The Maillard Reaction
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If you had a drag racer, how fast would you go?
Just wondering.
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Re:If you had a drag racer, how fast would you go?
2011/06/07 20:08:09
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73.3822935 mph..... in a dress, wig and high heels.
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Re:If you had a drag racer, how fast would you go?
2011/06/07 20:08:32
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I'd take it to the end! 
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Re:If you had a drag racer, how fast would you go?
2011/06/07 20:27:41
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I'd get to your house on Wednesday instead of Thursday 
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Re:If you had a drag racer, how fast would you go?
2011/06/07 20:29:54
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Re:If you had a drag racer, how fast would you go?
2011/06/07 21:03:17
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If anyone is interested in a serious answer....
9.3 seconds
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Re:If you had a drag racer, how fast would you go?
2011/06/07 21:05:49
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Re:If you had a drag racer, how fast would you go?
2011/06/07 21:09:06
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Well, I'd shoot for 250 + as I believe the current record is just north of 245.
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Re:If you had a drag racer, how fast would you go?
2011/06/07 21:29:16
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Karyn
If anyone is interested in a serious answer....
9.3 seconds
Karyn a.k.a Roz Prior. She was posting those kinds of times when I used to watch her in the '70's Man that's about 150 mph avg, no? What was that in? And where Elvington? Santa Pod?
post edited by Jonbouy - 2011/06/07 21:37:24
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Re:If you had a drag racer, how fast would you go?
2011/06/07 21:37:54
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Elvington.
My drag bike. (Not the R6 I showed pics of before)
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Re:If you had a drag racer, how fast would you go?
2011/06/07 21:39:03
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Karyn
Elvington.
My drag bike. (Not the R6 I showed pics of before)
WTG!
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Re:If you had a drag racer, how fast would you go?
2011/06/07 21:45:03
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I have a pic of me riding it, somewhere on a HDD burried under years of junk...
I'll try to find it sometime.
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The Maillard Reaction
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Re:If you had a drag racer, how fast would you go?
2011/06/07 21:50:06
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314.16 mph
the Pie Rally?
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Re:If you had a drag racer, how fast would you go?
2011/06/07 22:19:45
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57Gregy
314.16 mph
the Pie Rally?
Ran circles around the competition.
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Re:If you had a drag racer, how fast would you go?
2011/06/07 23:05:19
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I did 163 mph once when I was in high school. That was dumb enough, now I just watch it occasionally on TV.
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Re:If you had a drag racer, how fast would you go?
2011/06/08 21:49:56
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mmmmm...fastest I've gone was 7.53 seconds...using one of these things.... 
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Re:If you had a drag racer, how fast would you go?
2011/06/08 21:54:59
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If I had a drag racer it would look like this (love this car!): 
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Re:If you had a drag racer, how fast would you go?
2011/06/08 23:40:20
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If I had a drag racer it would look like this (love this car!):
The look of the engine seems like it's compensating for summin' I'm thinking it's compensating for the hole in the hood. 
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Re:If you had a drag racer, how fast would you go?
2011/06/09 01:48:47
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Re:If you had a drag racer, how fast would you go?
2011/06/09 07:43:27
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Drag racing... A friend of mine built one, from the rusted carcass of an old Chevy nova. Short story on it: I helped him get it home. It was serving as a chicken coop, and I ended up steering it, setting on a 5 gallon bucket, while he was in the tow car ... it was about a 2 mile ride but it seemed much longer with the smell of the poo.
He had been building a motor for his dragster for some time. So he turned it over to a friend with a body shop, and a few weeks later got it back. Didn't even look like the same car. This one was sweet. I think he traded engine work for body work.
Anyway, he dropped that engine in the car, changed some gearing in the tranny and rear end and proclaimed it ready to ride.
He competed in the street class (I think that's what you call it.... cars are street legal) so when he got it finished, he said to me...Lets take a ride. He had one of those braking systems where you can lock the front brakes and spin the rear tires to heat them up.... so he did that when we got to the side road to test it out....
What a ride that was. Slammed into my seat I guess like a carrier jet launch and a few seconds later we were decelerating as the 1/4 was behind us. Then he says, the rear end gears are not right, seems he didn't like the start due to gearing.
So he changed the gears and decided to take it to the drag strip and see what he could do out there. I learned that it takes thousands of dollars, some times tens of thousands to shave a mere half second off of your run time average. Since he was placing consistently in the bottom 50% of the pack, and having thousands invested already, his wife started to get on him about the "loosing money pit" in the back yard, so he eventually sold it to recoup his money.
That's my "go fast in a dragster" story. That one ride I had was fun.
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Re:If you had a drag racer, how fast would you go?
2011/06/09 10:24:45
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I've read that in 1969 a guy could go to the dealer and buy a
Chevelle SS 396 off the showroom floor and go to the strip....and win.
I bought an old Chevelle SS 396 a few years back and restored it.
Although there is no proof in the V.I.N. that the car is an original there
are things that let one know for a fact. It was but it didn't have the original
motor.
What was cool is that when I gauged the cylinder walls of the '66 396 I
learned that it had never been bored.
Well the original cars did not have 396 motor's in them. They were all bored .030 over
so when I had the motor rebuilt it was a 402 as the original.
I never ran it at the strip but for a "stock" car zero to 60 was indeed fast.
I went to a car show with a friend that was entering his 70 Chevelle...I didn't
know he entered mine until they presented the first place trophy.
I was made an offer that I couldn't refuse so it sold very fast too LOL.
I was 14 in 1968 and in those years my home town had at least one of every
muscle car in town. I consider the muscle car years from 1964 - 1972.
We had a section of road marked off and back then I saw grown men break down
and cry....when they raced for "pinks" it was the real deal.
My fastest ride was in 1973 on a friends Kawasaki 900. You best be hangin' on.
If I remember correctly, back then the Kawasaki 500 three cylinder and the Cuda
Hemi were hot.
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Karyn
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Re:If you had a drag racer, how fast would you go?
2011/06/09 10:47:31
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When I raced the R6 it managed 120-125 by the 1/4 mile point and toppped out about 155 on a mile.
My drag bike however... at that speed I was just about pressing the nitro button...
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Re:If you had a drag racer, how fast would you go?
2011/06/09 10:54:19
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25 mph cuz I'd be afraid that I would Wreck it. I love the way this car sounds!
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bapu
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Re:If you had a drag racer, how fast would you go?
2011/06/09 12:25:02
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I love the way this car sounds!
With or without EQ, Compression or FX?
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Re:If you had a drag racer, how fast would you go?
2011/06/09 12:27:13
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...and the Loudness War claims another victim.
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bapu
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Re:If you had a drag racer, how fast would you go?
2011/06/09 12:32:10
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Depends. What's the RMS and/or Dynamic Range on that bad boy?
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Re:If you had a drag racer, how fast would you go?
2011/06/09 12:33:25
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I don't think Bayou would use a Brick Wall Limiter on it.
He's too fond of it.
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Re:If you had a drag racer, how fast would you go?
2011/06/09 12:34:15
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I don't think Bayou would use a Brick Wall Limiter on it.
He's too fond of it.
But will he ever master it?
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Re:If you had a drag racer, how fast would you go?
2011/06/09 12:39:06
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