Smart Car Drag Races at Heartland Park Topeka

[ALSRAC]

Originally Posted by mike-in-sa

Come on.... we gotta know.... what was your ET/Top speed?

Here is the answer Mike, unfortunately, that's my wife's time and speed, she beat me, yes, I know, I'm a It reads:

19.73 seconds
71.64 mph


Sorry for the picture's quality:

[mike-in-sa]

Really cool, I'd probably let my wife win too. Looks like a lot of fun.

[ALSRAC]

It was great, lots of fun indeed. here are more pictures:

[ALSRAC]

One more time:

[Sr Swatch]

Now were you guys shifting manually or did you let the car shift for you?

[ALSRAC]

We were shifting all the time, now I regret I didn't let the car shift for us at least once.

[ALSRAC]

The last race:

[ALSRAC]

Here is "Little Lice" after 7 races ready to go home:

[GHammerly]

There are lot's of little tricks to ik out a little more out of any car, should be fun to see how much time can be shaved by using them.
#1 would be to put the car on a diet. Run the fuel tank really low, remove any thing you can to save weight, things like emergency tire repair kit, cargo cover, floor mats, etc.
#2 others could be pumping up the tire pressures to 50 PSI to reduce rolling resitance, using unleaded race fuel might bump up the timing a little and make more power, performance muffler, clean up the exhaust mannifold or build a header, intake, etc.
#3 other things like NOS, turbos, or motorcycle engines for those who really get sick.

The first two should help a little but the smart will still be very slow.

[smartHHO]

I used to have fun in Tenn at a 1/8 mile track. Was based on fastest times and closest to your fastest time without going over if you won. You could actually win a trophy or some cash. Was pretty fun.