Went out to the street races this weekend with my old 71 Ford F-100 "farm truck" to look for some prey. Never really attended on doing any racing since the local cops are putting the pinch on illegal racing. But after dividing off from the main group of ~75 cars twice, 20 of us found a nice secluded area. Some of the vehicles consisted of M5 Beamer, early 70's Olds, early 70's 350 Nova, ~00 Camaro Z28, and mid 80's modded Chevy 1/2 ton. After a few runs, the quickest car were determined. The order sat from slowest to quickest, the Olds, Camaro, 1/2 ton, and then the Nova. The only thing that was still unknown was where I sit in the order. Me being the only Ford there, they decided to pair me up with the Nova right off. So after burning off half of my tires they staged us, and stalled it up to 2600 to launch. That was a big mistake. Lit them up entirely through 1st gear, and hook going into second. I thought for sure he'd have the jump on me but I kept a good 2 car lead through out! It must have looked great from the spectators view cause when I came back they were ecstatic!! The guy in the beamer wanted to race but the Nova guy wanted to make another pass because he was having blow-by problems, so I was all for it. 2nd run was just the same, he said that he gave it all and had no problems. I came back and asked how far I lit'em, they all said as far as they could see. It may not sound that great of a story but it sure felt great to me!! All I can say is never count out the trucks!

 

Pretty impresive. Be glad you didn't have to face the M5 or Camaro with an adequate driver. I suspect both are capable of low 13s. (I know the 2000 Z28 is a low 13 second car). The M5 should have the easiest time hooking up.

What size tires are you running?

 

That was a beautiful story.Made me feel warm and gushy all over.I just love hearing stories of Ford trucks kickin any Chev or GM's ***.just love it

 

I'm sure you guys are familiar with air density, and how altitude effects performance. That's why I included the track altitude with my time. Stock Mustang GT/Cobras (excl.03), Camaro Z28/SS's are running at best in the mid 14's with perfect driving. Using NHRA's alititude corrected times http://www.hardtail.com/techtips/altitude.html I'm running high 13's to low 14's. The hardest part is finding a stock Mustang/Camaro around here.

The Camaro did run the modded Chevy 1/2ton truck that night but lost.

 

You're not going to like this but....

We've had several recent incidents in this area of innocent people getting killed by someone street racing because he thinks its cool. Doesn't do someone any good to hear "I didn't mean to kill anyone."

Please take it to the track. The only real proof of anything is a timeslip, anything else is just irresponsible.

Cool is when your body reaches room temperature.

 

I totally agree with you there. There are some very irresponsible people going to these races. Believe me, I won't be making it a habit of racing on the street. I'll only run unless the conditions are right. Like I was saying before, this was just a selected number of people that every knows. My run was about as dangerous as a street light to street light dash (with the exception of the burnout and running a second time). The problem is the possiblity of a person or another vehicle crossing at the end of the street. I've bracket raced for 2 years for points, and know the circumstances that can result.

 

Not gonna touch the street racing issue.

I took my old girl to the track on the weekend.
390FE 0.040 over.
heads and block mill'd for 9.2:1 compression
rotating assembly balanced.
comp cams 264hr cam (just a little fella)
stock 2bbl, and stock 2bbl intake manifold... well, everything else is stock.
Stock exhaust manifolds.
small rusted dual exhaust (1-3/4" maybe... small)
8.25x16.5 'Phantom' tires.
3.55 rear gears and one wheel spin.

Best run on the evening...
18.8 @ 69mph with a 2.5 60'
1/8 mph was 58, only 11mph gain at the top end of the track... LOL!
(.051 light)

Was a blast, all the guys in the mustang club took thier pickups out to race. Mine was the slowest. Fastest was a mid 80's F150 with a 408... 13.9 forget the mph.

 

Umm...Great reaction time. Assuming you mean 0.510.

 

SEMA is making a big push right now to educate people about the dangers of street racing (reprinted with permission):

SEMA, Lawmakers Fight Illegal Street Racing
It may look glamorous and exciting on the movie screen, but street racing is a dangerous and deadly activity. When the original The Fast and the Furious was released in 2001, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reported that the number of deaths resulting from street racing doubled. Shortly after the release of the sequel 2Fast2Furious this summer, the media were again full of reports of accidents caused by illegal speed contests.

Government agencies are fighting street racers in several ways. The Los Angeles City Council, for example, recently drafted an ordinance that would allow law enforcement agencies to confiscate, and then sell, vehicles cited for speed contests or illegal exhibition of speed.

