Before LS2 swap and after.

[RebekahsZ]

A few before and after pictures of the Z-car: Before LS2 swap and after. The camaro never had a chance - and I was driving like c r a p. The new tires were a necessity.

[Dans toy]

How was your run?

[RebekahsZ]

I'm keeping a log on the Motorsport forum of how the racing is going called: "Learning to Drag Race a Z-car" if you want to subscribe to that. I am VERY inconsistent night to night. My best run has been 7.29 at 96mph (1/8 mile). Best 60' was 1.7, but it was not on my fastest run overall. I'm kind of all over the place in terms of how I'm staging the car-need a lot more experience. I have learned that the advice of running bias ply fronts with bias ply slicks is gospel truth (the tail of the car wagged really bad when I had radials in front with the bias ply slicks). However, with bias ply tires, the car does wander a lot on the fast end of the track making it more like parking a boat than an exact placement of the car like one would do in autocross. Wandering is distictly different than "wagging." A car approaching 100mph with the tail wagging back and forth is flat scary-like a trailer trying to jack-knife. Wandering is more entertaining than frightening, the car drives like it is buzzed from a couple of beers, just kind of sluggish. Racing a slow car can make one cocky, thinking that he is a good driver, only limited by the car, whereas, trying to be consistent with a fast car is very humbling. Had I been bracket racing on my last outing, I would have dialed in 7.50; I had two "shot groups" of runs: one in the 7.50s and the other in the 7.60s. I probably won't get back to the track until September. Got a daughter starting college, and I want to make a couple of big changes to the car's pedal setup and rear suspension.