Would you?
 

The next street night at my local drag strip is this Friday. I've been planning on going since last month's street night, but I was looking at the weather forecast and it's showing highs of 106 on Friday, which in Texas when you add in the heat index that temp goes up to 113-115. This means that by 8 PM when the races start the heat index might be at around 100-105. I'm a little concerned about this much heat when pushing my car to the limit over and over again. Would you race anyway, or would you pass?

Watch your oil temps and go have fun till they get out of hand :rock:

Plus I mean, its just drag racing.... 10-15 sec of heavy acceleration followed by braking. Plenty of time to cool off between runs.

That's the thing, at this time of year very few people show up at the track, so it's almost back to back runs with no cool down time between.

They force you to get right back in line? You can't just take a break yourself?

People race these cars on road race tracks for 20-30 minutes all full bore and are fine (even in these temps).
You will be just fine entering your little show and shine Ed.;)


Just messin' with ya. Take a break now and then, and pop the hood on the return road to get that hot air out and moving. Put your DIC on oil temps and as long as you're under 300 you'll be fine.

^ this. A road coarse 20-30 minute session in nearly the same heat will have far more heat soak than a few drag pulls.... hell I do drag pulls daily with no temp issues :reddevil :steering:

Wow 300?! I didn't realize that was an acceptable threshold. Interesting. :thumbs:

What track are you going to?

It certainly isn't ideal, but you won't see limp mode until 310.

Texas Motorplex in Ennis.

I'll see if the big boss will let me come down. I've been wondering what the car will do with the new heads and cam anyway.

Gates open at 7, and racing starts at 8. Roll racing starts at midnight.

I guess I hadn't considered that people were running HPDE's in the middle of summer. That would be brutal here in Texas.

I just noticed this. Your range goes up to 15 seconds? :lolg: I'm a little better than that, and am running 12's while having a blast doing it. :D

Ed, I would not hesitate to do it. I just did it here in Vegas this past week, got 5 runs in about 90 minutes, no problem. Whenever I was in the secondary staging lanes, I had the engine off and hood up, and the car always cooled down 10-15 degrees on trans and coolant temps. Highest I saw on the trans was 208, and 212 on coolant. Very manageable.

Good luck, and have fun.

Oil and coolant will always cool down quicker with car at idle. Keep fluids running through engine and into coolers. No brainer. Engine off equals heat soak.

I realize what you say is correct, but I was parked for 20 minutes, each time. Is that not long enough to counter the heat soak?

I use to live at the strip! I raced the Motorplex, Kennedale, and Denton. My home strip was Hallsville Raceway. I used to race the TMCCC series, it was fun. I was overall champ one year. That was a fun part of my life, I miss it!:thumbs:

What's roll racing? Starting from a roll, I assume?