I love the 1/4 mile. I hear next year they are loosing the lease on the land at out track. They are going to build a 1/8 mile track closer to where I live. I do not want to give up the quarter mile. Is`nt it where drag racing started is the quarter mile. My father inlaw grew up in California with the first drag racers and he said all there was , was the 1/4 mile. He has pictures of all the great ones. I saw pictures where the motor was in the lap of guys on the long dragsters. It must of been a great thing growing up in those days at the dragstrips.
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11:933 ET, 1.674 60`,111.877 MPH 5600 feet above sea level 6900 D/A
Like most here, all my experience is racing on a 1/4 track. I have done 1/8 only a handful of times at the tracks discression (wet track, wind, etc). I really need to start getting experience in the 1/8 as thing happen a lot quicker. (Looking to do some $$$ racing down south next year and most southern tracks are 1/8). Benefits of the 1/8 are a quicker program and a lot less breakage. I did notice most oil down occur after the 1/8 mile marker.
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'07 Ford Mustang GT Alloy Metallic
4.6 Auto, 3.73 gears, C&L CAI, Diablo 91 octane tune, drag radials, and a saftey loop. What else do I need for a 14 second bracket car?
Well, I guess I'll be the first to say that I'm an 1/8th miler, however, its what I learned. I've only ran 1/4 one weekend at O'Rielly Raceway Park in Indy. Didn't do well as I didn't have the car set up for the long journey.(Do NOW though). The closest 1/4 mile track is 2 hrs from me, so I'll just keep pounding the 1/8th. Not to mention it sounds better to say, I run 12.0's than to say I run 19.6's
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'90 LX coupe , 2.3 Fi. auto. Grocery getter-1/8 mile killer. Mods: removed airbox and silencer, added short cone filter. New exhaust including header and 40 series FLOW, Weld Draglite Skinnies in front, 8.5's with 275/60/15 M/T ET Streets on the rear.Thats right, I EXPLODED a 7.5" posi unit at the track. I sure do miss it.
I'm like a duck, calm and cool on the surface, Paddling like HELL underneath.
In southern California there is a 1/8 mile track in Irwindale for all you California guys in case you have not heard about it. Do you guys have any times to post.
1/4 mile is the way to go. There is a whole lot more room for mistakes puts it more on the driver
Disagree. I think it take more driver skills to win at 1/8 mile than 1/4. 1/8 helps you tune in your launching skills and 60ft time which is where the race is won/lost. 1/4 mile actually helps a poor driver with a fast car such as me
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It's better to burn out than to fade away - The Kurgan
well i used to run 1/8 mile when i had my 86 iroc on the account of it fell on its face after that, but now that i bought my REAL 5.0 1/4 mile no doubt
They are going to build a 1/8 mile track closer to where I live. I do not want to give up the quarter mile. Is`nt it where drag racing started is the quarter mile. My father inlaw grew up in California with the first drag racers and he said all there was , was the 1/4 mile. He has pictures of all the great ones. I saw pictures where the motor was in the lap of guys on the long dragsters. It must of been a great thing growing up in those days at the dragstrips.
Mods: removed airbox and silencer, added short cone filter. New exhaust including header and 40 series FLOW, Weld Draglite Skinnies in front, 8.5's with 275/60/15 M/T ET Streets on the rear.Thats right, I EXPLODED a 7.5" posi unit at the track.
I sure do miss it.
