Just got back from a night of racing at the strip. Took the rex just for fun, it was a test and tune night at a drag strip, 1/8th mile
If you're going to go through all the trouble to make a drag strip, put in stands, a concession stand, timing systems, number boards, and everything else, why on earth wouldn't you do 1/4 mile?? Ah well.
Anyhow, Started off the night running high 12s. Yes, high 12s. Not sure what was up with the trans, but all the power was going to one wheel, and being that I was on 6 year old street tires, it wasn't grabbing at all. 60' times sucked balls.
After 2 or 3 runs, it decided to kick in the other wheel and send some power that way as well. Still not much, but it was much better than nothing. Dropped the tire pressure to 20psi and launched at low rpm, very very carefully.
Second best run of the night:
Reaction: .435
60ft: 2.357
330ft: 6.508
1/8th ET: 9.939
1/8th MPH: 72.22mph
Best run of the night was a 9.88. Lost the damn time slip.
Mrs. Phyre had some good runs.
Her best:
Reaction: .4879
60ft: 2.303
330ft: 6.533
1/8th ET: 10.012
1/8th MPH: 71.8mph
She did damn good! I'm proud!
Anyway, as you can see from the 60' times, we were having hell making it hook up. If you got on the power it would just spin out in 1st and 2nd gear. Had to launch at like 3k, and even then we had to feather the throttle. We were on very nice street tires, but they are 6 years old and dried out pretty bad.
Decent times for a b18a swapped crx with an LS transmission. (i think the trans was also killing us with that long ass gearing).. I thought it should have probably pulled mid 9s at least. I mean, this thing is gutted to its bare bones. I even removed the passenger seat for the night.
Also ran against a b20/vtec swapped crx twice and whooped up on him. He was on new street tires, but he didn't seem to have a clue. My guess is vtec wasn't working or something, as he should have beat me by a good margin. Also found out that the rex has a top speed of 137.5mph
Overall a fun night. Mrs. Phyre did good.. she was certainly nipping at my heels!