Bad day at the track!!!
05-07-2004, 08:29 PM
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Bad day at the track!!!
So I was driving around a lot today. I was hearing some strange noises from time to time, a little knocking, but it went away. Earlier in the afternoon I purchased $20 worth of race fuel and decided I would go to the street legal drags at the local track for the first time.
So I get to the track around 9:15, pay my $15 to get in, go to tech, yatta yatta yatta. Get up to the line, launch at about ~4000rpm to play it safe. BTW I only have a catback and Accesport stage 1. Car feels okay, pull up to get my slip: 14.938 @ 92.72. I was hoping to get a best of 13.9 tonight, I was thinking, how am I going to shave off a whole second??? Anyways, I pull around and I'm waiting in line when some guy comes up to my car and tells me that my tire is flat! Grrr. Of all the rotten luck. after I spend $ to get in I find I have a flat. Tried to fill it back up and it wouldn't hold any air. Big freakin hole in my S-03. Had to put on the donut and drive home.
Really pissed me off, I had to vent. I will be back with a vengeance.
So I get to the track around 9:15, pay my $15 to get in, go to tech, yatta yatta yatta. Get up to the line, launch at about ~4000rpm to play it safe. BTW I only have a catback and Accesport stage 1. Car feels okay, pull up to get my slip: 14.938 @ 92.72. I was hoping to get a best of 13.9 tonight, I was thinking, how am I going to shave off a whole second??? Anyways, I pull around and I'm waiting in line when some guy comes up to my car and tells me that my tire is flat! Grrr. Of all the rotten luck. after I spend $ to get in I find I have a flat. Tried to fill it back up and it wouldn't hold any air. Big freakin hole in my S-03. Had to put on the donut and drive home.
Really pissed me off, I had to vent. I will be back with a vengeance.
06-02-2004, 10:32 PM
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Last time I went to the track I couldn't launch for ****. My car runs low 13s but I couldn't break 14 that night. I was having ****ty 60', like 2.3s, 2.4s.
Last edited by Brfatal; 06-02-2004 at 10:45 PM.
08-05-2004, 12:24 AM
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Originally Posted by 02silversuby
Run the donut. 
-Adam
-Adam
werd!
nothing like cruising the new posts and seeing a 3 month old post bumped up.
I should have run the donut, probably could have done better than a 15
edit: I'm going this Friday, I'll post the results, no mods since then. I is broke!
Last edited by MonkeyAB; 08-05-2004 at 12:26 AM.
08-05-2004, 04:41 PM
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How did you not realize that you had a flat at the drags? I would have thought that either you would see it or someone at the track would have noticed it before you raced it. I would assume that you would shave off a little time if you had an inflated tire.
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