That was funny as! And the guy in the old Falcon who was running 17s! LOL

Hey don't laugh.....my worst time was 19sec

The Exedy clutch overheated and slipped on launch and slipped again on relaunch:o

Nightcrawler, how do you like your Exedy? My is the same setup as your, single hyper 6 ceramic bucks. I find my overheat too quickly with stop-go traffic. It's really good for the track stuffs where there are a lot of ventilation but stop-go it's terrible.

[Nightcrawler]

Nah I haven't had any probs at all .... it has only gone a bit soft on me on 2 occassions, and that was when I was being WAY too hard on it. It was perfect last night (wish I could say the same for my gearbox - damn second gear *rev *crunch *cruch *rev *crunch *ahhh now I got it - lol@me).

For everyones enjoyment here are some vids of my drags (click here) .... most are about 3-4Mb, sorry to the dialup people.

[TIMMMAYYY]

too hard on a clutch? its time to upgrade again fellas.

and yes im referring to my green garden lol.

[9krpm]

hey guys what's the fastest time allowed for a convertible without a roll cage to be on the drag strip?

[TIMMMAYYY]

convertible? hmmm

fucck knows

[9krpm]

Tim, you obviously missed my roofless run down the drag strip with my music system on almost full blast...hehehhehhe that was fun....still manage to get 13.9 with that run (my 2nd fastest for the night)

:lol:

So is it sub13.5 or sub 13 that I need a roll cage?

[Nightcrawler]

I think technically you must have a roll bar if you have a convertible - period. I think I read that on the discalimer somewhere. I am amazed they didn't pick you up at scrutineering. I am not positive though.