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Icetech

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I look forward to drag week every year, it starts monday and streams live on youtube. I tend to keep it on as background noise at work and watch when i can.
I find it interesting seeing the different setups guys bring especially the stuff to make it through the week and the roadside repairs guys pull off.

This week is mostly videos of guys getting ready though.. always guys that wait til the last minute to get things done then it's panic time.

Usually some cool mopars, but never enough :)
 
I watch it while I am working, too. Have done so for probably 4 years now. I do the same with Sick Week.

Seems like this might be a big year. I've seen comments that Finnegan will be there, and Tony Angelo was redoing his '55 with the NASCAR motor to do it. I know @70DusterDev is going. I bet the guy with the R5P7 Duster will be there, he did Mega Week this year and was at Drag Week last year. Losing track, seems like I have seen multiple people I follow on YT mention planning to be there but I can't remember who all there are now.

Definitely something I look forward to every year. I too like seeing what people bring and the stories of how they overcame adversity. Been a bucket list to participate for years. Note that I didn't say compete. :D
 
I would love to do a west coast version, but a man has to know his limitations, lol.
Besides, the class my car would fit in is about four seconds (not tenths, seconds!) faster than me. (Ten second unlimited cars are just embarrassing).
I have contemplated just following along in my motor home, but I'm getting old and tired for even that. It is on my bucket list though.
 
33IMP said:
I would love to do a west coast version, but a man has to know his limitations, lol.
Besides, the class my car would fit in is about four seconds (not tenths, seconds!) faster than me. (Ten second unlimited cars are just embarrassing).
I have contemplated just following along in my motor home, but I'm getting old and tired for even that. It is on my bucket list though.
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I would like to do it but so far i don't trust my car to go more than 20 miles from home :)
 
One day I would love to do one of these, even if I was just following along. There is a group that started their own version of Drag Week up here in Alberta during covid, called Miles of Mayhem, I watched several videos of their events, unfortunately this year was rainy most of the week. Been trying to convince my brother to take it in one year, he also wants to do Hot Rod Power Tour at least once.
 
Closest one to me is the Redwood Rally. But it looked like several of the tracks were 1/8th mile only which makes it weird to me.
 
DionR said:
Closest one to me is the Redwood Rally. But it looked like several of the tracks were 1/8th mile only which makes it weird to me.
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Until you've tried it, you won't know how great 1/8 mi can be.
Up until a few years ago, i had a choice of 1/8 or 1/4, both about 20 miles away. The quarter track had two events a month , the eighth track had five or six. If there was a choice of competing events, I ALWAYS ran the eighth!
The eighth is cheaper to run on, easier on the car, the program runs quicker, and its just safer at 100 mph than 130. My cars stop much better from 110 than they do from 130. And the racing is every bit as competitive.
And there are cars out there that can run 150 in the eighth, that don't really want to run 200.
 
I should be there. Had entry and everything lined up. Car owner pulled the plug at the last minute. Divorce sucks.
 
33IMP said:
Until you've tried it, you won't know how great 1/8 mi can be.
Up until a few years ago, i had a choice of 1/8 or 1/4, both about 20 miles away. The quarter track had two events a month , the eighth track had five or six. If there was a choice of competing events, I ALWAYS ran the eighth!
The eighth is cheaper to run on, easier on the car, the program runs quicker, and its just safer at 100 mph than 130. My cars stop much better from 110 than they do from 130. And the racing is every bit as competitive.
And there are cars out there that can run 150 in the eighth, that don't really want to run 200.
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I used to be all 1/4 or nothing! and all that... then realized that 1/8th is sooo much easier on a car... and safer as you said
 
33IMP said:
Sometimes I think that the "1/4 or nuthin" guys have never raced on either.
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I think it's more of a northern thing.. where i live we never had any 1/8th tracks at all.. so it just seems like huh? why 1/8.... but after the internet and watching a lot of 1/8 stuff it just makes more sense
 

Not so much complaining about the 1/8th mile tracks as the mix of both 1/4 and 1/8 in the same class.
 
33IMP said:
I can get a bit farther than that, but not much. 8 gallon cell in one car, five gallon in the other.
Is carrying five five-gallon cans inside the car legal, if they're strapped to the roll cage? Lol!
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I’m still using a sixteen gallon tank but @ 3 or less mpg it will take me for an eighteen mile cruise around the lake with no hotroding. Like I don’t use the throttle. lol
 
TT5.9mag said:
I should be there. Had entry and everything lined up. Car owner pulled the plug at the last minute. Divorce sucks.
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Been there, been screwed by that.

It does get better once all of the BS plays out, so hang in there.
 
ProjectBazza said:
Been there, been screwed by that.

It does get better once all of the BS plays out, so hang in there.
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Thank you but it wasn’t me. I’ve never been married, nor likely ever will be, by design. The car owner basically lost everything and his car is perma-parked in my backyard.
 
mopowers said:
It's cool that they stream this event live.
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yeah i watch it every year... and every year they make the announcers mics really low then the track/commercials really loud.... i feel bad for people with headphones :)
 
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