mitsurugi

Hopefully I can get some help for my concern...

Here's the situation: I've never raced much before, and never at the track. Tomorrow night they are having open racing at the local track (only 1/8 mile). There are always quite a few imports out there and I'd like to join some of my friends racing. But, this is my only and daily driver, and I don't really want to have it down for too long fixing broken stuff. I can if I need to, but, you get the point. So, my question is should I be worrying much about breaking anything? Or should I just stop being a wuss and go out there. Any help or comments appreciated. Btw, I have a 94 Civic EX manual with bolt ons and lowered. Thanks

FMOS Racing

Don't do a big, crazy burnout, and don't stay in it if it wheel-hops out of the hole, and you shouldn't have any problems. If you let it wheel hop, though, all kinds of nastiness can happen pretty quickly.

westcoaststyle

:werd:

Just feather it out of the hole and then punch it. There's not much to it between doing it on a track and doing it at a street light.

s1ngle

actually, with a 94 ex theres really no need to feather it, especially if you have aftermarket wheels with decent grippy tires. I have tried launching my car from like 5000 and dropping the clutch, its definitely faster than slipping. theres just not enough power to justify slipping it.

mitsurugi

Thanks for the suggestions guys I just have stock tires with the stock steelies, so nothing super grippy or special. And like I said, I just have bolt ons, so its not like i'm producing tons of power over stock. I'm gonna go out tonight and see how it goes. Races start at 7pm mountain time, so I'll let you guys know how it goes.

Kai

I guess you are already there, oh well.

There is no need to do a burnout with stock tires. It will only waste rubber.

Drive around the burnout box. Don't get your tires wet if you don't have to.

Launch late into the second yellow. This will net the best R/T's, don't worry about redlighting. Everyone does it once in a while. (My best ET was on a .427 redlight)

A bolt-on EX is not going to be nearly fast/powerful enough to worry about braking stuff, so all is good there (except for the previously mentioned wheel hop issues.)

mitsurugi

Just got back from the drags and they were pretty fun. It doesn't appear that I did any damage to anything. Here is my best slip: (remember this is an 8th mile) Let me know what you guys think


Reaction: .115
60 ft: 2.541
ET @ 594 ft: 10.431
1/8 ET: 11.147
1/8 mph: 62.84


Could be better I guess. I'm new at this drag racing stuff so please don't flame too much.

Kai

Way too early, wait until late into the second yellow. Way late, looks like you bogged severely, held on to a serious wheel hop situation, or have really sh*tty tires. Sorry, your car is just pathetically slow, about a 17.6 second 1/4 mile. Don't worry, I won't make any Civic jokes, because I just love them to death.

For what it's worth, the 15.5 I advertise in my profile was a 10.091 1/8 mile. The slowest timeslip I have shows a 10.709 1/8 mile on a 16.478 1/4 (and that was after I said 'F it for the night, I'll let my car idle in staging.' Talk about heat soaked. :chuckles: )

s1ngle

how did you launch it?

mitsurugi

How is that too early? Perfect is .000 isn't it?

Probably a combination of all three, haha. I'm running stock radials, so, yeah.


Guess I need some more engine work.

Revved up to about 3000 and dropped the clutch.