{"id":912,"date":"2011-03-07T22:45:52","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T06:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/specialtyz.com\/blog\/?p=912"},"modified":"2013-09-15T14:40:22","modified_gmt":"2013-09-15T21:40:22","slug":"a-day-at-the-drags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/?p=912","title":{"rendered":"A day at the drags"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wow!\u00a0 It’s been over 6 years since we’ve had a private track rental at our local drag strip.\u00a0 The huge benefits of participating in a private track day is you have nicer cars, nicer people (IQ level seems to be higher as well), better track prep or cars that don’t ruin track prep by breaking or running crappy street tires, and as many runs your heart desires (or your equipment!).\u00a0 For those in SoCal or anyone for that matter that wants to be a part of the next event, click here<\/a>.\u00a0 As usual I had very little time to prep for the even.\u00a0 Luckily for me and the Z, Dean & Joel were able to get my harnesses’ SFI re-certified just in the knick of time.\u00a0 A late night tuning session was also in order for my Z on Q16.\u00a0 For those who have no idea what’s under the hood of my Z32, click here<\/a>.\u00a0 The two major differences since that post were Ash Massives I\\Cs & 2.5″ I\\C Piping.\u00a0 The best the Z had done previously was an 11.3 E.T. a few years back with slightly fewer mods than what’s done last post and today as it sits.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The night before the event, installing & adjusting the 5-point harnesses.<\/p>\n

I was joined by two other Z32 TT friends of ours, Billy and Dr. Dean.\u00a0 Billy packs Sport 700s while Dean rocks our EXP-90s. Greg’s Z will be under going upgrades for those curious as to why the SZ Blue Monster didn’t make it.\u00a0 Expect 8s sometime this year.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Beautiful day at the track.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Wild Billy’s Sport 700 Z<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Billy’s engine bay. We built this baby back in 2006.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Billy rocking out on the launch getting ready to eat some pony.\u00a0 He’s running 18″ wheels with some Mickey drag radials out back.\u00a0 Drive up to the track and racin what he brung!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>That’s alot of car lengths!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> His goal of running 10s was accomplished.\u00a0 He ended up running 3x 10 second passes with his best being a 10.8 E.T.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Dean came out with guns blazing.\u00a0 However he’s been warned by track officials that if he runs 9.99 E.T. or over 135 MPH he will be black listed from the track.\u00a0 So he dialed down the power and kept it under the limits.\u00a0 His plan is to attempt breaking into the 9s at a different track further away from home.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Dean’s Z is a complete street car and sees daily use.\u00a0 Stock chromies with Mickey drag radials.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Smokin’ the tires at the burnout box.\u00a0 Dean ran an easy 10.2 @ 134 MPH for his best of the day.\u00a0 What’s even more amazing is he pulled 2x 1.4 60 foots!!!\u00a0 Incredible.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>My pride and joy.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>My #1 fan after Sonia.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Cooling off.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>My 16″ TE37s with Mickey drag radials.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Safety first.\u00a0 The rules require anyone running quicker\\faster than an 11.5 E.T. needs to have a 5-point roll bar, 5-point harness’ that are within 2 years of being SFI certified, fire jacket, and helmet of course.\u00a0 There are other rules but these are the most obvious that tech inspectors look for.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>He shoots, he……………<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Scores!\u00a0 10 second pass in a Sport 500 car and NO nitrous!\u00a0 A good example of a properly put together setup with some decent driving.\u00a0 Look ma!\u00a0 No hands!\u00a0 (Automatic)\u00a0 The Z makes 492 whp.\u00a0 Got word that April 22nd will be the next private event.<\/p>\n

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Wow!\u00a0 It’s been over 6 years since we’ve had a private track rental at our local drag strip.\u00a0 The huge benefits of participating in a private track day is you have nicer cars, nicer people (IQ level seems to be higher as well), better track prep or cars that don’t ruin track prep by breaking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-racing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=912"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2337,"href":"http:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions\/2337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}