Geeky1
14 Oct 2004, 6:52am
...and it did pretty well. Not great, but not bad.
The best run was the first one, which was a 15.741 @ 89.018mph; my best reaction time was 0.095s. That's not far off the 15.5 @ 90 Car & Driver got when they road tested one in 1987, and I think with some experimentation I may be able to get it lower than that. It would also have helped if I had removed the 100-odd lbs of subs from the trunk, but i left my screwdrivers at home by accident when I came back to school on Sunday :(
Anyhow... I got in four runs; won two, lost two. Would've won three if I hadn't gotten into a huge argument with the transmission in the middle of the run about whether the car in fact belonged in 2nd or 3rd gear :rolleyes:
Got some strange looks from people when I got into the line to race in the 'Benz... heard some people talking about how slow it was. The attitude changed somewhat after the first couple of runs. :D Had a couple of people tell me that they were surpised that it was that fast because it's so heavy...
And on the last run, I did a massive burnout. Wish someone had been there to take pics. But I decided before the run that since I was starting to get a little tired (I'm running on <4hrs of sleep) and the idea of smacking the wall at 90MPH didn't really appeal to me, I'd stop while I was ahead. But yeah, I felt like showing off a bit, so I did. I stopped when clouds of tire smoke started billowing past the front windows. :D
So yeah... that was fun. Got a couple ideas on how to get the ET down a bit, and I'm bugging my dad to bring his older 'Benz out to settle our little debate about which car is faster... :D
The best run was the first one, which was a 15.741 @ 89.018mph; my best reaction time was 0.095s. That's not far off the 15.5 @ 90 Car & Driver got when they road tested one in 1987, and I think with some experimentation I may be able to get it lower than that. It would also have helped if I had removed the 100-odd lbs of subs from the trunk, but i left my screwdrivers at home by accident when I came back to school on Sunday :(
Anyhow... I got in four runs; won two, lost two. Would've won three if I hadn't gotten into a huge argument with the transmission in the middle of the run about whether the car in fact belonged in 2nd or 3rd gear :rolleyes:
Got some strange looks from people when I got into the line to race in the 'Benz... heard some people talking about how slow it was. The attitude changed somewhat after the first couple of runs. :D Had a couple of people tell me that they were surpised that it was that fast because it's so heavy...
And on the last run, I did a massive burnout. Wish someone had been there to take pics. But I decided before the run that since I was starting to get a little tired (I'm running on <4hrs of sleep) and the idea of smacking the wall at 90MPH didn't really appeal to me, I'd stop while I was ahead. But yeah, I felt like showing off a bit, so I did. I stopped when clouds of tire smoke started billowing past the front windows. :D
So yeah... that was fun. Got a couple ideas on how to get the ET down a bit, and I'm bugging my dad to bring his older 'Benz out to settle our little debate about which car is faster... :D