Dec. 11, 2003 - Who needs NAAAAWWWWSSS?

Took the old girl to the drag strip today

Pleased and dismayed at the same time.

Best run was a 13.379@107.13

Best trap was 108.76, on a 13.683 run

Looks like I need to work on my 60 ft if I keep dragging the car, my best was 2.150.

I did 9 runs, and 6 of them were at 36 PSI in the tires, my goal was to see how it did in street trim. I even left the subwoofer in the trunk. I finally ran them at 30 PSI and picked up the 13.379 from my previous best of 13.428.

Worst run was a 14.056, with lots and lots of wheel hop and then a bang off the rev limiter.

1/8th speeds were oddly almost always the same, 84.2xx MPH.

Anyway, looks like the power is there, I was hoping to get closer to 110 traps, but with my driving skill (this is the first time I've been on the strip in a manual in like 15 years) I figure that's about as close as I'm gonna get now. Car smells like burnt clutch, too.

This was at Carlsbad Raceway, 300ft elevation, 68 degrees, Pilot Sports on Doublespoke II's.

I was the only BMW there.  Hell, I was the only European car there. Lots and lots of Mustangs and Integras, a few F bodies, one C5, and a whole gaggle of 350z's that were there doing some sort of magazine thing. Everyone was suitably impressed, but I know my lack of skill (and desire to keep the car in "street trim") made the numbers worse than they could have been.

This was on 91 octane Chevron pump gas, by the way.