I am attending the Fast Show 2010 this weekend at Santapod, but this year i am taking my car and wanting to take it down the drag strip.

However i am hearing horror stories all the time about snapping drive shafts etc etc and other damaged due to the extra grip you get on the strip compared to roads etc..........

I have a mapped GPS 1.9mjet with 185bhp and 250lb ft @ wheels

Am i right to worry or should it be fine, any one else putting theres on strip?

Thanks

i've doen it before at a different drag strip mate that was around 5000 miles or so ago, and my cars fine. I would say yes mate should be fine. I did around 6 odd runs with around a 10 min wait each time.

Im taking mine down the strip. its only going to be 1 & 2nd gear that any drive train stress will occur compared to driving a normal road. im not going to rev the balls then dump the clutch, but its my 1st time on a strip so i ent got a clue!

grande bolt said:

i've doen it before at a different drag strip mate that was around 5000 miles or so ago, and my cars fine. I would say yes mate should be fine. I did around 6 odd runs with around a 10 min wait each time.

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what times did ya get?

will be interested to see the times, get a mate to video the runs if you can

Think my times were a flat 14 but cant remember now, been a year lol. I managed to beat a drag car, it jumped the start so i won lol, and a Subaru had a really **** start and only started catching up at the end.

tips
Don't race your opponent, just try beat your time. others wise it puts you off.
go easy on your first go, as you said don't just drop the clutch with full beans.

14's a good time. i will be happy with anything in the 15/16's! will be good if some of us get put together! would be better if a mapped t-jet is against a mjet!

ill take my camcorder

astra vxr where getting around 14 secs last year so you did well, they couldnt put power down though!

i raced a vxr once, kept up with him. glad we both started from 3rd though! 1st and 2nd in a vxr are abit more usfull the in e mjet!

Cant of been driven right, as a standard astra VXR is 6.0 seconds, remapped mjets are around 7.0 at best.

We didn't do a 0-60 race, I started off in 3rd,

Got ya, cool stuff!

grande bolt said:

Think my times were a flat 14 but cant remember now, been a year lol. I managed to beat a drag car, it jumped the start so i won lol, and a Subaru had a really **** start and only started catching up at the end.

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Are we talking quarter miles here?

I've been to a couple of race days and a flat 14 seconds is seriously quick, I would bet against any Mjet getting that. Cars going that quick are close on or sub 6 second 0-60 and no way is a remapped Mjet that quick, Red Dot tuned or not.

you moan alot,

the mapped mjets punch above their weight quite well, are there any timeslips to compare?

Where's the moan, just questioning that an Mjet would do a 1/4 in 14 seconds? Same as I question the Mjetters that say their remapped cars will do 0-60 in 6 seconds. Prove it and I'll shut up.

BTW, I am quite aware of how quick an Mjet is, mine's running 180bhp.