Went to the track today, finally. It was a disaster though. I don't know how may cars were there, seemed like 200 or more. I had to wait in line for the tech inspection for close to an hour. Finally got in line and someone hit the wall and shut the track down for another 2 hours or so. So I only got 2 runs, one N/A and one with the spray. The first run I accidentally staged too deep and had to back up and ended up with red light, -.038. If I had staged shallow it would have been a near perfect light, oh well. I did a small burnout and powerbrake. I spun a little off the line(with some wheel hop) and then took off. Ended up with a 15.1 which I was slightly diappointed with. I lost to an SRT-4(that was running slicks mind you!). With a little more practice I'm sure I could have gotten into the 14s. The second run was with the nitrous. I staged ok this time but I didn't rev as much at the line. I had kind of a bad reaction time this run, guess I was thinking too much about the nitrous switch and not enough about the tree. Very little wheel spin, as soon as I was sure I was hooked up, I hit the nitrous. I ended up with a 14.2@98MPH. I beat a Pontiac GXP somethingorother. I think I could have launched a little harder and maybe hit the nitrous sooner and could have gotten into the 13s easily with a little more track time. It was a very frustrating day, we were there for 5 hours and only got to run twice. I almost left before I got to run. The worst part of the whole day was when, after waiting for hours to run, 9 brand new Porsches pulled up into an empty lane bypassing all of the other cars. They didn't have to wait at all. I guess they paid extra. Must be nice.
Anyways, with all that time waiting, I got to meet a few of the other racers. There were several brand new Mustang GTs, including a yellow Steeda. One of the GT guys(Jeff? pretty cool guy) was running mid to high 14s. I would have beaten him, heh. There were a bunch of nice cars there, and a bunch of SERIOUS cars there! The nicest one though had to be the brand new Ford GT. It was red with white stripes, super sweet ride. We talked to the owner and the car was stock except for headers, a smaller pulley for the SC and a tune. He had his own driver, and he was running 11.1 at 134MPH. He was really taking it easy though, it was an easy 10 second car. The track told him if he went over 135MPH(or was it under 11 seconds?) he'd need a full roll cage. The guy tried to argue that the GT had an intergral roll cage and were made for racing(which is true).
Enough of my rambling, here's the time slips. I'm car number 390, right lane on both runs. Be kind.


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Very nice Jimp!!!! The track was packed, so I'm sure when you can get more runs you will break into the 13's. 14 is still really good with a 75HP shot.

 

Thanks man! [sm=gears.gif]

 

Yeah, it'll take more than a couple runs to get used to the car - low 14's is great! You gotta figure there's another couple of tenth's there, just getting the launch dailed-in.

 

Despite all the hold ups... great day at the track!! Nice runs! I know you'll dip even lower next time!

 

Thanks guys.

 

Yep.... GREAT START!!! It only get's better from here! Keep an eye on the wheel hop... very bad things can happen if you get to much of that! Keep LCAs in the back of your mind! LOL! So did you reach over and hit the arming switch to spray or did you just let the WOT switch to it's thing?

 

Thanks man! I already ordered the Powerhouse LCAs. It's all Rygen's fault! I just reached over and hit the arming switch after I launched. Once I knew I was hooked up I hit the spray. I might have been able to hit it sooner, I dunno. I'm not 100% sure that this is the best way to go or not, I would have liked some more track time to figure it out. Next time I'll get to the track sooner.

 

My fault, fine!!!! Glad I can help.

Hey Scrming,

Do you arm before or after you hook?

 

cool... i'm so jealous... it was 3 degrees here this morning!!!! April seems go far away!!! Cant' wait for the track to open and see if the little improvement we made of the winter lower my ET at all... LOL