Hey guys, Im going to go to New england dragway for the first time tonight... I have never raced my car befor... anyone have any tips or advice before I go and embarass my self? Im leaving my expectations pretty low because of my inexperience, im hoping for a 2.1sec 60' and 14 sec -1/4mile... My mods are below

Any thoughts are welcome

 

Don't stage with the rear wheels

A4 or M6?

I'll swing by and say hello

Ahhh, someone local....I live in Somersworth.

Marc
P.S. I remember making a similar post a few years back after I put my first blower ont he car and ended up hooking up with some ***** who drives a V6 who promptly kicked my ***

 

Its an M6, so im a little worried about me not getting any traction Hopefully i will be able to feather it out a little. We will see though

thanks for the reply hope to see ya there

Matt

 

-Don't go through the water box.

-Don't do a huge burnout if you got street tires. Just a little one to heat them up and scrub the crap off them.

-Don't pay attention to reaction time, it will just make you nervous and you'll probably spin off the line. Reaction time has NO effect on ET.

Speaking of, I'm going to NED Friday to run my car. Hopefully the weather stays dry

 

tell us how you do, I'm taking mine next week for my first time.
Good Luck

 

No offense to the young lad with the 3rd gen but I disagree as you don't want to loose to a riced out ****box cause you were snoozing at the line.

Good wisdom on going around the water box, go around and back up and heat up the tires a little and go up to the staging lights and stop just after cracking the second set of staging lights and the instant the last yellow light flashes dump/feather the clutch and hang on

Bring a tire pressure gauge and pump up the fronts to 45ish and drop the rears a few pound but do not go crazy on street tires (26-28 #'s should do).

Take any excess junk out of your car (remove the spare if you feel compelled, hell I haven't had one in there for years) and throw the floor mat in the back seat (got to make sure you get full throttle).

Hopefully you don't have a full tank of gas, 1/3 tank should be fine. If you need gas, get some Sunoco 94 in Epping as you should pass right by it if you go to NED using 125

Bring a helmet in case you get into the 13's if you got one. NED sells helmets at the Souvenir shack for cheap money.

 

Have fun at the track. The racer handbook is here: http://www.newenglanddragway.com/tra...ok/index.shtml

But you can get one already printed for free while you are there. I have the Camaro on the front cover.

Focus on having a good time, watch how other racers do it, and then do it yourself. Let the tech guys know it is your first night. You should have no problems staying above 13.99 unless you have a freak car and can drive like John Force. Go early to take advantage of better track prep. They don't allow slicks on Wednesday night and street tires tend to tear up the starting line.

 

Well I don't know if the 96 has traction control or not but if it does make sure you turn it off to avoid looking stupid And if it's a M6 and your first time racing i am predicting a 14.0 maybe a 13 sec pass if you get used to it.

 

Good point Marc, but when the Camaro runs a 13.xx and the ricer runs a 16.xx, I don't think he'll mind

 

Good point, get there as early as possible and get through the tech inspection and line up. You'll get more runs in if you can get there early and be one of the first to run when they start racing.

For future reference some of the best nights to race are when it's raining down in mass (but not at NED, which lately has been unlikely) and it scares away all the "M*******s'

Uncle Marc

 

Was supposed to read "Mass holes"

 

HHHHHeyyyy! Careful there oh Cav King.
When I read your original post I thought you wrote Mustangs

 

Who Me? Would I do that?

 

What was everybodys times last night/

 

I went 13.24@103 in my White Lightning.