Went weds to LACR. No track prep was present, traction was non-existent but you already knew that didn't you?
Best pass of the day was -
60 -2.38
1/8 ET - 9.37
1/8 MPH - 76.79
1/4 ET - 14.189
1/4 MPH - 100.611
Considering I still had wheel hop at anything near WOT, it wasn't as bad as Sac Raceway and I drove through it.
Being tender with the car out of the hole didn't help much and if you were too soft, your 60's suffered. 2nd time out on Azenis and they aren't drag tires. They might be okay for mildly powered cars, but they spin much too easy on a slick surface.
I was trying to get up to Bakersfield to meet John@M&H but I had trouble locating the PT steelies he suggested. When I finally found some, it was too late to try and drive up.
I invited Mr SRT (Wes) as he is swearing off street racing and I need somebody to play with at the track -
We ran side by side several times and when mistakes were not being made, all the runs were very close.
Slicks wouldn't have helped a ton, but 13's would have been cake...
Even my worn-out DR's would have helped...
A couple of Sport FWD style cars made passes in preparation for the IDRC event at the end of this month.
None of them made what I would call outstanding passes. The Civic was hampered by issues that wouldn't allow it to make a complete WOT pass without missing a shift or something happening inside the car's drivetrain. No broken parts, my guess it was poppin out of gear.
I want to run a 13, I think I can do it at LACR on a Friday Night when the prep is better (if any). That is not knock to the folks that own LACR...
All I need is to get the 60ft times down. How I do that is up for debate. Eliminating wheel hop would help only a tiny bit. Like I said this time out it wasn't as bad, I dropped the tire pressure down from 45psi cold to 35psi cold. If I drop it to say 30psi, that might eliminate wheel hop.
I think running slicks would be the most cost-effective way at the moment.
John suggest 23x7.5x15 which I agree is a prefect size for the amount of power being generated. Worry about bigger slicks when more power is being made. You can always sell your smaller slicks to the next guy if you didn't run them into the ground. Most slicks will last at least one full season of weekly bracket racing.
Next California Speedway Street Legals is April 7th
The surface will be good for the IDRC event. I hate brackets, but that event March 31th might be as good as LACR gets, at least while it open.
There's been a delay of up to 6 weeks for Passports, so while I hope I'll be outta here by April, I might be around.
I wont even mention my times for i am very ashamed of them....
I will say this though....
everytime i ran a 2.3 60 ft i trapped 100mph
Now, heres the thing with that. My best run at LACR was a 13.92 @ 100.3 with a 2.3 60 ft
I cut a few 2.3 60 ft's last night and trapped 100 mph but i was no where near a 13.9 so im blamming the horrible times last night on track prep. No matter what i did, i couldnt do shit about spinning all through first and most of second. Horrible. I def. want to get some slicks or radials and head back out when i get the money.
Went weds to LACR. No track prep was present, traction was non-existent but you already knew that didn't you?
Best pass of the day was -
60 -2.38
1/8 ET - 9.37
1/8 MPH - 76.79
1/4 ET - 14.189
1/4 MPH - 100.611
Considering I still had wheel hop at anything near WOT, it wasn't as bad as Sac Raceway and I drove through it.
Being tender with the car out of the hole didn't help much and if you were too soft, your 60's suffered. 2nd time out on Azenis and they aren't drag tires. They might be okay for mildly powered cars, but they spin much too easy on a slick surface.
I was trying to get up to Bakersfield to meet John@M&H but I had trouble locating the PT steelies he suggested. When I finally found some, it was too late to try and drive up.
I invited Mr SRT (Wes) as he is swearing off street racing and I need somebody to play with at the track -
We ran side by side several times and when mistakes were not being made, all the runs were very close.
Slicks wouldn't have helped a ton, but 13's would have been cake...
Even my worn-out DR's would have helped...
A couple of Sport FWD style cars made passes in preparation for the IDRC event at the end of this month.
None of them made what I would call outstanding passes. The Civic was hampered by issues that wouldn't allow it to make a complete WOT pass without missing a shift or something happening inside the car's drivetrain. No broken parts, my guess it was poppin out of gear.
I want to run a 13, I think I can do it at LACR on a Friday Night when the prep is better (if any). That is not knock to the folks that own LACR...
