Do/would you 1/4 race?
 

Just as the title says, do/would you?

If so, what have you done to it or what are you gonna put it in?

For people who has done it; any good results? is it worth it? did you have fun? :)

No I don't. These cars are not that fast in a straight line without a whole lot of mods. If I was going to buy a car to drag race, I'd get an older camaro or mustang and put a huge V8 in it.

I've taken it to the 1/4 track a few times. Its more fun than just sitting in a parking lot. We don't have any road courses near here and $10 for a night full of racing is a good experience.

Of course, my times were horrible, but I snapped a few wins anyways. 2013 V6 Charger, 2000 GT Mustang, SRT4 Neon. Nothing to brag about but like I said, I had fun.

I'd suggest bracket racing with the twins. I haven't dragged in many years (since I had my GTO) but if I go FI I may try my hand at it again. I do live 20 minutes from Budd's Creek afterall.

Haven't but I may one day just for fun to see what I can run. Used to drag race my SRT-4 all the time but haven't got around to getting slicks for it to put down some decent times.

Are you boosted/tuned or anything? Otherwise the drivers of those cars must have been pretty bad drivers lol

I have not and will not do the 1/4 mile in this car.

I have and will continue to do track days/road courses.

I've done a bunch of track days with this car. Love it. That said, I wouldn't mind taking it to a drag strip someday if I have time. It's not fast, but I'd want to see if I could get a mid 14s pass out of it.

I'm not a good driver either though. I mean my best time was a 15.1. So maybe they were even worse haha

The Charger even had a CAI / Tune on it lol

15.1 sounds about right on par for our car stock.

lol a lot of knuckle heads don't know what the heck they're doing out there. I remember one time in my SRT I lost to a 4 door Nissan Altima that ran like 18 seconds. I must have ever so slightly rolled through the lines and caught a red light and I just sat there for like 10 seconds because I didn't know why my light was red and then just said F it and took off. Ended up running a 23.xx at 114 lol.

I think everyone is aware the twins are not really known for being a straight line car. But if you've never been to a dragstrip, it's fun to try it at least once.

1/4 mile run is good for data points on mods....I don't care about the drag racing aspect of it (it's frankly boring) but rather am more interested in the technical information you get on the printout and the weight scale at the track. I've yet to go in the FRS though; the one time I planned on going with some friends they were closed because of 'the weather'. Drag racers are a bunch of pansies when it comes to weather... "Oh a cloud in the sky that's not bright white! Close the track, Close the track!!! But then again High horsepower, terrible handling machines that are mostly automatics is a recipe for disaster. Much different than roadcourses... "Oh it's raining...Y'all be safe and go have fun!"

I mainly track and auto-x but have done ¼ mile drags in the hopes of improving auto-x times. It was tremendously helpful for testing best launch technique. It directly translated into ½ sec. auto-x improvement the next day as measured against my WRX Sti friend who wondered why I was suddenly beating him on every run. Definitely recommended plus it's a treat to see some of the worked cars perform and didn't get the car messy since there was no need for the bleach box. ;-}

I went last weekend just to see how the car compared to others with bolt-ons. Drag isn't that fun in a slow car, not my thing to start with. 14.7@ 93mph w/ 2.1 60'. I was hoping for lower 14's. Still don't have a tune yet so thats my biggest handicap. DA was 2800 I think.

Nope. I probably would if it was free and I had nothing better to do, but not really going to be a lot of fun in this car.

15.135 @ 92.61 last week. showroom stock.

This thread has really got me wanting to run my FRS now to see what kind of time I can get.

I'm just worried about breaking something because I shift like a mad man when I'm drag racing

No point in taking the frs. Too slow and really wasn't intended to be a drag raced. But ona racing circuit, that's where this car shines.

Once I go turbo I plan too. I like all kinds of racing : drag, auto-x, ect. I have had a little fun in the straight lines with a few cars on the streets that should have beat me but surprisingly I have taken down a few decently fast cars in my stock 6spd. frs. I do agree the car is so fun to just drive and corner rather than straight but I think once boosted and making 400+whp these cars are animals in the straight line! This will probably throw off the handling do to the power in the turns. I have a mk3 supra that had 400+whp last outing and I am now building a 2jz for 800whp so I know what its like to go from a fast car to a car with not so much power haha. I will say though I have more fun overall in my frs than the supra. No matter how many people dog on it for being under-powered I am still very impressed with the car and am glad I got one.

Neither were Honda Civics originally and now they just had one trap over 200mph.

I think drag racing can be fun in just about any car. If you go on a no competition night you see everything from snowmobiles to minivans racing.

