Roy racing is 1/4 mile runs not highway drags from a roll

 

to who?? you guys maybe, but not to me or it seems matt or dave. thats why there cars arent set up that way. daves car is set up more for highway top speed runs and twisties, same with matts. and highway drags from a roll is where the fun is. 1/4 drags at mission don tdo anythign for me nor do i care for them. my car will be set up more for handling and highway runs not drags.

soooooo since johnny likes to challenge mission runs, how bout he step up to some highway runs.

 

Thats cool and all tell a cop catches yah and you get to do your racing on the keyboard.

Or something screws up as you are doing a top speed blast.

The track is a better proving ground for the driver and the car. Be it a road track or a drag strip. I use to goof around on the street and have had my tastes of faith. However now it just seems stupid who knows maybe i just grew up.
Later
Mike

 

ive been racing the streets since i was 18, you gotta know where and when to race on the streets, you also have to know the limits of your car as well, and i do.

ill stick to the streets, setting up a perfectly good 4th gen for the strip is useless in my books.

how is the track better? weve had two of our guys on the board spin around at the track and one guy slam into the wall.

atleast if i crash my car on the street i can BS icbc and get my money back or car fixed. lets see you do that at mission.

 

Nowing when and were still has its down sides my friend. Unless you are god there will always be things you cant predict. All it takes is one thing to go wrong with your car or the enviroment in which you are racing for $hit to hit the fan. I myself dont mind paying for the repairs if i screw up at the track. Its only money anyways and i prefer the peace of mind that if i do screw up i have medical attention and people willing to help immediately. You screw up on a long dark road racing some dumbass you dont know and you get the privelidge of waiting for someone to come by and save your a$$ if it can be saved.

But whatever to each there own i just hope that it doesnt catch up to one of you guys one day.
Later
Mike

 

lol, i dont race long dark roads

one day ill grow out of it, but i still wont hit the track, it just doesnt do it for me, perhaps AX.....

 

Im with roy , the track is pretty lame for the most part. To have a decent hooking setup you have to crap out your car and its not something im willing to do. We really need a standing mile track or something. . . .fwiw I really dont like running on the highway but we try to do it as safely as possible and very late at night.

Life begins at 200 . . .

 

I witnessed that in my rear view .. I must say .. it was scary looking

I must say I'm with mike on this one

I highly doubt u'll have an ambulance and fire truck next to ur car within 30 seconds of a serious accident on the street roy and dave ... and if sh*t hits the fans and one of u do something like i did on the street .. there are no 5pt harnesses, helmets or roll cages or cement side walls to save ur a$$ for that matter .. u will be rolling in the ditch and have to lay in your wreckage for at least 10-15 minutes until someone comes up to you with jaws of life or puts the fire out on ur car

all of you who say the track is not fun its because u never had the privilage of dropping ur clutch at 5000 rpm and lifting the nose up

If i had enough money id do it all over again... the only reason i got out of it was because i was sick of driving a cutlass every day

I will guarantee you that it is the opposite if the samllest thing goes wrong and u have noone running upto you within mere minutes

 

I still cut 1.8 60' foot times with my 93 TA, & no it wasn't that fun, the problem with the track is this:

1. You sign the car's life away
2. When you sign your car's life away all ambition to race goes out the window cuz now you acctually feel like your going to be hurt.
3. On street tires, 3 out of 10 times you almost hit the wall.
4. When you loose traction on the track you ussually end up going sideways, then what happens is your tires dig into the track & it throws you around.
5. By the time you hit the staging lanes your all tired & you loose that spark to race, most of the time by the time I hit the staging lanes I"m not feeling all hiped up anymore.
6. A single F*ck up & you feel all upset cuz you have to wait until you can go again.
7. Its too far
8. It costs money
9. You have to put BS numbers on your car
10. You need a roll bar/helmet etc.. if you're fast & that aint my style
11. You can't run open cut-out (STUPID!!!)

Matt.

 

what he said with the addition . . . A QUARTEM MILE IS TOO FREEKING SHORT TO BE FUN !! however I like the tree and the hot girls in the ticket booths . . .

 

Yeah the track does suck if you can't drive!!!
No matter if your car is setup for drag racing or road racing, putting the power to the pavement is the fun part. My car isn't setup for drag racing and I've never had a close call at the track. I understand that some people are running more power then I am, but that just means you have to lay off the throttle a bit. If I was to drive aggressively at the track 1st and 2nd gear would be useless. Sometimes driving slower means going faster

 

Almost all that you mentioned above applies on the street as well.
-if your doing 200km/hr on the highway your signing your car and your life away. ICBC won't cover you if they find out you are driving excessively. On the street there are innocent bystanders as well.

Don't get me wrong. I've done my share of on and off street activities But saying that it is better or safer on the street is rediculous

 

there will always be pro mission people and always street racers. im a street racer.

and payam yes ive been in a ditch sideways, and no it didnt take the ambulance fifteen minutes to get there. and no i didnt need a roll cage, a helmet nor a five point harness, all i needed was my seatbelt and hartop car thats got a saftey cage designed by GM. i climbed out of the car without a single scratch. yeah **** happens at 200km/h but perhaps thats the rush some of us desire. ive done 220 down highway one slicing traffic with matt and armen inside racing a lincoln ls. yesh something could have happend but ninety five percent of the time it doesnt. and its not like we go all out racing around like this ALL the time. and like dave said we do it late at night with little to no traffic around.

you guys can pay your fees, sign your waivers and run your quartermiles, but theres no point of drag racing in mission unless your car is a drag car.

seriously we all mod our cars for the street, we all street race, some of us just dont want to admit to it. we dont go out and buy cams and headers for the track cause if we did it would all be longtubes and big cams. why buy lowering springs then? they aint for the track.

if you guys want to race the track go build a track car out of a second or third gen or a chevelle or something, because your all acting like holier then thou, because i know each and everyone of you would race if a mustang pulled up at a red light. you wouldnt lean out the window and be like hold on, lets go to mission so i can put on my drag radials and drain my coolant and run water and put on my helmet and pay 20 bucks to see whos faster.

 

Dude Well said, couldn't have put it better myself!

 

LMFAO thats awsome