Topic: Island Dragway 3-15-09 (Read 1886 times)

Puzzled · « **on:** March 20, 2009, 03:06:58 pm »

This is Howie and he is on an 08 Hayabusa that has had a decent amount of motor work done to it. Late last year he dropped a valve in the motor goofing around with Nitrous on his own, thus the current motor work. This is the bike that I extended and widened last year. It was a releif to see that my work has held up to the punishment of dragracing, I guess I did something right.

Howie goes an honest 350 punds so he is combating his weight handicap running the smaller guys plus he is still learning to race. I think once he gets use to the bike he'll be able to run pretyy dam hard on that thing.

Puzzled · « **Reply #1 on:** March 20, 2009, 03:10:44 pm »

Ritchie on an 00 Yamaha R6. This is a stock motored bike with a 10" over arm on a 210mm tire. This is the bike that I have collaborated on and offered my assistance while Ritchie spins the actual wrenches.

Howie on a worked 08 1300 Suzuki Hayabusa

Ritchie "tree-d" him. Ritchie is probably the better rider as of now.

The little R6 has a few lengths at the 330' mark.

At the 1/8th they are even.

After that the Busa used its big CC's and road around the R6.

11.76 to 10.55 (they both ran faster later in the day).

Puzzled · « **Reply #2 on:** March 20, 2009, 03:12:30 pm »

Ritchie rolling through the pits. A few pictures for his collection.

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Puzzled · « **Reply #8 on:** March 20, 2009, 03:16:39 pm »

A Porsche with a Big Block in it. It is a bracket car that runs in the 10's.

Puzzled · « **Reply #9 on:** March 20, 2009, 03:22:24 pm »

This car is very close to mine. I have a bit more motor than he does buy I do beleive his car is a little lighter than mine. They should be very close. He ran 9.30's-940's all day on motor. My car is set up for Nitrous and generous amounts of it so I should be on target with a low to mid 8 car.

That is an 8.8" in there and it seems like it is still holding up.

A relatively simple ladder bar setup. It is sold by a company called Wild rides that isn't all that far from me. I think I'm going to look into a set for my car.

Puzzled · « **Reply #10 on:** March 20, 2009, 03:24:57 pm »

Up on the bars with very little front end lift. Nice! I'm not sure here but I thought the objective was to get weight transfer with as little lift as possible. I', sure there is a fine line there between planting the tires and blowing them off.

Puzzled · « **Reply #11 on:** March 20, 2009, 03:31:10 pm »

This Chevelle says 8.86 on the window however I don't recall seeing it run that, I may have missed it.

This car was god awful loud for a street car.

The Vette had nothing for the GT.

I don't know if either of these cars ran well at all. On paper the Vette has it.

The little yellow car ran like a raped ape. The BMW was sporting Nitrous but had a newby behind the wheel. He clicked off something like 11 runs total.

This car was testing and tuning. I think once they get it sorted out it will scream.

Puzzled · « **Reply #12 on:** March 20, 2009, 03:32:40 pm »

This little truck has a diesel in it. I'm guessing a Cummins based on the single stack but I could be wrong.

Puzzled · « **Reply #13 on:** March 20, 2009, 03:37:10 pm »

This young guy was running for his NHRA license (which I have to do also). The car ran an 8.06 on what looked like a "Soft" pass to me.

A very clean car, almost to nice to drag race, almost!

8.86 with no bars? Brave or compitent driver there.

This car has a big block 502 in it. It has to be a bracket car as it wasn't all that fast in my opinion.

Puzzled · « **Reply #14 on:** March 20, 2009, 03:38:57 pm »

The Camaro was launching toward the wall most of the day. Once they get that car planted and going straight it will be F'ing fast.

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