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Well now you have to change your signature line to your faster time...

and Jt I am diggin the new add on to the end of your signature, lol

I went to bandimere here in Co. over laborday for highschool drags and my times are a bit different (alot slower lol) A general rule for racing here at Bandimere is subtract a second from your time and that will be around sea-level cause the track is 5800ft. above... Doesn't help I have 33's with stock 3.73 gears but just to compare here is the times off the only timeslip I could find, made three passes total

R/T ...264
60' ...2.947
330 ...8.312
1/8 ...12.709
MPH ...55.73
1000 ...16.475
1/4 ...19.603
MPH ...72.67

This is one pass and I know on another one I ran 19.604 so overall pretty consistent, not a speed demon but I didn't put the 33's on so I would be faster

My first race was up against an old golf I believe, before the race I was looking over at his car while we were lined up and he didn't have any back seat, passanger seat, door panels, speakers...and he also had the 2 little rear windows made of plexiglass...He ran a 18.1 so I felt I held my own
 


















Did you log any data on these runs? just curious.
Heck, I haven't even hooked mine up yet--lol

No data:( my x-cal won't seem to record any data without being hooked up to a laptop, and the safety guy wouldn't let me have the laptop next to me:(
 






No data:( my x-cal won't seem to record any data without being hooked up to a laptop, and the safety guy wouldn't let me have the laptop next to me:(




Just close the screen and put it on the floor. When I take the X through tech inspection I usually put my coat over top of my helmet also so that the tech guys don't inspect too much. :D If they see a helmet in an SUV then they usually get curious.
 












Waitaminute--
I thought you had to have a helmet to race--



Only when going faster than 13.99 ET at my track, not all the time. I would put it on when I was in the staging lanes, but not tech.
 






Yeah, tech inspection at most drag strips is...well, to say when we went at high school drags my friends older chevy doesn't have an overflow res for his radiator so they ziptie a popcan to his grill and called it good...
 












Yeah, you get someone with a SAS'd rig (burns) wishing they had a Fast explorer and then, someone with a lowered mounty 347 wanting to lift theirs (JT)...I wish I had so many things!, it would so kewl to jump out of a 12.0sec gen 3 and jump up into a gen 2 SAS'd on like 40's
 






Only when going faster than 13.99 ET at my track, not all the time. I would put it on when I was in the staging lanes, but not tech.
Ah--you taunt me yes? :D
 






All it took for them to start checking me out with a fine tooth comb was my headers, he saw those and started checking every little thing, he spent probably 10 minutes looking all over it, then let my friend with a mustang go right through without even really looking at it. It's suv discrimination.
 






As promised the rest of my times

1st run
R/T .494
60' 2.330
330' 6.674
1/8 10.27
MPH 68.51
1000' 13.391
1/4 16.060
MPH 84.34

2nd run
R/T .154
60' 2.307
330' 6.658
1/8 10.26
MPH 68.51
1000' 13.374
1/4 16.042
MPH 84.32

3rd and best run
R/T .502
60' 2.308
330' 6.648
1/8 10.245
MPH 68.62
1000' 13.362
1/4 16.036
MPH 84.02
 






Ah--you taunt me yes? :D



Taunting you would be me talking of 11 second ET's. :D 13's are nothing, you have that nailed. Come to the 11's Jon, cooooome......
 















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