A night at the strip....

[Brett Dikeman]

At 7:20 PM -0500 3/6/04, Cody wrote:
>When I lined up for this one I was thinking that it would be great 
>fun, two black Audis get to go together. I had seen this one in the 
>parking lot and it was _very_ nice. It had a beautiful front mount 
>IC, and lots of carbon fiber spread arround. I do have some 
>pictures, but they aren't developed yet. It was the only other Audi 
>in the place, and actually I think it was the only other VAG car. I 
>pulled out quite a bit right on the launch (as seen in the 60ft 
>times) because he wasn't using the quattro advantage and only 
>trickling the car off the line and waiting for the boost to come up. 
>Once I got going I was still having a misfire above 5000rpm, which 
>is why you can see where he started to gain right towards the end 
>(he had almost 4mph on me at the trap). He was pretty angry after 
>the run and wouldn't talk to me. His loss.

You won because you had a substantial- and I mean substantial- weight 
advantage.  You are at least several hundred pounds lighter, more so 
if he's got big heavy aftermarket rims.  He's 3600lb almost on the 
dot.

Glen Powell took his stripped-down 4000 with race-prepped NF engine 
to the same drag event I went to, and beat every stock 1.8t and a few 
chipped ones.  It helped of course that he's been drag racing cars 
for ages, whereas most of us hadn't ever stepped foot inside one.

Best I managed was 14.914 @94, with a full tank of gas, ronal 
R28's(adding about 60 pounds on their own) and a TON of garbage in 
the back seat and trunk(toolboxes, whole 9 yards). Placed dead in the 
field- only cars that beat me were chipped S4's.  According to a gent 
in Germany who drag races his 200q20v all the time, I should have 
done better(he had times from using Ned's III+ as well) by at least 
several tenths of a second.  Kinda wish I had the foresight to have 
emptied everything out and also checked everything under the hood 
first.

Brett
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