Re: Dismal evening at the track

From: greg conner (dodgeboy93@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu Sep 11 2003 - 23:26:36 EDT


and your times were?

:)

Greg Conner
1996 RC
3.9 hybrid

>From: "ronald bruce taylor,jr" <taylor9565@msn.com>
>Reply-To: dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net
>To: "dakota-truck" <dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net>
>Subject: DML: Dismal evening at the track
>Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 23:18:19 -0400
>
>
>Had a day of today, and the weather was perfect for a night of test and
>tune......or so I thought.
>
>I made the hour long trek to the track, cooled the 3.9 off in the staging
>lanes for an hour after the gates opened, only to be very disappointed with
>the track prep on my first pass.......
>
>For some reason the track was very slick and I had a very difficult time
>hooking the Dak up........fact is it never really hooked at all on the
>first
>pass.....I had to abort the run by the 1/8 mile mark as the Dak would do
>nothing but fishtail!
>
>I had decided to try the nitrous on the first pass as the Dak usually
>has it's best 60' and ET on the first pass of the evening......
>
>The combination of the lousy track condition and the Torque of a Nos shot
>just didn't work out.......
>
>My second pass was made without the Nos and it wasn't much better, it still
>spun like crazy off the line.
>
>Ron-
>'01 Dakota Sport 3.9 4WD
>Street,Strip,and Show

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