[drag] 02 September - Motorplex WAW Opening season

[Dzenci]

Since we are getting into spring season of 09 and the motorplex is opening for the season I was wondering who is thinking of taking their cars down the drags in the first couple weeks or so?
I thought it would be a good idea to put down a list of Antlag members for a nice wednesday evening and go down together and get some good runs!

There will be cold nights still for a while which is a bonus for FI cars and non but maybe not too good for the track temperature unless you burn the shit out of your tires.lol.

The weather is looking a bit rough for the first opening wednesday and it would be really packed if its on.

Cheers
Dzenad

[Turbo2.6L]

I'll be there every week i can til they boot me again :D

[Turbo2.6L]

Will be running on pump fuel for the most part, then using E85 to see what i can get out of her after a few trips down.

[Turbo2.6L]

Cheers. What's in the rolla?

[Turbo2.6L]

Nice!
Good luck with a mid 11

[joshg123]

Yeh ive got a sunroof to make and a clutch to put in and ill be down attempting to get into the low 11's

[180SXTCY]

if i get my shitter finished sometime soon id be keen to take it down and see what kinda times it can do... :)

[zeroyon]

Would be really good to book out a lane one time for Antilag on a WAW.

I reckon we could get some really nice cars if people were keen.

Maybe towards end of Oct as it warms up ?

[j3rk]

I'm keen on this... want to see what I can get out of the Supra.

[duste]

Pretty keen on getting a before/after time to compare current setup vs. new setup.

Just gotta get my hands on a helmet.

[DISTRBD]

I say 1st few WAW night trying to launch on ice .. wait for some test n tunes for better track

[YOUR MATE]

I'll be racing this week. Only basic mods so the track wont affect me much, hoping for flat 13/high 12. Gonna try get down there as much as possible this season just for the fun of it.

[wadragracing]

First couple of weeks are normally pretty busy, so get down there early if you are planning on going.
Would be great to see some more people trying out Fast Fridays and even national opens this season.
I'm hopefully going to do the whole season in Super Street.

[SSICK]

keen.

[Azrian]

I say 1st few WAW night trying to launch on ice .. wait for some test n tunes for better track

Agree. I will be down in a few weeks.

[Turbo2.6L]

The track has fresh rubber & a fresh coat of VHT. Will be sticky as it's gonna get on a WAW

[Supra_boi]

ill be keen for a time, if antilag books a lane ill be keen as

[Steppo_GT]

I'm pretty keen to go down, wanna see what I can get out of my car this time around.

[Lonewolf]

keen to get down there more often this year, hopefully some drag radials to push into the 13's

[MISS 13B]

Looking forward to breaking more shit this season! :D

[ITGRIPS]

i might see if i can get down there in the VK this season, haven't made it for a few years now for various reasons!!!!!!

[KPWISHN]

I'll be down spectating. Acquiring bits and pieces and car is in bits. Can't wait to get it back together. Hopefully sometime this season.

Camera will be handy for big skids. The good time of the year is upon us once again.

[azr34]

will be there weather dependent of course

[Brockas]

KPWISHN, i wont be doing any skids, but if you could film that'd be mint.

Will be taking the whale down to stretch it's legs tonight...

[stefan]

might head down tonight for a bit n watch. opening night should hope for a few cars down there

[Lasoya]

ill be coming down for watch, cant run the r8 cause diff is screwed :(

[MISS 13B]

The temperature will be fuckin primo for turbo's down there tonight.
13 degrees atm :)

[Turbo2.6L]

I'll cook some tyres for ya KPWISHN :D

[Brockas]

What time do we have to be there?

Prepping car now...

[MISS 13B]

Competitor entry is at 5:00 Brockas.
Closes at 7:00.

[yeahlow34]

What time do we have to be there?

Prepping car now...

Might want to get there as early as you can. There's usually a line...and it saves waiting for scrutineering.

[Brockas]

*edit*

all good, cheers :)

[Brockas]

It's a ghost town down here. 40 cars max. Guessing everyone thought it would be raining...

[duste]

Or believed the prophets who said it would be packed/slippery and to wait a bit?

