well....the last time i went to the track, i hit 14.90 with my TL-s with aem cai and super draggers. These times were on 19" chrome work eurolines with nitto555's....new times are...oh yea....their printing machines broke and on order so we had some ghetto hand written slips and if you dont believe me then who cares....and these were at around 40 degree weather...

1. R/T... .611
1/4.... 14.835
MPH.. 93.70 (wup a mustang)

2. R/T... .657
1/4... 14.829
MPH.. 93.79 (lost to a Harley Davidson F150 supercharged)

3. R/T... .884
1/4... 14.774
MPH.. 93.11 (lost again to that Harley monster)

4. R/T... .705
1/4... 14.845
MPH.. 92.78 (laid the smack on some chevy truck)

5. R/T... .930
1/4... 14.745
MPH.. 93.79 (lost to a Dodge R/T truck that ran 14.0)

6. R/T... .711
1/4... 14.747
MPH.. 94.15 (beat some Splitfire Camry sponsor car)

7. R/T... .879
1/4... 14.684 (wwoooohooooo)
MPH.. 94.30 (wup a prelude....bad)

Now onto eliminations...

1. R/T... .697 they gave us 60' on eliminations
60'... 2.394
1/8... 9.645
1/4... 14.817
MPH.. 93.32 (wup up on a mustang)

2. R/T... .683
60'... 2.378
1/8... she didn't write it down
1/4... 14.787
MPH.. 93.94 (lost against another mustang)

If yall wanna see the ghetto timeslips...holla

 

i dont know much bout race slips but what do each of those values mean (aside from 1/8,1/4, MPH)

 

r/t is your reaction time and 60' is how fast you get off the line

 

did ur tires spin at all or did u do burnouts to get sticky and rip out of the line?

 

actually i didn't do any burnouts and just punched it off the line, the nt555's gripped very well considering it's on 19" rims...if i had smaller, lighter wheels, i could have managed a better 60' time of around 2.20 or something and that wouldve dropped me down to a 14.5 with just intake and exhaust

 

Pretty decent times, AGP!
Do you have an idea how much weight the 19's add over the 17 inch stock rims?

 

not really i would say about another 10 lbs each wheel and tire

 

You got what you were looking for. Great times.

 

maybe the 19's helped the launch. Mayybe they they let you go wot at the launch. Either way, great times. Next time take the 17's and see if any times 60ft, 1/8, 1/4 and trap change. Wheels weight tends to affect whp...so I bet you trap a little higher with 17's over the 19's .

Were you brakcet racing or just racing for time?

 

the reason i asked is cause when i went to the track in houston, i was on the stock tires and wheels and didnt want to burnout if not necessary. so on my first run, i simply punched it off the line, my tires started to hop violently so i had to let off the gas. i wasnt sure if i wanted to try again, but i figured id give it a chance. i did a burnout at the next try and there was no wheel spin and subsequent hop. i was able to simply floor the pedal and the car took right off the line.

 

R/T is reaction time. It measures the time from the light going green on the "tree" to the front tire breaking the staging light. R/T is not part of your total time- it just measures how it takes you to wake up and hit it. With a normal tree, perfect is .400 sec, with a pro tree, perfect is .500 sec.
60' is your time to the 60ft mark from the starting point. It's a great indicator of how hard you can launch the car.
With my '80Z and its crappy tires, I only run a 2.30 60" time, but still hit 13s and 103mph at the top end. With some type of drag radial, I could cut .5 secs off that 60' time, and probably .7-.8 off the 1/4. But, I'm set up for the twisties, not drag.

I like to do a little mini-burnout (not through the water on street tires!) just to kick the rocks/pebbles from the staging lanes off the tires. There's no point in heating street tires way up, though, as they're not meant for it.

Todd

 

Is that it? Man, I ran a 16.0 , yeah beat that..hahahaha

 

bracket racing

 

Hey T Ho, do you still run your 80Z ? What mods have you done to it.
I have an 82 280zx turbo rotting in my driveway. HKS Exhaust, HKS Powerflow, EVC, Intercooler from an 87 Supra, Super Blow Off Valve. I was putting in a Electronic Tec II, water injection when I stopped fiddlin'.

 

I haven't been to the track in a long time. I'm looking at going in a couple of weeks. I'm sorting out some vibration issues right now.
http://home.cfl.rr.com/doriplace

It's an '80 Z28, BTW.