pieperz06
i need to get blown
well this friday saturday and sunday i was at the texas mile in goliad texas for you that dont know it is a top speed event that is one mile long. i have been wanting to go ever since i went and watched about 6 months ago this was before i had my car even. so when i got my car it was at the top of my list of events to go do. for along time i was thinking that i would be happy with hitting 140 because it seemed like a realistic goal to have but after 3 months of waiting for time to come around to go my expectations had risen to 150 mph.
i was one of 2 s197 gt's that was there the other guy that had a s197 gt had about every bolt on i did but he had 4.10 gears and a stock exaust. there were more gt500's moded to the end of the world and a bunch of corvettes, porches and then there were like 10 ford GT's. they had a ford gt event there on thursday with about 75 of them at the track. there were a few imports like supras and lambos i was suprised there were no ferrari's.
i got there friday after school around 2 and walked around for a few ours talking to ppl and figuring out what all i needed to do for the next day. there were some cool cars a few lambos that were runnin around 230 mph and some GT's running about that speed also(they both had 1000+hp). when i got home that night i went and got me about 12 bucks woth of blue painters tape because i wanted to go all out and see what i could get.
i got up at 5 in the morning to drive to the even at 730 after going to bed at 3 the night before. BTW that is a bad idea don't know if yall figured that out yet. i did a drive through after i was tecked in and it did not occur to me how far 1 mile is until u drive it at 20 mph.after the drive through i got in line to run and waited for like 30 minutes.
run 1
on the first run i was just trying to get a feel for what was going on and did not tape up my car at all and i was takeing it easy befor i started getting to crazy. my time was 140. some thing i lost the ticket
Run 2
for this run i started taping up my car waiting in line because there were so many ppl i was able to get 145.6 this was when i was shifting in to 5th gear at 6200 rpm and only gaining like 5 mph in the last 1/4 mile
run 3
for this run i was able to "borrow" a BBK throttle body from Silver06. hopeing to pick up some speed. unfortunatly i only saw about a .5 mph increase but i had also taken off my spoiler for this run. the speed was 145.836
this was my last run on Sunday and i had gone to the t shirt place and gotten me a 140 mph t shirt because i didn't think i was going to come back the next day i was so disappointed i had not gotten 150 and i felt like shit because of no sleep. but i went to bed at 8 and when i woke up at 5 i was feel pretty good to go and feeling like i was going to get it today.
run 4
this was my first run of sunday i had nothing taped up on my car and just ran it, the temp was about 70 degrease. i also moved up my rev limiter where i was able to run 4th all the way through the trap. for this run i was able to pull off 148.187 the big difference in times i not haveing to shift in to 5th it does not pull at all at 140 in 5th and was getting me no ware fast
run 5
this was my first run to tape up my entire front bumper and still used the same shift points as the 4th run i was able to get 148.789 by doing this
run 6
this happened at like 1 oclock and it was hot as a mofo out
this was my best run of the day i wanted my 1.2 mph and was going to do all i could to get it. i got in to my tuner and added 1 degree of timing from 2-6k rpm and then i took it down 1 degree from 6-8k rpm so i didn't hurt any thing reveing my car to 7k in 4th i also made WOT 2%leaner. i also had to retape my car in the front some because aparently painter tape doesent like going 148 mph. for this run my time 150.913 i was on the biggest high of my life. i had been sunburned to hell and exhausted for 2 days and i finally hit my goal.
for many of thies runs i also had taken off my mirrors which i forgot to add i had also taken out my front seat and backseat.
as far as the other s197 gt he was only able to get his car to 148. something he was pissed that he was not able to do better because he was doing all the taping i was but he missed a gear or to in some of his run and was not able to get in some good ones. he also had some 4.10 which kind of raised some questions in my mind i was thinking that he3 would be able to get better times with them but from testing it he just had to rev his car more in 4th than i did and he still was not up at my times.
now for the sad part of my story there was a porche that came dagerously close to flupping after doing a 1080 he finialy was able to get to stop it was 80% luck and 20% luck he didint flip it he was going about 180 when it happened. the run before his rear wing had broken off and i herd him talking about how he was happy because now he thought he would be able to go faster but it was obvious when that happened that it was not a good idea to run agian. there are some pics of it in this thread at a Subaru forum and a few videos of the day.
http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1866750
the worst part of my day was when a beatuful truck crashed i had talked to the owner and his wife for about an hr on friday. the spent like 15 years building the car for shows and then when it was built they got bored with it and started raceing it. but as far as the crash goes the guy who built it felt like it had to much power for him as was not able to get it to its full potential and so he let his son in law run it or it may have been his son i dont remember. but at the beginning of the track about the 1/8 mile marker he got squerly and his back tire came off the rim and he was not able to save it he drove it to the left and of the track away from the spectators and when he hit the grass he was sideways and rolled it 5 times and landed it on his wheels. i was on my way back from a run stopped talking to some ppl when i hear SSSSSHHHHIIIITTTTTTT!!!!! and i turned around just in time to see it flip 2 more times and land it was gut wrenching after thinking about how the owner and his wife usually both ride in it when he run's i didint know at that point that it was not them. it happened before lunch and they got it all cleand up and we started running agian after this and the owner seemed in good spirits for what had just happened to his baby but it defiantly made me think about how dangerous it was to do what i was doing. this was rite before my last run
here is a link to the trucks website if you want to read the story and see what it looked like after reading it he was atempting to hit 200 mph in his truck which would have been amazing but im sure he will be out there next year in some thing.
