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Originally Posted by glhs837
Holy crap, were you an orphan, we might be twins  |
I second that.
When I was at Atco (1st and only time I've run, unfortunately) last August, a kid comes up to me who obviously had some knowledge of the SRT-8 and asks, "Why so slow?" (My first run, I ran a 13.5 @ 105). Me, "Well, because I just came off of a 70+ mile trip to get here. It's about 90 degrees. I didn't ice the intake. And, it was my first trip down the 1/4 with this car." Him, "You should pull fuse xx and go get some ice, get the GSM esp mod...etc." Me, "The GSM mod is one thing, but I'm more than likely not going to ask the guy next to me at a red light if he can give me a few minutes to ice down and pull a fuse." He just walked away baffled.
A couple of friends of mine were the same way when we all drove Lightnings. They would be in the pits swapping out there rims and throwing on slicks, unbolting/removing the passenger seats, removing the tow hitch, etc. And then chaining it all to a fence only to hope that it doesn't get stolen while we were in the lanes. I preferred to just pull in, put in some 104, flip the switch on my Superchip and go make some passes. I didn't always have as good an ET as them, but I also didn't have to put my truck back together in the dark before I could leave to go home.
