Mike's Garage
 

Drag Racing

This was taken from the internet, I forgot where.

Since they closed down street-legal drag racing at Pomona and there's not another decent 1/4-mile drag strip around I decided to try my hand at the Irwindale 1/8th-mile strip.  Here's my best run about 2 years ago (on my 18" street tires):

R/T:  0.541
60':  1.866
330:  5.298
1/8:  8.130
1/8 MPH:  86.63

Here's some photos from Irwindale:

    
 
     
 
    

Here's some old pictures from Pomona.  I was able to borrow a set of slicks and try them.  This was when my car was new and had almost no mods.

 
 
R/T:  1.064 (I fell asleep)
60':  1.909
330:  5.369
1/8:  8.248
1/8 MPH:  85.95
1000:  10.768
1/4:  12.926
1/4 MPH:  102.37
 

Here's my old best time slip on street tires:

R/T:  0.758
60':  2.075
330:  5.714
1/8:  8.697
1/8 MPH:  83.92
1000:  11.209
1/4:  13.335
1/4 MPH:  108.36

As you can see, the rolling friction from the slicks greatly reduced my trap speed, while the gain in the 60' time decreased my ET.  Too bad I suck at drag racing.

 
Here's a couple shots of me staging.
 
The race is on!