Welp, we can take this several different ways, but there is one glaring definite:
I cannot drag race for shi+!

Before I get into that, just some info for everyone. I have a couple of pics I'll upload and post later. No videos. There were two Honda Civics w/ turbo and street tires running 12's all night. A killer last-gen RX-7 than ran 3 times--ALL 10.7xx and destroyed everything. It was also on street tires and came complete with McDonalds bags all over the interior. No harnesses, cage--nothing. My god it was fast. Many Mustangs and 'vettes here. Not that impressed, but one 'vette that seemed to be ordinary, was finally driven by someone else who posted an 11.3xx. Wow.

There were no brackets so I got to run a variety of cars. My friend's GSR turned 15.4xx all night with 17's, and h/i/e. His RT's were all .15 and less so the night or track seemed to sap many cars energy. I got beat by a G35 couple with i/e who ran 14.0xx all night. He was shooting for 13's and never got there. it was a manual. A new Pontiac GP s/c was there with a high boost pulley and he said he had changed his tranmission and other stuff. He a$$r@ped me with a 12.903 at 103mph and a 2.097 60'. Wow. He fried his tranny though! I beat several Mustangs and lost to a couple by a .10 or .20 twice.

I've done the auto-x before, did a driving school, driven Daytona...I drive pretty d@mn good. I might never turn the fastest time, but I get the apexes right, learn the car, pass where appropriate, etc...I drive a manual even better. But getting the hang of gate shifting or using s/s when focussed on the clock at the strip--and 99 other variables (tree, slip, steering wheel) to shave tenths of a second off, welp, I suck...

Okay, here's the skinny: it was 63 degrees when we arrived, 60 when we left; about a 5mph NE wind (track runs W to E), 72% humidity...It was not as cool as I hoped, and the humidity was higher than I thought it would be. I had 1/2 a tank of gas, left my tires alone (36psi), gym bag and briefcase in the trunk (about 40lbs or so), spare in the car...I got 10 runs in as follows: 3 gate shifting w/o power braking; 3 in s/s and power braking; 2 in full auto stomping it and 2 in full auto with power braking. I used 2000rpms for the pb figure. I have posted 4 slips-1 each of my best times...I had massive wheel hop on every run (Nitto's only have 1200 miles on them) and it screahced second whether gating, auto or s/s every time hard. It must be noted that my worst time of the night was 14.746 but was at 97.14mph. Most of my runs were in the 14.6 range. My best 60' time was .225. Most of my RT's were .3xx which sucks...

Some of you guys know more than me, but I think that if I gate shift correctly, lower my tires pressure to 22psi, get the bags out of the car and keep the gas below 1/4 a tank, and I assume the RT is .15 or less, I should run in the 14.3 range easily...That is what I was hoping for...

 

I'm a moron...I can't figure out how to post the stupid slips...I photocopied them, scanned them and the image is too large as a jpg, gif, tif-blah, blah blah...
Someone tell me how to do this or I can email them to you and you can add them for me. I'm out of patience...

Not to be a tease, best run is 14.504 @ 96.02mph, 2.324 60'...

 

r10 ... (PeterUbers from TL forum = me) ..

do you have mods?