Babalouie wrote:AFAIK the requirements for WSID are rego slip, helmet, long sleeve top/pants...and that's it, right?
Yep, they also ask that they can see teh wheel nuts on teh driving wheels, so you need to take off any covers that cover the nuts, they basically do a
super quick visual inspection for safety. If the car is roadworthy, you're in.
Sheck wrote:From what i've read the burnout is very important!
Apparently its enough when you can see some descent smoke covering the entire wheel.
Thats from one of the import mags.
I disagree, I have run street tyres from $80 Bob jane specials to $300+ Advans, and neither gave better results after a big burnout.
On nasty street tyres, I always try to drive around the water.
If you're running basic garden variety street tyres I wouldn't go lower than 20psi in the rears a bit more of they have a large profile (55 or more profile), remeber street tyres are designed to have grip with pressure in them, unlike specific drag tyres that are designed to have big sidewall flex and grip... There is apicture somewhere on this forum of my car lifting up quite high in the front (but not off teh ground) this was acheived on street dríven advans at 25psi...
As Kula said, hard fron suspension, soft rear.
Remeber though that soft rear suspension and low psi in tyres + hard fronts is going to give you a fairly loose car when it changes gears, I can feel my car rock pretty hard on gear changes (although I'm manual) and things could get quite skatey in teh braking area too, it seems to run out really quick even when you're only doing 12-13 second passes, I cant imagine how hard teh 6-7-8 second cars pull up, the G force must be massive when the 'chutes open
Babalouie wrote:Cool....thanks
But once you stage, the lights don't count down until the other guy stages, right? Is there much warning before it does?
The tree is made up of three major parts. At the top of the tree, you see two sets of double white/clear bulbs for each side of the tree (each lane). The top set is called the Pre-Stage bulbs. This is an indicator for the driver that he is approaching (and near) the starting line. The second set is called the Stage bulbs. They indicate that the driver is actually on the starting line, and presumably ready to race.
The next section is the three amber starting signals.
In wednesday Night racing, these bulbs will light in sequence, about half a second apart.
The last two lights then, of course, are the green and red lights. The green will come on after the amber bulbs if you have not left the starting line too soon. Leaving the line before the green light will result in the dreaded red light... a foul start.
The cycle goes: Amber on, delay, next bulb on. Here's the important part. The reaction timer starts when the third amber comes on.
