[98tadriver]

Originally Posted by NJSPEEDER

i am in search of some way to relate 1/4 mile trap speeds to peak speeds for the 1mile course at maxton. hopefully a few of their members hit the drag strip with their cars before so i can come up with some sort of mathematical comparison to give everyone an idea of what they will run and the related safety equipment.

After i get a new trans, how about i run my car down a str8 back road with no intersections and/or cars? (and plenty of time to stop of course.) and i will have flags marking the 1/4, 1/2 and full mile, and a stop watch and all that jazz? then you can have something to base your research on?

to give u an idea, on a good day, i hit 0-60 in 5 secs or less. roughly 330' or (1/16th mile?) i cover a 1/4 mile in 12.5 secs @ 112mph. and its still pullin' hard. averages out to like 28mph/4seconds. i can go from 60-150 mph in a lil over 1/2 mile (most likely 5/8 mile) and then i had let off since i was going to run out of str8 road. so from 0-150 i can cover it within 11/16 of a mile, leaving me a lil more than a 1/4 mile to go faster; and with no speed limiter, she still accelerates past 150. there will be a point where the car doesnt accelerate quite as fast (aerodynamics, drag etc etc). i would say after 130mph the car doesnt pull quite as hard as it did when going to 100mph; this would be because im shifting into 5th. OD gear + drag = slower accel. But I must say, 4th gear pulls like a raped ape