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79camaro 09-21-2013 09:37 PM

There was some nice racing going on. Seemed like a really weak turnout- esp for a car show? I didn't want to run my vette at first since I drove a hour away and track prep/conditions were the same as they were before they closed, but I'll always support a track & a car club. It was fun just cruising up there.

BonzoHansen 09-21-2013 09:54 PM

there was no car show. it was just a club meet. but glad you had fun!

Jersey Mike 09-21-2013 10:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 79camaro (Post 890883)
There was some nice racing going on. Seemed like a really weak turnout- esp for a car show? I didn't want to run my vette at first since I drove a hour away and track prep/conditions were the same as they were before they closed, but I'll always support a track & a car club. It was fun just cruising up there.

The black C6 parked across from us was you?! Had I known, I would have made it a point to find you. We had members all over the place, as well as many lurkers. Because of the venue and other logistics, it was nearly impossible to get an accurate attendance list. However, I found that 4/5 of the people I spoke with had viewed this thread before coming--including the red [ProStock?] Camaro running 8.3X's, and some other 4th gen guys.

I'll reach out to some people and see if I can get a grip on the actual tally. But it seemed that the crowd was 90+% FBody to me...

79camaro 09-21-2013 10:21 PM

Yea that was me, I only stayed from like 2:30-4:30. Glad the weather held out.

steves602 09-22-2013 07:23 AM

I agree with 79camaro. Cruise up was great. Hit detour at Longvalley on rt 24 added 40 min to trip on backroads I was never on. Great weather held out saw some great cars run down track. Liked the flames from deadtrend's white TA. Was going to say hi but they were working on car and did not want to interrupt. Next time.

12secondv6 09-22-2013 08:21 AM

It was great! Tons of runs, what held me back was I didn't have enough gas in the tank.....if I did, I woulda made more passes.

Time are posted.
Got a new best 60 ft, et and mph

Firebird67dude 09-22-2013 09:40 AM

Nee best for me aswell. Ill post times when I get back home. New best et, mph, 60ft. New best 0 to 60 aswell 3.93 sec.

Also one rum against you James and we had the same rt. Pretty cool.

Jersey Mike 09-22-2013 02:35 PM

I have a ton of pictures to upload, but here are a couple of videos I snagged from the cell phone to hold you guys over for now:




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqccQ6PqyBg


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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdhd9-ShFY0




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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJVWqqaAERU




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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ry2jxnb3Ra0




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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb4MPCjVMKY


deadtrend1 09-22-2013 02:45 PM

sweet ...

ThoR294 09-22-2013 03:35 PM

vertical videos:bertstare:

Jersey Mike 09-22-2013 03:45 PM

Hahaha forgive me. Recently made the switch from a LG EnV Touch to a Samsung GS4. Perhaps too much phone? Lol!

The_Bishop 09-22-2013 03:47 PM

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Originally Posted by deadtrend1 (Post 890881)
Weren't too bad when you ran against me. Seemed like a decent bolt on number.

When I ran against you I had finally figured out what was going on, car was 100% on the low octane timing table. So I copied the high oct. table into the low oct. table to troubleshoot, and picked up a lot of my missing MPH. Of course, I still have a bunch of knock retard due to the tank of crap gas, and I had monkied with my shift points trying to figure out what was wrong, so... When I got home I put the tune back to where it was before, with a few minor changes, mostly in shift pressures and mild timing changes. Need to pump the bad fuel out of the car and load it back up with premium.

Last outing I ran a 12:35 @ 110.4, so dropping to 12.60's was a bit disappointing. DA didn't help, it was around 2000 if I remember right.

The_Bishop 09-22-2013 03:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jersey Mike (Post 890929)
Hahaha forgive me. Recently made the switch from a LG EnV Touch to a Samsung GS4. Perhaps too much phone? Lol!

No arguments from me, haven't seen video of my making a pass before. You can really tell that the handling suspension limits traction on takeoff.

Jersey Mike 09-22-2013 03:53 PM

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Originally Posted by The_Bishop (Post 890931)
No arguments from me, haven't seen video of my making a pass before. You can really tell that the handling suspension limits traction on takeoff.

Keith, weren't you still cutting 1.7 60' times with that suspension though?

L695speed 09-22-2013 04:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by The_Bishop (Post 890931)
No arguments from me, haven't seen video of my making a pass before. You can really tell that the handling suspension limits traction on takeoff.

This was probably a big issue of mine too, other than the first time I've had it to the track with the stick as well. I just couldn't get it off the line the way I wanted to. Track prep wasn't really all that clean either, could see how bad it was at the start.

Featherburner 09-22-2013 06:11 PM

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Originally Posted by L695speed (Post 890935)
This was probably a big issue of mine too, other than the first time I've had it to the track with the stick as well. I just couldn't get it off the line the way I wanted to. Track prep wasn't really all that clean either, could see how bad it was at the start.

If 12secondv6 was pulling 1.8 60' in a 4200lb. car on street tire, you really have no excuse.

L695speed 09-22-2013 06:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Featherburner (Post 890942)
If 12secondv6 was pulling 1.8 60' in a 4200lb. car on street tire, you really have no excuse.

