11.44 @ 120 .... finally, Hyde gets a worthy new personal best - Page 2

youngvr4 · #16 10-05-2005, 04:39 PM

i've been waiting for you to get out of those .7's

11.4, lets see, you could have outrun the lambo merc, srt-10.
btw, whats the most exotic car you ever killed at the track?

CBFryman · #17 10-05-2005, 05:26 PM

nice reation time.

good run too.

mang g0 wid tah $2000 dawg... 2198cc to teh mAxor! Ma<l tieeeet

500 · #18 10-05-2005, 05:31 PM

Tell us about the 2nd gear launch !

JekylandHyde · #19 10-05-2005, 10:03 PM

I actually had a .06 R/T on my 3rd run ... that was awesome

I did not try a 2nd gear launch since the car was not performing optimally. I wqas just satisfied getting down the track. The 11.4 felt absolutely pathetic to me. However, when I saw Ivey's 9.4 time come up on the screen and I did not have much track left I figured it must have been better than it felt.

As for exotics, I have not had the pleasure of racing anything truly exotic. Corvettes is about as exotic as it got and the most exotic Vette I raced killed me. It went 7 seconds to my 12.0

He finished before I was at 1/2 track

chevytrucks92 · #20 10-05-2005, 10:44 PM

Good times.

.06 light is pretty good, but man that .5xx is horrible (assuming that .000 is perfect). You must be waiting to see the green light come on!

If you could cut .0x lights then you'd probably be able to beat cars that are 2 or 3 tenths faster then you.

JekylandHyde · #21 10-06-2005, 05:54 AM

chevy, the .5 light is bad as it was on a .00 tree, but remember this is qualifying and R/T does not matter.

My R/Ts for qualifying were .2, .5 and .06.
Although the .06 was an awesome R/T, it cost me boost at the line and my run was slower.

My best situation seems to be a .2 R/T as that is when I make the most boost. It sucks, but I am racing on the Pro tree and do not have the luxury of the "count down."

JekylandHyde · #22 10-06-2005, 03:42 PM

chevytrucks92 · #23 10-06-2005, 08:51 PM

I could see where that could be a little harder. I've never came off a pro tree before so I wouldn't really know, lol.

By you saying you can't build as much boost if you try and "tree" your opponnent, I'm assuming its taking you a certain amount of time to build your boost. What I would do if I were you would be to try and fix that, lol. I dont know what kind of lights everyone else cuts in your class, but if they cut .0xx lights you're "spotting" the other car almost 2 tenths on the tree. Even if you do your best ET with .2 lights, you're still giving up the time on the tree. But I guess its as broad as it is long in finding ways to make up time in heads up racing.

Either way, I'd do something with the turbo to try and make it spool up to the desired amount faster so you could work on cuttin .0xx lights. I wouldn't know how to go about doing that personally, but I would try and figure somethign out! Maybe a two-step/line loc set-up like the Pro Stock cars use to leave the line (I know they don't use forced induction, but they still have to leave at so many RPMs). If for nothing else, doing that would give you more consistancy on your reaction times.

Or maybe even stage first and start building some RPMs (and boost) before the other car gets into the lights. You don't have a converter to heat up, lol, but I guess clutches will melt down too, lol.

Oh well. You just keep doing what you're doing because apparently you're doing OK, lol.

Igovert500 · #24 10-07-2005, 01:33 PM

Nice runs Jeff. Congrats on the new PB

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