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Old 03-24-2005, 03:06 PM
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No, I had no issues at all.
Sweet.. I gotta see how much faster your car runs than mine. Will have to see about getting those upgrades as well.

Hopefully my car will be ready by this weekend and I can get my pulleys back on. I had a faulty intercooler, it was leaking coolant into my engine. MB took a while to figure it out and get me the part from germany. I have to say, they were pretty damn fast getting it from germany to md in 2 days.

Is anyone from the Bowie area, interested in driving up together?

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DOes anyone know how far Buds Creek is from Gaithersburg, MD? How many runs do we get? I might be in if its not too far.
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Here are directions:
http://www.mirdrag.com/directions.htm

We have the track for the whole day, so I would imagine we will get tons of runs in.
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We are looking at rain right now for monday. What are the plans if it is raining?

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We are looking at rain right now for monday. What are the plans if it is raining?

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If it does rain, we will reschedule to next monday. Hopefully it wont though!
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Ok, I just got the word. Since it looks like it is gonna rain Monday, it has be rescheduled to Monday April 4th...same schedule, same place...different weather!
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The chance for rain keeps going down and down and down. I am going to be so mad if it doesn't rain monday.. Maybe I'll just go down there today for test and tune, it doesn't look like rain down there today. Anyone going?

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Old 03-26-2005, 10:08 AM
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Just checked, the track is open today. Not much of a chance for rain, if anyone comes down, say hi to the black C32.. I'll be there around noon.

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Dang it! I just saw your post. I would have enjoyed going today.

Well, I had fun anyway. I was with a friend that was pricing Chaparral SSi Boats. BTW, they are nice!
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Just got back a little while ago.. Only got to run once since everyone's car there kept blowing up and spilling crap all over the track. I was happy with my first run though, it should go faster easy.. Tires were still a little wet, so I can get more out of it.

Time Slip Before Pulleys:


and Time Slip After Pulleys: LEFT LANE, racing a old Monte Carlo with slicks..


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12.8! Dude! That is sweeeet! With a better 60' time, you may be able to drop a tenth or two! Just wait till you get the ECU changed.

I am really hoping that I can hit the 11s. Besides the mods I have listed in my sig, I have removed the rear cats (more on that later), and will be running on DRs.
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12.8! Dude! That is sweeeet! With a better 60' time, you may be able to drop a tenth or two! Just wait till you get the ECU changed.

I am really hoping that I can hit the 11s. Besides the mods I have listed in my sig, I have removed the rear cats (more on that later), and will be running on DRs.
Yeah I am going to get ahold of some DR's as well, see what I can do. If you run in the 11's I'm going to have to order the same stuff as you. It was really fun today, dropped from 13.5 to 12.8 is damn good, with only 1 run.

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7/10s is a nice drop!

I am getting a bit of wheel hop on one side or the other when coming off the line. I think my shocks are fine, so I may get get some sway bars to see if I can counter it.
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Wow! You guys have some fast cars. I just got my car dropped and put 19's on it so I might just come out to watch.
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Hoping I can get down to 12.6, 12.5.. Maybe with DR's and a little practice.

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Monday's forcast...

56 and Partly Cloudy with a 10% chance of rain! w00t!
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Looks like we are on!! See you guys then!
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So, who is going? I want to get a general idea.
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So, who is going? I want to get a general idea.
I had some stuff to take care of this morning. I am on my way now. Just stopped in to pick up my helmet and some cash.. Hope I can get in late..

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Today was awesome! We had 3 C32 guys show up, but one brought his 1000HP supra to race. We got in sooo many runs!

I did not do as well as I was hoping, though. I had a real hard time launching the car with the DRs on. My personal best time was 12.82@109.2 with a 1.934 60'. My best MPH was 109.92. Doofoo was there, and was getting the same, and better 60' times on all season tires. When I revved it higher it would spin too much, if i launched at a lower RPM it would not spin at all.

I ended up letting the doofoo drive my car(he was 100lbs lighter then me), and after a few runs was able to turn a 12.793@109.04.

I dont have doofoo's slips here, but he was faster then me consistently. He ran 12.7s all day with only ASP pulleys. He was getting 1.8 60' times too. :P

There will be videos up soon.
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Today was awesome! We had 3 C32 guys show up, but one brought his 1000HP supra to race. We got in sooo many runs!

I did not do as well as I was hoping, though. I had a real hard time launching the car with the DRs on. My personal best time was 12.82@109.2 with a 1.934 60'. My best MPH was 109.92. Doofoo was there, and was getting the same, and better 60' times on all season tires. When I revved it higher it would spin too much, if i launched at a lower RPM it would not spin at all.

I ended up letting the doofoo drive my car(he was 100lbs lighter then me), and after a few runs was able to turn a 12.793@109.04.

I dont have doofoo's slips here, but he was faster then me consistently. He ran 12.7s all day with only ASP pulleys. He was getting 1.8 60' times too. :P

There will be videos up soon.

Yeah was really nice meeting everyone today. I had a great time. My best time was:
R/T: .083
60' : 1.911
330: 5.361
1/8: 8.216
MPH: 86.10
1000: 10.655
1/4: 12.706 ALMOST 12.6!!!
MPH: 109.55

Best 60' was 1.898, Thought I did better than that. But I'm happy.

Highest MPH was 109.55 I believe as well. Hope to see the videos soon, I will really enjoy those. I'll post up some slip pics soon, I have 16 slips total. And we even missed a few of them. I got at least 20 runs in today. Well worth the money.

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ok, now u guys should come out to a meet we are having on wednesday in rockville. 8:00PM at the starbucks where 355 and montrose cross. If you need more info pm me. And are you guys going to do another track day anytime soon, I couldnt make it today because I had to get my alignment done?
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ok, now u guys should come out to a meet we are having on wednesday in rockville. 8:00PM at the starbucks where 355 and montrose cross. If you need more info pm me. And are you guys going to do another track day anytime soon, I couldnt make it today because I had to get my alignment done?
It is pretty hard for me to make it from Richmond to rockville in time for meets during the week.

I hope we will be having another one this fall.
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Dont worry, we will have alot more meets before the fall. Next one we'll make on the weekend, its just such good weather right now, can't pass it up.
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The meet on April 6th is all german cars. We always get a nice benz turn out. I believe it's actually going to be at the Silver Diner on 355 (rockville pike) and Montrose Rd.

Gotta make a Drag day too! Looks like you all had a blast.

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