I was at Firebird speedway in Phoenix AZ and had a blast! I like the drags on that day so much because you can see so many differnent cars and engine set ups.A Mercades and a Porsch were probably the fastes street cars of the night running high 11's and low 12's. The muscle cars stood up to their name and were my fav for the night. All muscle and power!! Then a few alchohol dragsters were out there and these were the badasses of the night! A couple of them shut down about half track and still ran 8's in the quarter. The rice was out there too and a few of them had some really good numbers. They included a few Evo's, WRX and some Hondas. There were a couple of LT1 powered F-bodys out there representing their numbers were about right. Mid 14's. Now for the dissapointments of the night. The 05-06 GTO and the 05-06 Mustang GT! The GTO'S could only muster low 14's and with the LS2 high 13's should have been the norm I would think. The GT' did way worse with high 14's and one even doing low 15's. There were more than just one or two of these cars at the track that night and they all couldn't be bad drivers so that leads me to think that these cars are not as fast as I thought.

 

yeah alot depends on the driver and air too...here in kansas, in hot *** weather this summer i watched a 07 shelby mustang pull 14.2 ...its was a stick car though, so alot probably had to do with the driver.

 

sounds like fun man

 

It was a nice 75 degrees with a mild wind. Perfect for racing so that shouldn't have been a factor.

 

Shouldnt the LT1's get low 14's like 14.2 14.1? The Mustang GT's 99-04 get that and they have 15 less HP

 

i was at the track a couple weeks ago and a GT eleanor clone couldnt muster anything better than mid 15s. he got decent launches, but like.... great granny shifted? i dunno, took him almost a full second on his 2-3 shifts..... sad

 

The LT1's were running about 14.4 so that's close. Didn't sound like thay had any mods. Not sure what happened to the new GT's. The two that I saw ran 3 times each and they were doing high 14's and one of them could only muster low 15's once.

 

i hate seing people with standards that cant drive em rite. so many people at my school that havent even heard of a short throw shifter, or even slip shifting(my saturn cant do that) i can clutch shift pretty fast too tho. have them get in car with me, show em what a slip shift is, and there all googley eyed wondering how i did that. it's funny but sad.

 

I may not be up on the terminology but is slip shifting not using the clutch? My grandfather had a hired driver race an A stock Ford he had in the 60s they said after first he never touched the clutch it eventually bit him though they were racing the Tin Indian Pontiac had a lead on him and then broke a pin in the shifter and couldnt go to forth and lost the race, at least that was the story .

 

I wasnt aware of any performance advantage to that.... but then again ive always just done it in big trucks where u need to wait for the rpm to drop. i guess F1 racers dont clutch up, and they do heel-toe to downshift...