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Old 09-25-2004, 03:06 PM
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but yeah just have fun i hate people that cry because there slow
well you cant go no slower than 16.95 which is what i ran in my 96 civic CX hatch, iam barely in third gear when i cross the 1/4 line. it always makes you feel better when theres a red neck out their with a 4x4 or someone with a jeep grand charokee. Usually some pimp cars out their too. Not to many boosted honda boys here on the east coast. Oh yeah and you can run any worse than DAVCIVIC did in his turbo hatch. even i beat him with my 16.95 NA hatch..lol
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Old 09-25-2004, 05:00 PM
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i agree with what **** said about the reaction times. if you're just doing runs, not competing r/t's aren't calculated into your ET, so dont pressure yourself for a bitchin RT cuz it might mess up the rest of your run.
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Old 09-25-2004, 05:48 PM
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but yeah just have fun i hate people that cry because there slow
well you cant go no slower than 16.95 which is what i ran in my 96 civic CX hatch, iam barely in third gear when i cross the 1/4 line. it always makes you feel better when theres a red neck out their with a 4x4 or someone with a jeep grand charokee. Usually some pimp cars out their too. Not to many boosted honda boys here on the east coast. Oh yeah and you can run any worse than DAVCIVIC did in his turbo hatch. even i beat him with my 16.95 NA hatch..lol
Bitch!!!!!

Yeah it was pretty sad, 17.4 or something like that. By the way I ran a 15.0 with the bad clutch after some playing with the afc, but it is still shitty. I have a new clutch waiting to go on, just don't have time to do it.

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Old 09-25-2004, 05:56 PM
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I always do a burnout, reguardless if I am on street tires or not. I normally always go in the water box as well. Why? because all my street tires are bald as hell anyways, so they are pretty much slicks. But if you have some nice radials with some meat left on them, bypass the water box, do a shorty burnout to get the tires warm. Leave the last yellow. Powershift all your gears, and bring home that 16 second slip for us

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Old 09-25-2004, 06:59 PM
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If you go and do burnouts in the water box with your street tires, generally all you're going to be doing is throwing water at your tire wells so that as you inch up to the starting grid, that water slowly just drips all over your tires! Then you get that slower, quiet launch and the entire grandstand gives a little chuckle your way.

Go around the box, and if you feel the need, do a small slipping burnout, just to dust off your tires. there's usually alot of little rocks and ---- going through the pit lanes.

Annnd, make sure you understand how to stage. Pull up to light the first staging lights, then wait for your oponent to light up his 1st staging lights. Thenn, you can inch up to light up that 2nd staging light, and then wait for the other person to light up their 2nd staging light. If you don't do this, you might start getting other people angry, because the entire point of going in that order, is to make sure everyone is ready to launch, weather it be a transbrake, e-brake, or whatever crazy launching techniques people have these days! When you first get there, park your car, and go watch from the stands, just to make sure you have everything down pact.

Good luck!
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Old 09-25-2004, 10:03 PM
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Just have fun man, ---- it
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Old 09-25-2004, 10:20 PM
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If you go and do burnouts in the water box with your street tires, generally all you're going to be doing is throwing water at your tire wells so that as you inch up to the starting grid, that water slowly just drips all over your tires!
jesus christ, its not like your driving through a trench 5in deep of water, its usually just a little bit wet, and if you do a good enough burnout you should have rubber in your fenderwell, not water.
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Old 09-26-2004, 01:42 AM
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the people at the track i go too wet the water box after every other car that goes though it. i aint goin through it next time i go. when i went last week i got outta my car
and after 30 seconds or so the played pink floyd welcome to the machine for the first song they played, kinda cool to hear that.
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Old 09-27-2004, 07:25 PM
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I ran a a 17.081 in my crx dx with i/e and cluch. My best reaction time was .031! 60' was 2.566
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Old 09-27-2004, 07:35 PM
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I always go through the wetbox on street tires. I used to go around it cause I bought into these stupid myths but my 60' were more consistent doing a burnout. I always pulled a 2.1 60' which is very respectable for normal tires on a FWD.


If your going to do a burnout, than DO a ------- burnout. If your not a ----- about it your not going to be launching on water.
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