Made it to the drag strip for the first time this year.

We decided to head to the drag strip this weekend. Drove for 3.5 hours to Tri-state Raceway in Earlville, Iowa. There weren't too many cars there, but it was a good time.
I just got some new street wheels and tires for the car, so I figured I would just run those, and not put my other MT ET streets on. They are chrome 03 Cobra wheels 17X9 fronts with 255/45/17 nitto 555, and 17X10.5 in the back with 315/35/17 555R's.
I had a hard time figuring out how to launch. There was a fine line between bogging it, and blowing them off. I got pretty consistant with launching at 3200 rpm off the 2 step.
In practice I ran

11.805 @ 125.82
11.797 @ 119.76
11.799 @ 118.12

Not too sure why the MPH was off on the last 2 runs. At half track on all 3 runs the MPH was about the same around 96.5. So that kind of has me baffled

Then time trials started. In the first round I got the #1 qualifier position with a .004 reaction time. (all luck on that one.)

I made it all the way to the finals where I raced a Super Bee. He had a 10.20 dial in, and I had an 11.79. Well I ran an 11.790 @ 125.30 and took the win in the Domestic class.

I broke out in the last race between the tuner and the domestic class. I had an 11.79 dial in, and ran an 11.68. Oh well, it was my quickest pass of the day, here is a rundown of the slip.

60' -- 2.017
330 -- 5.167
1/8 -- 7.712
MPH -- 96.91
1000 -- 9.884
1/4 -- 11.688
MPH -- 124.75

Next time out I will have to slap on my Et Streets, and see if I can get my 60' times down. The best I could muster on the Nittos was a 1.977.

My friends I went up with did not have as good of a day. They were just doing partial runs to dial in the 60' times, and the tranny on the car blew after about the 3rd run.
I didn't get any time to take pictures while I was there. Only 1 with a partial of my friends car.

Thanks guys, it was a lot of fun. I need to get out a lot more than I do.

Originally Posted by 69clark
Wait a minute, your friend has the Pace Car. Not to hi-jack, but I want more info on that car. PM me pics if you like

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Don't worry about any hi-jacking. His car is way cool. I am not even too sure how long he has had it. Probably about 10 years or so.
It was a feature car in 5.0 Mustang. I think it was like the July issue in 05. I'll have to look to see if that is correct or not.
It is pretty much just a drag car, but it is still street legal, and he does take it out here and there. The motor was just redone this year. It is an 302R block that is stroked out to a 363. AFR 205 heads. C4 tranny (well it was till it blew) It is a real nice looking car.
He runs various shots of Nitrous on it. Last month at WFC X he had his best run to date. I think it was in the semi finals that he ran a 9.18 @ 150. One of these days he is going to go 8's with it.

Here is a picture with the old wheels. He got some new Mickey Thompson wheels this year.


Here is a picture of him from WFC X that I found on 1320video.com As you can see it is pretty fun to watch him run.

Usually I do drive to the track, but this time I actually trailered it down just because it was so far away.
The track I usually go to is just a little over an hour away, and this one was 3.5 hours.