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My first time at the drag strip

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I thought I should talk about my first time at the track. I should mention that I had a stock 4.3l 03 SILVERADO. I had run about 6-7 already and the track was about to close. I was somewhat pleased since I took a Gt mustang for about half the track. It was my last race and was up against a 4 banger ranger. Well I must not have gotten all the water off my tires, and since I really wanted to smoke ths guy, so when the light turned i hit it and I smoked out for about three seconds (going nowhere) and me being stupid shifted to second thinking I would stop tire smoke, but just ended up going from 5000 rpm to 1000rpm. But the moral of the story is that I was catching up to him fast and was about 3/4 cl behind him at the quarter mile. If I had made any kind of good start, I would have smoked him.

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If you don't have slicks or drag radials, what were you doing in the burnout box? With street tires you should go AROUND the box, heating them up only hurts your traction. If you had slicks or street slicks on, then disregard my statement.

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I am not going to lie...this guy was not the greatest driver because he seemed really slow out of the gate...like he almost stalled...but next time I guess I wont use the burnout box like you said

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What were your times?

 

I'm curious because nobody (that I know of) has ever posted the times from a 4.3 truck.

 

And new info is always cool :banghead:

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I probably could have been running a second better with a better reaction time (I think it was something like .6s) and because it is a manual and has those big truck gears, its hard to shift into third at higher rpm, if anyone has driven a manual truck they know what I mean. And I really hope you guys dont think I am bs'n you, because I wouldn't do that.

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I probably could have been running a second better with a better reaction time (I think it was something like .6s) and because it is a manual and has those big truck gears, its hard to shift into third at higher rpm, if anyone has driven a manual truck they know what I mean. And I really hope you guys dont think I am bs'n you, because I wouldn't do that.

 

 

 

 

I've driven manual trucks before...and I've never had a problem getting it into 3rd (or any gear) at higher speeds...In fact when I'm pulling a camper w/a manual I run the gears out a LOOOOOONG ways before I shift, and then to keep from throwing stuff around I shift it pretty quick to keep the acceleration smooth.

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Third is the hardest of the gears to get into. Level of difficulty is relative to experience. (It's easy to go to far to the left and hit 5th. With time it becomes second nature.)

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