The fam and I whent to see the Jets Cars, and Nitro Harleys, along with the other drags. We had a blast those Jet cars are incredible.My 2 year old couldnt take his eyes off of them.Heres a few pics, I've got a few more to download later
Jet Cars
- Thread starter TELFORD
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- Bountiful, land of rocks
Any top fuelers?
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- Bountiful, land of rocks
JeeperG said:
I wanna see a seismograph reading from a race where they have fuelers
. They are UNBELIEVEABLE.........(jets are cool, but......)
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- Bountiful, land of rocks
JeeperG said:
More than once. That's the best place to be to 'feel' a TF car........(or a jet car for that matter).
So bitchin when they are coming up to the line and there bumping the throttle. The pounding that you feel is a rush. They hit 292 last night but that was about as fast as they got. My wife thinks she wants to race one(shes a bug talker) then she found out what they cost $$bling bling$$. Someone please explain the dialed in time to me please. didnt understand that.
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- Bountiful, land of rocks
TELFORD said:
OK....this is called 'bracket racing'. What it does is level the field from the
have $$$$ to the others of us that get by with $$. Basicly the dialin is a prediction of how fast you think your car will run vs. your opponent and how fast they think their car will run. Whoevers closest without going faster than their dial in wins.
The ida is to have both cars cross the finish line at the same time if they run on their 'dial-in'. You dial in your car to hit the time YOU write on your window. You go faster (that's called a 'breakout'), you lose, you go just slower (ideal is hundreths of seconds slower than your dial in), you win if you cross the finish line (1320 ft. away) before the other car.
You can race WHATEVER you bring as long as it passes tech. Lets just say you have a 15.5 second 350 '70 Malibu (mostly stock, small block) for argument/illustration purposes. The absolute FASTEST time slip you have for this care is 15.42 on a cool night when you had the carb dialed in and the car felt 'sweet'. Your first 3 'practice/tuning' passes of the day are at the following.
1:30 pm: 85 degrees; 30% humidity; reaction time .658 = 15.92 @ 88 mph
3:30 pm; 79 degrees; 30% humidity; reaction time .592 = 15.67 @ 92 mph
4:50 pm; 75 degrees; 30% humidity; reaction time .580 = 15.67 @ 93 mph
(for sake of argument, you had NO wheelspin, didn't miss a shift and ran in the same lane all three times. Your reaction times are getting better every time you've raced, so you're feeling pretty good.)
They start racing at 6 pm and your class is one of the first up. To Race, you need to enter a 'dial in' in your window (so the tower can see it and 'set' the tree to your time). Your '70 Malibu draws a 13.5 second big block '69 Camaro. In heads up racing.......you pretty much have to hope the guy breaks to even have a chance (AH, the beauty of bracket racing). Not so fast.....
The tree operator sets the lights (remember the three ambers and one green (oh, and there's the red) for BOTH cars at whatever your 'dial in' is. YOU CANNOT GO FASTER THAN YOUR DIAL IN OR YOU LOSE!!!!!!! The only way you have a chance to win against the 13.5 second Camaro is if he has to wait on the starting line for just over two full seconds while you bust down the track to get your head start. If BOTH cars run on their index (extremely rarely, if ever happens) you will have a DEAD tie through the lights.
You hit an OK light and you're off. You do notice as you leave, the Camaro starts to rev to it's redline while it waits the two seconds for it's chance to leave. You let the trans shift (like you have all day) and hope the big block won't pass you before the lights.
The Camaro runs 13.56 on a 13.51 dial in. You can't even tell who won as you cross the lights because he came up on you so fast you couldn't believe it.
6:10 pm; 72 degrees; 30% humidity; reaction time .597 = 15.71 @ 94 mph with a dial in of 15.65 (your dial in logic is that you haven't went faster than that today and even though the temperature is going down, you think with your reaction time and how your car is performing that's a good number)
15.71
-15.65
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0.06 +
Your oponnent ran
13.56
-13.51
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0.05 +
You just got beat by one hundreth of a second. However, it was a very close competitive race and neither of you knew who won until you got the timeslips at the booth at the end of the track. You're done. Shake the other guys hand and pack it up.
There's THOUSANDS of variables. If you cut a better light, you win. It really hurts to lose by hundreths or thousanths of seconds, but that's why the lights are there. Way too much fun (and intense) and there are so many ways to make your car more consistent/faster that it's hard to lose interest.
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- Bountiful, land of rocks
JeeperG said:
Pro classes (jet cars, alcohol, top fuel, etc.) run a straight up tree. Both leave at the same time.
James K
NO, I'm always like this
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- Taylorsville, Ut
mbryson said:
your knowledge of "stuff" scares me
That makes, things intresting, I asked the guy by me but he had no idea,he tried , but really had no idea. whats cool to me is everything that go's into it, its really more than just show, and go. One of the guys on a Nitro Harley, almost whent down, he lost something right from the go, and about a 1/3 of the way down it started shifting on him, he pulled out ok, but came dam close to loseing it. This is my 2 year old, as some cars were geting up into there lanes.
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James K said:your knowledge of "stuff" scares me
There's a reason I like big blocks.
(Oh, and JeeperG...........there ain't NUTHING that sucks about a big block Camaro in a drag race {other than the 850 sitting on top}......
......yeah, everybody has one, but they're kinda like Wranglers..... They just work to good not to use)