[Tre-Cool]

It's a ghost town down here. 40 cars max. Guessing everyone thought it would be raining...



my old man is down there with a white vu ute with t51. i just got off the phoen to find out how he went but apparently it blew up the gearbox or broke the diff half way down.

anyone see it? (im in melbourne)

[wadragracing]

I had all intentions to go...then wimped out cause of the cold haha, maybe a lot of others feeling the same?

[DT95WA]

I had all intentions to go...then wimped out cause of the cold haha, maybe a lot of others feeling the same?

+1, track would be shit anyway

[Lasoya]

my old man is down there with a white vu ute with t51. i just got off the phoen to find out how he went but apparently it blew up the gearbox or broke the diff half way down.

anyone see it? (im in melbourne)
Yeh all i saw was tow truck towing him back, didnt c him blow anythin mid track, and yeh was very cold, track in ok condition, dean in his 4L TURBO was runnin 11 sec passes with street rubber

[Brockas]

RWD GT-R FTL :(

[Tre-Cool]

Yeh all i saw was tow truck towing him back, didnt c him blow anythin mid track, and yeh was very cold, track in ok condition, dean in his 4L TURBO was runnin 11 sec passes with street rubber

old boy reakons it broke just after the snake pit on the first run of all things. no drive in any gear but it wont rock in park. he did a 2.9 - 60" and had 93mph at the 660. So should be a low 11 second run for sure with some sticky tyres.

bummer too coz the gearbox was just rebuilt with strengthened parts the other week to withstand 450rwhp and with "only" 350rwhp gonna be a warranty job for the trans builder for sure.

hopefully be nice and cold when i get back next week so i can take my ve down for a 11 too.

[j3rk]

What'd you run brockas?... and rwd = blown something or just no awd love?

[Brockas]

lol was running 12's with 2.2 60's.... transfer case is on it's way out, so it was just RWD...

[MISS 13B]

Finally got down there at 7:00. Was a ghost town.

Saw SSICK and I think it was Rustbucket, the panda eye ute guy.

[monk_13]

keen to get down there more often this year, hopefully some drag radials to push into the 13's

We can have a running comp for antilags slowest cars!!! (in a straight line of course...)

NOTE TO SELF: must get proper LSD and some sticky rubber...

And on that note, to those of you out there running R-comps down there. Is there really that much advantage running them compared to wide sticky street rubber? say 245/40/18 Advan AO48 VS 285/30/19 Advan V103's

(read: I'm cheap and dont wanna splash out for both R-comps and drag radials)

[wadragracing]

R-Comps won't make a hell of a lot of difference on the strip. May even slow you down (do they have a stiffer sidewall?)

[Brockas]

Stiffer sidewall, but in my experience still hook up better in a straight line than street tyres.


Not worth buying a set for the drags though, only for the track.

[Lonewolf]

yes they have a stiffer sidewall, but the softer compound can compensate for that a bit.
in my experience your better off with street tyres.

hoping with drag radials I can get down to a 2-2.2 60'

[Deke]

went down , cold as fuck. Seen brockas do 1 run which you got no traction what so ever off the line which sucks ,also seen ssick and the silver aristo running high - mid 11's and also that gold f6 from here was running mid 11's aswell , not a big crowd either i thought there would be alot more people.

[S133LTR]

yes they have a stiffer sidewall, but the softer compound can compensate for that a bit.

compound doesnt help when your bouncing down the track on r-comps because of the sidewall.

[Brockas]

Seen brockas do 1 run which you got no traction what so ever off the line which sucks
Yerp, tested it on the way home as well, it's almost all RWD... time to build a decent transfer case...

[Daisy]

Finally got down there at 7:00. Was a ghost town.

Saw SSICK and I think it was Rustbucket, the panda eye ute guy.

yer that was me, failing hard. ended up with 11.8 with 2.2 60' so fair bit in it.

[Azrian]

Yerp, tested it on the way home as well, it's almost all RWD... time to build a decent transfer case...

All four wheel drift off the line FTW. Looked good from the staging lanes.

[Brockas]

Haha well at least it looked good!

