Awesome Thread... [Automotive Edition]

So Kim "Kimble" Schmitz is seriously back in Germany...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Schmitz

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as well

 
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Der Stig said:
It looks like the 'Vette has a license plate...? Is it street legal? I also assume automatic trans?
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99% of drag cars are going to be AT. With that time/power I'm sure its a built seq AT though.

Loved the Z32TT that I saw at Pinks All Out in NC a couple years ago. Completely stock looking, running 9s. Had a built chevy AT and the horn buttons on the steering wheel were setup as shift paddles.
 
patrick10 said:
That's local to me, actually at the same track as my sig pic. IIRC it has the record for fastest car equipped with irs.
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Lucky, I only got to see it once at the LSX Shootout last year.

Redliner said:
30" tires?
I mean, HOW? Each rear tire is 15" wide?
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30" in height.

Adrian said:
Drag tires (and monster truck tires) measures the diameter on the tire. So i'd guess they are 30" from one side to another.
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While you are correct about how they are measured, think about it. How big is a 30" tire length-wise? Big numbers (usually 26"-30", sometimes bigger) measure height, not length.

CraigB said:
Correct. They are 30" in diameter.
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Wrong, 30" tall. (Unless you were talking about if you laid the tire down and measured that diameter, from one sidewall to the other. )

Der Stig said:
It looks like the 'Vette has a license plate...? Is it street legal? I also assume automatic trans?
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Yes, a th350 automatic. You can get just about anything street legal as long as you know someone. ;)

biggie said:
With that time/power I'm sure its a built seq AT though.
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Nope, just an old transmissions GM put out a long time ago with a torque converter gettin' the job done.

Der Stig said:
Yeah, I was wondering what kind of build that thing had- it's got to be pretty rugged.
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See above.
 
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I expected 30" to be bigger...thanks guys.
 
They are probably on 16" wheels.
 
Purpose built. Fast as fuck in a straight line, beautifully made, but ruined a nicely handling Corvette for that :(
I wonder if you can put normal tires back on it and detune it a bit to make it behave on the road...
 
I know absolutely nothing about drag racing so excuse me if this is a stupid question, but wouldn't a build sequential or manual gearbox make it even faster than an (old?) AT?
 
Jens said:
I know absolutely nothing about drag racing so excuse me if this is a stupid question, but wouldn't a build sequential or manual gearbox make it even faster than an (old?) AT?
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Built AT could make it faster I guess. It may have a squential shifter on the regular AT already, I would assume so. And not sure if it is computer controlled at all.

But for drag race an AT can always shift faster than a MT.

Which when you get into the higher end/faster cars they all have AT and makes it boring to me. Only way I like drag racing is driving my own car or regular street-type cars. Gets boring when every car just has a Ford/Chevy/Dodge V8 with Seq AT.
 
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Art Morrison 1960 Corvette. Been in lesbians since GT5.
 
Buddys M3, with his new rims
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I agree with jayjaya - nothing special nor awesome.

..maybe i'll post a few pictures of the 850 after polish and wash - just because i apparently can.
 
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