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yeah thought I'd try the semi's, wasn't any better than when I ran on street tyrespinch.gif wrong sort of tyre, really need M/T's to get good 60' .. 1.9 is very average for us..

A mate I saw the following night told me about when he got it all right and nailed a 1.59 , not on drag rubber in a GTR R32 worship.gif thats where its at ... nail one of them and that will get you into the 11's thumbsup.gif and me into the elusive 10's

Wow yeah that's def where it's at, specially on street rubber.

Have new wheels with fresh rubber (same width & profile) fitted all round now. This should make a big diff straight up for me as my rears were fried b4 I got there Wednesday night. Had different width tyres front & rear which effects a GTR unless they're sized up perfectly profile wise to achieve matching tyre O.D. front to rear - which mine wern't :down: Some believe this is not the case but for me you can see it straight away on the torque guage as soon as you give it a bootfull. In my case with the previous tyres the fronts kick in latter than they should when compared to say my track wheels/tyres which are the same all round. You can also see this on the vids Brendan got of me on launch as my rears would light up for a while before the fronts would intervene and pull her away.

Good times,

Wes

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here is some footage from the drags, of a few members

Good compilation Richard!

Not sure if it's just my computer, but there was a wierd echo effect happening when I watched the youtube vids??

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