New best for my bracket racer, and a win!
12-07-2002, 05:19 PM
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New best for my bracket racer, and a win! Well, I've invaded rollbar territory!! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="gr_grin.gif" />
I know, not all that impressive for a carb'd 355, but hey it's in a 3400 pound box on pump gas with 3.73 gears and a 3400 stall JW 10" convertor that's very streetable.
My best run last night (in the 1st round of the GM trophy class)broke down like this:
rt- .528
60- 1.686
330-4.897
1/8-7.583
mph-91.23
no 1000 foot time
dial-12.02
1/4-11.931
mph 111.99
I beat the guy tapping the gas(ironically running a 12.78 on a 12.90 dial in a red ls1 Camaro), so I figure the car had a 112 mph pass in it. I ended up dialing 12.00 all night due to no rollbar in the car, and ended up winning the GM class trophy hitting the brakes on every run and short-shifting the car by 300 rpm in each gear. The track then had a runoff between the GM, Ford, and other make trophy winner for a King of the Hill 3 foot trophy. I somehow came away with that as well!! <img border="0" alt="[guns]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_guns.gif" />
What a great way to end the year, and I got to witness George's first 9 second run! (well I saw the scoreboard light up from the pits, but missed the actual run <img border="0" alt="[Banging Head]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_banghead.gif" /> )
Derek
I know, not all that impressive for a carb'd 355, but hey it's in a 3400 pound box on pump gas with 3.73 gears and a 3400 stall JW 10" convertor that's very streetable.
My best run last night (in the 1st round of the GM trophy class)broke down like this:
rt- .528
60- 1.686
330-4.897
1/8-7.583
mph-91.23
no 1000 foot time
dial-12.02
1/4-11.931
mph 111.99
I beat the guy tapping the gas(ironically running a 12.78 on a 12.90 dial in a red ls1 Camaro), so I figure the car had a 112 mph pass in it. I ended up dialing 12.00 all night due to no rollbar in the car, and ended up winning the GM class trophy hitting the brakes on every run and short-shifting the car by 300 rpm in each gear. The track then had a runoff between the GM, Ford, and other make trophy winner for a King of the Hill 3 foot trophy. I somehow came away with that as well!! <img border="0" alt="[guns]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_guns.gif" />
What a great way to end the year, and I got to witness George's first 9 second run! (well I saw the scoreboard light up from the pits, but missed the actual run <img border="0" alt="[Banging Head]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_banghead.gif" /> )
Derek
12-07-2002, 06:36 PM
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Re: New best for my bracket racer, and a win! It's just too bad you had to pass up possibly better runs in order to keep racing! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="gr_grin.gif" /> Good job, now get a cage!
12-07-2002, 08:10 PM
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Re: New best for my bracket racer, and a win! Congrats on your WIN! <img border="0" alt="[cheers]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_cheers.gif" />
What a way to end the year. <img border="0" alt="[hail]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_hail.gif" />
What a way to end the year. <img border="0" alt="[hail]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_hail.gif" />
12-08-2002, 12:59 AM
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Re: New best for my bracket racer, and a win! Congrats on your new time!!! So now you have to run 12's next year, or are you going to put the cage in??? <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="gr_images/icons/wink.gif" />
12-08-2002, 10:46 AM
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Re: New best for my bracket racer, and a win! I'm still debating whether to add a bar to it. That run was at 1/4 tank of gas it the best air I've seen in a while, and since they didn't say anything to me on either of my 11 second runs, I'll probably leave it without a bar for a while. Car will probably run 12.30s in summertime, so until I build me a John Rollins motor in a few years(unless I win Lotto-$60 million <img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="gr_eek2.gif" /> ) to run 11.50s I'll just short shift the car in the winter.
Derek
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