[Turbo2.6L]

+1, track would be shit anyway

Wrong.
I've been hearing the same rubbish all week from people on forums about the track condition for this week, but it was the best i've ever run on at a WAW. Fresh surface and a fresh coat of VHT.
I ran street tyres & had no wheelspin off the line (no stall obviously).
Managed a 11.53 @ 126.5 with 2.05 60 footer...


RWD GT-R FTL :(

Looked bombed skating all over the track!
What mph did you run?

[MISS 13B]

yer that was me, failing hard. ended up with 11.8 with 2.2 60' so fair bit in it.
Haha there's no failure in an 11.8 run! :p

[Daisy]

my skids where embarrasing, kept fucking it up, not heat in tyres = shit launch. will be back next week with dramatic improvement (hopefully)

[Turbo2.6L]

Yea there'll definitely be a dramatic improvement... I'll be in the driver's seat :p

[Daisy]

like fuck you will

[Turbo2.6L]

Hahaha na i'll be happy in mine running drag radials!

[Azrian]

Massive 3rd gear burnout + shit track = great heat in slicks but wheel spinn in first and skating second.

Sorry Dean but the track might have been good for street tyres but for slicks, its the worst i have seen.

[SSICK]

12.5 for me, couldnt get the launch right still......i thought the track felt good.

[wadragracing]

You guys do realise a cold track reduces the effectiveness of VHT right?
Big power producing air + cold track = more traction difficulties than normal, not too hard to figure out.

[Brockas]

Looked bombed skating all over the track!
What mph did you run?
haha cheers, on one run I ran 124mph but I wasn't smashing gears, so think I might be able to squeeze a few more mph out of it...

[monk_13]

R-Comps won't make a hell of a lot of difference on the strip. May even slow you down (do they have a stiffer sidewall?)




Stiffer sidewall, but in my experience still hook up better in a straight line than street tyres.


Not worth buying a set for the drags though, only for the track.

R comp purchase is being made with Barbs in mind, but I figured if they helped with launching, due to the softer compound, I'd give them a run there as well.

May even have to do a couple runs, on the same night, swapping tyres, with the same launch (well as close as possible) and see the difference between the 2. Would be a good little experiment methinks.

[Evilteddy]

R comp purchase is being made with Barbs in mind, but I figured if they helped with launching, due to the softer compound, I'd give them a run there as well.

May even have to do a couple runs, on the same night, swapping tyres, with the same launch (well as close as possible) and see the difference between the 2. Would be a good little experiment methinks.

Becareful with RCOMPS if your staging burnout is too much then you'll put the RCOMPS past a point where they are beneficial to you :P

[DT95WA]

Wrong.
I've been hearing the same rubbish all week from people on forums about the track condition for this week, but it was the best i've ever run on at a WAW. Fresh surface and a fresh coat of VHT.
I ran street tyres & had no wheelspin off the line (no stall obviously).
Managed a 11.53 @ 126.5 with 2.05 60 footer...



Looked bombed skating all over the track!
What mph did you run?

meh, waw's boring anyway, might see you at some big meets? you got the power and timeslip to be competitive. you will then learn what a "good" track feels like :)

[Turbo2.6L]

haha cheers, on one run I ran 124mph but I wasn't smashing gears, so think I might be able to squeeze a few more mph out of it...

Sweet, was thinking you would be 130mph+ though?
Will be good to see what it does with new transfer case, decent tyres & softer suspension!


meh, waw's boring anyway, might see you at some big meets? you got the power and timeslip to be competitive. you will then learn what a "good" track feels like :)

Been to a few 'competitive' meets & i know what a prepped track is like. Last night was very good for a WAW & anyone who says otherwise is just making excuses :p
If i can resist going down & running another 10 for long enough i'll enter in the first meet of the season. Would love to have a crack @ some competitive racing.

[monk_13]

Becareful with RCOMPS if your staging burnout is too much then you'll put the RCOMPS past a point where they are beneficial to you :P

Point well and truly noted sir! Will have to remember not to fry them too much!

[S133LTR]

And def do not let them down to try and get traction!

