I have every slip of every pass I ever made. I guess Im a little more serious than you.
1/8mi. drag racing
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Safety Car
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From: SoCal CA
1/8mi. drag racing
Last night I went to the track. Its an 1/8 of a mile track. I have a 2002 coupe with an afe stage2 cai and a predator tune, my friend ran his 2002 camaro z28 with a hypertech tune, headers and true dual. Even when my reaction time was better he would get me by 1/2 to 1 car length. I would start catching up towards the end and he never really pulled away. my mph was right there too. 
does that sound right? i know he was fast but now i really want my exhaust already!
p.s. my time was 8.7sec @ 86mph
camaro was 8.4sec @ 87mph
does that sound right? i know he was fast but now i really want my exhaust already!p.s. my time was 8.7sec @ 86mph
camaro was 8.4sec @ 87mph
Drifting
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yea let us know what each of your 60' times were, I just pulled one of my time slips from last year, my car only has a vararam for performance upgrades, my 60' was 1.960 1/8 was 8.335 @ 86.94 finished the 1/4 @ 12.89 @ 108.12. that 60' time is a HUGE factor in dropping times, he may beating you by 1 or 2 tenths at the 60' mark, if thats the case make that up and you should have him
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Le Mans Master
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App 1/4th of the dragstrips around the country are 1/8th mile. Also, when we run the big dollar bracket races they are almost always 1/8th mile even if the track is a 1/4 mile track. You get good in the 1/8th and the 1/4 is a breeze.
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Safety Car
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The only close dragstrip to us is an 1/8th, so we have no choice. My friends race it every week. They have grown to like it, the door cars can run pretty good with the rails. My friends Monza runs a 5.50 on the 1/8th
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8.4sec @ 87mph
would look equal to this C5's times:
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until the Camaro would be required to go the rest of the way:
then it would lose - and by a sizeable margin. I guess there's no harm in being an 1/8 mile fan; as long as people aren't naive about how their car would perform in a real drag race.
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Safety Car
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Yeah, I race at Irwindale so if you guys r out there look for me. (Blk on blk c5 w/ blk Z06 wheels). I'll save my slips and I know I'll spank him on the 1/4 thats why Im going to california speedway next. Tomorrow I get my Borla straight pipes so you'll hear me coming!