Back at the track for the 1st time in 10 years...good and bad news!

[Coltrane]

Since I recently purchased my 85 Monte SS, I figured it's time to get back to the track for the first time in 10 years! I headed down to Atco for their Tuesday night gambler's race, and there was both good and bad news about it.

Car is stock for now (have big plans for this winter) and went 16.60 and 16.62 for my 2 time runs (weather was about 88* and HUMID. For 1st round, I dialed a 16.65 (and was racing a 10.50 car). Here's the good news - I went 16.651! A thousandth over my dial. The bad news? I went .01 red 🤬🤬 It's all good though - I definitely had more fun than ANYONE there last night. I can't wait to get back out again, and I REALLY can't wait to tear into the car this winter 😈

 

[GroceryGetter83]

What motor is in it? As long as you had fun and kept the shiny side up, that's all that matters!

 

[Kamloops cutlass]

Since I recently purchased my 85 Monte SS, I figured it's time to get back to the track for the first time in 10 years! I headed down to Atco for their Tuesday night gambler's race, and there was both good and bad news about it.

Car is stock for now (have big plans for this winter) and went 16.60 and 16.62 for my 2 time runs (weather was about 88* and HUMID. For 1st round, I dialed a 16.65 (and was racing a 10.50 car). Here's the good news - I went 16.651! A thousandth over my dial. The bad news? I went .01 red 🤬🤬 It's all good though - I definitely had more fun than ANYONE there last night. I can't wait to get back out again, and I REALLY can't wait to tear into the car this winter 😈

So you’re going to take a perfectly good reliable street car and chop it up and change a bunch parts and spent a pocketful of cash on it til it’s fast loud and unreliable ?
…I like your style

 

[Coltrane]

What motor is in it? As long as you had fun and kept the shiny side up, that's all that matters!

Just the stock 305. Oh I had an absolute blast!!

 

[Coltrane]

So you’re going to take a perfectly good reliable street car and chop it up and change a bunch parts and spent a pocketful of cash on it til it’s fast loud and unreliable ?
…I like your style

😂😂 I have a motor and trans ready from my ‘84 that got totalled, so that will be going in it. The car will stay just as nice 😎

 

[64nailhead]

For $400-500 on a stock motor you can really make for a good time with a plate nitrous kit.

I have an '84 SS , no where near as clean as yours, that makes some steam on the cheap. But only two factory gauges are still being called into duty. Hope it is all you want - nice car and have fun.

 

[bracketchev1221]

Don’t lose the consistency. Now with the red light rule changing there is nothing wrong with being the slower car.

 

[-dw-]

I have been to the track many times for the last 20yrs. Around ten yrs ago I thought I had the good hang of it. I was at an Olds race and the first pass I was trying to stage when somehow I rolled the front tires past both staging lights. Omg how embarrassing. I quickly noticed my mistake, backed up and staged. Then I pulled off a .000 reaction. 😁

 

[Coltrane]

Don’t lose the consistency. Now with the red light rule changing there is nothing wrong with being the slower car.

What red light rule?

 

[bracketchev1221]

What red light rule

In the bracket world it has been slowly being adapted to change the slower car having the first chance to redlight to worst redlight. It used to be the advantage of the faster car that if the slower car redlit the race was over. NOW what they are doing at some tracks, and most of the high dollar races is the first car leaves on a green light (even if he technically redlit). If the faster car leaves and goes green, the slower car tree then goes red. IF the faster car redlights by more than the slower car, the bulb in the faster car lane will go red and he will be out. I guess it makes it more fair to everyone, but it was a benefit of being the quicker car. Just like being the slower car gave you the benefit of leaving first on the tree and not having to watch your opponent go by the tree in the background. But I guess with crossover delay boxes, this distraction was taken away from the faster cars. By the way, I was a bracket racer for 30 years spending the last 20 top bulb racing in Super eliminator.