Street Racers, Racing Secrets ?!!

[moparcrazy]

Heres a tip...don't race on the street. That's why they have tracks around the country. Have you watched too many episodes of street outlaws and think you're cool?

LMFAO!!!!!
I've never watched street outlaws, I don't have cable, haven't had it in Ten years ! Ok maybe once when my local boys "AV Boys" raced them and got there *** Kicked !! And do I think I'm COOL !!!! LMFAOOOO!!!

 

[moparcrazy]

E-Z to say when you have a track near by.

Three tracks closed by me !! or going to close

 

[beanhead]

Hammering here and therefor a few hundred feet when no one's around IS fun and almost unavoidable with these cars...but burning off/foot brake 3000 rpm launches on city streets....don't brag about that crap (yes we've all been stupud at one time or another) but too many lives/families have been forever changed by that macho man crap full-on 1/4 miling on a city street..not to mention bringing heat down on the rest of us...they're already trying to outlaw our cars..

OK done bitchin...I think Kern's post #3 says it all!

 

[moparcrazy]

 

[beanhead]

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Hahahaaa! That's some funny chit

 

[moparcrazy]

BTW some of you are definitely Getting the wrong impression about where I go racing, yes on a public street but NOT in the city, more like Kern county, Rosamond in the middle of Nowhere !! and yes its safe safe safe from any pedestrian's in fact local law enforcement often bring their cars, the good o'l boy club, if you will!! most of the guys are older mid 40-mid 60, yup and we have a Heck of a time !!

Oh and BTW this post is for Street Racing Secrets, if you care to comment on your Racing Secrets Please do but if your not into Street racing Then please move along !! Thanks

 

[beanhead]

Ya these threads always get people riled, don't take it personal....way worse on other sites.. Best thing you can do on a road is hook...surfaces are so inconsistent. My trick was to lower rear(street radials) tire psi to about 25-27 psi, no burnouts...

 

[dual fours]

Scanners and CBs, helped to keep the Law off your tail.
What I've been reading here seem like there was nothing secret to what I've done back in the late seventies early eighties. It was intercity street racing, light to light or rolling start and ended whenever someone decided to give up. It was hot summer nights, bumper to bumper, mixed with the smell of burning rubber and exhaust. 79 was the year York US 30 Drag strip closed down.

 

[rumblefish360]

Hooking is the hardest part. At the track the car could take a 3K+ clutch dump and go. Not so on the street.
Maybe 2500 rpms. And then a slow (by strip compare of course) roll into the carb.

 

[biomedtechguy]

Traction is the biggest issue on "the street" IMO regarding the performance of your car. Ringers, sleepers, those can take your pride, money, or both.
Too many street races to count. Most from a roll or traffic light to ______ (fill in some landmark). Never more than a 1/4 mile, or in my case, never faster than 120.
So many stories to tell, so I will just tell you that the worst cop that could pull you over is your dad, when you're a teenager. Fortunately I was not racing, BUT I was where the "street scene" happened in New Orleans, and I was able to keep my 71 Charger R/T...probably because my dad did the same thing when he was young.
The most surprising "sleeper" was a full sized white Chevy van, with a built 427 big block! The motor was for the guy's Vette, but the car wasn't finished and the motor was, so....
One of the coolest things I saw on "the scene" was my best friend riding his Yamaha Daytona 500 2-stroke street bike on its rear wheel for the whole 1/4 mile, multiple times, on multiple nights.

 

[Cranky]

One large secret is to hide the funny gas and keep the car looking as stock as possible. Years back I had a set of bias ply tires on my trailer that I took off for better tires and was going to use the old tires for a burnout contest. Well, as I heated them up on a test and tune night the week before the burnout contest, they actually got sticky and it made me up my rpm where I didn't want it in order to keep them spinning. Ended up staging and clicked off a high 13.90 with a stock 340 in a 71 Cuda. They were 235-75-15's! Skinny tires that hook....no secret there but who runs 13 second cars on the streets these days?

 

[moparcrazy]

 

[rumblefish360]

Ehhh, 13 second street car is a fun ride but it is not in the fast lane. Spirited fun quick are words to describe it but actually being fast? I'll leave the word FAST as a point of veiw. What is fast to you? The next guy may laugh and say "No! Deduct 3 seconds from that!"

Also, what were you used to driving before you got I n the Muscle car on steroids? A 4 cyl. Honda? Nissan?
A 6 cylinder Jeep or Dakota?

Jumping up 200hp WILL be noticed!
LMAO!
And you may say that the car is fast.

 

[snakeyes]

kids today do not under stand that way back when we were kids there weren't hardly any traffic on the roads stop light to stop light there was no traffic at times ,today your bumper to bumper and today your putting higher HP to the road it would like trying to launch a rocket out there ,yup the 50`s ,60`s and the 70`s were a lot of fun

 

[biomedtechguy]

A car that you would cruise in, go to school/work in, and "street race" that was your ONLY car, back in the 70s and 80s, a true 12-13 second time in the 1/4 mile on the street WAS one of the faster cars.

 

[OK charger]

LMFAO!!!!!
I've never watched street outlaws, I don't have cable, haven't had it in Ten years ! Ok maybe once when my local boys "AV Boys" raced them and got there *** Kicked !! And do I think I'm COOL !!!! LMFAOOOO!!!

Tell you what hot shot...when you have actually worked/seen the effects of street racing you can bitch about "no where to have fun". I have seen a couple of accidents in my career where there was blood ,guts and dead people. It's not really cool to go to a parents house at 2 in the morning to inform them that their child died in a totally avoidable traffic incident.

 

[snakeyes]

some times there not involved in racing there driving at high speeds and not thinking of the outcome ,we have all done at one time and we were lucky to have not killed our self or some one else

do not no the stories behind these photos

 

[snakeyes]

it does not matter what brand make or model ,just be safe ,I no there were time I had not been thinking when some one came up alongside of me wanting to race and could of kill me and my soon to be wife beat his *** bad but down the road a kid came out and I avoided him and came very close to hitting a light with the passenger door and totlling out my car and maybe killing us both car stopped about one inch from a very large poll ,never did that again been married almost 47 years

 

[Zeppelin264]

And then there are Ford Mustang owners.... lol

 

[1967coronet440]

And then there are Ford Mustang owners.... lol

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Ya you see a mustang pulling out of a car meet, or lining up for a street race you better get the f out of the way!