Nightspeed Dragwars

[Bling]

That you can drive your car on? Most likely no.

[andyling]

That you can drive your car on? Most likely no.

oh, fxxk that, so how do you guys know your rides top speed?

[metal_sean_head]

That you can drive your car on? Most likely no.

oh, fxxk that, so how do you guys know your rides top speed?

Motorway brah!

(Jokes)

[touge_ae101]

That you can drive your car on? Most likely no.

oh, fxxk that, so how do you guys know your rides top speed?

what does a top speed tell you anyway? its just comes down to gearing and your aerodynamic vs power ratio as to how much your engine can push the shape of the car through the air.

there are plenty of straight bits of road that in NZ which you COULD max your car out on but apart from a bit of a rush it doesn't tell you jack sh!t.

plus most cars are limited to 190kph if std ecu anyways.

[andyling]

That you can drive your car on? Most likely no.

oh, fxxk that, so how do you guys know your rides top speed?

what does a top speed tell you anyway? its just comes down to gearing and your aerodynamic vs power ratio as to how much your engine can push the shape of the car through the air.

there are plenty of straight bits of road that in NZ which you COULD max your car out on but apart from a bit of a rush it doesn't tell you jack sh!t.

plus most cars are limited to 190kph if std ecu anyways.

Sorry, not starting a argument here.

I'm talking about a built drag car bro, Please don't max your ride at motorway or any other roads apart from the strips/racetrack.

[99gtt]

Great night, fireworks were awesome as usual. Highlight for me was the 12.79 by the ST215, so close to the record

Dam who almost beat my record

[Cakky]

That you can drive your car on? Most likely no.

oh, fxxk that, so how do you guys know your rides top speed?

what does a top speed tell you anyway? its just comes down to gearing and your aerodynamic vs power ratio as to how much your engine can push the shape of the car through the air.

there are plenty of straight bits of road that in NZ which you COULD max your car out on but apart from a bit of a rush it doesn't tell you jack sh!t.

plus most cars are limited to 190kph if std ecu anyways.

Sorry, not starting a argument here.

I'm talking about a built drag car bro, Please don't max your ride at motorway or any other roads apart from the strips/racetrack.

the builders know the right gearing ratios for the vehicle to get their car over 400m the fastest, that's what a drag car is designed to do.

[l1ttle_d3vil]

yep was a good night, met a few TS'ers too. best time of the night was 13.63 @ 164kmh. Rest of my runs were between 13.7 - 13.9 when I managed to gear into 3rd gear properly - ended up in neutral on a couple of runs which didn't help much

Launch control wasn't working too well as it kept bogging when I dumped the clutch so I switched it off after the first 3 qualifying runs. Had good fun warming the tyres up though, just had to stay away from the barrier.

Nice pics GTTpower - have you got any more of me? My wife was filming so didn't get any photos. Loved the AE8# that was there, looks so damn tidy.

Thanks to Emz and stalker for storing my wheels while I was racing too

[GTTpower]

Sorry those were all the ones I took, got busy pushing various cars in the pit lane and talking to the caldina guy.
Results here

[gt4dude]

i dont see many quick toyotas in the results list

just a couple 12sec supras and a caldina

[tsoob]

[audi man]

i dont see many quick toyotas in the results list

just a couple 12sec supras and a caldina

Thay did not put mine on there but i did run two 10s runs

[eskimo]

Was a good night, good to put a few faces to names. Gutted I couldnt have a few runs, wheels and tyres arrived today thoe so will run at the next one!

[GTTpower]

i dont see many quick toyotas in the results list

just a couple 12sec supras and a caldina

Hope some of you ST205 owners come out of the woodwork, cant have the quickest 4WD toyota being a whale

[ch4ng]

GTTpower wrote:
Great night, fireworks were awesome as usual. Highlight for me was the 12.79 by the ST215, so close to the record

Heh I lost to that st215 in the second round

[GTTpower]

Second round this friday, is it safe to say we wont be expecting emz

[Malcolm]

I'm planning to head down for this one, will be my last opportunity to run before my summer engine renovations, so figure I'd better make it count. This will be the first time I've raced in about 6 or 7 years, and first time in the MR2. I'd like to think the car has 12s in it, but I'll be surprised if I can pull that off in my first outing.

Who else is going?

[tsoob]

My car is without a gearbox.. Ill see how I'm feeling and if I can scab a ride down with my mate.

[CelicaGT8]

Can you get around not having a wof/reg if you have a log book?

[loose_unit]

You can get an NZDRA log book, just need to get tech inspected. Costs $30 for the tech and $20 for the logbook for a year. Ive had my starlet tech inspected for the last 2 seasons.