how nice of you to share!Rope-Pusher wrote:I have a Pinewood Derby track in my garage that you could borrow to run it on.noob5,000,000 wrote:Old FC - 16-17? maybe? IDK.
New FC - Quick (assuming the track is downhill)
1/4 mile times good or bad?
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Re: 1/4 mile times good or bad?
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Re: 1/4 mile times good or bad?
According to http://www.dragtimes.com/Volkswagen-Rab ... 14945.html my car is good for 16.010 @ 88.020mph. I wouldn't know, I've never accelerated from 0 to hitting that wire with the connecting hook at precisely 88mph the instant the lightning strikes the tower...
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Re: 1/4 mile times good or bad?
NHRA is resperimenting with reduced displacement in Top Fuel dragsters as a way of getting them back to running full 1/4 mile races. No more asterisked times in the record books if they can do it. I bet there are some folks in NASCAR that can show them how to do it with restrictor plates for drag strips with insufficient run-off areas (or high banking)
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Re: 1/4 mile times good or bad?
Last time I ran I ran a 14.4@98.6 mph. Give or take .1 or .2 because it's been a long time since I looked at the timeslip...I lost it somewhere when I moved to billings
0-60 is between 6.3-6.5 seconds.
0-60 is between 6.3-6.5 seconds.
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Re: 1/4 mile times good or bad?
Haven't run it yet (maybe won't - got a 2011 on order), but supposedly around 12.4-12.5 @ 117mph. The 2011, a tenth or two quicker. Of course, with my sorry self running it, add half a second!
No shame for anybody. I remember back in the 80's at Gateway International Raceway a guy in a basically stock GREMLIN winning tons of cash bracket racing. His dial-ins were on the order of 18-20 seconds. Opponents got tired of sitting there, waiting to run him down - they'd red-light or breakout, or, since he was going so slowly, he'd gauge their intercept speed and add just enough oompf to beat them across the line!
No shame for anybody. I remember back in the 80's at Gateway International Raceway a guy in a basically stock GREMLIN winning tons of cash bracket racing. His dial-ins were on the order of 18-20 seconds. Opponents got tired of sitting there, waiting to run him down - they'd red-light or breakout, or, since he was going so slowly, he'd gauge their intercept speed and add just enough oompf to beat them across the line!
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