I was closest, so I win!
15.465 @ 87.74mph
I did hit several 88mph trap speeds.
Here's the timeslip:
Notice the 2.148 60 foot time?
Here's my post about the happenings to the SE-R list:
Went drag racing tonight. Very eventful night. To start off my best run was
a
[email protected] with the 2.148 60ft time on street tires. I wasn't dipping
below a 15.8 until I started launching at 4.5-5.5k. The mph didn't really
change at all. They were all 87-88mph just like before the 91 intake cam and
the POP.
Now for the eventful parts. After a10-15 runs I line right back up and get
ready to do another launch. I do my 5.5k clutch drop to clean off the tires,
and then dash lights flash and my car dies. Try to start it and it just
turns over, won't start whatsosever. Pull my car off the track, look at it
extensively. No leaks, nothing seemingly broken. Reminds me of when I've
replaced my oil pan and ran the starter with no fuel pump fuse and spark
plugs just to circulate oil in the engine. No weird noises like I blew up
anything. Look at all the underhood connections and vacuum lines three
times. Check all the fuses in the car. All applicable ones look good.
Getting very scared at this point not thinking I'm going to find the problem
and will have to get my parents to come and get me. I look at the fuse block
to the left of the battery. There's a fuse there labeled "Eng Cont" just
like there was one or two under the steering wheel in the car. It was blown!
WOOHOO! My car's not dead! Replaced it with one extra that came with the
car, went back racing. 4 runs later the same damn thing! Doing a quick
burnout and the car is dead. Closest fuse to the 7.5amp one at this point is
a 10 amp one so I'm not about to race on it.
The only reason I can imagine it doing that is because I trimmed down my
battery tray and moved the battery and also the fuse blocks over a bit, so I
think when the engine moves so far with the stock mounts it's shorting
something that I will need to take a look at. Weird as hell huh?
Karly showed up much later with her 97 200SX SE-R. She is pregnant so they
wouldn't let her race, but she was all like "You wanna race my car?" I was
well done with racing cuz of the fuse problem so I said sure!
Took her
car for 3 runs, best of a 16.0 with her 17's and stock engine. (she's an
autocross-ite, all suspension, no power
) Then Ben Missele showed up with
his 93? NX2k with JWT cams, POP, and Hotshot header. I could only muster a
[email protected] with his car. With all those mods I thought he would have broken
90mph but guess not. All the runs he got while I was there he was 86-87mph.
Must be some tune-up issues or something.
Karly said she has only been drag racing a couple times and she said she ran
a 14.1 in her car. Swaybars, Koni's, 5 point harness, no engine mods, even
stock shifter. I really couldn't believe her. No way a bone stock SE-R can
hit 14.1. I have made now around 30 passes in my car pretty much back to
back cuz there's simply very very few folks that come to the track that I go
to. Gotta read the post on what Jay H had when he was running low 14's. In
Karly's car, granted she had 17's on it, I could only muster a 16.0 in three
runs after being very warmed up. There's no way there is 2 more seconds in
that car. Sorry, Karly, I am really trusting of people, but I reeely can't
swallow that one.
Most of the time (once I decided to launch above 4k, helps quite a bit) I
was running 15.5's no higher than 88mph. The rev limiter really sucks, not
geared correctly for it for the 1/4. There's maybe two more tenths and a
couple of mph if I could stay in 3rd through the traps.
That's about it. Last time to drag NA.
Oh yeah, anyone else ever pull a 2.148 or so on street tires and no VLSD?
