What was your first R/T and your current R/T? Just wondering. The reaction time is the time it takes you to move after the light turns green. It says it on the timeslip. Mine was 1.128 my first time at the track.

 

1.057 as my first and .664 as my best. That was in a rusty old '76 firechicken though...cant wait to take my Maxi to the track.

 

Slowest ever .805, best .515.

 

First ~ 1.468
Best ~ .503

Kirk

 

My first one sucked. like .7 or something

But Cheston...oh my god. His FIRST RT was a PERFECT .500

too bad he missed 3rd =P

 

Isnt a perfect RT .400?

 

For certain types of trees it is. For normal runs no.

Kirk

 

Ahh, I was running a Pro-tree, so is that a .400 and the sportsman tree or whatever its called is a .500?

 

I think so. Not sure on the names, but those sound about right.

Kirk

 

at Carlsbad Raceway, perfect R/T is .500

for NHRA-style trees, R/T is .400

 

First was like 1.300

Best is a .540, typical is a .625 or so.

I was on a Pro-Tree once without knowing it, somehow they messed up. Talk about a surprise.

And yes, Pro Tree is .400 and Sportsman is .500.

 

First: 1.166
Best: .507

 

My best ever was .158, yeah I red lighted thou. Is that included in your final time though. I always thought they subtract that out.

 

Avg. RT = 5.10-5.30

Kirk

 

I waited for the green light the first time, and my r/t was well over 1.5 seconds. I was concerned that I would do something *stoo-pid* in front of a grandstand full of people, and sure enough, I did. After the race, another racer told me a perfect r/t was .500, and I should have launched between the 2nd and 3rd yellow lights. Over a period of months, I steadily improved. And no red lights. Then it occurred to me that if I *never* red lighted, I probably wasn't being aggressive enough at the line...

To date, my best r/t is .501, which happened to occur on my fastest run to date. I've also run quite a few 4.98's and 4.99's, which got me red lights, of course. I don't know where my average is now. But I can run in the .5XX fairly consistently once I get a run or two under my belt. And, yes, occasionally, I still red light. I love it when my competitors, even though they may be in obviously faster cars than mine, red light BIG time. It makes me feel good to imagine they were distracted by the mighty Maxima!

 

5.1?

 

Im about to get a 5 speed conversion ,and i know you have to baby the tranny for like 500-600 miles , but after that , im going to need to know how to launch , what is the best "tecnique" to launching, how high do you rev and stuff like that , ive never raced a 5 speed really, except my dads 1.8t , and i didnt really launch it.

 

what kind of tree is the one at Englishtown, NJ?

 

.510-.530....sheesh.

 

My first R/T ever was 1.046 and my best was .027

 

oldest post evAr

 

Yeah how the hell did this get dragged up?