better be ASAP cuz not gonna have it much longer lol and the possible CS drag day, I'll have the G with me, but probably wont be mine anymore haha

 

As much as I appreciate your tenaciousness – and feel you are doing the right thing by studying the hell out of what you intend to do to your car (very much the right thing BTW)… I’m afraid you have quite a long way to go to catch Wally bro! Wally’s car is doing very well these days!

It’s funny because at Fontana DaveO was talking to some guys about mods and asked me “how many Gs or Zs have beat you?”… My response verbatim was “Wally has a good chance now”…

Wally could possibly have one of the fastest N/A VQs around right now… cooler temps will be a better test – but it’s gonna take quite a bit to out run him… you are definitely on the right track though!!!

 

I agree- I have a while to go before I can really beat him. But once I get the HFC & MREV2, all it takes is Wally to really crap out on his launch while I simultanously get a good 60ft... and not mis-shift. *Crossing fingers*

Wally, you are going down one day or another! Even if it means you need to re-borrow your G!

Both of you guys are my SoCal NA G35 benchmarks to reach.

Ok, back to reality... it will probably be a while until I get into 8's & 13's ; Your car [Mike] & Wally's are definately 8/13 second cars *potentially* in cool weather, low DA's. Especially with good traction (DR's anyone?).

Off-topic: Mike, as far as DR's for Auto's... does it really help the auto G's? I haven't really heard or noticed any NA Automatic G35's in DR's or slicks. I know it definately helps out 6MT drivers, NA or FI. I'm wondering if its a good investments to AT G's like it is to MT G's.

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Drs help auto Gs also even though they can't rev as high as a 6mt.

I had drs when I was N/A I went from a 14.8 (street) to a 14.4 (Drs) at CS same day.

I plan on doing some runs with and without the drs. Hexx I suggest you do the same so that you know how fast you are on the street with your Works.

I know my fastest time at LACR on 20in was 13.7.

 

I'll probably do a few runs on my Works just to get a feel of the track. But then I will definitely bust out the DR's!

 

it's funny because I always went to the track to see what my car would do in "real world street conditions"... Initially never took anything out of the trunk - never cared about high rev launch, never considered DR... And I still wouldn’t, but so many people (not here - we all know each others cars) put such heavy emphasis on times that I guess I need to start being more concerned about those things... Last night I had 3/4 tank of gas and fully loaded trunk (including sound deadening foam mat)...

When we go to CA Speedway when the temps are low I might take Derek up on his gracious offering of DR borrow... Takes a lot of team spirit to drag (no pun intended) those things to the track - especially when your not racing Derek! Thanks bro, you're a true enthusiast and team player!!!!

So yeah, I'll figure out a method to defeat the ECU bog from throttle + accelerator issue, slap on the DRs, empty the trunk, run on fumes, and see what I can do at the next race.

Look forward to the boosted shoot-outs too!

 

the thing I don't get is, one day my car is running like crap and I wont see any good numbers and another day (yesterday) I'll see better numbers.

I honestly think warming up my tires in the water box helped my times. I normally don't do that, but well, I'll just call it one of those good days

and Mike, you should give yourself credit as well with being one of the fastest N/A VQs too

 

patience my little grasshopper

 

Mike,

I find myself looking into DR's for two reasons; they will help me hook up better, therefore help out my E.T. And most importantly, to save the life of my normal street tires. These $500 dollar wheels (2 rears) are too expensive for constant drag racing. Considering that I've already done 60+ runs, therefore, atleast 90 "mini" burnouts (pre-stage & stage take-off "burnouts")... I'd rather buy a set of used cheap DR's to slap on

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or you can go nitrous Henry

stay away from the bottle! lol j/k

 

DMH (Drag Man Henry) - in your case your are probably right... no point in burnin up your daily drivers! Not sure how many miles you put on your street tires, but with the amount of track time you have it's a good choice to get DR!

{maybe “drag man” isn’t this best nick name? }

 

awwwwwwww.... Cheater gas!!!!!!! No. No. No. No.

Pointless. means nothing other than... you have cheater gas.

 

lol

I'd like to use it at least once on my G though. could be interesting but then again, I wouldn't wanna get addicted to it either lol

 

You are turning your car into a ****!... you're using her knowing you're dumping her... you don’t care about the long term effects... you act like it's the next guys problem!

Nice!!!

 

hahahaha

well, it might just hurt a teenie, tiny bit if used only once.. wouldn't it? lol