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 Post subject: Re: I'm not sure when they stop "teching" cars for
PostPosted: Mon Jun 07, 2004 4:43 pm 
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Anyone want to put there big Veichle out there?


Oh I fully intend to drag the Excursion. Maybe Jimmy will bring my thousand dollar BMW and we can see if it'll get below a 20 second pass.

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PostPosted: Mon Jun 07, 2004 5:12 pm 
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We'd have to tow the thing, I'm not driving it 3 hours each way. Last time I was out there there were guys on ATV's doing 16's. Would be kinda funny to watch the eta get rolled by one of those.

A friend from work and I went down there about 2 or 3 months ago for another one of these open nights. You didn't need a helmet and tech consisted of you driving over to the guy, him signing your sheet and writing a number on the window with one of those soap pens. Don was doing 12's in a C5 and nobody ever said anything about helmets so I think they don't really care. I think the only people out there with helmets were the motorcycle guys. I think if you're fast enough to require some special saftey gear then they just don't show your times on the big boards at the end of the track. They didn't show any of the times from the bikes.

There also weren't very many people there, maybe 30 vehicles. You didn't have to wait more than 5-10 minutes between runs tops. It was a little longer wait when they started some bracket races and when some dude in a Camaro lunched his transmission and oiled down the track. After that we got to see some kid trying to impress his girlfriend in the passenger seat destroy the transmission in his mom's Acura Vigor. Everyone should go, it's a good time even if you don't drive. :thumbsup:


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I'll be rocking the low compresion 8v gti at the rock! I figure all 85hp or so should get me maybe in the 17s? That's pretty much the goal I guess. We'll see what happens.

I've run the m3 and the old S4 down there a few times. The "rule" is 13s needs a helmet, 11s needs a full cage. However last time I was there some dude in a mustang was running 10s with neither. However the announcer did ask that someone try to find the guy a helmet to wear.

I think Altitude there is 375feet.

Fear the GTI powa!


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