So. Cal. 1/4 mile at Fontana, Apr 10th?

[BmwQ]

Horrible results...

I'm not ready to say my times, but I beat the Del Sol I raced against. You guys should have come out. There were the coolest cars I've ever seen there. Plus, the other 3 bmws that showed up were all e46 M3's and they sucked balls big time. 2 of the 3 got smoked by imports of the non-turbocharged civic/other variety and that's no joke.

[Sean]

Hey now, you can tell us your times...

Better than anything my super eta would get... (for now...) 8) ;)

[LikeCDoos]

ya lets hear the times...i'm sure you did alright. I would have been there but i had to come home for easter

[randomtask37]

Re: Horrible results...

christ

[BmwQ]

16.4 @ 83... I almost didn't get that typed. The tears are making my fingers all slippery. That's knee deep into civic w/ air intake & exhaust territory. Pathetic. It seriously 'felt' like a good run. (only got one run in) I was confident it would be low 16's/high 15's, but man was I wrong. I launched at 3K with only a little bit of wheelspin and hit every shift exactly where I wanted to... but that was the best I could do. It is a powerful motivator to do something with my engine, though. I don't feel 'toooo' bad because one of the e46 m3s ran a 15 sec run and the other a very high 14s run. In their cases, though, it wasn't the car limiting performance...
Also, turns out the viper that I took pics of wasn't turbocharged, but supercharged. I found a video of it on the web if you guys are interested (30mb).

http://www.twistedhumor.com/cars/VIPER-race-small.wmv

[Sean]

Wow, that's weird. I wonder how my eta would do.

BMW's aren't made for drag races, personally, I prefer the turns!

[Spaz]

well, i've dragged my '90 325is a couple times this past friday was one of them, with my car on 17's and street tires i ran a 15.883 @ 87.82 mph, its down from when i had my 14's i lost gearing, my best time ever was a 15.551@ 88.81 mph.

i also saw, another white e30 out there runing 16.8's i recall, a e36 m3 running high 14's
and a e46 m3 putting out high 13's.

this was all at mission raceway.

how u enjoy it, i have a couple pics i'll get around to posting.


oh and btw

there is a 11.00 vw golf there that smokes everything :)

[TCD]

16.4 @ 83

The dragstrip is the ultimate humilator. A car almost never runs what you expect. It's a difficult environment for a street car and probably takes about 20 runs to get a car dialed in and actually perform good numbers.

Todd

[Jonathan M3]

What were the track conditions there, like density altitude, temp., etc.....?

Sounds like no one was running good times there that day.

[BmwQ]

Conditions were awesome. Couldn't have been over 70', light wind...great conditions. I must do something about this.

[Hortos]

Wow! Its alright Fontana Sucks

Fontana Speedway is notorious for low times. Last I went we watched turboed Vipers run 14s/. Number 1 if you have rear wheel drive their launch positions tend to lose all manner of traction. Number 2 My friend has a turbo civic, we built it custom we even burned the ECU after we bought a chip burner to copy my stock 325i chip before I chipped the car. Anyways he ran a 15.5 or at the track, at the streetraces his car hangs with EVO 8s. Its a gay track I like going just for messing around and hanging out around cars running without ducking police. I wanted to go but that damn crack in my windshield is mocking me because now its smog time so I can go pick up a new windshield and the banner didn't cover the crack.


Case in point Fontana Speedway times mean squat.