Took my car to the track

Toolfan66

SCompRacer wrote: »

It's all in the leave. An .015 light may not get you into the next round. The first part of my drag racing life was sportsman tree. Super Comp was pro tree. I had to borrow a practice tree to get better at the pro tree. Wired it to my Dedenbear adjustable trans brake button and sat in the car in garage with glove on to retrain myself. (They would spot check you at the line for cut exposed-finger gloves). Stage, press the brake button, mat the throttle and lift the button when the lights flashed. Yee ha!:cheesygrin:

Have fun! Njoy!

Thanks!!

Nightfall

WilliamM2 wrote: »

An eye roll from a guy who can't beat a 4 door family sedan with a V8 muscle car. OK....

Not to mention he never said anything about how fast his car was, only about how much fun he had. You're the one that made it about that. A guy goes to a 1/4 track for the first time, has a lot of fun, shares it on a forum, and you tell him his car is slow. Stay classy.

nguyendot

WilliamM2 wrote: »

An eye roll from a guy who can't beat a 4 door family sedan with a V8 muscle car. OK....

Are you seriously comparing a real world strip test vs a magazine test? Magazines get rollout as well which helps lower the times a bit, and there's no RT.

A G37 sedan will run it in 13s according to car and driver, it's a v6...your point? He went to have fun, not to beat other theoretical figures. I can pull any number off the internet and make fun of him for it.

My car is a 4 door family sedan, I can run low 13s in it easily.....but wouldn't be surprised if I ran 14.x due to high altitude, first time at track, street tires, etc.... Don't be hatin' because he had a good time.

SCompRacer

Face wrote: »

Sportsman tree is easy, leave on the third amber.

If it was so easy, anyone could do it.:cheesygrin:

Face

I used that technique to win a few eliminators at Englishtown, so yes, anyone could do it. :cheesygrin:

SCompRacer

Anyone except for the anyone's you beat.:cheesygrin:

I ran a C Gas BB 4 speed 67 Camaro. When bracket racing started paying out big, many of the legal NHRA cars joined in. Most of the time I waited a long time for that third yellow. A fellow could get distracted waiting a few seconds. :biggrin:

F1nut

Nice car Larry, glad you had fun.

codyc1ark

Video or it didn't happen! :cheesygrin:

tonyb

Nightfall wrote: »

Not to mention he never said anything about how fast his car was, only about how much fun he had. You're the one that made it about that. A guy goes to a 1/4 track for the first time, has a lot of fun, shares it on a forum, and you tell him his car is slow. Stay classy.

Ding-ding......you win the trip to the Bahamas'.

nikolas812

Glad you had fun. It's very addicting. I've been doing it for 10 years... Put some slicks on it and spray it.. Once you get into the low 12's or faster the addiction seems to set in pretty heavy..

SCompRacer

Spray, blown, injected, 'charged, recycle a locomotive blower, it's all good. :cheesygrin:

ZLTFUL

SCompRacer wrote: »

Spray, blown, injected, 'charged, recycle a locomotive blower, it's all good. :cheesygrin:

LOL! Gotta dedicate about 450hp and 425ft/lbs just to spin that b*tch up!

SCompRacer

ZLTFUL wrote: »

LOL! Gotta dedicate about 450hp and 425ft/lbs just to spin that b*tch up!

LOL How about it. I recall an interview where the owner said he got it running, drove it, blipped the throttle, felt the front end lift and blew both head gaskets.

steveinaz

My Geo Metro does the 1/4 in just under 14 minutes.

tonyb

steveinaz wrote: »

My Geo Metro does the 1/4 in just under 14 minutes.

....and that's with you pushing it ??:cheesygrin:

Dawgfish

Glad you had a great time Larry! Sweet ride!

jflail2

Sounds like a fun evening. And I wouldn't worry about the #'s compared to anyone else. I suspect it's all about improving your own time and most importantly, as you said, having a great time. I regret never taking my S4 to a track day here in VA, so be happy you got out there, and are motivated to go again.

Enjoy!

