O hell no.....Im talkin with drag tires or slicks.

 

huge difference between drag tires and slicks... slicks you will probably do it... drag radials... you will be close... unless you are running the BOTTLE!

That would be sweet

 

Well i have a set of 16's i use for the winter that im tryin to fit for the tires.....Just figuring out sizes for the 16s for either tire.

We'll see in a few weeks....Ill be happy with low 13's without the bottle but i doubt it.

 

Will everyone quit talking and get on with the racing...

FTR has a 11 second MINI until he has a SLIP that says differently.

1FSTMINI you have a "mid 13" second car untill you have a SLIP that says otherwise!

Please go out and race and not talk about what could have been!!!

MINIUSA does not have enough money to guarantee the car will run 9.xx! All the money in the world can not guarantee anything. I know a guy that has spent well over $1,000,000.00 to make his car run 8's. Hes has been at it for 12 years now and still hasn't done it. It is not an unachievable goal becasue others have done it. MOst money won't always get you the fastest car.

 

You could have bought a car that runs 6s for 1mil. I question his brain power

 

Half the fun of the drag racing forums is speculation!

 

Are you kidding? You have to be the stupidest person on earth to spend that much to go 8's...news flash bro.....This is the real world.....No way did he spend that much and if so, you need some friends with brains. I know for a fact that www.theexperience.com which is the worlds fastest NISSAN didnt spend close to that and they went 8.22 there first run on a full body 350z before they built the rail version. Im gonna actually call my people over there and see what they spent.

 

LESS

 

double post...sorry

 

Motorsports3 point is that it doesn't matter how much money you spent on your car and what mods you have done to your car and how much power your car makes... YOU...THE DRIVER... make the number just as much as the car does... Most people are incapble of making 8second passes... If you had a 500,000 grand to spend on a race car it would be safe to say that you wouldn't beable to get an 7 second car to run a 9 safely... you would probably be all over the track... and when i say you i don't mean specifically anyone on this board or anything im just saying the general public...

Motorsports3 has a very valid point... Its expressed a little too... much... but his story about the guy who has spent about a mill on an 8 second car is true... its a Supra... and it runs 8's inconsistantly...

I don't know how long many of you guys have been in the tuner world or car world but this isn't a mystery... this is true of many people... foreign car or domestic cars...maybe not a million bucks... but sometimes it doesn't matter how much money you throw at a car... because throwing money at the car doesn't make the driver faster.

Alot of people in motorsports make a huge mistake when they aren't as fast as they want to be or they get beaten... they throw parts at the car... usually that is the last thing that you want to do unless you are consistantly running the same number over and over and over...

you could have a 1000hp mini and race a 600hp mini and guess who would win... most likely... the better driver... the extra 400hp just exagerates how bad the driver is... or how bad the chasis is...

EVERYTHING MUST WORK IN CONCERT! Drag racing is not some redneck sport it truly a science... a science that rednecks invented ha ha ha

 

This pretty much sums up what is the biggest problem with the MINI community...

Speculation... please leave it at the door...

The fun part of drag racing should be the DRAG RACING!

(i do realize that you may have said this comment tongue in cheek)

 

their was a 7 second mustang for sale on ebay a month ago for 32,000 bucks...

just because you spend the money doesn't mean that you will run that number... it just means that the car is capable of it...

 

i totally agree with you and i wasnt tryin to sound like a d*ck to anyone.

I seen first hand what it takes to break in the single digits and then go faster n faster. Its extremely hard to pull more out the engine, dial in the suspension, and work the slicks to make em hook. Its all to real when you see your friend hangin the wheels at the 60' and then breakin loose at the 1000ft mark almost hitting the wall at over 160mph and ending all the work you just finished let alone losing my friend.

 

sorry to hear about the loss of your friend...


single

 

sorry to hear about the loss of your friend...

single digit drag cars are no joke... any mistake can be your last...

its also shows you how even adding 1 or 2 pounds of more boost or changing tire pressures 2psi... can have HUGE effects on a car... that is dialed in and making single digit passes

 

O he aint dead......Almost i said.

 

ohh... well in that case... screw your friend... ha ha ha

 

Have you ever visited a drag racing section of any other forums??

 

I sure have... They are full of people who either talk sh*t and then go race or people who talk a whole lot and that is about all they do. Most of the MINI community is like option two.

You are an idiot The is the most unsensable post I have ever read... and there are a lot of them on this board.

Thanks for bringing me back to the real world bro . Obviously this guy isn't the stupidest person on the world for a couple of reasons. One would be that he made the money to be able to blow a cool million on a HOBBY and not flinch. And the second reason would be "coopa25's" last post. That is clearly stupider (is that even a word?) than wasting money making your car go fast. You seem to understand the concept but are completely missing the point of money does not GUARANTEE anything. Call NISSAN and ask them. If you could get an actual number out of them It is probably higher than you think. But I find it highly unlikely you would get a truthful number from them.

Well said

 

Listen guy.....Not once in ANY of my posts did i say or even come close to meaning if you have a said amount of money you are guarented to go a certain speed.....But i will say....i can careless how your friend made his money...i can careless that he's a moron in his hobby which it seems he needs to get out of cause it certainly shows that he doesnt know what he's doing besides blowing money to show off to his friends who talk about him in the Net, and you need to just give it a rest. I know the first build cost them around 250k and they went 8's the first time so it just shows you that your boy know nothing about this sport.

 

I dont know about you but there are a very limited few who make their living drag racing. Most people involved in this sport do it for fun or as a hobby! Most people that do them as a hobby on the most part enjoy their hobby. I guess the point I am trying to make is you need to lighten up a bit, the people that post here for the most part are hobbyists who love their cars, not people who make a living with their cars.

 

Werd!

 

Dude, you missed his point. He's talking not about who makes a living at drag racing, but rather the difference between the two categories of people on the forum. There are, according to him, those who talk smack and actually go out and drag race their MINI and those just type smack onto a computer screen without any actual real-world experience of dragging in their MINI.

 

Wow! Somebody can actually read!!!! Thanks for understanding Dom!

 

There is no showing off here. I am simply showing that money can't make everything possible possible. But you seem to think so because Nissan did it for only $250K whick I am sure is an actually number . Before you go off calling someone a "moron in his hobby" you need to step back and look at what is really going on. This is how I KNOW that you don't have a clue as to how the racing world works. This guy has paved the way for many others in his field. Its not like he he throws sh*t at his car and pisses it away. There is a huge learning curve when you want to have 1500+ hp out of a 3.0L motor. This is a little more technical than twincharging your mini... At what boost level does the motor twist and the crank walks out the front of this 3 Liter motor... Nobody knew, he found out . How much horse power can the mains hold in this motor... Once again nobody knew and he found out. What clutch do you use to hold 1500+ hp... Only one way to find that out... By testing. I could make this list go on forever but I am hoping by now you unsterstand my point. When nobody has done it somebody has to lay the ground work. He did a lot of the ground work for the thousands that race this car today and doi it very consistently and reliably. Doesn't sound like a "moron in hi hobby" to me, but rather somebody who made a lot of things possible for others.

So unless you have something to say about your MINI being faster than my "worlds quickest and fastest non nitrous or turbo MINI" please dont post in this thread anymore. After all that is what this thread is about.