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[SHOspazz92]

Sooner or later I'm going to have to agree to disregard this timeslip completely. I know this.

Sam, put up my 14.608@97 please.

This isn't my thread, but I'll put it up mine.

-Sa

 

[93rev2sev]

This isn't my thread

I know...that's why I started this mess here...so as not to sully up YOUR thread.

 

[93rev2sev]

Okay, then let's disregard the other lane. Looking at only your lane, to complete the last 1/8th as quick as your slip shows, you would need to average 98.9 mph. AVERAGE!

The slip also shows that I'm 9 miles per hour slower then the neon at the eigth mile mark and I think the video disproves that. I'm actually gaining on him at the eight mile mark.

 

[93rev2sev]

I think that -15 is actually 105. and I think my 1/8th MPH is 84.63 not 74.63.

 

[yamahaSHO]

Then you should be racing my blue car.

 

[93rev2sev]

In 45* weather at 150' altitude with a tailwind, in the middle of oxygen enriched farmland you would be in the 12s.

 

[jacen2912]

Little bit of trivia on the engine in Tom's car. I traded it to him. I bought it in 2007 from a gentleman who had proof that the following was the history of the engine:

-His brother worked at the factory they were built.
-When the factory closed, his brother stole the engine.
-When he did a side job for his brother, he received what is now Tom's engine as payment.
-The engine had 0 miles on it.
-It sat in his family room for several years as a table prop, with him disassembling it to clean it often.
-One day he stumbled across a clean chassis, slapped it in, and couldn't have been happier.
-A year later he got tired of looking at a red and green 92 SHO and put it up for sale.
-No one even came to look at it until the price dropped to $400, which is when I bought it.
-Two years of me owning it and babying it later, Tom and I began an ill-fated swap into (i think) bubba's old 95.
-One day into that, a trade was made and I left with Tom's old white 92, he got to keep both red chassis', and the engine which, at the time, had approximately 15-20K on it.

I think it is entirely true that Tom put up those numbers with that engine. It's young enough.

 

[93rev2sev]

so there!!

Thanks Jacen!

 

[yamahaSHO]

Young or old, it's not making enough power. That slip shows him covering the last 1/8 quicker than my supercharged SHO.

 

[93rev2sev]

That slip shows him covering the last 1/8 quicker than my supercharged SHO at nearly 6000 feet of altitude and much higher temps.

Is THAT what you meant to say?

 

[yamahaSHO]

Temps were about the same, maybe a few degrees warmer. At 5,800ft, I was still putting down SIGNIFICANTLY more power than even the most powerful NA SHO on here. I gained 31 mph (at altitude) in the last 1/8th. Look at your previous slips and post your mph increase from the 1/8th to the 1/4.

I'm amazed you think that a stockish SHO would hit a legit time of a 14.2, especially since the sensor was tripped at a negative mph.

 

[RonPorter]

I'm amazed you think that a stockish SHO would hit a legit time of a 14.2, especially since the sensor was tripped at a negative mph.

Trap speed lights are a different set of lights.

 

[RonPorter]

Oh, FWIW, that's a stock y-pipe to me. If I needed one, I would pick up something like a Catco as a stock replacement, since I would want something new. IMO, just like a K&N is a stock replacement. With the age & mileage of these cars, it's surprising that anyone still has the stock factory y-pipe in there (well, except my 10K car!!).

 

[93rev2sev]

All of this hootin' n' hollarin' is quite fun.

I'd reckon there hasn't been this much ballyhoo for a 22 year old Front Drive Ford in quite a while....

 

[SHOspazz92]

Come at me bro!

 

[Toolman]

The slip also shows that I'm 9 miles per hour slower then the neon at the eigth mile mark and I think the video disproves that. I'm actually gaining on him at the eight mile mark.

I think that -15 is actually 105. and I think my 1/8th MPH is 84.63 not 74.63.

Okay, this is April, but you guys a few weeks late on the AFD joke.
You can not seriously believe you ran 84 mph in the 1/8th and 105 in the 1/4. Can you? And if you already feel the slip is in error on those items, why in the world would you believe the only unbelievable part of the strip?

Trap speed lights are a different set of lights.

Negative. The first trap speed light is set 66ft before the finish line, where the second light is located. That finish line light both measures the trap speed and stops the clock for ET.

 

[93rev2sev]

why in the world would you believe the only unbelievable part of the strip?

I think that's obvious. I want to believe. I'm surprised you don't. I don't think the car is a 14.2 car but I do think it ran it once and I'm going back to try again. I don't expect to hit 14.2 and if I do, I suspect your next move will be to summarily dismiss all Lapeer Dragway times.

 

[K-Dawg]

This is a joke right? The numbers plain and simple don't add up. I'm surprised you can't see it.

 

[SHOspazz92]

I think that's obvious. I want to believe. I'm surprised you don't. I don't think the car is a 14.2 car but I do think it ran it once and I'm going back to try again. I don't expect to hit 14.2 and if I do, I suspect your next move will be to summarily dismiss all Lapeer Dragway times.

I dismiss all times that are posted unless I saw it in person or was personally driving the car.

 

[93rev2sev]

Fair enough. Then, for the purposes of your timekeeping thread, my slip is as good as any others, right?