so since my friends talked me into it....my max is going to the track on sunday....

i dont really like drag racing, but what the hell i guess.

problem is its bracket racing and i have no idea what kind of times im going to run. any ideas on what times i should claim?

its an 89 se...it has an intake...no cat with a tanabe muffler, lowered, full syntetic engine and trans oil, 215/60/15 potenza re960s pretty new. any ideas on what kinda times i could put down? stock times, and times with the few mods i have? thanks alot, not trying to give 3rd gens a bad name on sunday =]

 

havent ran mine either (94 se ve). but good luck and learn/focus on the light. take your time and you will get the hang of it.

 

Look at the track times here on the .org (i'm not sure where they are at, but there are some here right?) and take a guess. Maybe guess a bit faster then you think you can run b/c iirc, in bracket racing if you run under your posted time then you're out. The goal, I think, is to run as close to your posted time without going under it. Someone tell me if I'm wrong.

 

my 90 se with an K&n intake and stock exaust can run mid to high 15

 

thanks for the timeslips section heads up....found a few there, but not to many VG 3rd gens, im thinking of going with a 15.7 ....hope this works out, sound good?

 

another idea - there are actually lots of cool calculators here: http://www.wallaceracing.com/Calculators.htm and other places online where you can put in your weight, hp, gears, tire size, etc, and it estimates your 1/4 mile.

 

There is a 1/4 mile section on this forum and you will probably get more good advice there.

I think most VG 5-speeds that are fairly stock run high 15, low 16s, but times are going to depend a lot on the weather, track conditions and elevation. When a lot of Maxima guys went, Anton had a VG 5-speed. I think he had a Y-pipe, intake and a straight pipe past the cat. IIRC, he ran about 16.0.

The key to bracket racing is 1) timing the light and 2) going with a launch you are comfortable with and then working to have the same launch again and again. Most of the rest of the race is going to be the same.

I bracket raced my car a couple of years ago and finished second for the day.
It is a lot harder to be precise with a manual transmission. The guy that won had an AT.

What I did was went out into the country and practiced my launch (exact rpm and method). NOT THE FULL 1/4 MILE! I did maybe 8-10 launches. Then, when I went to the track, I tried to do the exact same thing every time.

I basically dialed in my time at about .1 faster than I ran in my best test run, so I wouldn't break out.

 

16.0 isn't very good for a 5spd... I ran a 16.3 on a VG auto with nothing but some intake spacers and a cone filter. stock ypipe, and 2 broken studs.

 

ha that site with the calculators was kind of cool...i dont know how close they are though....after trying a few i was getting an average of about 15.3....i dont think i could run that.

planning on practicing launching with a few of my friends on saturday before we go to the track...still dont think ill ever like drag racing though ha

 

There is a time trial before any bracket racing event... You get a couple of runs to get your dialin.

 

shaving off tenths of a second is a little tougher than people think. It was also bracket racing and I believe Anton was trying to get consistent launches, not set personal records.

With all of the mods I have and taking out over 100 lbs, I can only take about 1 full second (10 tenths) off of the bone stock time.

Except for Aaron (very extreme) and anyone with a turbo or nitrous, the best times for bolt on modded VEs are only in the mid to high 14s. The stock times are around 15.5-15.7.

 

toward the end of the day i lined up against aaron. he wiped the floor with me before the 8th mark, and by the stripe i couldn't even read his plate.

well i heard that a stock GXE should run 16.8, and the VG a/t SE might run .02-.05 better from the stiffer suspension helping with traction. but my car apparently ran .5 better than stock which isn't too bad for the few mods i have. i would like to see 15.9 next time i go. which will be a LONG time from now.