All I need is to get the 60ft times down. How I do that is up for debate. Eliminating wheel hop would help only a tiny bit. Like I said this time out it wasn't as bad, I dropped the tire pressure down from 45psi cold to 35psi cold. If I drop it to say 30psi, that might eliminate wheel hop.
I think running slicks would be the most cost-effective way at the moment.
John suggest 23x7.5x15 which I agree is a prefect size for the amount of power being generated. Worry about bigger slicks when more power is being made. You can always sell your smaller slicks to the next guy if you didn't run them into the ground. Most slicks will last at least one full season of weekly bracket racing.
Next California Speedway Street Legals is April 7th
The surface will be good for the IDRC event. I hate brackets, but that event March 31th might be as good as LACR gets, at least while it open.
There's been a delay of up to 6 weeks for Passports, so while I hope I'll be outta here by April, I might be around.
Us Valley peeps should plan something...
You quoted that the next Fontana day is April 17th? Is that true and I believe that is on a Saturday Well by any chance do you have the exact date on the next track event for street legals?
Went weds to LACR. No track prep was present, traction was non-existent but you already knew that didn't you?
Best pass of the day was -
60 -2.38
1/8 ET - 9.37
1/8 MPH - 76.79
1/4 ET - 14.189
1/4 MPH - 100.611
Considering I still had wheel hop at anything near WOT, it wasn't as bad as Sac Raceway and I drove through it.
Being tender with the car out of the hole didn't help much and if you were too soft, your 60's suffered. 2nd time out on Azenis and they aren't drag tires. They might be okay for mildly powered cars, but they spin much too easy on a slick surface.
I was trying to get up to Bakersfield to meet John@M&H but I had trouble locating the PT steelies he suggested. When I finally found some, it was too late to try and drive up.
I invited Mr SRT (Wes) as he is swearing off street racing and I need somebody to play with at the track -
We ran side by side several times and when mistakes were not being made, all the runs were very close.
Slicks wouldn't have helped a ton, but 13's would have been cake...
Even my worn-out DR's would have helped...
A couple of Sport FWD style cars made passes in preparation for the IDRC event at the end of this month.
None of them made what I would call outstanding passes. The Civic was hampered by issues that wouldn't allow it to make a complete WOT pass without missing a shift or something happening inside the car's drivetrain. No broken parts, my guess it was poppin out of gear.
I want to run a 13, I think I can do it at LACR on a Friday Night when the prep is better (if any). That is not knock to the folks that own LACR...
All I need is to get the 60ft times down. How I do that is up for debate. Eliminating wheel hop would help only a tiny bit. Like I said this time out it wasn't as bad, I dropped the tire pressure down from 45psi cold to 35psi cold. If I drop it to say 30psi, that might eliminate wheel hop.
I think running slicks would be the most cost-effective way at the moment.
John suggest 23x7.5x15 which I agree is a prefect size for the amount of power being generated. Worry about bigger slicks when more power is being made. You can always sell your smaller slicks to the next guy if you didn't run them into the ground. Most slicks will last at least one full season of weekly bracket racing.
Next California Speedway Street Legals is April 7th
The surface will be good for the IDRC event. I hate brackets, but that event March 31th might be as good as LACR gets, at least while it open.
There's been a delay of up to 6 weeks for Passports, so while I hope I'll be outta here by April, I might be around.
Us Valley peeps should plan something...
You quoted that the next Fontana day is April 17th? Is that true and I believe that is on a Saturday Well by any chance do you have the exact date on the next track event for street legals?
According to the PDF on their site its April 7th, which is a Saturday and that's "normal" for Street Legals.
Now with THAT said, you can run Test N Tune during Sat's qualifying at the PSCA event for $20 and that's not bad...
The track will be prepped & air temps should be very reasonable.
MrSRT -
As I said in my PM, you spun hard out of the hole, it didn't chrip, it SPUN hard again in 2nd and I believe on one pass you did chrip 3rd.
I think I need to shift at redline on every pass because whenever I tried to short shift 3rd, the car would run 99mph or worst. Shifting at 6,000 or so resulted in 100.611, 100.02 and 100.142
But I know it spun hard on the 1-2 shift and that's after spinning going to WOT in 1st...
LACR is hard on us, the car stock won't run 13's there, modded it makes more power, but the lack of reasonable traction makes it hard to run fast without resorting to a pure drag tire.
