When is the next track day?

When does everyone want to hit the track? I'd rather hit Thorn Hill or Tri Sate if we could but open to Edgewater too if that what you guys want.

pickn up shifter cable this week... pick a date il be ready...

Aryan wants to see what the Rustang will run. We are shooting for a 18 second pass.

juice it .... fords like it..

RebStew wrote:Aryan wants to see what the Rustang will run. We are shooting for a 18 second pass.

Did the guy say what it did run?

those ford guys like to keep secrets

ss 383 wrote:those ford guys like to keep secrets

The best the car ever ran was 11.80 @117 MPH. The engine that is in it now is not the same motor and alot more tame. Not sure what it will run. He never raced it with the new engine. I'm sure it's no power house but we will hit the loud pedal and see if we can ventilate the block in the 1/4. If we can get a 15 second pass then we may try to do some tuning. Maybe toss my NOS on it.

Time to get it out there to see what it will do.

July 30th,31st, or Aug. 1st? That's 2 weeks away..

http://www.tristatedragway.com/2010/tnt2010.pdf
31 Saturday
AUGUST
7 Saturday

Sounds good to me.

i will try to get camaro or nova ready

I been wanting to get the Camaro to the track and see what it will run after the swap , before it had a 2.8 in it and ran 17.4 I would be happy with 15's with the 305 in it , at take off it just spins thru 1st gear and part of second so I'll need some tips to get a better run , I'm a rookie at the track lol , I've had less then 10 passes , also it is a 5 speed anyone have any tips ?

If you are not going to run slocks try to give it as much power as you can without spinning the tires out of the hole. Spinning slows you down. Best bet is to just hit the track and play with it to get the feel of the car and how it works on the track. More you do it the better you get.

Let's go!!

Rage wrote:I been wanting to get the Camaro to the track and see what it will run after the swap , before it had a 2.8 in it and ran 17.4 I would be happy with 15's with the 305 in it , at take off it just spins thru 1st gear and part of second so I'll need some tips to get a better run , I'm a rookie at the track lol , I've had less then 10 passes , also it is a 5 speed anyone have any tips ?

Bill, as I recall, you can drive around the water box at Tri-State. Do that. Take a tire gauge and try to hit the line at about 28lbs rear the first time. Street radials don't necessarily respond well to burnouts. Try a run w/o doing one. Make sure the front tires are at least pumped to oem specs. If you are overpowering it in 1st, is 2nd low enough to laungh the car?

Would my 275-40/17 Nitto Drag Radials fit under your car?

when u see green tac it to 10 and dump it hold on.. feel the rush...then listen for parts to brake .fix it do it agin..

jbs10 wrote:when u see green tac it to 10 and dump it hold on.. feel the rush...then listen for parts to brake .fix it do it agin..

Bill I'm sure we can scrounge up a set of slicks if you want to run them but will will take a chance on breaking something. It's up to you. We won't leave you stranded either way. You break it we will fix it or make sure you get it towed home.

i got a set of 26 by 10.5 et streets on 8 inch ralleys u can use they hook up real good on my monte they should fit rite on that camaro

u going too take the bird too

Butch Thompson wrote:u going too take the bird too

nah. That thing is a slug

I'm not gonna race this car reguraly , I just want to see what it will do like it is , but I dont have enough experiance dragging on a strip to accomplish what it will do ?
I appreciate the offers on the slicks , I do know that my last run was my best time when it had the 2.8 of 17.4 and that was rolling out of the throttle but now if i'm riding down the road and hammer it in 2nd it will spin tires so I'm wondering if I roll out of the throttle and hammer it in 2nd is it gonna spin way to much on the track ? it has 373 rear gears , world class v-8 5 speed.
Another question I had was with it now having an exhaust cutout , should I open it wide open before going down the track ?

Rage wrote:I
Another question I had was with it now having an exhaust cutout , should I open it wide open before going down the track ?

yes

RebStew wrote:

Rage wrote:I
Another question I had was with it now having an exhaust cutout , should I open it wide open before going down the track ?

yes

You're at a place where you can open the cutout, so why not? Try it open and closed and see which works better.

The caveat is that if you have trouble getting traction, and the cutout adds HP, you're going to make your 60' time worse and your total ET worse. We've seen over & over that the 60' time is key.

I wouldn't spend any time worrying about it. When I had the Camaro on the dyno tuning it I only saw a 5 HP increase (about 1%) at the rear wheels with the cutouts open. If you have a very restrictive muffler it might be a slightly bigger difference.

GO FOR IT!