Thorton

SCompRacer wrote: »

Spray, blown, injected, 'charged, recycle a locomotive blower, it's all good. :cheesygrin:

Did the super charger double the weight of the car?

gudnoyez

Sweet ride, looks like you and the wife enjoyed yourself. It's a good thing you did not get all that hail like some parts of Colorado did the other day.

hochpt21

But what tunes were you blasting with the pedal down???!!!

JK, I know little about cars and even less about draggin (unless you count Halloween 2004, I was a pretty nice skirt).

Looks like you had a great time.

Toolfan66

SCompRacer wrote: »

Spray, blown, injected, 'charged, recycle a locomotive blower, it's all good. :cheesygrin:

Is that for real, or is it photo shopped?



Thanks guys, it was fun, as for the hail, my car is almost a garage queen, I do drive it but not in crappy weather, only once have I drivin it in the rain.

SCompRacer

Toolfan66 wrote: »

Is that for real, or is it photo shopped?

At 2:29 in the owner talks about it and shows pics, but I've never seen a video with it running with the train blower. At :50 in it shows the car with a 'smaller' blower go on its side due to a wheelie bar malfunction.

[video=youtube_share;JEfC-S5QWJA]http://youtu.be/JEfC-S5QWJA[/video]

Well your ride sure looks good. High marks.

heartystatue

If I owned a car like that and lived as close to the track as you do I would be there as much as I could. Too much fun. I'm glad you had a good time. A lot of the fun is to see how your times improve as you tweak along the way. I hope you continue to keep it up.

SCompRacer

This was my last street car back in the ‘90’s, a '72 Chevelle SS replicant w/SS dash. 468, automatic, 2:75 first gear, Super Stock suspension mods, 3.5" Dr Gas true X crossover exhaust, 12 bolt diff. 4,160 pounds with me in it. I have a video of it doing 11:10 but it had a bit more left in it.:biggrin: The guy that took video had a bad camera so it’s choppy with no sound.




'72 Chevelle Poor Video No Sound





My last race car, a Super Comp altered with 369CI SBC. Super Comp runs on an 8:90 index.



I left Super Comp to crew cheif two years for professional nostalgia racer Arnie 'the Farmer' Beswick before hanging it up. I got to take this car for a lap. Best ET on this car was 7:08 @ 198.

Toolfan66

That's awesome!!

tonyb

Cool Chevelle there Rich, but.....does it do DSD ? I want to know man.:cheesygrin:

Always liked that body style. Detroit could sure make 'em back then.

tonyb

Now, being the crap starter that I am, how about Larry challenges Sal to a race ? My bets on Larry. Sal may want to drop a nuclear reactor in his.

SCompRacer

:biggrin:

tonyb wrote: »

Cool Chevelle there Rich, but.....does it do DSD ? I want to know man.:cheesygrin:

Always liked that body style. Detroit could sure make 'em back then.

Thanks!

It had a nice stereo system in it. Eventually you couldn't hear it unless the motor was shut off though. It actually had working AC too but a real 13-1 compression ratio meant you couldn't use it in traffic.

The '70 was my fav with the twin headlights and rectangular tail lights. The extra length in '70 added a couple hundred pounds to the Chevelle.

The A-body with polyurethane bushings all around with radial tries rode and handled very nice too. Aftermarket offered custom control arms. It was a nice cruiser before the drag conversions and I had a lot of fun on the expressways with it.

Remember the old bias ply tires? I broke the beads off the rims on the rear tires of my hopped up '68 428CJ 4 speed Mustang taking my then future brother-in-law for a ride. Good thing it happened hitting second gear. Cars is what put the wife and I together. Went to see some parts her brother was selling and that was it.

tonyb

Ha....the old bias ply tires ? Hell man, they were more common than we care to admit. Overgrown bicycle tires I called them. You felt the corner of your car take a massive dip going around corners with those puppies. You and I both wish we still had cars from our youth, we'd be rolling in the dough. I've seen Chevelles going for upwards of 50k, original 396's in them and all numbers matching. That 428 CJ would fetch a good piece of cake today too.

Man, those were the hey days of American muscle. We have some muscle today, but not the designs, the looks. Even family cars back then had some muscle to them. As Archie Bunker used to say, "Those were the days".

Sherardp

What size wheels are those? That concave look makes it look pretty darn good. Nice car bro, hope you enjoyed ya track time.