Before you get started if you have a t-toped car or a converable You MUST HAVE a Helmet something that says Snell 95 or higher

1) If you are runing street tires do not let air out of them. It will not do you any good.

2) again if you are running street tires DO NOT go through the water box. Back up if you have to but not into it. You dont need it & this keeps the other drivers behind you from yelling at you. lol

3) You dont need to do a big burn out just burp your tires to clean them off.

4) while staging watch the Staging lights when the top one turns Yellow roll just until the 2nd one turns yellow then set your car up.

5) watch the 3rd Yellow light down the tree go when that turns yellow this will help your reaction times.

6) If you dont know how to Shift your car ( I am talking auto trannys here) let your car shift it self.

7) when you get to the end of the run do not let your foot off the gas until you know you are past the finish line. Normally they have the win lights down there at the end of the track. if not ask someone or walk the side of the track to find out where the finish line is that way you know what point you have to be at before letting your gas down to stop.

8) The most important rule of all HAVE FUN doing this.


this is me & My car doing a totally kewl launch I am the white car

 

thanks for the tips... i have been to the track many of times and have seen so many drivers have no idea what to do... i plan to finaly run my car.... maybe.. dunno...

 

I have not had a full season racing in yet. But in my short time I have learned a lot. Now I get asked to help new drivers with everthing from Tech in to staging. I get asked to help out at the tracks alot because I know them. (I have only been racing for 2 1/2yrs lol)

 

i want to drag my car, but it seems like stagiong would be a bi*ch with a standard, i mean, once both cars are staged them lights just whip on, no time to get yor car up to the rev you want to launch at. i know it's very possible, but it seems so stressful to me that it could even take some of the fun out of it

 

i have to dissagreee with :

"1) If you are runing street tires do not let air out of them. It will not do you any good"

..umm for my letting air out of my tires made a WORLD of differance in my 60 foot times! before id smoke the tires all day, now with my bf goodwrench comp ta's set at 20 PSI, im getting off the line MUCH quicker without smoking the tires. yes i still have some traction issues, but 20-25 PSI is what you should be running on street tires at the track.

everything else i agree with, and would like to add some.

while you are in line, turn your car off, put it in neutral, and pop the hood and push it. this will help keep your engine cool

 

I dont know about a standern trans car but I know the auto cars there is not much you have to set up. just put your foot to get your RPMS up.

another way you can stage is have your car at the RPMS (Prestage)you want then with your one foot on the gas & one on the brakes. as you go to stage instead of taking your foot off the gas Take it slowly off the brake that way you are set up with your RPMS this is called braking staging or Brakerolling.

 

I run between 30-35 PSI in my street tires & hook up 90% of the time. The times i did lower my air pressure I was running 16s then I aired them back up & ran a 14.8 the next run

 

maybe it all depends on the brand of tire?? i know if i leave my tires alone, ill be ALL over the place and leave a nice trail of white smoke behind me...and thats at part throtle with a 1500rpm launch. last time i was at the track i was dropping it at 2000 rpms and going striaght to WOT without massive spin. i have firends that have 10 second cars and they suggest to take air out as well. one friend ran 22 psi in his 11 second grand national

 

Most guys I know run Dragradals or slicks & of course they are going to let their air out of their tires Normally they run 12-15Psi in their tires.
I am running BFG in mine. & also Most of the time I dont set up my car & I have ran a few 2.00 60ft times in my car.

 

so far the best i pulled was a 2.2 60 foot. ill be at the track within a week or so, and ill start out with ful pressure. then ill decrease it by 10 PSI every run and see what happens.

 

Even just moving it down by 5 might help

 

Krazzycowgirl: Are you going to the NHRA bracket finals at Renegade in September? I plan on being there.

 

lol No The bracket racing I do is just for car clubs lol its called car club challange (next year I might go sportsmen)

 

im runnin bfg comp t/a's h rated... i heard that inflating them 5psi more (40psi) would help my '60 times? any way... ill test them out tommorrow night!!! cant wait to run my car! ill post back here for times....

 

Another good Idea is taking an endlink off your front swaybar. The car won't handle worth a darn, but I've heard of it bringing 60' times down .5-1 thenth in thirdgens. It makes the front end looser, so weight transfers easier.

 

ive heard that...but... dont feel like playin with suspension... and then have to worry about alignment....

 

yeah iv heard that also, but i dont think its worth the hassel. i mean on my car id have to jack it up and bring all the tools i need to do it. and then where are you gonna keep your jack? just leave it sittin in the pits? there is no way in heck im gonna do it at my house then drive 30 min to the track to race it like that..............


another simple thing to do at the track is:

for firebird owners- take out your turn signals for added cold air flow.

for camaro owners- remove your inner headlights, or both if you want, for added cold air flow.

this can be good up to .5 off your ET

 

 

how is that ?? i have done this, it may have not taken .5 off, but it was good for .2 (at least id like to think it). and with a proper set up (dual snorkle with the proper scoops and ducting) it may add up to .5, at least thats what i was told. the point is, its more cold air coming in which can not be a bad thing at all, and it only takes a good 2-5 min to do.

 

Ok Heres a artical about ram air for a 3rd Gen camaro
https://www.thirdgen.org/newdesign/tech/ramair.shtml

 

Fattie, you don't need a jack, or a lot of tools . Its just a matter of turning the wheel all the way to the left and removing the endlink with a ratchet. Takes less than 5 mins. It won't mess up alignment either.

 

thanks for clearing that up for me. maybe ill give it a trry sometime.

 

hey guys! i ran my car... best 1/4 was 15.3... which is better then my target 15.4... best 60' was same run, 2.16... and best R/t was not on this run, but my first run... .918... my R/T for the 15.3 was 1.25... that was bad... i think with a better reaction time, i will be around 15.2-15.0!! to bad the car is going away for the winter... as i go away for college

 

Your reaction time does not effect your et. The clock starts when your front tire breaks the beam. Sometimes its better to not worry about the rt, and just try to launch the car as best as you can.

 

i have in ignition question. hopefully someone on here can answer it for me cause no one else on these boards is. i had a stock ignition, with my plugs gapped at .035 and running 12 degrees advanced. now i have a 55,000 volt hypertec cap, rotor and coil..plus the MSD 6A that is going on it this weekend, and with all that im gonna gap my plugs to .50. should i try to bump up any?? iv heard that better ignition can lead to more advance, which leads to more power, but i just want to run it by you guys first.

 

you can try it. For one I dont know if it will work I have never heard of someone doing that.