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Sydney Dragway - 12th December

PostPosted: Tue Nov 13, 2012 9:35 am
by Rome_BRZ
Hi all,

I think there would be a bit of interest for another drag meet, last time we only had 3 Club Liberty members actually competing so hopefully more of you will come out and represent this time

Cost
Competitors - $50
Spectators - $20

Time
- Gates open at 4:30pm
- Scrutineering from 5pm - 7:30pm, or until they reach their quota of 180 cars
- Drags start at 6pm and go through until around 10pm, with a break at 9 for burnouts.

What you need
- Current drivers licence
- An approved helmet: see here
- Long-sleeved shirt or jacket
- Long pants
- Enclosed shoes (no thongs or sandals)

Scrutineering
For those who haven't been before, there are two gates to enter WSID, if you are competing you want to enter the competitors gate (obviously :roll: ). Once you're in, find somewhere to park and walk up to the main garage in front of the carpark to sign in, there are ladies sitting at tables inside there. Once you fill out your details and get your wrist strap, you can drive your car to the other side of the garage and line-up for scrutineering. They basically do a quick look over your car to make sure it's running fine and has no leaks or anything dangerous exposed etc. They will also check your helmet.

Drag Racing
Once you're clear, you can go line-up in the lane you've been designated. You stay in this lane all night. Your lane will be called up to race, and they will split up your lane as you come up to the drag strip, one car on the left side, next car on the right, next on the left etc. Make sure you have your headlights when you come up to stage at the actual drag strip. Once you've done your run, you loop back around (turn your headlights off once you get to the end of the strip) and go around to collect your time slip from the booth, then line up again in your lane!

For those who don't know how it all works when you come up to the drag strip, see if this link helps: Drag Racing Basics

Last time I was at WSID there was a dude there in his Lancer LS so no excuses why more of you can't come join us, it's fun!

Attendees:
Rome_STI
Rome's friend (xr8)
chook
nickk__is
bates91
dr20t
essbeecee
dlee

Re: WSID - Wednesday night Drag Races - Date TBA

PostPosted: Tue Nov 13, 2012 5:02 pm
by nickk__is
Ohh pick me! I'm keen :)

Re: WSID - Wednesday night Drag Races - Date TBA

PostPosted: Tue Nov 13, 2012 5:43 pm
by bates91
Rome this was supposed to be our little romantic date why you telling everyone about it

Re: WSID - Wednesday night Drag Races - Date TBA

PostPosted: Tue Nov 13, 2012 6:47 pm
by dr20t
Im in any night last run on the auto box

Mick

Re: WSID - Wednesday night Drag Races - Date TBA

PostPosted: Tue Nov 13, 2012 7:31 pm
by rooby
dr20t wrote:Im in any night last run on the auto box

Mick

I'm interested to see what the difference is going from auto to manual.
Will you be having any runs at the same power with the different tranny or you doing more power at the same time?

Re: WSID - Wednesday night Drag Races - Date TBA

PostPosted: Tue Nov 13, 2012 7:49 pm
by dr20t
Same setup but hopefully slightly more power (less drivetrain losses).

I reckon the launch will be about the same but top end better due to gearing

Hopefully can run an 11 with the auto first

Re: WSID - Wednesday night Drag Races - Date TBA

PostPosted: Tue Nov 13, 2012 10:22 pm
by Rome_BRZ
bates91 wrote:Rome this was supposed to be our little romantic date why you telling everyone about it


Sorry man I thought you were into the gang thing...

Re: WSID - Wednesday night Drag Races - Date TBA

PostPosted: Tue Nov 13, 2012 11:41 pm
by essbeecee
yeh im in.. bate told me you were planning this.

I'm planning on going out on 21st anyway so I vote for that.

If anyone is interested I'm going tomorrow as well.

Re: WSID - Wednesday night Drag Races - Date TBA

PostPosted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 3:09 pm
by Rome_BRZ
Come on peeps add your names to the list we should get a bit of a Liberty following at the drags!

Re: WSID - Wednesday night Drag Races - Date TBA

PostPosted: Sun Nov 18, 2012 10:28 am
by dr20t
So when are we going out?

Re: WSID - Wednesday night Drag Races - Date TBA

PostPosted: Sun Nov 18, 2012 10:52 am
by Rome_BRZ
Do you guys wanna go this Wednesday?

Re: WSID - Wednesday night Drag Races - Date TBA

PostPosted: Sun Nov 18, 2012 10:53 am
by dr20t
Rome_STI wrote:Do you guys wanna go this Wednesday?


im cool with any wednesday im only ten mins away

Re: WSID - Wednesday night Drag Races - Date TBA

PostPosted: Sun Nov 18, 2012 12:38 pm
by Rome_BRZ
dr20t wrote:
Rome_STI wrote:Do you guys wanna go this Wednesday?


im cool with any wednesday im only ten mins away


I'll ask the boys!!

Re: WSID - Wednesday night Drag Races - Date TBA

PostPosted: Sun Nov 18, 2012 1:06 pm
by chook
No can do for this wed, I need a few weeks notice as I'll need to take a day off work and besides need to do a little bit more work to the Blue Bullet almost had an engine bay fire after a hot lap, turns out new turbo gets a bit hot at 20psi and started to burn some of the sound deadening that's near the dump and up-pipe. Btw what's more effective in terms of heat shielding for dumps/up pipes and headers? Heat wrapping or ceramic coating?

Have fun at the drags I can't wait to go, did a 0-100 test and got 4.82 seconds stalled to 10psi @ 3000rpm

Re: WSID - Wednesday night Drag Races - Date TBA

PostPosted: Mon Nov 19, 2012 11:33 pm
by essbeecee
So what day? 21st or 28th? I went out last week but was a little disappointed because there were heaps of stoppages all night.