Taking a more active approach, SEMA and Racers Against Street Racing (RASR) are bringing a driver education program to classrooms all across the country to promote legal alternatives.

"Young drivers today are surrounded by media messages that depict street racing as glamorous and OK," said Christopher J. Kersting, president and CEO of SEMA, which administers RASR. "We want to get a head-start on educating new drivers about the dangers of street racing and aggressive driving stunts that put them, and others, at risk of serious injury and death. RASR is launching this program so that enthusiasts will take their racing activities to organized events at racetracks."

"A lot of drivers talk about how fast their cars are, but we say it's not legit without a time slip," said Stephan Papadakis, pilot of AEM Racing's Honda Civic drag racer and one of many pro drag racers speaking on behalf of RASR. "You come away from a track with that time slip proving exactly how fast you and your car did go, so when someone says prove it, you can."

Local racetracks around the country offer "street legal racing night" programs to drivers who want to race their cars and come away with the proof of their vehicles' performance. In Irwindale, California, the local police are giving "tickets" to go race at the Irwindale Speedway at no charge. Other venues with programs for enthusiasts include Old Bridge Township Raceway Park in Englishtown, New Jersey; Firebird International Raceway in Phoenix, Arizona; Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego, California; and Interstate Dragway in Moorhead, Minnesota. RASR is also working with drag-race sanctioning bodies to open up more track programs for the legal alternative to street racing.

In addition to Papadakis, pro racers active with RASR include Lisa Kubo of Saturn Motorsports, Craig Paisley of Paisley Automotive Racing, Angela Proudfoot of Angela Proudfoot Racing, Ara Arslanian of Bullish Motor Racing, Ed Bergenholtz of Bergenholtz Racing, JoJo Callos of Castrol Syntec/Team Tactics, Shaun Carlson of Team Mopar, Abel Ibarra of Flaco Racing, Len Monserrat of Team Big Len and Chris Rado of World Racing.

More information about RASR and its programs to provide legal alternatives to street racing within controlled environments is available at www.rasr.info. A list of racetracks offering street-legal programs is available at that site.

 

The guys around here in their little ricers used to go to the airport at like 3 AM and race down the runway until they put a fence where they were getting in. There is another trail to get there, but only a TRUCK can make it, not that lowered crap they think is fast cause they have a fart can. I ran ONCE cause I had to see what she would do. I beat my buddies 78 malibu with a 305 by a full second (19.2) with a three speed an 3.25 gears. (he has a TH350 and 3.73). Yeah, i know that street racing is wrong, and I agree that you should take it to the track, but it would cost me a fortune to drive my truck to Jackson. At least at the airport we were only endangering ourselves (still a stupid idea)



BTW- why did my earlier posts get deleted? I'm sure someone had a reason, just not sure which one...

 

You must live a in the boonies to have an airport that doesn't have planes landing 24 hours a day!

In the future, please address questions such as your question about your posts, in the feedback section. The only posts of yours that got wiped were any responses to the "llama spammer." Rather than respond to such posts, click the "Report this post to a moderator" link -- it helps us get to them much faster.

 

The racing community really needs to step up and offer accesible , affordable and fun racing. The problem with most legal racing is it's expensive, inaccessible and well....not as much fun.

Once again, this comes back to many problems with our current society; Insurance and Lawyers. Somehow, we have to reduce the liablility to the owners of the tracks.

 

The current fee for our friday night "secret street" racing is $25cdn, which is affordable. The biggest problem is having it both friday and saturday nights. If the tracks closed everyone just moves it onto the street.

 

The airport was updating their radar towers and doing some serious remodeling, so the place was down for 3 months. even now they only have planes in the day, and 5 a day tops. And the "deleted posts" were probably my fault. To quote them--
"You could probably tell them that it was the first year of the lightning and they would believe you"

 

My truck ran 15.915@82.39 on it's first outting to the track, in 85* heat with a head wind. I fell asleap at the tree (r/t of 1.283) got to get used to leaving on yellow, instead of green, like the street. 2.260 60ft, 10.071 1/8th@68.42.

Motor is a 1970 2v car motor, 9.5:1 compression, stock 2v cam, Shelby "sidewinder" aluminum dual plane, 600 Holley 4v, unknown 1.75 primary x 3" headers, 2.5 duals with Raptor turbo muffs, C6 auto w/stock converter, Dana 44 rear with 3.54 posie. Truck is all steel, weights 3950 without me. Tires are 235/75/15's out back, and 215/75/15's front. It hooked at the track, had a little hesitation off of the line, and has a couple of feet of spin on the street before it hooks and goes. I love sleepers.