1/4 mile times good or bad?

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Re: 1/4 mile times good or bad?

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Rope-Pusher wrote:
noob5,000,000 wrote:Old FC - 16-17? maybe? IDK.
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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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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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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j16e0_B6ZOY

fast forward to around 1:15

did a 6.96 lol
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Re: 1/4 mile times good or bad?

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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

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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! :lol:

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