Yeah I know, I saw his thread and that sort of surprised me. I was doing low to mid 2s, couldn't get it lower, played around with the launch, if I got down to 1.9 I would have been happy. Didn't care much about the RT, but a suspension that is not exactly conductive for drag racing and the first time having it at the track with the stick, didn't exactly help either. Probably a little of everything. But whatever.

deadtrend1 09-22-2013 06:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by L695speed (Post 890947)
.... but a suspension that is not exactly conductive for drag racing...

??????

grazi 09-22-2013 06:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by L695speed (Post 890935)
This was probably a big issue of mine too, other than the first time I've had it to the track with the stick as well. I just couldn't get it off the line the way I wanted to. Track prep wasn't really all that clean either, could see how bad it was at the start.

Is the gta a 305?

The_Bishop 09-22-2013 07:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jersey Mike (Post 890933)
Keith, weren't you still cutting 1.7 60' times with that suspension though?

That last pass was a very lame 1.88 60'. You can hear the wheelspin in the video.

deadtrend1 09-22-2013 07:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by The_Bishop (Post 890950)
That last pass was a very lame 1.88 60'. You can hear the wheelspin in the video.

A lot of that was mine also. We dropped my 2 step 400 rpms to try and stick a launch.

L695speed 09-22-2013 07:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by grazi (Post 890949)
Is the gta a 305?

No its a 350, with 3.70s to boot which is why I'm sort of scratching my head. Best 60 foot was 2.1, and best ET was a 14.9 at 89 a year ago, with an auto. Theoretically, the manual would be a little quicker. Guess I need to get the launch down. I know I can get it down time wise. Spec wise that car should be running 14s. Most of it may be the unfamiliarity of the car now that it is a manual, but I did a run a couple weeks prior on an empty stretch of road. approx 500 feet, and the car was at a dead stop, before I hit the end of the stretch (corner) it was doing faster MPH wise than my 1/8th mile trap. as much as 5 mph faster.

Deadtrend, it was setup for autocross by Matt who seems to have gone MIA around here. Konis, Eibachs, strut mounts, aluminum driveshaft, double rod ended panhard bar, I added tubular LCAs, a wonderbar, the six speed and poly bushings on the trans and torque arm. From what I know and have been told, you have to compromise somewhere if you want to do well at both drag racing and autoX/road courses. You're leaving room on the table for one or the other. Can have a pure drag setup, or a road course setup, but one will not work well or as well when using the other. I felt better taking the turnaround at speed than getting off the line. Even 12secV6 guy said I was taking the turnaround corner faster than he was.

amargari 09-22-2013 07:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jersey Mike (Post 890926)
I have a ton of pictures to upload, but here are a couple of videos I snagged from the cell phone to hold you guys over for now:


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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb4MPCjVMKY



Thanks for posting the video. I had a great time on Saturday. This was the first time I ever ran a car down the strip and it was a blast. The car needs a lot of tuning because the times and MPH were awful.

Jersey Mike 09-22-2013 10:02 PM

Here are some shots of some of the guys who chose to race. I tried to walk around and snag some pictures of the Fbodies who chose to park and chat vs race, as well. We'll get to those later.

But, let's play I spy!


http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/6867/6hrt.jpg

http://img854.imageshack.us/img854/5035/f1fn.jpg

http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/2415/pagf.jpg

http://img543.imageshack.us/img543/8184/zmlr.jpg

Jersey Mike 09-22-2013 10:54 PM

Another round of photos:

http://img841.imageshack.us/img841/550/z0pg.jpg


NBM Camaro, who is that? I do remember talking to you, but unfortunately I can't put a face to the name. Someone throw me a bone here:
http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/1685/hxhg.jpg

Jessie the lurker:
http://img560.imageshack.us/img560/7808/t87a.jpg


Bueller? Bueller?
http://img843.imageshack.us/img843/1348/87lj.jpg


http://img600.imageshack.us/img600/4903/r73x.jpg


http://img560.imageshack.us/img560/7987/vqjt.jpg

http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/7375/scv7.jpg


http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/2186/8ll4.jpg

http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/5773/m94t.jpg

http://img853.imageshack.us/img853/4306/k7n5.jpg

http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/1346/l96y.jpg

http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/1037/dhc3.jpg

Upon review, I'm breaking this image link before people start complaining about scrolling, lol:
[IMG]http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/6315/hjgq.jpg[ /IMG]

The man's a slave driver. Keith had his pit-crew working all day until he finally got the tune right... Then he put the little one on camera duty. It's okay though, we sang the Barney & Friends theme song together every time the car pulled into the burnout box, so justice was served :-P
http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/8371/2av2.jpg

Who brings a Mopar to a Fbody meet? Honestly![/AustinPowers]
http://img547.imageshack.us/img547/4125/44od.jpg

A PolarBear in hiding:
http://img850.imageshack.us/img850/7572/dzr7.jpg


http://img845.imageshack.us/img845/5282/3u7c.jpg

http://img822.imageshack.us/img822/7721/7i3f.jpg

http://img819.imageshack.us/img819/9922/g0oc.jpg

http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/8404/vdlm.jpg

http://img819.imageshack.us/img819/9440/zif9.jpg

http://img600.imageshack.us/img600/669/l1uv.jpg

And I don't know who's trailer this was, but it was awesome!!!
http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/179/gxtp.jpg



Few more left, but the rest will have to wait. There's a pillow with my name on it it right now.


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