Darren,
Do you not have any 5 & 6 second cars running at your local track?
Must be nice to run mostly street cars at the track. I wished that was my case. Hell, I get lined up against a damn railcar running 4.90s in the 1/8th...lol
Sucks because you cant even hear your own rpms to launch. When I go to my local track I might run 1 street car for every 5 trailer queens

 

There are plenty of 6-10 second cars. But they don't run in the street car lanes. They have all the lanes numbered. 1 is for bikes and sleds. 2 & 3 is for street tire brand X. That is where I run since I have a street car on DOT drag radials (no slicks allowed in lanes 2 or 3). Then 4 and 5 are for Imports, 6 and 7 are bracket racing or MOM's when applicable. 8 is where they usually tech you in. 9-10 are the big boy trailer queens. 11 and 12 I forget what they are but they are very fast cars also.

Eventually I plan to to get to low 10's (heads and spray in the not too distant future). Then I'll migrate over to lanes 9 - 12 where I'm sure I'll lose lots of races. But it'll be more fun I think

But for now I am still running street tire/brand X. In this class I would say 50% are 14's or slower, 25% are 13's, 20% are 12's and maybe 5% hit 11's. I rarely see a roll bar in these lanes. I used to get a lot better/closer races when I was running 12.4-12.5's

 

Actually I drive a 462 70 Buick GSX for fun. The other fun car is an 87 GN and if you do not consider it a muscle car your nuts. Heck the guys I hang out with consider my 462 small


The PT cruiser drove to the track, changed wheels, beat up a lot of us, changed wheels and drove home. Guy had his act together. Sleepers are cool.

 

A 462 70 Buick GSX is definately a muscle car in my book. 87 Grand national I'm kind of on the fence with. Looks too much like my old 79 Monte Carlo and that was NO muscle car even with a V8

I drive to the track, lower my tire preasure, run quicker then this particular PT Cruiser, bring tire preasure back up and drive home. American muscle street cars are cool as well

Some people like sleepers and that's fine. Whatever floats your boat. I prefer sporty, flashy, mean looking, ect. That's why I have always been attracted to muscle cars, sports cars and exotics like the Lamborghini

 

Believe there 315 sir...though i doubt the ram air effect ahs anything to do w/ it, probably just a strong LT1

 

Yeah, I have heard that the ram air has hardly any effect and some debate the name "ram" air.

I would agree on LT1s dynoing around 230 - 240s
220 hp is really a Friday car

 

I didn't think anybody would hold me to the 220 estimate. I simply guessed that based on their flywheel claim and typical losses. The first LT1 ads all made a big deal about 275 horsepower which is understandably not usually equated with 250whp. As the LT1's power went up it's more reasonable to expect more at the wheels.

I wish my truck made 300whp with 345 at the crank. Reports show its drivetrain sucks it down to around 280whp. It'll eventually get some love with a more aggressive converter. I might as well get some use out of the LSD and 305 width tires.

 

Well I got my third loss of this season last night

They were running a street car shootout. All cars with legal plates and registration were eligable to compete. They seperated us into five classes:

AA = 10.49 or faster
A = 10.50 - 11.49
B = 11.50 - 12.49 (my class obviously)
C = 12.50 - 13.49
D = 13.50 and slower

There were 40+ cars in the D class, 40 + cars in the C class, 8 cars in the B class (including me), less then 15 in the A class and less then 15 in the AA class.

My first round race was against a classic hot rod. It kind of looked like the ZZtop car from the sharped dressed man video. I seen him run a 11.7 in a bracket race. I knew I had to be on my game at the pro tree because I was running 11.8 @ 115 all night dead hooking with 1.61 60's.

I do a burnout, line up, stall to 2500 rpm's and wait. First sign of yellow I let her rip and I tree him! Then my heart sinks as I feel my car spinning off the line He pulls half a car on me and by the eighth I'm at his front fender. I very slowly reel him in but at the quarter he was a fender out front. The final numbers for me were 1.79 60' and 12.00 @ 115 to his 1.64 60' and 11.89 @ 114.

All night I was dead hooking but the one pass that really mattered is when the track stops gripping. DOH!

But it was fun. And the fact that only 8 cars were in my class shows why I win so many damn races on normal test n tune. All the fast cars run a different class then me and most of what's left is 12.5 or above

 

Still great numbers and sounded like fun D.

 

Yea unlike the LS1's the ram air did seem to help the Lt1 models...Not so much on the rollers but more at the strip...Its wasnt unheard of to see a 6spd Lt1 ss turning 13.6's stock w/ the right driver.

 

I know a guy in MT Airy with a Neon SRT4 that dynoed 320 at the wheels.
I have seen that guy kill tons of LT1s and LS1s from a stop or a roll. They(SRTs) can be pretty fast though I can't launch one to save my life.
Good kill! Though he should have clobbered you

 

Ahh, the narrow minded off-based reality that is the Kill Forum.



Seemed to help my car in a rather indirect manner. I was trapping roughly 3 mph more than a friends similarly equipped non ram air car. Hell we even dynoed the same as well as pulled 60's really close to each others.

 

even wikipedia deems muscle cars as having V8's... not so much for the 4cyl variety
Not that wiki is the tell all of the automotive world but still it seems to be common practice to think this way

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_car

Sorry but an SRT4 is more of an american tuner car along with the cobalt SS

 

Agreed! But the STR4 is more then just an american tuner car. It's a skittle.

Taste the rainbow

 

I cant believe anyone would actually believe an SRT-4 NEONNNNNN is a muscle car. I thought this was a car forum...WTF? Look at how stupid that sounds.