[DISTRBD]

Wrong.
I've been hearing the same rubbish all week from people on forums about the track condition for this week, but it was the best i've ever run on at a WAW. Fresh surface and a fresh coat of VHT.
I ran street tyres & had no wheelspin off the line (no stall obviously).
Managed a 11.53 @ 126.5 with 2.05 60 footer...



2.05 the best 60ft you run ??

[Brockas]

Sweet, was thinking you would be 130mph+ though?
Will be good to see what it does with new transfer case, decent tyres & softer suspension!

haha cheers, but nar, Simon needed 630rwhp to run 10.91 @ 131mph in his 32 GTR. You really have to be careful in 3rd gear on a stock gearbox, so you can't smash gears. Mine's almost 100hp short of Simons, so pretty happy with mid 120's.
May put some stock suspension in it and go down if I get motivation, but to be honest drag racing isn't really my thing. Much rather circuit.

[V8ENZ]

pulled some more kg's out of the birkin so keen to see what gain i get on the strip.

[Turbo2.6L]

2.05 the best 60ft you run ??

This Wednesday, yes. I was running on street tyres so couldn't stall... Just wait for the light & mash the throttle! Haha
Have cut 1.6's in the past.


haha cheers, but nar, Simon needed 630rwhp to run 10.91 @ 131mph in his 32 GTR. You really have to be careful in 3rd gear on a stock gearbox, so you can't smash gears. Mine's almost 100hp short of Simons, so pretty happy with mid 120's.
May put some stock suspension in it and go down if I get motivation, but to be honest drag racing isn't really my thing. Much rather circuit.

Wow, that's alot of power for that mph.What dyno was that on?
Your's did well to get within 7mph of the one mentioned with mid 500's. Stock suspension & go for gold!

[DT95WA]

brockas whats the weight of the 33?

[Brockas]

Wow, that's alot of power for that mph.What dyno was that on?
Your's did well to get within 7mph of the one mentioned with mid 500's. Stock suspension & go for gold!

On X-Speed dyno. As I was saying, at those power levels the standard gearboxes are like glass, so its hard to really get the best out of the cars at the plex without a dogbox.

These GT-R's aren't that light, mine with the cage weighs in at 1580kgs.

[beefcake]

Would be really good to book out a lane one time for Antilag on a WAW.

I reckon we could get some really nice cars if people were keen.

Maybe towards end of Oct as it warms up ?

it would be a great idea, ive done it twice for the rota heads, first time not bad, just over 20 turned up, but second time we had a even bigger turn out, but the track does not reserve your positions or lane if other people get there first, its a first in best dressed situation,
We got 1 car in before the number cut off limit for the night was announced, so shitloads of guys were turned away, some even had the arvo off from work to organise car trailers to be there, but in the end wombat Wednesdays are just a first come first serve situation.
Trust me when i say it makes me feal like a pingpingpingping for organising it and the guys get no return for their efforts, so im never organising a lane on wombats again, next will be a track day for sure

What i would highly suggest is hiring the track for a day all to ourselves, then any car can run, unlike wombat wed that has standards and limits to what can be run on the night.
Last i knew it was roughly 4g ish to hire the track, now get a good turnout like one of the antilag cruise turnouts and its gonna be cheap as chips fellas.
Or even cap it to 50 cars , thats 80 bucks a person to spank the track all day with no cues or massive waiting down time:cool:

[Turbo2.6L]

Private days are usually limited to 12 cars, or sometimes 20.
More cars means you need both lanes & more people to supervise. This means more money...
Also has tobe done through the week & during the day wor else costs double :(
Would be keen on private day though, even if we have to split the $5k between just 20 people!

[zeroyon]

to spank the track all day with no cues or massive waiting down time

Thats pretty much what hi-tech event is.

Maybe Antilag should put in a good showing to that this year ?

[Turbo2.6L]

When is it?

[MISS 13B]

Pretty sure next Hi Tech is February next year.

[zeroyon]

Your right Miss 13b.

Thats prob a bit far away really, be nice as said to do somehting in Nov.

Meh book a lane, see who shows :)

[beefcake]

Thats pretty much what hi-tech event is.

