Rather than another thread on the best wax or ceramic coatings I thought I'd change up the theme and talk about about a track event and some triple digit mph fun runs. So for you fender polishers no detailing products will be discussed below.
Last Sunday December 13th I headed to Gila Bend Municipal airport where Omega Motorsport presented two days of half mile runs. My buddy has an R8 Audi V10 with twin turbos making 1300 WHP invited me and I tagged along which was helpful having someone who knew the ropes of this type event. I opted for Sunday as there would be fewer cars (80) where as Sat had over 160! I've run quarter mile before in the NSX and mile events in other cars I've owned so I was curious what the NSX would do. My car has a JB4 and SOS down pipes but running on the conservative program one for 92 octane fuel. I had a pretty good idea what I would turn but unless you run the car it's only talk.
I'd say about 1/3 were stock cars, 1/3 modded with tune, exhaust etc and the remainder were built turbo or super charged. Lota Corvettes, Camaro, Mustangs, Hellcats, Vipers and...BMW's. Big HP Vipers .Several huge hp Vipers (over 1500) running 205 mph! Oh ya GT-R's.
There were no classes for this event but the techs asked what our horsepower was so they could run similar powered cars together. This helped speed things up and you didn't get a lot of single cars running by themselves and that way it there was faster turn around. I've been to drag race events where you get 3 or 4 runs in four hours. You could have run 40 times if you wanted to hot lap it at this event it was that well run.
The weather was great for turbo cars as the air temp was 45 degrees with a DA of 420 at 10 am. This event measured top speed as an average of the last 60 feet like a drag strip. I had a GPS camera which showed absolute top speed. I'm only posting time slip mph for my runs.
My first round was against my buddies R8 monster. As the starter dropped his arm I waited for him to make his move and nothing so I launched pretty good got wheel spin on the painted section of runway(dummy me should have lined up differently) and never saw him. He had ecu problems and needed to reflash his computer. I needed more room to slow down than I thought but it was pretty uneventful. I pulled up to timing stand and got my first run time of 154.44. Not bad as I thought I'd be around 152.
Next run I lined up with a Magnuson supercharged Camero making a lota noise with open headers. This time I lined up outside the painted runway markings and got a great launch and I never saw the other guy. This time 154.98 mph.
Third run I hit 155 mph against a modded Supra. DA was rising and the wind was starting to pick up. One of the cool things at this event a crew member can ride along so my long time friend who came with me got to see what 155 mph felt like. I told him try and touch the dash when I launch. He couldn't do it. I had one more run before lunch and the thought we'd call it a day as the head winds were now about 25 mph so I wasn't going to go any faster with the changing conditions.
I saw a new C8 vett with exhaust and he did 151. Lambo Aventador LP700-4 with tune and exhaust did 156! Gotta say, the NSX attracted a lot of attention and it ran fantastic.
Jimmy aka sled driver
Last Sunday December 13th I headed to Gila Bend Municipal airport where Omega Motorsport presented two days of half mile runs. My buddy has an R8 Audi V10 with twin turbos making 1300 WHP invited me and I tagged along which was helpful having someone who knew the ropes of this type event. I opted for Sunday as there would be fewer cars (80) where as Sat had over 160! I've run quarter mile before in the NSX and mile events in other cars I've owned so I was curious what the NSX would do. My car has a JB4 and SOS down pipes but running on the conservative program one for 92 octane fuel. I had a pretty good idea what I would turn but unless you run the car it's only talk.
I'd say about 1/3 were stock cars, 1/3 modded with tune, exhaust etc and the remainder were built turbo or super charged. Lota Corvettes, Camaro, Mustangs, Hellcats, Vipers and...BMW's. Big HP Vipers .Several huge hp Vipers (over 1500) running 205 mph! Oh ya GT-R's.
There were no classes for this event but the techs asked what our horsepower was so they could run similar powered cars together. This helped speed things up and you didn't get a lot of single cars running by themselves and that way it there was faster turn around. I've been to drag race events where you get 3 or 4 runs in four hours. You could have run 40 times if you wanted to hot lap it at this event it was that well run.
The weather was great for turbo cars as the air temp was 45 degrees with a DA of 420 at 10 am. This event measured top speed as an average of the last 60 feet like a drag strip. I had a GPS camera which showed absolute top speed. I'm only posting time slip mph for my runs.
My first round was against my buddies R8 monster. As the starter dropped his arm I waited for him to make his move and nothing so I launched pretty good got wheel spin on the painted section of runway(dummy me should have lined up differently) and never saw him. He had ecu problems and needed to reflash his computer. I needed more room to slow down than I thought but it was pretty uneventful. I pulled up to timing stand and got my first run time of 154.44. Not bad as I thought I'd be around 152.
Next run I lined up with a Magnuson supercharged Camero making a lota noise with open headers. This time I lined up outside the painted runway markings and got a great launch and I never saw the other guy. This time 154.98 mph.
Third run I hit 155 mph against a modded Supra. DA was rising and the wind was starting to pick up. One of the cool things at this event a crew member can ride along so my long time friend who came with me got to see what 155 mph felt like. I told him try and touch the dash when I launch. He couldn't do it. I had one more run before lunch and the thought we'd call it a day as the head winds were now about 25 mph so I wasn't going to go any faster with the changing conditions.
I saw a new C8 vett with exhaust and he did 151. Lambo Aventador LP700-4 with tune and exhaust did 156! Gotta say, the NSX attracted a lot of attention and it ran fantastic.
Jimmy aka sled driver
