IROCZman15

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I am starting to put together a dragstrip day this upcoming October at the last remaining dragstrip here in New Jersey. Island Dragway runs private rentals on Fridays and I am looking at likely either October 13 or October 20th. If anyone here is interested, DEFINITELY let me know ASAP.

I posted info about it on my New Jersey camaro/firebird forum, feel free to read it here
http://www.njfboa.org/forums/showthread.php?t=69434
(fyi, no you don't have to drain your coolant etc, this is a street car day mostly Fbodys and new gen muscle cars).

punkmaster98

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I will share this with south jersey fbody

IROCZman15

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Yes! Defintely


right now we are looking low on numbers so im
hoping people can pass the word out. Thank you

my hemi

Let me know the tentative date we would like to go..hopefully my wife will be cleared soon she broke her driving foot...are you looking at October time frame?

IROCZman15

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so far the most requested date is Friday October 20th, so its likely that will win out.

my hemi

Ok cool keep us updated.. what is the track rental at island cost wise? I've always done atco..

IROCZman15

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I booked the date, and paid the deposit. We can now plan on this being a set date to have your rides ready by.

Price breakdown is as listed on their website, unless I hear otherwise.

The price for the first 15 drivers to sign-up is $150. For any drivers beyond 15, it goes to $200 per driver/car. There is a max of 40 cars allowed. As for prep, we can discuss it further, but basic prep is to have EITHER of these
a. both lanes glued and prepped to the 330 foot mark
or
b. one lane unprepped and one lane prepped to the 1/8th mile (660 feet).

...however, we can also have additional lane prep added on if we think we need it, even if we decide that day, so just keep all that in mind.

Helmets are checked over by the tech for sure, so make sure you really know/follow the helmet rules correctly. if You have any helmet related questions, ask them.

My paypal address is viper6916aol.com and you can use this to pay me. I will keep a detailed record of names, payments, and info along the way so you can be certain things will be orderly. When you paypal me, please also provide your full name, username, type of car, and your phone/email address. Using paypal, try to click the option that says "sending $ to friends and family" as then I will not incur paypal fees. It also wouldn't hurt to send me an email as a "heads-up" that you sent me payment, thanks. my email address is martin.dave3@gmail.com

my hemi

Hey Dave how many cars have you got for the rental?

IROCZman15

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We have 18 racers paid and confirmed so far .

my hemi

when is the latest we can join? What's the cut off date..thanks

IROCZman15

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Everything should be locked down by Wednesday Night of next Week, which is Oct 18.
Track will take care of any decisions about potential foul weather, but otherwise everything is a go still at this point.

IROCZman15

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We have 21 paid racers and a possible 6 more coming too.

Any decisions about the weather situation will be made by the track staff, so i am planning on racing full tilt until told otherwise.

IROCZman15

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Well, I didn't want to have to write this, but here we are. Just spoke with Melissa at the track and she said the forecast is going to shut us down completely for tomorrow. Big time bummer.

We have three options:
1. Move the rental to Friday October 27
2. Move the rental to Friday November 3
3. Cancel everything and push the rental deposit to 2024

While chatting with Melissa this morning she and I looked at the weather for both weekends, and while the precipitation amount can always change, the temperature predictions are typically reliable enough. Temps look good (both overnight and daytime) for the October 27th; however, after that, the temperatures take a dive and start dipping into the 30s overnight in early November. This is hardly ideal for track prep and this could essentially halt us in our tracks if we were going for that November 3 date. I almost don't want to take that risk, so it seems to be looking like next Friday October 27th would be our best shot at this point.
I have a few days to get back to her with a decision, so feel free to provide any input or suggestions.

IROCZman15

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Rain date is this Friday, two days from today. Anyone interested in coming? Get in touch with me asap!

IROCZman15

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I'm glad we finally got it in the books, thats for sure.
We had a great turnout, with 26 cars making passes down the track. As mentioned, we had some rain start just after tech inspection opened. The rain moved past fast, but other things moved slow, mostly due to the required ambulance not being on site. After that was all figured out we lost some time, so Melissa said we could stay as late as we wanted to and even said we could jump into the night-time TnT if anyone wanted. Jerry treated the group to a whole bunch of pizza on his dime, and that was awesome.

We got racing just before 1 and people just started making laps. The weather was wildly different than it usually is this time in October, and temps were about 78 with a D.A. of 1800 and higher. Still, some cars were hot lapping the track, while goofballs like me were experimenting with adjustments. I really should have tried to take more action photos, but I'm glad that Jerry jumped in to do just that; awesome photo album.
His link to 300 photos: https://photos.google.com/share/AF1Q...N1WWZkMWk4Y1Jn



I made 10 passes total, but I think there were quite a few cars that got around 20 passes, and some got even more! One of the racers there had a buddy who brought a drone and he got some footage. Here's a link to his videos:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=n5w...ature=youtu.be

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPR7c7t2a/




Some photos:

IROCZman15

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