Maybe Antilag should put in a good showing to that this year ?

agree heaps, they are notoriously under numbered events, but the thing i hear that's the biggest whinge is that its in the middle of summer and in the middle of the day, they need a night event to make compact days explode , one day a night event will happen and that's the day that the motorplex will reap the rewards of hosting it at night time, it will become a profit instead of a loss , in all aspects of winnings, money/crowds/competitors/times/ and just a bigger spectacle with most of the compact cars belching flames out their ass holes :eek2:
Either way ill suport what comes along, but it would be nice to see more compacts at regular meets this year, it would be good to have regular compact classes in action to create a field to race in, then the exposure can only bring more acceptance :)

[Tocchi]

who's heading down tomorrow night? (pending weather)

im hoping to be able to match last seasons 13.2 (running ET Streets), and hopefully get a flat 13 or crack a 12.

just a harder launch on the ET Streets and remove the air filter... but i have a feeling gerrin will be called as i already have a rear left axle/cv issue .

[DR1FT3N]

^^ill be heading down pending weather also, avoided going down last season so keen to give it a crack and see how i go traction pending :(

[Tocchi]

for those who are going 2moro to watch, could somebody please bring a video camera. ?

[DR1FT3N]

anyone think this will be on tonight? weather isnt looking to good

[Tocchi]

just rang the motorplex

its on !

[Lasoya]

ring motorplex back after 4.30, this is when they make their final decision

[Azrian]

Shes pissing at work in Kwinana at the moment.

[Boza]

next week should be a goer, might run the patrol...

[Tocchi]

fucking car didnt break :(

got another PB, 13.1X @ 105.X mph (will confirm 2moro, slip in car)
with 2.0X 60ft.

[Azrian]

Awesome mate. Good work. How was the weather?

[reNEGade]

Went down last night, about 120 cars. Drizzled a bit for 5 mins twice.
I managed a 13.7X @ 106.7mph with a 2.28 60ft.
DR1FT3N, your car is in this clip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryUPkd8Ftv8

[DR1FT3N]

ha ha sweet night (traction issues yeh little bit) tried hard wheel spin fucked me ran 13.42 @ 115mph, 2.61 60 ft. semi slicks next time, fingers crossed :)

[Turbo2.6L]

Shit night due to muppet pingpingpingpings that run WAW's.

/End Rant.

[DR1FT3N]

Shit night due to muppet pingpingpingpings that run WAW's.

/End Rant.

????? elaborate???

[esky]

don't hold back dean, go for gold son.

[Turbo2.6L]

99% of them are just muppets & deserve to be shot.
That is all.

[esky]

weak

[reNEGade]

Who takes photo's of this next to cars? I was doing big skids and some guy with a big beard was taking pics? Who is that or where would the photo's be?

[MISS 13B]

Most likely High Octane Photos

http://www.highoctanephotos.com/

[Tocchi]

yeh Phil Luyer is HighOctanePhotos
note: highoctanephotos.com not highoctane.com
haha

[big o]

yeh Phil Luyer is HighOctanePhotos
note: highoctanephotos.com not highoctane.com
haha

haha i have been caught at work before doing that, wasnt to good

[MISS 13B]

Shit I really did not need to see that.

Rims/rim-jobs...not same!! :lol:

[reNEGade]

Yerp, must be the guy from high octane photo's. Will wait the fortnight for him to upload. Saw some of his other pics. Real nice

[reNEGade]

The High Octane Photo's are up.
A few of my R32, some of dr1ft3n, 4Lturbo, Tocchi and SSICK

[reNEGade]

Went down again tonight. Was an absolute joke with rain. There was like 45 mins of racing at start and then 30 minutes racing 2 hours later. And the burnouts, ahaha, just looked like driving on ice.

[got boost]

Went down again tonight. Was an absolute joke with rain. There was like 45 mins of racing at start and then 30 minutes racing 2 hours later. And the burnouts, ahaha, just looked like driving on ice.

yeah spewin i got 2 runs on the bike and took off home

[monga]

yeah spewin i got 2 runs on the bike and took off home

Yeah I took a snap of you on the staging lane.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v724/jasilva/3767fat_ass.jpg