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Do you guys generally run much quicker running at nite compared to during the day? Ive been to the track alot but all during the day.

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Do you guys generally run much quicker running at nite compared to during the day? Ive been to the track alot but all during the day.

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you can pick up 2/10s from mid day to night time... just depends on the difference in the conditions...
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Unless you are in az and it's still a 100 and fricken 10 at 9:00 at night.....LOL
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Unless you are in az and it's still a 100 and fricken 10 at 9:00 at night.....LOL
in which you are going to run shittier than everyone else in the country still..
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ya da was so bad the other night when I went to the site to correct my time it was .8 of a difference and this was a good day
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ya da was so bad the other night when I went to the site to correct my time it was .8 of a difference and this was a good day
wow...

that does make for a fun night though if someone comes from out of state to run your "high 12s car" in their low 12s car.. they think they have an easy win....
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Ive done a couple of mods since I ran 12.92 during the day a couple weeks ago--thought Id try some nite air to see if I can get into the mid 12's.

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I would say you probably could drop a couple tenths.

6.0 or 5.7 op?
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I would say you probably could drop a couple tenths.

6.0 or 5.7 op?
depending on your mods... if you ran in much better conditions.. you might see half a second..
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wow...

that does make for a fun night though if someone comes from out of state to run your "high 12s car" in their low 12s car.. they think they have an easy win....
That and when you run people that got their best times in the winter and you have just changed stuff in the summer and pulled same times and they think they have an even match...but you fail to mention you pulled that time in June when they said theirs was in November....LOL and afterwards is the big
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That and when you run people that got their best times in the winter and you have just changed stuff in the summer and pulled same times and they think they have an even match...but you fail to mention you pulled that time in June when they said theirs was in November....LOL and afterwards is the big
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Originally Posted by myslow92
I would say you probably could drop a couple tenths.

6.0 or 5.7 op?
6.0--it ran 12.92 @ 108 stock (except for drag radials)
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and the changes????
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and the changes????
Just a Lingenfelter CAI and a Predator Tune.
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what kind of temp differences do you experience or expecting by running at night?
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in the spring here if its 75 during the day it will drop to the 50's later on--but now in the 80's it usually stays in the 70's in the evening
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It depends on the track conditions, I have found right at sunset or so is when my car will run the best, cause you get the sun on the track but the air is still cooling off.
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Originally Posted by CanadianGoat
Do you guys generally run much quicker running at nite compared to during the day? Ive been to the track alot but all during the day.

Bob
Like said it depends on the area and the DA during the day and at Night. BA (Density Altitude) measurement is probably the best guage as temps may (should decrease) when the sun goes down but if there is still tons of Mositure, oxygen cannot be as dense as it would on a cooler, dryer night.
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