went to Cecil racetrack on 3/3/06

[Silver04STi]

The clocks do malfunction from time to time. The rest of the times might be right and he very well might have run a 12.8, something probably just trip the 60' sensor. My buddy was running his talon the other night and as he was going down the track the clocked flashed something like 10.7 at 200mph. Something tripped the 1/4 sensor before he got there. He has the timeslip to show that but he knows he didn't run it. it is just impossible for you car(FWD) on street tires, even on slicks to cut a 1.39 60

[HatchSurfer3]

12.8 is definitely a legitimate time for the work chris has done. congrats on the times. Like silver04sti said, it was probably just the 60' time, everything else could very well be accurate

[turbo4g63]

i remember his other runs...he ran 13.9, and a couple 14.1's

[D Money]

Originally Posted by turbo4g63

i remember his other runs...he ran 13.9, and a couple 14.1's

wow, then with that awesome but fake 60ft he happened to pull off a 12.8? That's a whole second faster, I am going to say those times are not real and that there was an error with the 1/4 mi times.

[05OCsrt-4]

my first run was a 13.9, 2nd-13.4, 3rd-12.8, then i let my car sit for like 1/2 hour and the street tires cooled down, then i couldnt get any good times

[Driven]

Originally Posted by 05OCsrt-4

my first run was a 13.9, 2nd-13.4, 3rd-12.8, then i let my car sit for like 1/2 hour and the street tires cooled down, then i couldnt get any good times

This is the reason why NHRA requires times to be backed up within 1% in order for them to be a record. Timers are known to malfunction. Based on your other two runs, I'd throw out the 12.8 until you can do it again. No one is knocking you, a 13.4 is still a nice time but cars generally don't pick up a magic 6 tenths without some serious work. Throw in that whacky 60' and we can be pretty certain the 12.8 is not a real time.

Congrats on the 13.4 though, go out again and prove us all wrong.

[05Accent]

yea well with some bad shifts in the first few runs.. and progressing and not messing up as he did in the previous runs.. could get a few tenths.. just to say

[sleeperstyle]

Originally Posted by HatchSurfer3

Thats a little scary. You take this car life way too seriously haha

car life? wff? . i guess.

- im calling anybody that thinks a srt4 can cut a 1.3 60ft. a moron, plain and simple. i don't doubt he ran the 12.8 but who knows/cares.

[05Accent]

Originally Posted by sleeperstyle

car life? wff? . i guess.

- im calling anybody that thinks a srt4 can cut a 1.3 60ft. a moron, plain and simple. i don't doubt he ran the 12.8 but who knows/cares.

good for u

[05OCsrt-4]

Originally Posted by Driven

This is the reason why NHRA requires times to be backed up within 1% in order for them to be a record. Timers are known to malfunction. Based on your other two runs, I'd throw out the 12.8 until you can do it again. No one is knocking you, a 13.4 is still a nice time but cars generally don't pick up a magic 6 tenths without some serious work. Throw in that whacky 60' and we can be pretty certain the 12.8 is not a real time.

Congrats on the 13.4 though, go out again and prove us all wrong.

i agree with u bout the 60', it's prob 100% BS and i'll say it, but that's not what i'm concentracting on, but to keep u pep happy, when i go the track in about a month i'm gonna lay down mid 12's b/c i'm gonna have a few surprises. and when i crossed the line my speedometer was between 105 and 110, couldn't tell what it was closer to though

[Driven]

Originally Posted by 05OCsrt-4

i agree with u bout the 60', it's prob 100% BS and i'll say it, but that's not what i'm concentracting on, but to keep u pep happy, when i go the track in about a month i'm gonna lay down mid 12's b/c i'm gonna have a few surprises. and when i crossed the line my speedometer was between 105 and 110, couldn't tell what it was closer to though

I hope you do run mid 12's, more power to you. All were saying is that the 60' gives reason to believe the clocks malfunctioned. If you had run several other runs close to that one (or even one run close to it), it would be easy to say throw out the 60 and that was a good run. Since your next closest run was over a half second slower, all the incrimentals on that run are trash.

Like I said, go back and run it again and prove that the clocks were right. Until then though, you should be happy with your 13.4 because the 12.8 doesnt sound legit.

[HatchSurfer3]

I dunno i think 12.8 is legit. If ya look at his other times he's progressively gettin better times. With the modifications he has done i think 12.8 is very obtainable. He magically gained 5 tenths between his first 2 runs, so if he shifted better on his 3rd run then theres definitely a possibility.

Oh yea and sleeperstyle.....relax haha