I finally got a chance to use my Hoosiers at open ricer track night last night. I decided to go an hour early (8 pm) as usual so my car can cool off before the first run. I didn't make my first pass until 10:30 pm and my second (and last) pass was at 12:00 am with an ambient temperature of 75*.

My first pass I lined up against a new model GTO; who didn't know how to stage, and I ended up pushing out of the lights because the car didn't want to stay still for the entire minute I waited for that idiot to stage. The linesman eventually just put his foot down in front of the beam to "stage" him. After I backed up and put it in drive (forgot to put in 1st) I only got to launch at 1,400 rpms and ran a 12.9 @ 109.6 with a 1.98 60' against the GTSLOWs 13.7 @ 104.5 with 2.0 60'.

The second pass I said the hell with it and tried launching under full lock up and also used the e-brake to help hold the car in place. I was lined up with an early 90's Honduh POS and pulled of a 12.9 @ 108.4 with a personal best 1.91 60' to his 28.7 @ 80.5 with a 13.2 60'. LMFAO

I was pretty bummed that I couldn't get more passes; or any decent times. It sucks to go from 12.8 @109 with 2.0 60' on stock conti's in 50* weather to then run 12.9 @ 109 with 1.9 60' on Hoosier DRs in 75* weather. I HATE the elevation and temps here in vegas when it comes to racing. Ohh well, I'll try again with a bunch more mods on the 18th of this month.

Ohh I almost forgot the best part of the entire night. When I was sitting in line with the 400 other cars (most high school kids with riced out POS cars) I overheard a conversation by a group of about 7 people standing near the side of my car as I was in it. Apparently my car is the new "Saturn Skyline" and it's "turbocharged". LMFAO These guys just kept talking about what my car was and what it had in it and never once bothered to ask me to verify. Then when I moved up and they could see the back of the car I overheard "ohh that's the new supercharged Cadillac"...I about died laughing at their ignorance and inability to read the CHRYSLER badge on hatch.