Beautiful day and with around 11-12 Lightning's and a Terminator/GT mustang on-hand we had a blast. It was super to meet so many great people. The weather turned out to be cool and just friggin nice! The track treated us well. This was my first time even at a drag strip and i left as a member of the 12 SECOND CLUB!!!!! 12.862 and a 60' of 1.86 on the new Nitto DR'S. I feel very fortunate to do it first time out! Paid dues? NOT! Next week i have Long tubes, converter, plasma booster, and Denso's happ'n so i plan to run at Petersburg (VMP) March 1st and at Cecil the 12th of April! . I'll let the others post their times but we had some good one's today. Richard's WORKS blower is one awesome piece of machinery! and i had anxiously awaited seeing a Sonic Blue truck and Superford's is Bling Bling, they get some attention! One black truck had chrome 23" wheels and it was one awesome ride. Had a pro-glass shaker hood, all kinds of sweet rides. When i left the track, after just a few miles there was a serious accident and the car was upside down and you could see a fireman trying to crawl into it to help whoever was inside. I hope they made it ok, it's interesting how folks i know think drag racing at a confined track is dangerous and is to an extent but the street's are the real danger IMO. Now for the gas mileage buff's. One the trip down i got 14.079 MPG and that included 3 1/4 runs at the track! temps's 20's-30's traveling down to Kinston from Va Beach. Coming back with temps in the 30's-40's got 16.21 (that would equate to 405.25 a tank) Bottom line, get the elect fan!!!!!! Lastly, thanks Richard for setting up such a nice event!!!!

 

John ,
glad you had a good time.Sounds like you guys had a lot of fun.

Welcome to the 12 second club!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WOOOOOOOOO WOOOOOOOOO


VINNIE

 

Johnny welcome to the club.... Beee seeing you at Cecil soon man .. Ok Later congrads.........

PEaCE..............

 

What color is your truck. I would also like to know what mods you ran with and your opinion on the nittos. Did you have any tire spin at all. I saw a truck there with nittos but cant recall the color. I have a 4lb, chip, line mod and was thinking about the nittos. I don't put many miles on my truck that I am not racing it. The F1s just want to go up in smoke.

 

John,

It was nice to see you again. I am glad you came.

I think all of us had a great time. Like I said, Kinston is a small track, but the people there just make you feel so good that you want to come there. I will be making another trip really soon.

 

Kitbuf, i have a True Blue. I have a #6 pulley, TB, Elect fan/pump, cat-back, cool air, trans line mod valve, TR6's, Truck-Traks, Superchip's flip chip (i only ran the street program at Kinston). I really like the Nitto DR's. They draw a lot of attention. In cold weather they will spin very easily (i think all tires do). At the track they did well i thought and the truck had more in it and as i learn to drive it at the track the time's will steadily move on down. The Truck-Traks were a part of it as they completed the package and i was real happy how they worked for me, good straight launch, felt good, had snubber gap around an inch, will move to 3/4th's at Richmond. I was also amazed on how the DR's did on the interstate at 70-75 MPG on cruise control, ya just gotta love it! Can't speak wear yet, too new, but mine aren't gonna make it long cause i'm gonna race a bunch in the next two months! Cheers, John.

 

YAAAAAAAAAA JOHNNY
Welcome to The


Man thats great to do 1st time out,
You should be very happy, now you have a starting point
to compare to with all your new Mod's coming

CONGRATS PAL

It's all about the 11's now,
I plan to go straight from my 12.8 to an 11.9

 

The Truck Traks worked out I see, AWESOME

I see your run was very close to my last run
Filter-Chip-n-4lb-Pulley Run


10/27/02 @57 Degrees

Of course I have a """FEW""" new mods since then
OK MORE THAN A FEW

Hey I was on F-1's, give me a break

 

Glad a great time was had by all

 

It was a great experience and once the driver learns how to drag his truck it'll be even better. I'm gonna be on site to WITNESS your 11's Rob!!!! Ye-haw!

 

John, congratulations on the 12 second run. Especially, since it's your first trip to the track.

I guess the Truck-Traks worked well.

 

Jay, i am very pleased and as you know i did a lot of researching to make sure i got the results i wanted. The "tuning" kit/spacer's are of incredible quality. I ran the gap roughly between 1 1/8 and 1 1/4 this time out and i had great driveability (almost 500 miles round trip) on the highway and great launch results (with my particular suspension set-up). In Petersburg Mar 1st i'm gonna run the gap down to about 3/4th's. The only thing holding this puppy back is this rookie driver learning Nitto DR techniques. I had a best 60 0f 1.85 and am confident i will be able to get this down next time around (heat them more, lower pressure). Thanks for a great product. By the way i noticed many of the "real fast" cars running at Kinston had "slapper's" we are talking wheelies here! Looked cool, John.

 

It was nice to meet everyone that showed up Saturday.
There were some awesome rides there! I'm glad I got to hear some exhaust systems in person... the online clips just don't do them justice. I fuggin love that sonic blue... Man what kickass color! Richard's works is a true peice of art, I'm sure when he gets the bugs all ironed out that will be a real 1/4 mile beast!

I knew my truck wasn't "right" so I wasn't going to run it at first but after Chris talked trash about me being the only one not running I decided what the hell lol (thanks Chris I'm glad I did run it now!!!). Anyway I only have a 2lb pulley and a FT vb, & K&N with the stock air box (not cut up just stock).
I only got to make two passes because I had waited so long to decide on running. I really babied it out of the whole but they had the track prepped well and I know I could have dropped my 60's at lease another tenth or two.
Soooooo The first pass was with the chip on the "SAFE street side" and it pinged so badly I lifted after the 1/8 (it was a full 1/8 pass) and ended up with:
60' = 2.125
1/8 = 8.676 @ 84.859 mph
1/4 =DNC

Second run was a hotlap (11min later) with the chip removed and like an IDIOT i forgot to even turn the O/D off... what can I say, my mind just wasn't functioning Saturday hahaha
60' = 2.059
1/8 = 8.534 @ 83.696 mph
1/4 = 13.256 @ 104.765 mph

Nothing to write home about for sure but for just 2# without a chip not bad either....

On another sad note; all the pictures I took except the last 5 or 6 suck! they are very blurry.. I guess I had gotten something on the auto-focusing eye or something So if anyone has any pictures of the day please email them to me lxtac@twcny.rr.com
I will post the few pictures that aren't blurry later on tonight when work slows down some.

Again it was great to meet all of you that showed up. Hope we can all meet there again before to long. Next time I hope to get this sled into a 13.0 even if I have to hook a strap to one of your trucks to pull me though the traps.

Johnie

 

Sounds like everyone had a great time. I really hated not getting there. Please everyone consider doing it again this spring and I might bring over a Dodge Quad Cab HEMI for you guys to beat up on.:o

 

Mark, sorry you couldn't make it. I will be home again for sure on easter weekend so if you want to hit the track let me know.

Richard, I have a good video of your second run on my camera but don't have a firewire card (mine died) to put it on the computer, it shows the end of you run very well... if you haven't seen it or want a copy let me know and I will see about getting a friend convert it & host it for you (don't think he would "host" it for everyone but I'm sure he would long enough for you to download).

Chris, man I am still loving that color... everyone that has seen the pictures of it comments on how badass it looks. I am trying to post some "cleaned up" pictures that I took now.

Johnie


Edit: duh thats a firewIre not fireware