My Coupe on the Drag Track

[cliffy21]

I do find it funny that the 19 year old and 20 year old are trying to give out racing advice. I'm not trying to be a d!ck, i just question how much actual racing experience you guys actually have. I raced my Trans AM when i was 20, and i didn't know a damn thing, and i certainly wouldn't be handing out advice on it. Since then, i've raced the TA 5 or 6 times, and my 97 Camaro 4-5 times. I would now feel confident on giving out advice to others because i have experience with it.

By the way, when i say racing, i mean going to a drag strip, with a tree and a crowd of people watching. There's a big difference between that and racing your buddy on the street. The difference in traction on a proper drag strip compared to any normal street is colossal.

If i'm off base, please correct me, as i meant no harm. I'm just getting frustrated with reading all kinds of info on this forum from people who, honestly don't know what they are talking about.

There, i said it. I feel better.........sorry.

[Hussain]

I do find it funny that the 19 year old and 20 year old are trying to give out racing advice....

honestly don't know what they are talking about.

WOW! way to be close minded how do you know i'm not one of those people with a father obsessed with cars and that i haven't been at race tracks my whole life? isn't there a nascar driver about 19 and the same for rally racing and i'm not sure about drag racing but probably drag too. so there goes your whole little theory of young people not knowing how to drive. i don't have a father like that but my brother and friends are really into cars and my brother has raced his corvette several times and even his mustang he had before the corvette. my brother is 32 and has raced on and off the track for many years, as do his/my friends. i actually showed my brother this thread last night and he was saying your dumb if you don't heat up your tires 1st, you wont get proper traction.... what other pointers did i give? the fact that with a FWD automatic that if you step on the brakes and gas to build up the RPMs you can launch it better... guess what, generic actually agreed with me on this in another thread and went on about WHY it's affective and how people at the tracks with autos use this method to get the best launch.... so tell me i'm wrong about heating up the tires and the whole launching thing. i'm not talking out my *** here buddy, i actually do my research and learn from people who are very good at racing. so for you to come here and say that just because someone is 19 or 20 that they don't know how to race only shows your ignorance. theres professional drivers around my age and theres professional drivers older that both know how to race very well and BOTH can give pointers. not that i'm a millionire professional driver BUT what i'm saying is that you don't have to be old to know how to race.

[Hussain]

not that this really strengthens my argument but i just figured i'd show a couple pics.

heres a pic of my brother warming up his stock tires



and heres a pic of the corvette lane which some of the guys running 11's gave me some good pointers

[TheBourneAltimatum]

I do find it funny that the 19 year old and 20 year old are trying to give out racing advice.

oh yeah i forgot, due to the fact that i am only 18 which makes a retard to your standards i cant think of any insult back. i wish i wish i was the same age as you so i can have the same intelligence

[08altima35]

cliffy. i wouldn't say racing on the track 11 or 12 times would qualify you as someone to be giving advice on how to race, how to launch, how to heat your tires, how to clutch, how to do anything. age really isn't a factor because i started out racing ow carts when i was 9 years old so...lame comment bro.

[chow]

Im so confused. The first post says he ran 0-60 in 7 seconds, i looked at his DP and it says 3.5 SE. How can it be that slow? and, if it really was a 3.5, how did you run a 2.5 with the same time?

Im wierded out

[TheBourneAltimatum]

Im so confused. The first post says he ran 0-60 in 7 seconds, i looked at his DP and it says 3.5 SE. How can it be that slow? and, if it really was a 3.5, how did you run a 2.5 with the same time?

Im wierded out

i have a 2.5s lol. and i ran 0-60 in 7 sec

[cliffy21]

Lol. First of all, Hussain, I have no idea what you are talking about. No where did i say you shouldn't heat up your tires. I said you shouldn't use the water box on street tires. I said you should drive around the water box and just do a dry burnout. My last post made NO mention of heating up tires, so calm down. If you are going to bash me on it, please get it right.

I agree 100% that my experience does not qualify me to give out advice, and if you read through all of my posts, you'll see that i don't post much on such topics. In this thread alone i posted advice that i have learned from my racing experience. I am confident speaking on the things i have done myself. I don't take much stock in hearsay.

Lastly, i deserve to be flamed for the age thing. I personally know many guys in their teens that have tons of racing experience. I said such things because i got the impression that the guys making the comments sounded young and inexperienced. I checked their ages, and it confirmed what i thought, and i put it in text. I even said i meant no harm, just stating what i saw.

My apologies to any youngsters who took offense.

[rwuarch2007]

Poor cliffy is getting beat on lately. Even I am guilty of beating on the guy, but it was based on a misunderstanding. I don't believe the purpose of these forums is to knock on each other and declare who is the best at racing or who has the most right to give out advice. This should be a pool of collective thoughts and ideas, some of which are valid and some of which are uninformed; that's for the other users to decide.

Why don't we avoid these directed comments and just correct mistakes by backing up our individual comments with research/past experiences.

That's right, i'm feeling pretty hippy right now, all I'm missing is the long greasy hair and torn jeans.

[bigred311]

from your comment you've proven to have never been or driven on a drag track. I have the stock tires and if i don't burn them a good bit i can't launch worth a damn. launching at even 2500rpms will have me spinning if i don't heavily feather the clutch which will do a sh*tload of damage and i'll be going thru clutches every other weekend. it really makes YOU look dumb when you're calling people "dumb" when you really don't know what you're talking about. perhaps you didn't know that the ebrake only applies pressure to the rear non drive wheels on your altima coupe. maybe you should just go to the track and get some pointers or possibly rent some instructional video from blockbuster because playing grand tourismo on your playstation alone isn't going to make you at all knowledgeable about racing on a track

not to sound overly cocky but i have more race experience than you and a very good percentage of people on this forum, may it be street or track, im at morosso motor speed way in florida atleast once a week and car meets at different locations atleast 2-3 times a week, and ive never been to either without racing, ive also been doing this since i was 17, started the track at 18 but car meets at 17. ive always been taught to not do a burnout with stock tires because it does more damage than good. but then again i dont race on stock tires on any car. except my a/c on monday nights from time to time when i bring it out to the meets. so if your ever in tampa or palm beach area of florida shoot me an email and ill give you some pointers.

[cliffy21]

Poor cliffy is getting beat on lately. Even I am guilty of beating on the guy, but it was based on a misunderstanding. I don't believe the purpose of these forums is to knock on each other and declare who is the best at racing or who has the most right to give out advice. This should be a pool of collective thoughts and ideas, some of which are valid and some of which are uninformed; that's for the other users to decide.

Why don't we avoid these directed comments and just correct mistakes by backing up our individual comments with research/past experiences.

I wish things worked this way, but they never do on forums. You can't hear the tone of someone's voice, or know the type of person they are when they are typing. It's too easy to read more into things than was intended. Unfortunately for me, it's not the first time i've been wailed on for saying something stupid. Sadly, i doubt it will be the last. I have no hard feelings over anything, and i hope others feel the same. I honestly didn't want to come off as a d!ck, but it certainly came across that way.

[Hussain]

it's all good, i have no hard feelings. i just felt like, the only things i said were heat the tires and the whole brake and gas thing to get the RPMs higher and both have been proven to work well and you agreed with me..... so i was just like wtf when you started talking about age and experience... but its all good, no hard feelings