1/2 Mile drag helmet cam
 

From the Texas 1/2 Mile this Saturday. I only did one run, as this is my daily driver and I was underwhelmed with the experience. I knew it wouldn't put up big numbers, but the thrill of racing it in a straight line was just.... meh. Track days at the curvy places sounds much better :D

Skip to about 3:00 in, I intend to edit it eventually, but for now:
http://youtu.be/YY9r58984NQ

Your impression is about the same I've gotten. Straight line speed can be an adrenaline rush, but it isn't "fun". :)

And the speed slip will be more accurate. On the stock size tire, the speedo is slightly over the actual speed. Changing the tire / wheel size can move this around, from dead on to underspeed or quite a bit overspeed.

Straight line speed is great fun but one you have done it once the scratch has been itched

That still looks like fun. Great quality on your video. Thanks for sharing!

dope!

Cornering is where this machine excels and it hasn't gotten old yet. I can't seem to go fast enough to get to that next corner. :)

Imho, that depends on the car... Many moons ago, I used to drag race a muscle car (Plymouth Duster with a built 340 4-sp) and it NEVER got old. :)

It was definitely fun, no doubt, but I guess it just wasn't fast enough to make it truly exhilarating. I'm sure crossing that line at 150+ would be pretty sweet though, and there were quite a few cars that did that. The best of the day was 212 out of Hennessey's ford GT that holds the record in the Texas mile also. That thing is ridiculous.

Nice!

Sweet video!!
 

Looks like alot of fun going balls out for a 1/2 mile.

I've trapping 110-113 in the 1/4 mile, I wonder what I could do in the 1/2 mile.:dunno:
Wish they had one of these events in my area!

Thanks for posting!:ylsuper:

That second 1/4 mile goes by pretty quick, but I'm guessing you'd hit 130-140 in the 1/2 with a 1/4 speed of that.

Question, did you have DSC on when launching?

Now that I think about it, I may have. I remember turning it off, but then I shut the engine off for a bit while we were waiting for things to get into place. I don't know for sure if I shut it back off after the restart or not. Looking at the video, I can't tell if the dsc lights are on or not.

I'll check the original video, it may be clearer there.

Yeah, it was off. If you look at around 10 seconds into the video, I dip my head far enough down whe you can see the "sliding car" light on the tach. So that terrible launch was all me.

I'm pretty sure I could have hit closer to 120 if my launch was better, but I didn't want to kill my clutch trying to get it right.

^Good stuff man, thanks again for posting