Looking over some old time slips I found a couple that were near the same 1/8 time that are on your slips:

1.852 60 ft.
8.344 1/8
83.47 mph

1.845 60 ft.
8.359 1/8
83.31 mph

1.926 60 ft.
8.342 1/8
84.6 mph

here are some with near the same mph:

2.105 60 ft.
9.329 1/8
77.18 mph

2.116 60 ft.
9.366 1/8
76.91 mph

2.177 60 ft.
9.421 1/8
77.05 mph

2.094 60 ft.
9.269 1/8
77.45 mph

2.089 60 ft.
9.182 1/8
77.18 mph

2.126 60 ft.
9.194 1/8
77.71 mph

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You woudn't happen to be subtracting the 'ole r/t from your et would you? That would put your mph and times right together.

I'll admit, when I first started drag racing years ago, I subtracted the r/t from the et. Man, I sure was running fast!:o

 

60 foot and mph numbers seem accurate, but that 1/8 mile number seems off by about .5 or .6.

 

'Rod:

Read my post again carefully. The term "redneck" was used as an adjective, right? Now let's look at the word immediately following. That is the noun which the adjective modifies. What do we find? Indeed, the word "track". You weren't referred to in that manner, nor were any of your brethren of the "southern persuasion", whatever that means. Indeed, an eighth-mile strip of asphalt was referred to by me as "redneck", and if feels offended by this usage of language, then it can damn well express its outrage to me in person!

And while we're at it, since when did the term "redneck" have ANY particular connection/connotation to residents of the southern (really - "southeastern") United States? As I see it, "redneck" is an attitude, a way of life, and knows no geographic or ethnic boundaries. I grew up around hordes of rednecks in upstate New York, I lived within a veritable sea of them in Mobile, we're awash in them around Cincinnati, and I can tell you that one of the most card-carrying of the breed works directly for me and is an Indian immigrant (as in - "from India").

Are we in agreement? The last thing we need around here is another internet argument.

 

I'm not subtracting or adding or anything, just reading the slip. However everyone at our track told me R/T doesn't have any effect on the times. They told me no matter what I do at the line the clock doesn't start til I break the light beam. Looking at my numbers from all the other runs that looks to be true. Is this not the way all tracks do it. Hey its all new to me.

 

'Hooters:

You're correct with your latest supposition. You could sit in the lights literally forever and it wouldn't be reflected in your ET (don't ask me how I know).

 

OK, Silver, I'll ask: How do you know?

 

OK, who's talkin' 'bout me

 

oops..

 

Anyway after saying all that I made the airbox mod to see if I could justify buying a cone filter or filter kit and I think its clear even if my mph is wrong the times from the run with the stock airbox is about 4 tenths slower than my best. I thnk I'll be calling JL to get some new toys.

 

'Carver:

First of all, that's just the way it works, plain and simple. Gravity pulls downward, the sun rises in the east, and the clocks don't start until you break the beam.

Of course, that's not good enough for an engineer. A hypothesis must be formulated, and experiment to test the hypothesis designed and executed, and the hypothesis thusly tested.

Looking back through my stack of timing slips, I see more than a few from my motorcycling days in the 1.20-2.30 SECOND range. No effect on ET, of course. Now, there are a few gems, including a 0.511 slip, but in general, a 100+ HP, skinny-tired, wheelie/wheelspin prone, 450-pound flyswatter is not that easy to launch well.

I must admit to a few in the 0.70-0.80 range with the Lightning as well. Too bad we just can't subtract that off the ET, huh? I'd be in the 12's by now via that accounting scheme!

The wife got me a port-a-tree for Christmas, and what a training tool that is! I got so I could cut 20 or 30 lights in a row below 0.55 seconds, NO PROBLEM! With intense training, I was nailing perfect 0.500 lights with startling regularity. This is with a proper rollout time for a Lightning input into the device, so it's for real.

Anyway, springtime rolled around, I sort of fell out of practice with the tree, and it was right back to 0.7's and 0.8's all day long, with the occasional 0.45-ish redlight sprinkled in for good measure. Don't think this goes un-noticed by the "significant other".

 

Suprised myself last time at the track. When racing abuddy I always seems to cut .0xx lights. Racing anyone else, ummm, a little worse. I've never red-lighted though, hmmm, maybe I'm not aggressive enough. LOL