Postby chickenwafer » Thu Feb 25, 2010 9:14
Yeah, teh holes in the rear bumpers of some drag cars are to prevent the bumper from acting like a parachute and catching air, slowing the car down. But really, if air was properly managed at the front and sides of the car with a splitter and low side skirts, there should be very little air flowing under the car.
I still remember the first time I went to the drag strip in Phoenix with the car club. It was a busy night, we were in the staging lanes waiting to line up. I spotted this mid 90's Civic coupe riced to hell just ahead of me. Stripped interior, PepBoys seat covers and steering wheel questionably installed, presumably cut springs indicated by the uneven ride height, obnoxious exhaust, under car Neons, huge wing, and some stupid punk kid driving who looked like he just got is license and was stuntin the car like it was a 9-second turbo Civic.
So he gets to the staging line, attemps a burnout and fails, lines up, launches and proceeds to creep down the 1/4 mile at 19 seconds LOL. But the best was yet to come- after he does is Prius-rivaling 1/4 mile time, he pulls into the pits, pops the hood, and drops a big bag of ice on the intake manifold!!! I was like, "come on.....seriously"
The best part is he started talking some smack to a guy in our club with a Miata, mentioned something about it being a girl car. He wasn't hostile, just poking. So the Miata driver and him start talking, eventually they throw down $100 bucks or something. Too bad that Civic punk didn't even bother to peek under the Miata's hood, he was running a GT28 on a built block pushing 320-ish rwhp. Ran a 13.2 on street tires if I recall to the Civic punk's 19. That made our night.
