OT: My 911 vs Dodge Ram Options

[tornik550]

This is a very embarrassing post however a few weeks ago, some local guys convinced me to take two of my cars up to a local drag strip for a test and tune night. My 911 is not exactly set up for drag racing however I figured that I should have no problems against Dodge Rams (with very modified Cummins Diesels). Well, I was wrong.

I did get a lot of wheel spin and my clutch is slipping however I thoroughly got my butt kicked. The truck that I was racing, let off the throttle because I was so far behind. I think that he normally runs 1/4 miles in the mid 12's. My time was pathetic. If everything was running right, I think that I would have gotten low to mid 13's.

We were going to race my Cayenne Turbo (with the baby seat in back!) vs the rams but we ran out of time.

I defense of the Porsche crowd- my car was basically stock (I did not have mufflers on during race) and their trucks were heavily modified.

Next time, I will take them to race a road coarse against my 914- that would be fun to watch.

heres the post (my race is about midway through the video):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g4T02MI89Q

[MBowman325]

To put this in perspective, my first night to drag race the Monte I was beat by a Kia Spectra but something like 2-3 seconds. Went to launch and all I got was smoke and wheel spin.

Was only an 1/8 mi track but I was able to put down an 8.5 second pass in the mid 90s with wheel spin into third and a 1.5 reaction time. Wonder what I could do with decent tires...

Everything has it's purpose - I've never considered drag racing to be included in that on a stock P car, like I've never considered Auto-X in the list of B-Body cars - but they do it (and well sometimes). That said, it's fun.

I've still got Auto-X on my list of things to try.