Rules And Tips For The Strip
 

I think we need to post some tips and rules for the strip. LIke how to stage ect. This would help rookies like my self at the strip so they/ we dont look to stupied!!:igive:

Yeah, I really don't want us to get called DUMB :edit:s again. :w2: :w2:

Learning to drive right at the strip wont solve that problem....










































lol

LMFFAO :lol: Nope wont help you too! I'd stick to selling theraflu and crown!!! Maybe you should get a Practice tree and read the dragstrip for dummies book :)

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your not Warren Johnson and this aint Englishtown, so dont blow the hides in the bleach box every time, yeah it looks cool but just wastes tread.....

no need to go through the bleach box and spin them a little, water drips off the body and back onto the tire, does nothing but makes the tires wet.

dry hops work best on 90% of the actual street cars, cleans the tires and gets them just sticky enough

air pressure, air pressure, air pressure.......to much and you'll spin, too little and you will spin, every vehicle is different, put a 6 inch wide chalk mark the width of the tread on your tire and drive forward, make sure all of the contact patch is touching the ground then go down a few more pounds, not much though

weight transfer is key, 90/10 shocks work good but no need for them on a street car, if its 4x4 truck, ignore this....

every 100 pounds is a tenth......so loose everything before heading to the track......no nead for a pile of crap on the ground back in the pits......

remember your bracket racing, its all in being consistent, wether its 10 seconds or 20 seconds, launch the same way, shift the same way....

wheels up is cool but thats wasted power, need the tires about 8 inches off the ground.....

being slow off the tree is fine starting out, better than blowing the red and ruining a run, your reaction time will get better and soon you will be leaving when the yellow starts to die......

CHANGE 1 THING AT A TIME AND GO DO A RUN, IF IT HELPED, GOOD, IF NOT PUT IT BACK, DONT CHANGE SOMETHING ELSE TILL YOU GET THE FIRST THING FIGURED OUT......


just some of the stuff ive picked up over the years.....


RULES:

IF YOUR FAST, DONT BE STUPID.....neither of those work together.....

get a helmet thats Snell approved, they are cheap......

if you break into the 11's better be ready for a rollbar.....

you go faster than 10's and its time for a cage boys.......

dont try and "cheat" through tech, its just stupid to put your life and your competitors life in danger......

less than 12 inches of rubber fuel line in the COMPLETE fuel system......

wheel studs must protrude through lugnuts atleast 1 inch in the 11's.....



ill try and think of some more normal things....

You all laugh now when I / the wife has a pair of common rails put up abou 2400 hp combined and running 9s in the 1/4 mile. Think I am playing watch

hehehehehe I'm just pickin on ya, As for the rest of em i dunno...I heard it was Mikey that had the 5.30 Reaction time....hehehehe just kidding!

That was fun I like.

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Good info thanks>:U:

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No No you are fine. reaction time really dont matter when you spin the first 1/8 mile of the track and run 25 hell I was in 6th gear and did not even pass the light tree yet. But I learned alot

500's all day long for me......

mee to, Its to predictable on the computer!

Hey me too me too

It wasn't quite that long, but I did give him long enough to put in a CD if he wanted to. :tttt: :tttt:

I wish I could have been there to watch you two lollollol

As long as Shane doesn't care, I will post the vid I have. I'll have to say, if you listen, he was going through the gears like hell. I don't think I have ever seen somebody row through like that. :U: :U:



I will say that his vid is better.

LET SEEE IT!

ok post it up I will try to do mine:igive:

I know in the kids car, he lifts the front end damn near a foot every run, but I wanna see one of these diesel trucks get 8 inches of lift. I'm sure there's some out there but I've never gotten to see one.

And how do some of these guys meet the 1 inch of bolt protruding through the the lugnut with these aftermarket rims. they all use shoudered lug nuts that I know of that are closed end truck styles. All the open end nuts I have seen just have the lip inside of it, acorn style.

heres a vid of me in my toy. .197 R/T

This may be a no brainer but do NOT run your A/C or defrosters on the way to or while at the track.

Most tracks won't let you run if you are laying down ANY kind of fluid.

very true, any fluid being leak, spilled or whatever on the track is a big no no

less than 12 inches of rubber fuel line in the COMPLETE fuel system......


This may be a little hard even with a stock truck (Cummins at least) since the line running from the tank to the hard line on the frame rail is that long.

Does this include the high pressure line most of us are using or is this just refferring to the stock rubber lines.

Go ahead and post yours, Mikey commentated too much in mine and had the speeds mixed up with the times. If you have a problems with yours, email it to me and I can post it up for ya. But I will post mine too if you want.


On a side note. I had fun even if we did look like tards. :rock::rock: Maybe we can have it right next time.

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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-367371683239530237&pr=goog-sl

You can watch it there. THere may be some bad words said by camera crew.

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I did not break anything it was blowby coming from underneth the truck.

you do have to have the wheel studs protruding through open faced lugnuts to run NHRA sanctioned tracks, or atleast that is what the NHRA says, and wether the track enforces it or not.....this isnt stock stuff, look at any of the true FAST 2wd drag diesels running out there, most if not all are back-haved, 4 linked and have a ford 9" with 5 lugs.....like 75% of the drag cars out there, hence the lugnuts protruding through the open face lugnuts....

these are normal NHRA rules i dont know what NHRDA and DHRA rules are.......


rubber hose as in El Cheapo parts store junk....


i doubt any of the diesel trucks out there will pull the front wheels more than a few inches, just giving the info though cause one day there will be one that will stand it on the rear wheels.....

Hey Bway, I know the clutch was slippin but have you checked for fuel in the oil or a bad injector?

No sure have not

We have found that in diesels it 200 lbs per .10 where as the gasoline cars it 100 lbs per .10 :U:

thanks Kat, im sure you've made a trip or two down the strip.....