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Old Oct 23, 2003 | 09:07 PM
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tonight iwent out for the first time in my bone stock '02 Z28 and ran a best of 13.502@103.59mph!!! i was so proud lol!

R/T= .455(best of the night i pulled a .101)
60'= 2.066(best of the night was 2.028)
330'= 5.775(best)
1/8= 8.743(best)
MPH= 83.32(best)
990'= 11.245(best)
1/4= 13.502(best)
MPH= 103.59(best)

i was so proud! all on stock tires that were freezin on the ground!! temps in low 50"s high 40"s
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Old Oct 23, 2003 | 09:13 PM
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great job man
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Old Oct 24, 2003 | 07:06 AM
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Awsome man!!! Welcome to "The RUSH".
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Old Oct 24, 2003 | 08:34 AM
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sweet *** times man, very nice.

btw i noticed your personalized graphic type avatar wasn't coming thru. its unfortunate, i happened to think that was a tight graphic, very nice. try using the new ubb code [img]insert the link to your graphic here[/img]. hope that works for ya.
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Old Oct 24, 2003 | 08:57 AM
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Congrats! That a great time, first time out at the track.
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Old Oct 24, 2003 | 01:25 PM
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Great times for your first time out! It took me a couple nights out to get mine down. Wish I had some cooler air temps around here- might have been even better but my R/T sucked, too.
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Old Oct 24, 2003 | 02:06 PM
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thx all, im hopin to get some money soon and mod it out, but tires spin wasnt bad at all, spun through first maybe and that was it, the only reason i got a good time that last run was cuz i did a decent burn-out to heat my freezing tires up, i was also owned by a SVT Cobra, it was funny cuz i think he was toyin with me, through first and i think halfway through second we were ALMOST even, he was lil ahead cuz i a better R/T, but then into third, he was GONE!!! lol, 12.6 for him 13.6 on that run for me

btw, cypher, i got my sig image back, but for some reason, i cant choose a custom avatar, oh well i guess, thx for the compliment, the design layout was mine, but my photoshop genius friend made it for me. for the avatar i had him through my camaro in it to spice it up a bit, i might do it to the full sig, not sure yet tho

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Old Oct 25, 2003 | 02:24 AM
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Good times.

BTW, reaction time of 0.455 means that you red-lighted .
Perfect start (i.e. light turns green, and you cross the beam) would be 0.500, assuming it was a t&t night.
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Old Oct 25, 2003 | 07:22 AM
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nope, wasnt t+t night, perfect light is now .000 i believe for street night if i am correct at Atco, id notice the the redlight if i did, hell i could the other guys redlights when they did
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Old Oct 25, 2003 | 03:43 PM
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They went to the .000 to try to make it easier for people to understand. Instead of having .500 or .400 for perfect, its now .000. A redlight would show like -.001, that would be a .499 redlight on .5 tree. Its the same thing, still a .5 tree or .4 tree. R/T= .455(best of the night i pulled a .101) So your .455 = .955, and .101 = .601 on a .5 tree.

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Old Oct 25, 2003 | 08:29 PM
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ohhhhh, thx 454
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Old Oct 25, 2003 | 08:37 PM
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No problem, glad i could help.
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Old Oct 30, 2003 | 04:36 PM
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actually, some tracks run off of LED lights, in which case the perfect light is .000. I know the track near me just switched over to them, but it doesn't really affect RT i don't think....


LOL, as long as there isn't a "-" in front of the RT, you're fine...
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Old Oct 30, 2003 | 07:07 PM
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Even with the LED lights its still a .4 tree or .5 tree. Just went to .000 for perferct on both trees. With LED lights i see them better and have to add to the box.
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Old Oct 30, 2003 | 07:41 PM
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Great job. Thats a great time. Keep up the good work. I like the Mustang comment too....I'll have to pas that on.
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Old Oct 30, 2003 | 08:02 PM
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M6? nice regardless though!
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Old Oct 31, 2003 | 05:40 AM
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no, A4, i bet i can get into the.4's and MAYBE, but doubt the .3's all stock if i get a good launch on a perfect night. goal is to break into the 1.9x range 60ft times brfoe i mod it...
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Old Oct 31, 2003 | 02:30 PM
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Tip... Your reaction time has nothing to do with your ET. You can have a .500 hundred light or a one 1.000 light, your ET will be the same.
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Old Oct 31, 2003 | 02:55 PM
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great time... congrads... you ran almost the same time as I did before my cut-out and DR's
heres my new best w/ cut-out and DR's, did it last night....

RT .741
60' 2.037
330' 5.735 (best 5.760)
1/8 8.690
MPH 83.79 (best 84.12)
1000' 11.242
1/4 13.399
MPH 104.04 (best 104.07)

NICE TIMES MAN!!!

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