I NEVER See snowmobiles drag racing.

lol Ive seen it once in person when I was running my other car.

Look it up on YouTube

Sure you can take anything you want. I just don't feel it's worth taking my frs only to run 14.9's. If turbo, for sure!

Give me a FRS and a worked LS engine and I'll show you a quarter mile monster. :D

I hear ya.

My Neon (which hasn't been to the track in a few years) will run mid to high 11's on slicks on its current set up. It's a decently quick car, nothing crazy. But then I have to worry about breaking stuff, tire pressure, meth blends and tuning, etc.

As where I feel like it would be fun to take my basically stock FRS and just rip it down the track, have some fun, and not have to worry about anything for the most part.

That's just my view on it. I'm obviously not try to be competitive or run any record times with this car.

Yup once in awhile its fun , ran a 16.1 then 15.5. Bone stock. With OFH OFT dp and exhaust I ran a 14.3 on my last run of th3 night.

Wow that is some improvement right there in your times.

I've done my share of drag racing and I try to get out a couple of times a year in this car, just to see if I've made any improvements and to test different techniques. I do have plans to turbo my FRS and drag race a little more (2700lbs, and RWD are quite enticing for straight line stuff if you can hook, especially when current muscle cars are 3800-4200lbs). I haven't gone since last April or so, and the local track is only 1000', but with a drop in air filter, muffler delete, rear subframe bushings, rear LCA's and springs I ran numerous 12.3-12.4x and the PB for this car of...

60' 2.2
330' 6.17
1/8th 9.49@74
1k' 12.14@86

Nothing blistering or amazingly fast, but "they say" add 2 seconds to your 1k and that will estimate your 1/4 time, which I don't necessarily hold as true. At this stock power level, you're right at the end of 3rd and into 4th with the manual across the 1k, so you're essentially coasting across too. I've added a few more suspension mods, and honed my technique, so I plan to knock a tenth or two off next time. Definitely a far cry from what I am used to, and pretty darn slow really but you have to start somewhere. My SRT4 ran 12.26 stock... and my stock Charger SRT8 ran 11.05 for comparisons. I got the SRT4 down to 11.14 and the Charger down to 10.05 without drag radials or slicks on either.

This was done with a gtech, probably not the worlds most accurate thing but it was fun. Thought i share it.
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http://youtu.be/L4uS1IdMdoU
Mods;
Phantom electric supercharger
K&n drop in filter
Open flash tablet

hey, when our car looks this good, who needs to run 10's?


...or 11's, or 12's, or 13's or even 14's



or occasionally 15's

Your post starts out intelligent and then toppled downhill quickly. One of the more unintelligible things I have heard....do you have any idea why those high horsepower cars cannot run in the rain? Do you know how 200+MPH on drag slicks and a wet track would go? It would not end well. Grip levels are near zero.

As for being a bunch of pansies....do you ever go ice skating in the summer when its 90 degrees out? You can't, the equipment and surface don't agree.

A true enthusiast will understand and respect all kinds of racing.

I have no idea why people enjoy drifting, but the guys who do it have bucketloads of talent I will never have, hats off to them.

Grow up.

wow it took me a lot more to get to my 14.3 n/a


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I think a lot of people would drop the "wrong car for drag racing" mentality if they understood that you're not competing against the car next to you but rather against yourself. There are three great reasons to head to the drag strip.

1. Improve your skills for launching and shifting (especially if you have a manual)

2. Verify performance impact of power mods (factor climate variables)

3. Have fun..... driving the car even in a straight line can be a blast once you get past the notion of "beating" cars with better hp/#

This is the first new car I've ever owned, and I've spent way too much to beat on it. I baby my FR-S all the time. I want it to last a long time.
I don't think I'll ever drag race it... maybe.

I didn't buy a car that goes really fast in a straight line, I bought one that slides around corners like a champ and leaves the biggest smile on my face.

Subaru BRZ 11.68 @126mph: [ame]http://youtu.be/He52jxUhrAQ[/ame]

They do work on the strip

So much fun. Sportbike to Superbike power to weight ratios with ridiculous grip. Scary as fuck when you lose it though...

I talked to a couple of guys running snowmobiles at Bandimere in Denver over the summer. They were running in the 9's, and said when they run on ice with the studs in the rear belt they could really turn up the power...yikes!

The main thing makes me not interested in drag is I don't want to do clutch dumps on my car. Also I have never had a fast car and so I guess I don't have that straight line power bug. I do have the :burnrubber: corner bug though and starting tracking my car recently.

Different strokes :iono:

Don't be so sure.. It's takes more than just power to get a good ET.
This car lacks mechanical grip as it is.. You'll need more than just a worked engine to get down the 1320