Anyone been to Spokane and raced there?

I would if I was you... Mostly cuz I wanna see how well my doors are bolted on.

no imfrom montana, born and raised. i figure i will race where ever i can

here is what sturgis looks like for their 1/8th is is my dads old co worker goin easy letting off before the 60 foot mark. this was in 2007 http://picasaweb.google.com/helprin/JimLeeS34FordDragRacingAtSturgisSD#5248231678110554882

not bad for a guy in his 70's lol

sweet, never been there, but ima travel around twolane blacktop style this summer i think and just hit whatever tracks i come across

they do a king of the streets race there the 4th of july week end. 3 days of racing with a good size purse. if you run quicker than a 8.0 you have to be caged to the max, they are picky bastards

well count me out, should run about a 6.50 in the 1/8 on current set up, no cage either. no track, no cage...

they are picky, they dont give you a warning pass. if you break out your done for the day.

it all depends on whose running the track, thats for sure... like at belle fourche, they didnt give a rats ass.
one year me and my dad drove there for a race, and they musta forgot about the schedule that weekend and like 100 cars showed up but the gates were closed, so everybody unloaded their shit on the highway and raced until the hiway patrol showed up and shut them down, no tickets were issued that day after the cops heard what happened. bad thing was that the highway was probably safer to race on then the track...

I say we just go North of the Acton track and do it there. Road is very, very straight and flat.

I call that road 'The Tuning Road'.

i say lets just block off part of a busy main road like king, 24th st,or even main street and set it up there. maybe if we cause enough problems for he city they might just buy the track. probably wont happen. but it would be nice.

Main would be good as we could just use one side of the street for racing and use the other side for a 2 lane. We would have plenty of room.

there are permits for races that can be obtained, i have a request into the state for it, but i havent heard anything yet

yeah good luck witht hat josh . the state hasnt issued any of those permits for years , and they wont issue one to the general public

bullshit, how do you explain the races they have every year... on city streets, down contry roads and through the woods... if a person doesnt at least try, then it is an epic fail for all.

i remember my first race against josh i was in my 15 sec civic and i looked over and you were in your mustang. then the tree turned green and now sooner did i dump the clutch you were at the 1/8 already. needless to say i sold the car a few weeks later and started working on gettin me a chevy

haha, another honda dream turned to a fart in the wind haha

And i thank you for that race or i might still be drivin a hoooooooooonduuuuuuuuh!!!

its too bad your brother didnt figure it out by proxey...

ya well im still tryin to talk him into puttin a small block in that carolla

He just hates that a little 4 cyl can make 200+ hp per litre for so cheap! Ha ha just gotta give you guys with big motors crap. Every engine has its strengths, and if you wanna go straight fast a big blocks not a bad choice I guess. They are built for different things but unfortunately Drag racing always seems to be the measure of if a car fast or not. That's part of why I wasn't a huge fan of Drag racing, I was in it for fun just to make friends and see how my non-drag prepped car did, but most times out there most people treated it like a dick measuring contest. I met some great people out there but there were too many ego's involved by many racers that made me not want to return. Seems guys who build cars to handle always get crap from guys who can beat them in a drag race since that's a universal measure of how fast a car is, but how many drag guys think you would keep up in the corners? I bet all we'd hear about was how you'd beat us in the type of racing your car is built for yet you never try out the other aspects. Sorry rant over just some seems funny to me. I was just teasing about the big block comments I agree they can be awesome in some applications and make crazy power, but the smaller engines can perform just as well. Maybe someday I'll get interested in building an all out drag car but I don't see that happening anytime soon.

shit i know your 4 cyl can run. i remeber taking off, getting to the 1/8 mile thinking ive got him, and then all of the sudden rmmmm pssst, rmmmm pssst, blasting past my ass. at the 1000ft mark. damn that was humbling.

first of all, i am not a honda hater, ive built plenty of hondas, even owned a couple. second, if i wanted to spend 20,000 dollars on a road racing suspension, i would, but i dont want to add a shit ton of heavy parts to it because its not what i enjoy doing . let alone try to make a 3300 lbs steel chevy corner like a 1900 lbs honda isnt real high on the priority list for me. i was racing scca before half you guys ever had drivers liscences, and my dad raced black otter for 10 fuckin years straight before he realized what he really wanted to do, which was drag racing. the main reason i am against hondas,and other front drive cars is because weight transfer is my friend, while it is your enemy at the dragstrip. i fail to understand why someone would want to build a 400hp front wheel drive so it can run high 13's on a good day because you cant seem to get it to hook up. none of you will ever be able to understand how it feels to stand a car up on the rear bumper as long as you race front wheel drives. back when i had my first nova, i ran scca and still put down better times than alot of people and i had a stock suspension small tire car. anyways, im not afraid of corners, i just prefer to go straight, thats all. and in my opinion, rwd is a way more effective starting point than fwd. hell i like alot of hondas and nissans i see, but its the fart can/cold air and massive wing on an otherwise bone stock fwd that i dont like. dont group me up with import haters, because im not, or i would have never got on this site.