Dude with the Silver S2 w/Toys would have beaten that Cobra if he had anything other than his street tires. It was fun, I beat that GTO and you beat one of the Z28's.
The announcer called you "consistent"
He was, he ran 14.5 all night for the most part. I wasn't all over the map either and ran 14.1 a couple of times, along with mid 14's as the track just wouldn't hold much more than part-throttle launches with street tires.
yea after looking over my slips my times were pretty consistent. 14.5's most of the night, and 3 14.4's with a few 14.6's
never have I been there with that bad of track prep... my best time stock at LACR was a 14.2 and best time with mods is 13.9...
Anthony, your car is def. faster then mine, by at least .3 of a second. so provided you could get traction on street tires you should probably run a 13.6 at LACR.... but thats not really going to be a factor once you get your new toy installed, you wont have to even worry about traction with street tires because it wont be possible.... it will be slicks or nothing for you my friend.
i live 5 min away from the track, one thing i learned how to run at the track, one i love the right lane cuz the left is kinda bumpy at the begining, and my tire pressure is 50 psi in the back and 24 psi out front, my 60ft. times are 2.1-2.2 all night, little wheel spin and no wheel hop, my best time on pump gas is 13.8@102 with a 2.2 60 ft. and on race gas 13.5@106 with a 2.1 60ft. on stock kdw's
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i live 5 min away from the track, one thing i learned how to run at the track, one i love the right lane cuz the left is kinda bumpy at the begining, and my tire pressure is 50 psi in the back and 24 psi out front, my 60ft. times are 2.1-2.2 all night, little wheel spin and no wheel hop, my best time on pump gas is 13.8@102 with a 2.2 60 ft. and on race gas 13.5@106 with a 2.1 60ft. on stock kdw's
hmmmm, il have to keep that in mind!
i should be able to run 13.7 or so then if i do what you do
I HATED THE WHEEL HOP IN ONE NIGHT I WENT FROM 35PSI TO 30 THEN I GOT SCARED CUZ I DIDNT WANT MY TIRE TO COME OFF MY RIM, BUT WENT TO 22-24PSI AND THE MUTHA HOOKED UP NASTY AND MAKE SURE THERE EVEN CUZ ONE TIME THE LEFT FRONT WAS AT 22 AND THE RIGHT WAS AT 26 AND THE CAR LAUNCHED TO THE LEFT SO I PUT THE RIGHT TO 22PSI AND I LAUNCHED PERFECT
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I HATED THE WHEEL HOP IN ONE NIGHT I WENT FROM 35PSI TO 30 THEN I GOT SCARED CUZ I DIDNT WANT MY TIRE TO COME OFF MY RIM, BUT WENT TO 22-24PSI AND THE MUTHA HOOKED UP NASTY AND MAKE SURE THERE EVEN CUZ ONE TIME THE LEFT FRONT WAS AT 22 AND THE RIGHT WAS AT 26 AND THE CAR LAUNCHED TO THE LEFT SO I PUT THE RIGHT TO 22PSI AND I LAUNCHED PERFECT
well i had them at 28 psi in front and left the rears at 35
il have to try the 24/50 and see how that works for me
i live 5 min away from the track, one thing i learned how to run at the track, one i love the right lane cuz the left is kinda bumpy at the begining, and my tire pressure is 50 psi in the back and 24 psi out front, my 60ft. times are 2.1-2.2 all night, little wheel spin and no wheel hop, my best time on pump gas is 13.8@102 with a 2.2 60 ft. and on race gas 13.5@106 with a 2.1 60ft. on stock kdw's
Your right about the left and right lanes...
Its totally bumpy out there, I thought it was wheel hop, but now that I think about it, I think the car was just hitting the bump stops but it prolly hopped a little.
The right seem to trap the 1/8th better. Just because it was smoother? I dunno that could be a factor.
KDW's have some give to them Azenis DONT!
I would have ran 13's on my DR's but I was too lazy to put them on, even with one severly WORN.
We'll be back next week, I wanna see my schudule first before commiting to anything.
I predict that both Wes and I will run better next week; Much better!
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AND MAKE SURE THERE EVEN CUZ ONE TIME THE LEFT FRONT WAS AT 22 AND THE RIGHT WAS AT 26 AND THE CAR LAUNCHED TO THE LEFT SO I PUT THE RIGHT TO 22PSI AND I LAUNCHED PERFECT
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