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Old 06-08-2006, 04:41 PM
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Originally Posted by COMNBYU
Video could be deceiving but neither of those cars looked that fast.

And yes my sig says I have a 12 sec F-body so that's got to be the fastest thing I've driven/owned/expierienced.


Not a bad vid though. Been sooo long since I've seen any decent racing...
i agree it's nice to see somebody actually race but i'm with you on them being slow.
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... That's because you run an 8 second car...


Nice runs btw. Like the other's said, I like the nifty light work by the flag man.
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mine is a little quicker than an 8 now but anyway that has nothing to do with it those cars were just not fast. quick yes but not fast.
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I guess 10's is not fast when you run 8's.
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that has nothing to do with it. it has to do with how talked up it was and how badass everyone made it seem and it was nothing but two slow cars racing like you can find anywhere.
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The Camaro still has another motor it can use. Last I heard, he was shooting for 8's on that motor.
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Originally Posted by 68maro
that has nothing to do with it. it has to do with how talked up it was and how badass everyone made it seem and it was nothing but two slow cars racing like you can find anywhere.
im sure you can find 10 second cars everywhere. really, anything is slow compared to you. compared to a 12 sec ride? that is fast.
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Since when is 10's slow? I've been 9's,10's,11's,12's,13's, and even 14's, but in no way were 10's close to being slow...doesnt matter if you drive a topfuel cars, both of those car hauled ***.
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Originally Posted by Black_Bird
Since when is 10's slow? I've been 9's,10's,11's,12's,13's, and even 14's, but in no way were 10's close to being slow...doesnt matter if you drive a topfuel cars, both of those car hauled ***.
couldnt have said it any better.
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Originally Posted by rastarajah
detonation is a bitch..........did i spell that right?
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Originally Posted by Black_Bird
Since when is 10's slow?
Feels slow to me. Horribly slow I might add.
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Originally Posted by unit213
Feels slow to me. Horribly slow I might add.
see i'm not the only one. i mean when you have trailered cars out racing on the street 10's is slow. especially when you can drive to the track in a heads cam f body with some spray and run low 10's high 9's and drive home.
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Originally Posted by 68maro
see i'm not the only one. i mean when you have trailered cars out racing on the street 10's is slow. especially when you can drive to the track in a heads cam f body with some spray and run low 10's high 9's and drive home.
Care to take on my slow car? Are you from around San Jose?
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Originally Posted by MELTDOWN
Care to take on my slow car? Are you from around San Jose?
His car runs 8's. You don't want any of that.
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I don't care if it runs 4's. I'm here on this site to race, not to bullshit around. I can bring a REAL trailered car too.
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actually dan it's been 7.80's now. after the 25.5 updates and the new motor get done next month i hope to improve on that.
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Originally Posted by MELTDOWN
I don't care if it runs 4's. I'm here on this site to race, not to bullshit around. I can bring a REAL trailered car too.
Great. I think we can all bring a REAL car. Perhaps you should've
brought that to the race with that Camaro.

Originally Posted by 68maro
actually dan it's been 7.80's now. after the 25.5 updates and the new motor get done next month i hope to improve on that.
7.80's is pretty nasty. Are you trapping in the 180's? Cutting better
than 1.2x 60's?
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1.22 178.25
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Originally Posted by 68maro
1.22 178.25
Sounds about right. I was thinking 178mph traps, but hoping 180's.
You're getting down the track nicely. Running 7.80's at "only" 178mph
isn't an easy task. It usually takes people a lot more power/mph to
do it. What tranny....glide?

There are only a handfull of people on LS1Tech faster/quicker than you.
I'm talking sponsors too.
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i walked to the trailer and grabbed two slips from the logbook.


when the new 632 big cheif goes in next month i hope to greatly improve these times. sad thing is for as quick as they are they're still not competitive for the way 10.5 racing has taken off.
sorry for the picture phone pics.



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