how hard is it to drive an 11 sec car does it kick you back in the seat when you take off. just wanted to know what some of you guys think.

 

In my car it was an easy drive. Didn't move around, pretty much just stayed straight. Yeah it puts you back in the seat a bit if you take off good Even when running mid 13's I ended up in the back seat when the driver's seat folded back I use the rear seat back to support the driver's seat now so that doesn't happen again. Here's a video of my quickest run so far. Just a tad late on the tree When you see the front of my car come up again before passing the tree, that's when I hit the 210 shot.

 

Agreed, even when I was running 1.7? 60's and 13.00's it'd plant your azz in the seat no problem.

Running faster now it really give you a good feeling when you launch, my favorite part of the day

On the stree though it's a little different since the road sand/crap limits tration so often you do a little spinning action first till the tires bite.

 

I think there are alot of variables that determine how a car will drive aside from the cars actual setup. I've been to a few tracks that made mid 11 second passes in my car seem scary yet at E-Town 10 second runs are perfectly smooth. Like IHI said about the street, it can get fun trying to keep the car straight and some tracks arent much better.

Here's a 10.80 run before I painted it http://www.krif.com/tta/Movies/GTA1080.MPG

Steve

 

I like the disbelief in your buddy's voice.

 

Please tell me that was a .500 RT tree...

 

my car would plant you in the seat and keep you there. on the track.

if you tried to really get with it on street tires it was rather uncomfortable for the passenger who usually was looking for something to hold onto. the car would really go. but there was periods of tire smoke and sidways action till you hit about 100 then it smoothed out.

 

LOL, how come that sounds so familair Not racsist at all, but I used to work with a colored guy that talked about him and his buddies back when he was in school and their fast cars. After I had my car sort of worked out last year I stopped by his house to chit chat and show off the car a little and of course asked if he wanted a ride.

Stood on it as we were coming back from the hwy to his house, car got a little more sideways than expected and made for a heck of a ride and I kid you not, when we got back his wife asked why he looked as pale as michael jackson LMAO!!! I'll never forget that till the day I die. He then made it a point to come out to every race last year and one day I asked he he'd like to go down the 1320. Got him a fire jacket and helmet, strapped him in, put a 4800 pill in the transbrake and proceeded to give him a lil wheelie action and go all out through the gears. Got back to the pits and all he could say was he could'nt breath until we made it past the 1/8th mile marker I have more fun giving rides than I do making solo passes since alot of guys just cant build cars that are half way fast due to home stead reasons or just not as into cars as most of us are but still enjoy them when opportunity presents itself. I remember growing up and getting rides in fast cars and loved it, so trying to "pay it forward"

 

Wish I had a picture of my face when the track worker told me how fast I went. He stopped me soon as I turned off the track and said to get a fire jacket or take the bottle out. My buddies were trying to joke around saying that it was only a 12.50 pass hehe

It was but I was still way late That little bobble staging screwed up my concentration, was also nervous as hell about using the nitrous only for the 2nd time.

 

saying "im not racist but" followed by something that could make you sound like a racist, is like saying "im not a pedophile, but i could see the fun in having sex with 8yr olds".
in other words, you could have just substituted the word "black" for "colored" and you would not have had to make that statment. i personally would have just said what was on my mind , and not worried about posting a disclaimer.

 

The world is waay to politically correct and any statement made involving a person of race will be construde as rasicist. Sad things are this way, but it is what it is I guess.

 

ya i think it really depends on the car

you can have a 13 second car thats a nightmare to drive and a point and shoot 10 sec ride thats a breeze

my car launches hard and straight, never a problem.......on the street its pretty tame as long as you keep your foot out of the radiator