I was just giving you a bad time not saying you were one of those guys ha ha. I've had fun racing with you and a few others. I just always find it funny that people hate on either imports or big blocks! Everyone has fun doing it their own way and if we all did it the same it would be boring. I just got burnt out on a lot of the older drag race guys. I guess though as we all get older we'll probably all be grumpy. Just like I can't stand how kids these days wear pants so tight only a sexy women should have them on. I'm also with ya on RWD, however I think with the right suspension its nuts how a honda can ru 10's with 250hp. I actually remember seeing you SCCA a long time ago. I'm just giving everyone a bad time hoping that will bring more people to the scca's so there are more people to hang out with.

Chris i forgot about that race, i try and block out all my drag racing since I can't drive! Stupid running 12's and trapping 121-125 over the years!

so, then nobody should fuck with me because i run a small block huh... and you are right, about how old grumpy fuckers are these days, i wanted to be different, so i turboed a v8 with a carb, kinda mixing import tech with domestic tech dont you think...

Yeah run whatever you enjoy! HOndas are a good cheap way for the next generation to learn and there is no doubt the new technology is crazy and will just continue to get wilder.

Stupid kids...when I was young our pants had plenty of room for our balls! Guess no one has any these days!

you should read the post i put up earlier today, the menholt's are leasing the track.

Well this was a long time ago but i remember sitting in Barns & Noble parking lot with a few people and a new (like 04-05 at the time) Mustang Mach-1 with some kids in it wanted to race the slow, crappy looking CRX sitting there, the funny as hell part is they didnt notice the FMIC and the driver was putting his ear to my hood as i backed up to try and hear my turbo i guess? i pulled out slow as shit so it would not spool, haha... well anyways we went to Danford i think it was and I walked him pretty bad.. I hope not all these kids are as dumb now days... its been a long time sense i have been out.

yeah devin, i remember when we were out meesin around and you were in the rex, i was in the old orange/red nova when i had the 377 init, and i took off from you across king and shilo headed west and you kept runnin up on me and letting off, then runn up on me again and left off, man that little crx run like no other i had ever seen before. i know it moves cause the nova was runnin 12.20's and 30's when that happened. fuck it was fast.(your's, not mine)

So I got raped by a boosted CRX, was a friendly call out through a friend.

We meet up, we go over basic specs, they were surprised when I told them how much boost I was running. I guess around here the other 2/3 srt4s are basically stock and dog slow.

I find out hes running 10psi, okay 10psi on a d-series isn't so bad, hes still got me on weight but I figure that I can make up ground in 3rd when I catch traction and the meth is at 100%

First race, I drop the clutch thinking I was in my old car, bog then spin 1/2. Hes spinning...catches traction in 2nd...something seems odd. Hes 2 car lengths in front of me when I shift into 3rd start catching up, until I hit 5k rpm and my powerband falls on its face. I shut down around 110, hes 3 ahead.

Second race, rev higher and slip the clutch, much better launch. He still catches in 2nd and I in 3rd, Im on his bumper this time. Top of 3rd he starts to pull away, shift 4th steady until upper rpms, pulls away. 2 cars when we shut down.

I didnt have a chance, ignoring the weight and traction difference, all his power was upper RPM like 5k+ where as mine is 3k+5k, Im rockin a small turbo where his is closer to a 40 Trim. That one race convinced me I need to ditch the stock and move up to a 50trim for D46

I have only raced one other turbo car, it was a bone stock awd 90-ish talon. that was on my 1st motor and all my free crap turbo stuff, stupid awd killed me on launch but i caught up in 3rd. I really look forward to racing other turbo cars. SRT4, EVO, STI, all of them... (not yours Josh) although I will just for fun

so im going home on 312 in my yellow subaru 4 door when i see a 99ish dodge cummins with dual exhaust blowing black smoke out and EXTREME DIESEL on the back window, and i always get fucked with when i get next to diesel in my jap yellow car.

now i have only raced 4 diesel trucks and have smoked all of them, now dont get me wrong i know theirs fast ass diesel trucks around. but every dam truck i see jest has to fuck with me and think his truck walk all over me. anyhow i raced this dude that thought the same thing, so i rolled my window down and told him to slow down to 40ish and we will see who is faster. as i was jest getting out of 2nd and going into 3rd wot at 15psi i was thinking " 2 cars ahead and pullin bus lengths " thanks josh. so then we did a another pull and i let him spool first but still no luck for him.

makes me feel very good about my yellow grandma car. any how after both pulls he was very cool about it, unlike sum guys in their diesel trucks that are complete ass holes because i dive a "rice" car

"rant"

nice! kool when u run into guys who are just in it for fun

^ that's what its all about

i agree, it's all in good fun, but when money is involved then it turns into another kind of fun

I love a random race here and there, it gets the blood pumping

must be nice to get races....................

hey imnot new to fast fwd cars... i've built a couple that were downright frightening to try and drive, but in my opinion, i'd rather just build a duty street hookin rwd with more than enough power. cuz in a fwd, launching is always a gamble, and when there is money involved, i want to know im gonna hook on the hit ya know

^^ agree, I hate having a wrongwd car. The only fesable power upgrade is a huge turbo that doesnt spool off the line to keep traction.

Havin to run slicks to get a decent launch is really annoying

all about seat time! =)