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Re: Racers / Starting Line Games
[Re: Triple Threat]
#930125
02/19/11 12:23 AM
02/19/11 12:23 AM
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central ohio
nss guy
pro stock
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pro stock
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central ohio
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Starting line games??? I thought everything depended on how big your tow rig is..... toter, stacker, 5th wheel...... that's what makes the difference in winning and losing 
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Re: Racers / Starting Line Games
[Re: MoparBilly]
#930126
02/19/11 01:20 AM
02/19/11 01:20 AM
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Posts: 2,110
toledo, ohio
plasticfantastic
top fuel
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top fuel
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Posts: 2,110
toledo, ohio
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Plastic:
My Mega 450 is on the dash in front of the steering wheel in plain veiw, and easy reach. My friends often laugh at how many times they see me changing my delay, or my T-stop timer from the burn-out to staging. Guy in front of me goes red, I add .005 delay everytime...superstition, and puts me at eaze, I HATE redlights. Sun in my eyes, take some out, unexpected cloud cover put some in. Something stupid happens between the burnout and staging I'll add a few because I get amped. I don't determine my delay amount off my previous lights, as much as I do off the in-car DRT tester in the mega 450. I take 3 hits when I'm 4 or 5 cars back everytime, and record those in my logbook. Then compare them to what I do before eliminations. Maybe I'm overthinking it, Maybe not.
so you race a throttle stop, and you change your throttle stop settings through your mega450, and you do this when you think people are playing starting line games with you... so you change the cars set up (let go of some numbers), but you cant change the dial in thats on the boards, gotcha.
do you bracket race a throttle stop?
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Re: Racers / Starting Line Games
[Re: jamesc]
#930127
02/19/11 02:58 AM
02/19/11 02:58 AM
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Joined: Jan 2003
Posts: 4,448
Phoenix, AZ
MoparBilly
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Posts: 4,448
Phoenix, AZ
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the summery of this entire thread, the driver that makes the fewest mistakes wins...and that doesn't come in any electronic box. 
I disagree James,
Lets say I pull to the line, let go of the trans brake on time, and run the car all the way to the finish line.
The delay box is set at .025, and the T-stop timer has 1.82 in it, I go .002 on tree and run 10.901....003 package, perfect, almost unbeatable.
Lets say I did everything the same, and the delay is .020.. I go .003 red, the race is over before I clear the tree.
Lets say I did everything the same, but had 1.92 in the t-stop timer, and ran 10.951 out the back on my 10.90 dial, and some guy is whopping the throttle on the big end and making me look like an idiot.
In all 3 intances the driver and the car repeated perfectly, and the numbers the crewchief put in that electronic box spelled the difference between victory and abject failure.
Craig,
You probably think the DH is lame, the 24 second clock, the 3 point line? Still wished football players wore leather helmets, and everyone raced on pie crust slicks with straight axles, and dual point distributors? Hmm, I'm 46 years old, and never once in my life have I ever been compelled to call anything "lame".
"Livin' in a powder keg and givin' off sparks"
4 Street cars, 5 Race engines
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Re: Racers / Starting Line Games
[Re: plasticfantastic]
#930129
02/19/11 09:30 AM
02/19/11 09:30 AM
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Posts: 6,314
The Swamp
MegaDart
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The Swamp
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do you bracket race a throttle stop?
I do, and it is loads of fun! Talk about messing with your opponent! Let's start another thread!
I think what James was saying even in box racing data input is done by the racer so all responsibility for a loss or win is his, not the box.
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Re: Racers / Starting Line Games
[Re: Super Scamp]
#930132
02/19/11 06:54 PM
02/19/11 06:54 PM
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Posts: 2,008
Sweet Home Alabama
MRMOPAR622
top fuel
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top fuel
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Posts: 2,008
Sweet Home Alabama
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Its 76 degrees outside now will be that again tomorrow. We have 2 tracks that are going to be open tomorrow  Anybody want some dragster tomorrow   There is some more good news,I have had some problems with a thief. Come home on Christmas eve saw a truck parked across the street,did not pay it any mind. A few hours later my wife asked why I had pulled some of my metal out in the yard. Last Wednesday come home the man next door had run a man out of my yard after my metal again same mo. I turned his tag # over to the PD and told I wanted to press charges. Well yesterday I come home & caught him in the yard. Lets just say I held him to the police arrived to take him to jail.Now to get to the racing part of it If you don't think my reaction time is good just call the Valley PD and ask the thief who was in my yard.  Sorry for telling all of that,I thought it would make me feel better but it just made me mad again  We are going out of town next weekend I bet the S*B won't come back in my yard.
"To Be The Man'You Have Got To Beat The Man"
"T/D and Pro-Bracket Racer"
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Re: Racers / Starting Line Games
[Re: MRMOPAR622]
#930133
02/19/11 08:50 PM
02/19/11 08:50 PM
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Posts: 694
Michigan
Super Scamp
mopar
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mopar
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Posts: 694
Michigan
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Good going Mr. Quick  You caught him with the quick recation, and a quick beeting to the ground. About the weekend I will have to pass this weekend ,But I'm going to Bristol May 21 for the THREE TWENTYS 12,500 THURSDAY/20,000 FRIDAY/20,000 SATURDAY/ AND 20,000 SUNDAY...Last year I was the only Mopar car there.
Just One Man's Opinion
Mopar Mafia Racing
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Re: Racers / Starting Line Games
[Re: MegaDart]
#930135
02/22/11 07:56 PM
02/22/11 07:56 PM
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Posts: 9,366
Lehigh Acres, Florida
rickstershemi
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Posts: 9,366
Lehigh Acres, Florida
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do you bracket race a throttle stop?
I do, and it is loads of fun! Talk about messing with your opponent! Let's start another thread!
I think what James was saying even in box racing data input is done by the racer so all responsibility for a loss or win is his, not the box.
Me too.....just ask Donnie Urban 
of course he just bought back in & I believe won that day and I went out next round
Rickster
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Who needs the racetrack.
Not having the time to push the button and hit the bottom bulb 