http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1866750
The quick version
I HIT 150.913
o yah do any of you know of any n/a s197's that have documented runs of above this speed i could not find any
ask away if you want to know any of the details about a certain run because i didn't want to type out the exact details of the runs if you don't care lol i have a few other runs but they were just the same as the other when i hadn't changed any thing
there are a few pics of my car and me in front of it it i can post up some more pics later if you are interested and i will try to put p a video of it also
i was one of 2 s197 gt's that was there the other guy that had a s197 gt had about every bolt on i did but he had 4.10 gears and a stock exaust. there were more gt500's moded to the end of the world and a bunch of corvettes, porches and then there were like 10 ford GT's. they had a ford gt event there on thursday with about 75 of them at the track. there were a few imports like supras and lambos i was suprised there were no ferrari's.
i got there friday after school around 2 and walked around for a few ours talking to ppl and figuring out what all i needed to do for the next day. there were some cool cars a few lambos that were runnin around 230 mph and some GT's running about that speed also(they both had 1000+hp). when i got home that night i went and got me about 12 bucks woth of blue painters tape because i wanted to go all out and see what i could get.
i got up at 5 in the morning to drive to the even at 730 after going to bed at 3 the night before. BTW that is a bad idea don't know if yall figured that out yet. i did a drive through after i was tecked in and it did not occur to me how far 1 mile is until u drive it at 20 mph.after the drive through i got in line to run and waited for like 30 minutes.
run 1
on the first run i was just trying to get a feel for what was going on and did not tape up my car at all and i was takeing it easy befor i started getting to crazy. my time was 140. some thing i lost the ticket
Run 2
for this run i started taping up my car waiting in line because there were so many ppl i was able to get 145.6 this was when i was shifting in to 5th gear at 6200 rpm and only gaining like 5 mph in the last 1/4 mile
run 3
for this run i was able to "borrow" a BBK throttle body from Silver06. hopeing to pick up some speed. unfortunatly i only saw about a .5 mph increase but i had also taken off my spoiler for this run. the speed was 145.836
this was my last run on Sunday and i had gone to the t shirt place and gotten me a 140 mph t shirt because i didn't think i was going to come back the next day i was so disappointed i had not gotten 150 and i felt like shit because of no sleep. but i went to bed at 8 and when i woke up at 5 i was feel pretty good to go and feeling like i was going to get it today.
run 4
this was my first run of sunday i had nothing taped up on my car and just ran it, the temp was about 70 degrease. i also moved up my rev limiter where i was able to run 4th all the way through the trap. for this run i was able to pull off 148.187 the big difference in times i not haveing to shift in to 5th it does not pull at all at 140 in 5th and was getting me no ware fast
run 5
this was my first run to tape up my entire front bumper and still used the same shift points as the 4th run i was able to get 148.789 by doing this
run 6
this happened at like 1 oclock and it was hot as a mofo out
this was my best run of the day i wanted my 1.2 mph and was going to do all i could to get it. i got in to my tuner and added 1 degree of timing from 2-6k rpm and then i took it down 1 degree from 6-8k rpm so i didn't hurt any thing reveing my car to 7k in 4th i also made WOT 2%leaner. i also had to retape my car in the front some because aparently painter tape doesent like going 148 mph. for this run my time 150.913 i was on the biggest high of my life. i had been sunburned to hell and exhausted for 2 days and i finally hit my goal.
for many of thies runs i also had taken off my mirrors which i forgot to add i had also taken out my front seat and backseat.
as far as the other s197 gt he was only able to get his car to 148. something he was pissed that he was not able to do better because he was doing all the taping i was but he missed a gear or to in some of his run and was not able to get in some good ones. he also had some 4.10 which kind of raised some questions in my mind i was thinking that he3 would be able to get better times with them but from testing it he just had to rev his car more in 4th than i did and he still was not up at my times.
now for the sad part of my story there was a porche that came dagerously close to flupping after doing a 1080 he finialy was able to get to stop it was 80% luck and 20% luck he didint flip it he was going about 180 when it happened. the run before his rear wing had broken off and i herd him talking about how he was happy because now he thought he would be able to go faster but it was obvious when that happened that it was not a good idea to run agian. there are some pics of it in this thread at a Subaru forum and a few videos of the day.
http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1866750
the worst part of my day was when a beatuful truck crashed i had talked to the owner and his wife for about an hr on friday. the spent like 15 years building the car for shows and then when it was built they got bored with it and started raceing it. but as far as the crash goes the guy who built it felt like it had to much power for him as was not able to get it to its full potential and so he let his son in law run it or it may have been his son i dont remember. but at the beginning of the track about the 1/8 mile marker he got squerly and his back tire came off the rim and he was not able to save it he drove it to the left and of the track away from the spectators and when he hit the grass he was sideways and rolled it 5 times and landed it on his wheels. i was on my way back from a run stopped talking to some ppl when i hear SSSSSHHHHIIIITTTTTTT!!!!! and i turned around just in time to see it flip 2 more times and land it was gut wrenching after thinking about how the owner and his wife usually both ride in it when he run's i didint know at that point that it was not them. it happened before lunch and they got it all cleand up and we started running agian after this and the owner seemed in good spirits for what had just happened to his baby but it defiantly made me think about how dangerous it was to do what i was doing. this was rite before my last run
here is a link to the trucks website if you want to read the story and see what it looked like after reading it he was atempting to hit 200 mph in his truck which would have been amazing but im sure he will be out there next year in some thing.
http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1866750
The quick version
I HIT 150.913
o yah do any of you know of any n/a s197's that have documented runs of above this speed i could not find any
ask away if you want to know any of the details about a certain run because i didn't want to type out the exact details of the runs if you don't care lol i have a few other runs but they were just the same as the other when i hadn't changed any thing
there are a few pics of my car and me in front of it it i can post up some more pics later if you are interested and i will try to put p a video of it also
