bad strip experiences?
 

how many of you have taken your car to the drag strip and ended up breaking. im just curious because my dad wont let me race my car because he thinks it will break.

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i doubt ur going to break a 305 on street tires. Maybe if u put on slicks and dumped at 5.5k [&:]

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those are basically my exact words to him, i say i dont have enough power to break anything except maybe traction

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The only time I've had bad strip experiences was when I didn't get paid for my services...

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ive had a few bad experinces at the strip never broke anything but my very first run was agaist a 750 horse power stang driven by a guy who was paralyzed from the waist down

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that sounds like an accident waiting to happen ^. But i have witnessed a 14 second car hitting the wall head on at about the 100 ft. mark. She stalled the car up and started to spin the tires a bit and didnt realize it, when she launched the car lost traction and she couldnt control it and smashed the wall. Totaled the firebird but she ok a least.

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I, just like BigNic, had a bad track experience, a first race ever against a 1967 Pro-Street Camaro running 15" slicks, and a wheelie-bar, but I didn't break anything!

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Well, I break axles almost every time I go. That's no fun. But other than that, I ruin other people's days. Sucks to be in a modded V8 muscle car and get spanked by a gay little neon.

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I have been lucky or at least in the ¼. Most of the time you see breakage from f bodys its parts that already have good amounts of ware like a clutch with 75K on it. But any thing is possible and stranger things do happen. Most stock f bodys are pretty strong when it comes to handling mild horse power numbers and if your car is in good running condition and well maintained it should not have any problems.

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You are also running over 4 seconds faster in the 1/4 thenthe car was everment to go:D.I could be mistaken but I don’t think neon’s where made to take out corvettes.;)