drag racing my celica... Options

[maikl]

i am racing my car in the 4th cyprus official dragster the next weekend.... at 21+22 of may wish me luck!!!! i will post pics of my car when i am going to start stripping it!!!!!! i will try to take off as much weight i can! !!!!!!

[Cutrara]

good luck i'm sure you'll do great

[Coomer]

I had my entire interior out except for the upper dash a few weeks ago. It really doesn't weight much at all and probably isn't worth the hassle of taking everything out.

The stuff in the trunk, jack, spare, the back seat and front passenger seat are the heaviest items, and they're all simple to remove. Are you going to run with some lightweight small wheels?

[maikl]

I had my entire interior out except for the upper dash a few weeks ago. It really doesn't weight much at all and probably isn't worth the hassle of taking everything out.

The stuff in the trunk, jack, spare, the back seat and front passenger seat are the heaviest items, and they're all simple to remove. Are you going to run with some lightweight small wheels?
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i have gt-4 calipers..... the smallest wheels i can use is 16' with very special offset..... this is my big proplem! a friend of mine with a 7gen celica has the 16'ssr lightweight rims, they are 8 inch!!!!! i hope they fit! does anyone knows the offset of them???? ssr 16' 8 inch

[Jdog1385]

here's some pics of maikl's car. your crazy man, lol







good luck next weekend

This post has been edited by Jdog1385: May 13, 2005 - 6:09 PM

[vangSTa_celica]

Haha, wow. You're really going all out man. Good luck.

[maikl]

and this is only the beggining!!!!!! i will sent jdog moore pics as the stripping of the car goes on..... i am going for 14" i hope......

[DamDirtyApes]

are u going to take out the passenger seat

[maikl]

everything!!!! i am going to take out the both seats and put one sparco that is for rally and its very very light!!!!! today i took out the hi-beam and installed a big hose.... now air filter at all!!! i will sent jdog some pics of my engine bay! the car started looking like a pure drag car! i wonder who is going to put it back together

This post has been edited by maikl: May 16, 2005 - 1:37 AM

[doGGy]

Haha, Good luck man I bet you gonna save some weight...

[maikl]

these are the results of 2 of my 5 drag runs..... the best one was 14.9 something but i could not take the paper for it.... i hac a big proplem with the street tyres i used they were spinning like hell! i also run with 98 octane gas!!!! next time i will go for 14,5!

[maikl]

can someone please resize the pic

[Hanyo]

[Hanyo]

wow straight pipe must have been loud!

you should try getting slicks next time..

did you try to remove stuff from the engine.. like powersteering?

[maikl]

no... i did no such thing as removing powersteering or belts etc... next time i will go with slicks and racing fuel! it was fun!

[Jdog1385]

here's some pics of maikl's car stripped down.







good work man, glad to see you did well

[maikl]

thanks

[BlackSTX]

Remove the A/C belt. I noticed a big difference in my ST without it.

[Hanyo]

did you get towed to the track?

how did you drive there without tail lights?

[maikl]

YEAP!

[tomazws]

wow!~

[Pollux]

although i'm not a fan of drag racing:
nice strip.

I like the rims.
beautiful.

This post has been edited by Pollux: May 25, 2005 - 2:56 AM

[yozef]

Not to be a downer but I did 15.02 in my 1995 SS-II just removing the jack and spare wheel. Performance wise I had a Tom's panel filter and a decat with sports back box.

If I were you I would try racing with the back silencer on and a decent air filter. You are just leaning altering the mixture and removing back pressure from the exhaust two things which work aginst performance in an NA.

Just my 2p & my first post on this forum.

[maikl]

Not to be a downer but I did 15.02 in my 1995 SS-II just removing the jack and spare wheel.  Performance wise I had a Tom's panel filter and a decat with sports back box.

If I were you I would try racing with the back silencer on and a decent air filter.  You are just leaning altering the mixture and removing back pressure from the exhaust two things which work aginst performance in an NA.

Just my 2p & my first post on this forum.
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this is what i was thinking... net time i will go better prepared but i had almost no tyres and i was spinning like hell...... i lost atleast 0,7seconds of the tyres spinning!

[Kwanza26]

If you dyno'ed 180whp maikl... you should be in the mid to low 14 second range. ;]

[x_itchy_b_x]

i went to the draggs raced for the first time. my best was a 14.9 also at 95mph. but man do i suck, well not really. a car shot oil all over the track so i spun through 3rd lol so yeah my 60 foot sucked hardcoooooore. my buddies 300hp se-r that ran 12.5 last year with only 250hp ran a 12.4 the track just sucked so bad. other than that i pulled on an sti toward the very end. my friend has video on his cam corder that runs on a tape but how do i get tape onto a computer? my friends who drag often said if my 60ft was better id easily see high 13's to very very low 14's

it was fun. but man u stripped that thing down!! i ran with my spare and everyhting else i didnt plan on going to race but my friends conveived me to.

its a rush cant wait to do it again.

[maikl]

the car has 185,6 whp and 154,6 of torque, the drag race was in an old airport and not in a normal drag arena, the road sucs and i had allmost no tyres on my car, the tyres was a friends of mine and they where as dry as they could be! i've lost most of my time on 60 foot..... the next time i will go with slics and 118 octane racing fuel and a new program on the dyno and i will loose more weight! + i was realy apset about the category they put me to race! i was racing bmw m3, m5, 2 honda civics with 2,0 engine!!!!!! all of the cars in my category where BEASTS! one civic had 12,7 seconds!!!!!! how the hell i was going to race with a clear mind anyway? next time i will do much better, i know the pottencials of my car and i know that i can do atleast 14,3 next time!

This post has been edited by maikl: May 26, 2005 - 3:27 AM