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Old 02-14-2013, 11:13 AM   #1
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Redecorating?

Seems like Atco is doing some redecorating this off season...







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Old 02-14-2013, 12:38 PM   #2
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I hope they stick some nice bathrooms in.
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Old 02-14-2013, 12:51 PM   #3
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I hope they stick some nice bathrooms in.
Portapotties worked just fine by the staging lanes haha
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Old 02-14-2013, 01:40 PM   #4
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I hope you can drive around the water with a street tire!
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Old 02-17-2013, 07:36 PM   #5
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Looks much better. About time
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Old 02-17-2013, 07:50 PM   #6
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I hope you can drive around the water with a street tire!
Yeah, That was the main reason for NOT racing here. I cannot believe that by just spinning your tires that all the water comes off. What about the water that clings to the inside of your fenderwell and drips down during staging?
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Old 02-17-2013, 10:07 PM   #7
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Thats why ur supposed to basically crawl through the puddle and not speed through it. That and do and nasty burnout and should be good
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Thats why ur supposed to basically crawl through the puddle and not speed through it. That and do and nasty burnout and should be good
What dries your front tires?
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Old 02-17-2013, 10:51 PM   #9
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Thats why ur supposed to basically crawl through the puddle and not speed through it. That and do and nasty burnout and should be good
Nasty burnout on street tires is just plain dumb.
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Old 02-17-2013, 11:15 PM   #10
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... Good point. They could do it like other places where u back into it then drive out. But for wat 25 bucks or so and u sometimes get a **** load of runs in i dnt care. Could go to etown sit in line for a long time and pay fourty bucks to get a couple in n just be miserable.
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Old 02-18-2013, 06:12 AM   #11
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The water has never been an issue for myself or any of the people who do the track rentals.

Cept for that blue pontiac on street tires
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Old 02-18-2013, 07:44 AM   #12
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The water has never been an issue for myself or any of the people who do the track rentals.

Cept for that blue pontiac on street tires
No problems here. That blue Pontiac doesn't make enough power to spin the tires even when wet!
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What dries your front tires?
What dries anyones front tires at any dragstrip?

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What dries anyones front tires at any dragstrip?
Usually you can drive around water, and back into it
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Atco could borrow some illegals from the closest car wash. Theyll towell ur front fire to perfection lol
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What dries anyones front tires at any dragstrip?
I was only making the point that it really doesn't matter if "water is dripping off your inner fenders" or "if you do a massive burnout" on your street tires
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Old 02-19-2013, 09:38 AM   #18
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I hated driving thru that water at Atco. The good news is I discovered that with INVOs they hooked better when hot. Didn't make any sense to me, but after a stupid burnout they hooked way better.
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Old 02-19-2013, 10:45 AM   #19
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I hated driving thru that water at Atco. The good news is I discovered that with INVOs they hooked better when hot. Didn't make any sense to me, but after a stupid burnout they hooked way better.
I have always found it depends on the situation.

Some guys have all-season 600 treadwear rocks on their car and do huge smokies only to find "they get greasy".

Other guys have 3 season gumball tires and can hook better when the tires are hot.

People bang the "no sense in doing a street tire burnout" all they want but there are times when it works. My brother used to cut 1.9x 60' times on 245/50/16 all seasons in his lid/exhaust '99 T/A.
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I just heard that Atco has let most of all the original employees go. Bud from the speed shop was one of them.
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Old 02-21-2013, 02:08 PM   #21
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I just heard that Atco has let most of all the original employees go. Bud from the speed shop was one of them.
I thought Bud owned the speed shop??
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Nope. He ran it for Joe.
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They just knocked the stuff down, kinda weird without the burnout wall but its much better. Ain't even miss the other tower.
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Old 03-04-2013, 06:24 AM   #24
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i liked the wall, but anyone running street tires i can see why you would want it gone, the tower should have been gone a long time ago
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You still can't go around the waterbox as far as I could tell.
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