I was great to see a lot of old friends. Went out first round with a .-0.19 red. Saw my red and just ran it out to a 14.761 on a 14.79 dial. Good part it was still early and made the 2 hour drive home with the top down. Maybe next year?

 

Was a good day..
I won round one with a 13.702 on a 13.68 dial
Lost 2nd round with a rather bad R/T of .185 [I am a bit 'gunshy' now since I lost the semi final of the EFI shootout by redlighting.. funny how the mind works.. ]Car ran pretty good [consistant]
I am slightly consoled by the fact that the guy that beat me went on to the semi final round..
#4801 purple pearl 94Z

 

ya my car was the one w/ the ss 10 spokes....thanks for the compliments on the car guys....hopefully my hoosiers will be here this week and i'll be out there friday seein what the car can really do...njlt1ss...it's funny i noticed your car at first cause it looks identical to my friends 97 SS...then i saw you run and was like that's funny..same e/t and trap as me(well just about)....now i come on here and see you do have pretty much the same mods as my car.......i'd ditch the nitto's though....i can't hook worth a damm on mine....maybe cause i got them from a friend w/ a few passes on em and they're different new...but i can't get mine to hook at at all....2.1 was my best 60 ft

 

You guys have some good looking and running cars. I had a personal best as well with a 10.47 @ 131. I thought it was a mistake when the guy handed me the slip. I didn't get an N/A run so I ran brackets on the spray. Dialed a 10.60 and redlighted so I ran it out the back and went 10.47 again. At least I backed up my best pass.

 

n20dave is your car red w/ black yenko style stripes(really cool idea i was gonna do it to my car actually) and w/ a pretty much gutted interior(cage,race seat,etc)...if soo really nice car...saw a few passes...didn't see anyone running faster than that

 

Yeah thats it. Thanks. I wasn't sure if I was the fastest or not. I wanted to run a heads up class but it didn't look like they had one, although I read that flyer they handed out after I left and it said there was a king of the track something. Anyone know if they ran a headsup at the end?

 

Me feels your pain, my first round was a -.039. I was dialing a 10.60 and the other guy was a 13.80. It seemed like he was at the 1/8th before my light came down. It got me good.

 

Dave i didnt even see you there. There were so many cars and people that I think it was hard to know who was who. I even said I was going to write my screen name on the back window, but I never did.

Its hard to race someone who is that much slower. sometimes the wait just throws you off. The key is to just watch you tree and not him. If your dialed in right you will catch em... I know this and have done it many times but even regular racers get a little anxious once and a while. Part of it was that I knew I could beat 90% of the cars there in bracket racing.


I really didnt like the class breakdown. I wanted to run with other slick tire cars butthere was no class for it. I had some traction problems with all teh radial tires on the track. I never dropped tire pressure to 13psi before

 

Had a great day with a bunch of friends. I won the Fbody vs Mustang shootout and lost in the Semi's in the King of the Hill Comp.

http://www.abbene.com/SLPCAD04/59101004.jpg

 

i wish i knew there was a heads up class at the end...i didn't even think bout it till after too......who's goin to the next gm efi shootout?...we should all meet up or something....

 

Hey Disturbed, looks like we have some pretty simmilar mods done to our cars. I think the next GM High Tech Shootout is near the end of this month. We should get a group of us together and drive down or organize a location at the track for all of us to meet up and hang out. N20Dave, I think I saw you run a few cars in front of me when I was in the staging lanes, that is one nasty ride you got, makes me want to spray Lets get something together guys, Im in for it.



Nick

 

i went for the first time, had fun but didn't know that i wasnt supposed to take my street tires through the water until after i raced . beginners luck

hey how do i get that shoe polish off my car?

 

Having the "slow" car didn't help me. Brian, having the faster car is an advantage. First red looses and the race is all in front of you. Nothing like looking over your shoulder watching a 10 second car come down on your slow 15 second butt. Again, nothing like putting that 10 second car back on the trailer. Maybe I'll do a little better in the EFI race on the 23rd. I'll try not to get too anxious.

 

Thanks guys. It was a fun day. I really wanted to go to the GM EFI race but it's not gonna happen. I've got a schedule to keep for an event in May and it's going to take some time to get these SB2.2 heads I've got laying here to work . Good luck to all who makes it there. Maybe I'll come and watch even if the car's torn apart by then.

As a side note, it's porbably a good thing I didn't make another pass, the opti is going and the serp belt shredded some ribs on that last run. Opti going and alternator not working on spray = very bad things.

 

N20Dave,
I remember your car, it was very nice!!! The car was beautiful!!!