wagner Posted June 28, 2011 Report Share Posted June 28, 2011 You are doing it wrong You are doing it right Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Spam Posted June 28, 2011 Report Share Posted June 28, 2011 Anyone fallen off more towards the top. That shit looks scary as hell all the way up there !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spankis Posted June 28, 2011 Report Share Posted June 28, 2011 We drove up there when I was maybe 13 or so, it was amazing. I remember the huge dropoffs bothering my dad quite a bit just going 30mph lol. I remember my mom joking that seatbelts wouldn't matter, you'd be dead anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRed05 Posted June 28, 2011 Report Share Posted June 28, 2011 I want to know how these guys did. The last one has a 4.2L V8 swap in it. http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/259970_222669817763770_112400115457408_743447_2763245_n.jpg http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/259815_10100291667542803_10233085_53655179_3773701_n.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mallard Posted June 28, 2011 Report Share Posted June 28, 2011 You are doing it wrong You are doing it right The first guy had fail written all over him when he decided to modify a Sunfire for hill climb racing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macpyro2 Posted June 28, 2011 Report Share Posted June 28, 2011 I want to know how these guys did. The last one has a 4.2L V8 swap in it. http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/259970_222669817763770_112400115457408_743447_2763245_n.jpg http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/259815_10100291667542803_10233085_53655179_3773701_n.jpg Secrets of Speed: The Unfair Advantage. :gabe: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrianZ06 Posted June 28, 2011 Report Share Posted June 28, 2011 Looks like it would be a little risky standing on the edge of the road as a spectator. Even as a driver it seems like you would be a little nervous driving so close to them. I guess after you do this a few hundred times you get use to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avenger1647545502 Posted June 28, 2011 Report Share Posted June 28, 2011 LOL@2:55 in "doing it right"... We went up Pikes Peak on a family trip out west in '86...with a Plymouth Colt Vista. Driving that and the Beartooth Highway in Montana a week later kinda soured Dad on the concept of 4-cylinder vehicles...it only had 98hp at sea-level, so it was probably down to 40-ish at 11k feet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KillJoy Posted June 28, 2011 Report Share Posted June 28, 2011 God damn that dude is haulin! :thumbup: KillJoy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frenchy chan Posted June 29, 2011 Report Share Posted June 29, 2011 i'm reading the pikes peak's hill climb fb page and apparently other people went off...someone is on life support Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frenchy chan Posted June 29, 2011 Report Share Posted June 29, 2011 I want to know how these guys did. The last one has a 4.2L V8 swap in it. http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/259970_222669817763770_112400115457408_743447_2763245_n.jpg http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/259815_10100291667542803_10233085_53655179_3773701_n.jpg results here: http://www.usacracing.com/usac_live/ppihc_timing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Das Borgen Posted June 29, 2011 Report Share Posted June 29, 2011 The first guy had fail written all over him when he decided to modify a Sunfire for hill climb racing. ignorance is bliss go look up who Bobby Regester is and then make that comment again.... aside from winning in 2007 Super Stock class at PPIHC, he has done way more than his choice of car seems ignorant http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/comment/12/2011/06/a0e4c98bc5fba3be492453088c9752fd/original.jpg that Sunfire was as much a Pontiac as Foust's TC was a Scion 2007 awesomeness Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mallard Posted June 29, 2011 Report Share Posted June 29, 2011 I stand corrected. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Das Borgen Posted June 29, 2011 Report Share Posted June 29, 2011 I stand corrected. it s easy to judge based on appearances..........one could easily look at Jones think he's a serious man, for instance *ducks*:dumb::gabe: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mallard Posted June 29, 2011 Report Share Posted June 29, 2011 it s easy to judge based on appearances..........one could easily look at Jones think he's a serious man, for instance *ducks*:dumb::gabe: I googled him to confirm it was a Sunfire, but didn't see video's until you posted the link. That looks to be a BA race car with no relation to a Sunfire. Unlike most people here, I have no problem admitting when I'm wrong. Who's on life support? Did any video's get posted from the guy running the four wheeler in the powersports class? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frenchy chan Posted June 29, 2011 Report Share Posted June 29, 2011 Who's on life support? http://apriliaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?p=2861796 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frenchy chan Posted June 29, 2011 Report Share Posted June 29, 2011 http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=621027683500&oid=336377937209 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Das Borgen Posted June 29, 2011 Report Share Posted June 29, 2011 Nobuhiro "Monster" Tajima is a beast one guy wrote about the run from Wagner's post The most amazing thing about this run? Tajima DESTROYED the car! Seriously; when it got to the top of the hill fluid was gushing from the radiators. The motor and turbos where cooked, ruined. Tajima said that the car started overheating two miles into the 12 mile run. 9:51 is pretty much the fastest time that car could possibly have gone. It was physically incapable of giving up any additional performance. The Monster was totally in the zone, driving 11/10s the whole way up. He was so far beyond the limit it was just mesmerizing to witness first-hand. He went around the three corners that make up The Sump (where this pic was taken) as if it was one continuous bend. From start to finish he was on it the whole time. I heard from people at the starting point that it was the hardest launch any of them had ever witnessed; he exploded off the line and did not slow up for a nanosecond. By the time he was a couple hundred yards into the race he was already four seconds ahead of Rhys Millen. the man is 61 years old http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/comment/12/2011/06/45e9cf2586a78fa0778643a65edc3a45/original.jpg http://media.il.edmunds-media.com/non-make/ns/ns_628105_717.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Got-Boost? Posted June 29, 2011 Report Share Posted June 29, 2011 Not as impressed with the time since they paved the top section which makes all the old records more impressive IMO... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Das Borgen Posted June 29, 2011 Report Share Posted June 29, 2011 I suppose it s less impressive if you look at it purely from that perspective but that paving makes it more dangerous and it requires giant balls to take advantage of that paving... Caswell himself was saying he was taking a corner with an entry speed of 100mph that previously was 60mph or less.... And that was in a lowly E30M3... Imagine how fast others with more skill like Monster and the Millens (Rhys and his daddy, Rod) would be going in cars with downforce, turbos, less weight... Is that still not impressive to you? Look at Tajima's run again (watch every second) and consider the state of his car after... If that doesn t show he was driving it at 120percent, I have no idea what would convince you otherwise Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mallard Posted June 29, 2011 Report Share Posted June 29, 2011 Rhys's roof cam got posted. The throttle response appears to be very on/off, which I think gives the sensation that he's creeping through some of the slower corners. His car GLH once it's straight though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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