For those who didn't make it out, you missed out. Big time.
I was up early doing an oil change, gathering my slicks and track stuff up, packing up the car, washing it, and didn't leave until late. For anyone who's been to Fontana street legal events in the past you know what it's usually like when you get there at the crack of dawn and are still waiting to get through tech some 4+ hours later. So when I rolled through the entrance at just after 8am I was expecting the worst. Five minutes later when I was done with tech it was time to sit around and wait for the lanes to open up.
Let me repeat that. Front gate --> tech --> done = five minutes.
There were only something like 70 cars that made it out and I'd swear there was never that many there at any given time. It was like one of the private track rental days but only $20 instead of the usual $100+ they run. Towards the end of the day it got so slow there were a few passes that I didn't have anyone to go up against, and I'd get a run in every three minutes (the time it would take me to pick up my time slip and get back to the staging lanes).
I called a friend who was driving up from Temecula and he got there late and still got 29 passes in. I was playing around with stuff on the car and managed "only" about 22 passes Overall it was a great day to practice but the track had really crappy conditions. It was hot and muggy and they weren't doing any prep after it opened, not even sweeping the surface, except after a couple times when some Honda guys blew up and oiled down an entire lane. I was on slicks and was averaging at best 13.40's at mid 104's with mostly 2.0 and a few 1.9 sixty-foot times. My friend who is also S2 and running high-octane mode was cutting mid to lower 14's at 100-101 with sixty foot times averaging 2.4-2.6 on street tires. To get an idea what everyone was running, a '05 Mustang GT ran 14.7 at 97, '08 Civic Si 15.9 at 89, an MS3 went 14.7 at 99. Most the other cars I raced were heavily modified Honda hatches, 'stangs, and a few muscle cars, or my friend.
Overall a lot of fun but would have been nice to have a little better track conditions and weather but I won't complain. I was up at the tower talking to the manager for a while and there's going to be some changes in the pipeline for future street legal events, some good, some not so good, but I'll post up another separate thread about those later. For anyone else interested there is another street legal day this upcoming weekend. The one on the 7th had originally been scheduled to be some private truck type event or something but was canceled at the last minute and they changed it over to a street legal day, so I'd expect next Saturday to be a lot busier since more people know about it but we can always hope.
^- yes I know I was asleep at the tree on that pass. I was trying to data log during some runs and not worried about r.t. that much. It was kind of cool when me and my friend were racing and cut identical rt's down to the thousandth.
Last edited by blackbird_R/T : 06-09-2008 at 07:50 AM.
Reason: caught by the spelling gremlin
Oh yes, only saw two other SRT-4's there. One was a silver car with a black spoiler. I think I saw two guys get out of and walk around but they didn't race. The other one was a white car that showed up just before they shut down and only got a couple runs in. I'm guessing it must have been stock and he hadn't raced a lot before. I won't mention the E.T., but he trapped 95-ish on the run I saw (and trap speed is a good indicator of power). As I said, it wasn't a real pretty day condition wise.
Oh yes, only saw two other SRT-4's there. One was a silver car with a black spoiler. I think I saw two guys get out of and walk around but they didn't race. The other one was a white car that showed up just before they shut down and only got a couple runs in. I'm guessing it must have been stock and he hadn't raced a lot before. I won't mention the E.T., but he trapped 95-ish on the run I saw (and trap speed is a good indicator of power). As I said, it wasn't a real pretty day condition wise.
Interesting, but I am not going to release S3R on that nasty surface until BOTI comes back to town.
Off to Friday Night (read: no sun, cool) Test - N - Tune at Famoso
Already got Friday off, too bad I can't afford to get my 24.5" slicks yet, I'll make do with my 23"s since 11's have been broken on them before by another S3R car similar to mine.
I hope to meet up with two guys to see how I measure up -
A local brotha that tunes Mustangs on the side, has a 347cid LX Hatchback "Street Car"
A local patron of the store I work at has recently finished his '68 Camaro with a 406cid Mighty Mouse, some $$$ CNC ported DART heads and Victor Jr intake CNC matched with Holly DP 750 4150 - ran 11.6 on slicks at Famoso.
Should be interesting, barring any problems, the car is nice and tight, I'll do an oil change before I go and that's it.
I'll run either Motorsport 106 or My W/I with Boost Juice but I kinda need to dial it in again.
damn, you think? i am thinkin I am going this saturday since i couldn't make it last time...
how much more full you think?
Well the reason that the 7th was empty was because it was added last minute. So alot of people didn't know it was going on then. But everyone knows about the 14th, so I expect it to be like it normally is, with everyone getting 3-4 runs in.
If I don't care about the times... then what's the point of going?
It like, Yippie my car runs a 11.8 in good track conditions that I will never see off a track and on slicks.... Too bad in the real world I got beat by a 13 sec car cause I can't hook on street tires and without VHT... So a lot of good that 11.8 slip did me.
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Overall it was a great day to practice but the track had really crappy conditions. It was hot and muggy and they weren't doing any prep after it opened, not even sweeping the surface, except after a couple times when some Honda guys blew up and oiled down an entire lane. I was on slicks and was averaging at best 13.40's at mid 104's with mostly 2.0 and a few 1.9 sixty-foot times. My friend who is also S2 and running high-octane mode was cutting mid to lower 14's at 100-101 with sixty foot times averaging 2.4-2.6 on street tires. To get an idea what everyone was running, a '05 Mustang GT ran 14.7 at 97, '08 Civic Si 15.9 at 89, an MS3 went 14.7 at 99. Most the other cars I raced were heavily modified Honda hatches, 'stangs, and a few muscle cars, or my friend.
I was trying to data log during some runs and not worried about r.t. that much. It was kind of cool when me and my friend were racing and cut identical rt's down to the thousandth.
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