"Street Legal Thunder" Saturday June 18th

[Guest]

hondagirl17 wrote:
yeah I suppose I can muster up some of my cheerleading skills

Haha that would be a site!! I have so much to learn before I even attempt to race.. like for example... burnouts!! Eventually I will attempt to run my car but I would like to get some mods done to it and learn the system before a make a complete fool of myself!

Is your car a manual/automatic? Either way, burnouts may not be to your advantage, just drive around the puddle of water when directed, roll into the staging area when signalled to do so and roll slowly forward until you light both lights on the tree....then take off when the lights get to the last yellow one. Pretty easy, and no way to get good at it w/o practice

[hondagirl17]

tjamz wrote:
Is your car a manual/automatic? Either way, burnouts may not be to your advantage, just drive around the puddle of water when directed, roll into the staging area when signalled to do so and roll slowly forward until you light both lights on the tree....then take off when the lights get to the last yellow one. Pretty easy, and no way to get good at it w/o practice

its automatic. yeah I dunno... I won't race on saturday.. maybe a later date.

[yose]

ill be there

[musthavemuzk]

not racing but i will be there as well.

Monty

[SmitEvo]

I will be smoking my 13.1 time ( i hope)

[btleier]

Flowcus wrote:
If I could find some cheap sticky 215/45/r17 tires for my front rims... id think about running again to see if I can best my 15.5 without my T/C bogging me.

2 things holding me back... slipping clutch ( I think... it grinds when I shift it into gears in high rpms of around 6800-7200 ) and winter tires up front still cause one of my summer tires blew out and im poor right now. Oh and my car stinks because my cat is rotted out... stupid fords :mad:

a grinding while shifting at high rpms sound more like a synchro then a clutch problem.

[STiSchucky]

99slowGSX wrote:
I will be smoking my 13.1 time ( i hope)
thought you were goin to the lakes sally?

ill be there to see which DSM will break, jims SS autochromed one or brians.

[Jim]

I'm not going to break.

[91nbtsi]

So who is going to win?? Jim or Brian?

[SmitEvo]

I am going to win this weekend.

[wa2fastcamaro]

I plan on comming down to the track fo rthe first time this weekend. I actually have never run on a drag track before, I just run road-course. What are the NHRA tech stuff do you have to pass, is a street car just fine to run. Should I put in my 5 point harnesses? I just want to do a few runs for the heck of it, I got 2 limp cyliners on my camamro so I won't do very well, but I want to know my time before I pull the car apart and stroke the engine, so see how much power I got out of it afterwards. Any help would be cool, I want to show up ready.

[STiSchucky]

Seriously tech involves...

-You got a seatbelt(anyone would do)...Check

-Your battery secured...Check

-You got coolant...Check

That's all. Oh and don't get trapped by the stupid stage light trick on the launch pad, which im sure 90% of us did when we first raced.

[Joel]

what trick?

[STiSchucky]

where you have to light up both rows of stage lights in order for the tree to go...

i know ive done it, and a couple more people have.

[SmitEvo]

Brian Will Win If i have anything to do with it!!!

[pin]

STiSchucky wrote:
where you have to light up both rows of stage lights in order for the tree to go...

i know ive done it, and a couple more people have.

That's not stupid(referring to your previous post). It's a way to make sure both racers are ready at the same time. As a courtesy, you should both prestage, then you procede to stage and light up both lights.

[STiSchucky]

Thats not what i mean, i meant you feel stupid when you go over the light and have no idea what your doing. the stage lights are great since both rider start at the same spot. but when its your first time and you have no idea what they mean, youll tend to just line up for the hell of it.

[slowvo]

SO, who is gonna be my competition for this weekend?...for the slowest car, that is.
Can you handle the volvo?

[HandoEX]

STiSchucky wrote:
Thats not what i mean, i meant you feel stupid when you go over the light and have no idea what your doing. the stage lights are great since both rider start at the same spot. but when its your first time and you have no idea what they mean, youll tend to just line up for the hell of it.
My first time, I just waited for the other guy to go....I figured if my reaction didn't affect e/t, why bother trying to get a quick jump?

[Jim]

Volvo VS Accord!