Good day at the track. No screaming fast times to keep up with the BAD boys around here - but consistency is what wins the REAL races
. Best time was a 15. 89 @ 87. 55 mph - that's launching in 2wd with my 5 sp. That's right in line with what I was running last year and I'm happy with those numbers. My goal was and is to have a 15 second truck launching it in 2wd (so I don't break stuff). I have well over 300 passes on the truck now (100,000 miles on the truck) and have yet to break anything at the track (KNOCKING ON WOOD HARD). I made 7 runs total today and my ET's varied between 15. 90 and 16. 02 with a couple of fliers on either side. My R/T's were . 519 - . 687 again with a couple of fliers on either side. IMO, that's not bad for the first time out (last time at the track was nearly 6 months ago). Maryland here I come . . . . .
Here's the best part of the day - there was a group of 5 guys there running ricers (Hondas, Toyotas, etc), with BIG exhaust pipes
, etc. Part way through the day they're near me in the staging lanes. One of them (guy with spiked hair, bleached blond on top, black on the sides) walks up to me laughing and asks what I'm doing there with a big slow truck. I just couldn't resist - went over and checked his car out and then went up to the guy that lines people up and asked if he could put us together. He asked what I was driving as these guys had given the tech guy trouble earlier and the starters trouble later - told him I was in the Dodge diesel and what I got back was
, oh yeah, I can do that! So we raced and he turned an 18. 2 to my 16. 02!
#ad
While my truck was cooling for the next run I found him in the pits and tapped him on the shoulder and asked what he thought of my big ... slow truck now? Seems he didn't want to talk
! Revenge tastes soooooo sweet! The funniest part is that I could have loaded his little ricer car in the bed of my truck and STILL had a faster ET than his most likely!!!!!
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