Nostalgia drags WA

scott66stang · Post by **scott66stang** » Sun Mar 27, 2011 12:36 pm

That sound like fun Charlie
I gotta do this when i get the Fastback on the road .....
Then again the car doesnt need to be registered, does it ? Hmmm!

nassi · Post by **nassi** » Sun Mar 27, 2011 12:37 pm

Dont worry about your reation time as it is not included in your elapsed time.
Thats not a bad time for the old girl though.
cheers

Post by **hybrid** » Sun Mar 27, 2011 2:43 pm

Yeah, your time doesn't start until you break the lights, so your reaction time doesn't mean anything if you are just worrying about your own time.

Obviously a bad reaction time means your opposition gets away quicker in a race, so it's bad there, but doesn't matter at all for your own time.

When I ran the 12.1 in my escort, I sat there for a few seconds making sure I was ready and the turbo was spooled (waste of time anyway as it wheelspun all the way up to 4th). It meant the guy in the Ford Probe got a long way in front, but I still chased him down and left him looking silly at the end of the quarter

donoauto · Post by **donoauto** » Sun Mar 27, 2011 2:53 pm

Who takes a Probe to the drags? :vomit:

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: Glad you put him in his place.

charlie66 · Post by **charlie66** » Sun Mar 27, 2011 3:31 pm

yeah i think some new wider tyres would help and maybe deflating them like some of the other racers were doing. An LSD diff with some different gearing in the rears would also help i think. I've got the standard 2.8 gears in the rear end at the moment.

nassi · Post by **nassi** » Sun Mar 27, 2011 7:52 pm

charlie66 wrote:yeah i think some new wider tyres would help and maybe deflating them like some of the other racers were doing. An LSD diff with some different gearing in the rears would also help i think. I've got the standard 2.8 gears in the rear end at the moment.

Just remember what you NORMALY use the car for before doing any wholesale changes.

JMO
cheers

charlie66 · Post by **charlie66** » Mon Mar 28, 2011 1:28 am

Maybe just some wider tyres then...

nassi · Post by **nassi** » Mon Mar 28, 2011 8:50 am

charlie66 wrote:Maybe just some wider tyres then...

If your planning to go again soon borrow my 235's they are on mags so you wont have to worry about hubcaps

Post by **ozbilt** » Mon Mar 28, 2011 9:01 am

Thought the subject line meant this....

1955 (first ever NHRA national event) no sound..

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From 1963, again no sound...

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moe · Post by **moe** » Mon Mar 28, 2011 7:51 pm

hybrid wrote:When I ran the 12.1 in my escort, I sat there for a few seconds making sure I was ready and the turbo was spooled (waste of time anyway as it wheelspun all the way up to 4th).

Any pics? I used to muck around with escorts (mainly RS2000's not the job description donoauto....).

charlie66 · Post by **charlie66** » Mon Mar 28, 2011 9:00 pm

one my favorite cars that I owned was a 74 escort with a 4 speed and worked 1600. I thrashed it for 2 years and sold it for the same price I bought it but with bald tyres!

nassi · Post by **nassi** » Mon Mar 28, 2011 9:19 pm

charlie66 wrote:one my favorite cars that I owned was a 74 escort with a 4 speed and worked 1600. I thrashed it for 2 years and sold it for the same price I bought it but with bald tyres!

It took you two years to make the tyres bald????

charlie66 · Post by **charlie66** » Mon Mar 28, 2011 9:41 pm

i was a student on a budget so i had to ration my burnouts!

nassi · Post by **nassi** » Mon Mar 28, 2011 11:02 pm

charlie66 wrote:i was a student on a budget so i had to ration my burnouts!

:rotfl:

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