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IROCZman15 · 10-28-2025, 07:45 PM

Friday was the track rental at Island and we had a good turnout with 27 cars/trucks making passes. Over 300 timeslips were handed out. A good mix of muscle cars, modern muscle, some trucks, and drag cars. This year we did not have any motorcycles. The D.A. numbers were great all day long and we only had a minor amount of wind. Tech inspection was not nearly as tight as recent years and nobody had any problems that I was made aware of. There was no rain during the whole event, but after packing up for the day, as luck would have it, it rained for the drive home, like usual.

Jerry took a whole bunch of photos. I tried to get photos in between making passes and whatnot, there is a link to my flickr folder below as well as some included photos. Jerry got us 7 pizza's on his dime, and we were all thankful. I saw a whole bunch of people sharing tools and helping each other out all day long, so that was awesome. I think we did pretty good with the way the lanes were allocated, but maybe we can take the cone away from the right lane earlier on next time; we can discuss that for sure.

I have to type up my car's recap and put it on my build thread, but I made 11 passes on the day. My 4 all motor passes were great, and resulted in a new PB (both e.t. and mph) with an 11.47 at 117.2 mph (and 7.25 at 97.1 mph in the 8th mile). Made 7 nitrous passes (on one bottle) and despite getting a new PB (in e.t.) it was definitely not a clean pass; went 10.55 at only 123.3 mph (and 6.64 at 104.7 in the 8th mile). I spent LOTS of time in the revv limiter on ALL of my terrible nitrous passes, but more on that topic in my build thread.

the photo album is https://www.flickr.com/photos/iroczm...77720329938431
Feel free to save, share, or use the photos however you want to.

Make sure to checkout Jerry's link for a few hundred photos: https://photos.app.goo.gl/mNwe7hxkHdr2GUNLA

I was told that a few very short clips of Friday's action were on the island dragway facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1350975519713883.

Quick link to a video I put on youtube showing some of our cars as I was driving through the pits.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYpWJqgXx4A

I plan on doing this event again next Fall season; possibly in September, or keeping it in October.

drove home from the track in the rain again (see hood)... what else is new !

10-28-2025, 07:45 PM	#10
IROCZman15 10 Second Club / Meet Coordinator Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Roxbury, NJ Posts: 2,141 iTrader: (8)	Friday was the track rental at Island and we had a good turnout with 27 cars/trucks making passes. Over 300 timeslips were handed out. A good mix of muscle cars, modern muscle, some trucks, and drag cars. This year we did not have any motorcycles. The D.A. numbers were great all day long and we only had a minor amount of wind. Tech inspection was not nearly as tight as recent years and nobody had any problems that I was made aware of. There was no rain during the whole event, but after packing up for the day, as luck would have it, it rained for the drive home, like usual. Jerry took a whole bunch of photos. I tried to get photos in between making passes and whatnot, there is a link to my flickr folder below as well as some included photos. Jerry got us 7 pizza's on his dime, and we were all thankful. I saw a whole bunch of people sharing tools and helping each other out all day long, so that was awesome. I think we did pretty good with the way the lanes were allocated, but maybe we can take the cone away from the right lane earlier on next time; we can discuss that for sure. I have to type up my car's recap and put it on my build thread, but I made 11 passes on the day. My 4 all motor passes were great, and resulted in a new PB (both e.t. and mph) with an 11.47 at 117.2 mph (and 7.25 at 97.1 mph in the 8th mile). Made 7 nitrous passes (on one bottle) and despite getting a new PB (in e.t.) it was definitely not a clean pass; went 10.55 at only 123.3 mph (and 6.64 at 104.7 in the 8th mile). I spent LOTS of time in the revv limiter on ALL of my terrible nitrous passes, but more on that topic in my build thread. the photo album is https://www.flickr.com/photos/iroczm...77720329938431 Feel free to save, share, or use the photos however you want to. Make sure to checkout Jerry's link for a few hundred photos: https://photos.app.goo.gl/mNwe7hxkHdr2GUNLA I was told that a few very short clips of Friday's action were on the island dragway facebook page https://www.facebook.com/reel/1350975519713883. Quick link to a video I put on youtube showing some of our cars as I was driving through the pits. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYpWJqgXx4A I plan on doing this event again next Fall season; possibly in September, or keeping it in October. drove home from the track in the rain again (see hood)... what else is new ! __________________ 1987 IROC-Z - modified Last edited by IROCZman15; 10-28-2025 at 07:47 PM.