ExospeedAMcrx

good thing you walked away from it. thats the most important part.

1320ms

Thanks man, and that was exactly my point when all this arguing over rules was going on a while ago.. things progress, and you cant just single out one car to slow down. The excuse was that "True Street" was supposed to be a mid-low 9 second class, yet no changes were made for ANY car except rwd 6cyl auto - and there was already a 9.1 sec 4cyl fwd a year ago. If this "9 second class" crap was a legitimate reason, then it was completely foolish to leave 4cyl rules alone.. thinking that someone couldnt figure out a way to knock .2 off in a year? right. Also, keep in mind, all this rule crap happened BEFORE i ever went 8's, I had gone 9.07, .07 faster than Billy ran at WCF last year, and because of that I got 200lbs of weight and a DOT tire.

And for what its worth, by the rules right now there is already an 8.7 sec Evo (east coast) that fits in.. but no one cares about that because people only pay attention to cars they have seen

I too was looking forward to lining up with you, seeing if i could keep up on a DOT tire with 200lbs of crap in the trunk - but there's always next year, Congrats again on the pass and good luck getting her back together.

Might be down at MIR sometime for testing before the end of the season if you wanna line up for ***** and giggles

Matt

allblkcoup

i second the last line!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

mistajdm

that's crazy. luckily the civic didn't you!

yosolo

glad you are ok.it was a crazy crash but you hit your goalin running your 8s

Spoolin18

Glad your ok man, that looked to be one heck of a wild ride.

area522010

First off good **** you wasnt hurt in accident.

I think most ppl on here is not understanding the magnitude of how this sport have came and where true street,sfwd,and outlaw have came.

you got guys literally coming off there trailer and running 8s in street trim. that **** alone is heavy within itself. personally 10yrs ago(fnf days) i thought a 9.9 cars was the goal of everybody now you got guys like BubsBoostedEG running 8s on chrome.....wow

I think alot of you guys dont understand what is really going on in this sport. im sorry running mid 8s in street trim in a 2 liter is nuts. you can only guess whats next to come. i wont entertain a/m them guys are aliens from another planet the power and times those guys are running.

but i think instead of trying to dissect every time slip,every breakage look at where the sport has come. just imagine what next year will look like. jeff ran 8s damn near off the trailor,max(jjmotorsports) literally ran 8s off the trailer,rick everly having a damn good year,jimenez racing and that sexy *** car running 8s,speedfactory coming cross country and winning fall nats. but i think these guys and a few others are really curving our sport in the direction it should be going in. and the folks who have a chip on the shoulder will be the guys with the high price builds stuck and posting dumb *** comments

slywfbpsi

Congrats on the PB, sorry, about the car.

JFK78

So bittersweet. Congrats on the record, looked too easy! Sucks about the car but I'm sure you'll return even better than before. Glad you are OK after that hit.

locash

I'm sure you'd be fine, you are strong enough to handle 2 screaming kids and deal with the business, you can handle anything!

orangebarius

i saw this over on s2ki the other day, then jeff devos (jdv motorsports) texted me about this thread. the trailer story on the way down is just crazy. glad your ok and congrats on the record. can't wait to see what you come back with next season.

boostlsveg

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Crazy..glad everything is ok could've been alot worse

sleepinonacreeper

wow! crazy video. glad to hear that you are ok. do you always decel on the motor after a pass?

boosted hybrid

The video and an article was posted on Autoblog yesterday.

http://www.autoblog.com/2011/11/10/i...into-the-eigh/

littlebluecrx

the freeze frame of you nearly hitting bart's car is insane! just show's how lucky thing were could have been way worse....

AllMoToRB18c

Jeff congrats on your 8sec pass. Sucks it had to end that way but I can't wait to see the next car when its finished. Should be pretty bad ***.

Glad you are ok!

ashtons300zx

The in-car vid is crazy. Pretty hard it. Again cant say i wouldnt have done the same thing but the proper thing to do would have been to hit the gas and point when the backend on a fwd car comes out like that. But again with that much going on again cant say i would have avoided it either.

Another thing i noticed in the vid was the laptop flying around in the car as you hit the barrier. I thought laptops were not allowed to be in the car during runs or is that an NHRA rule? Good thing it went under the dash.

Good thing your ok and congrats on the new pb even though it cost the car.

Andrea

Or so that's what I lead everyone to think...

Pretty certain that Jeff Devos would agree that if we needed one word to describe the entire weekend it would be 'unbelievable.'

ALLMODA

WoW pretty hard lick, main thing is you walked away from to tell the story, was defintley a rough weekend, but also congrats on the record

Jeff have you ever checked the back suspension on that car, cause if memory serves me correct when Brian drove the car at shootout it got a little loose and looked like it squirmed as well threw the traps ( at least thats what i think i saw from incar)

All the best on the new set up, hope its a teggy still

boosted hybrid

We had went over the car with a fine tooth comb after etown. I was out getting some testing/seat time before this event at local tracks and the car never felt "off" (not sure how to describe what had happened). We did go over all the suspension several times. I watched the videos a few times and the initial jerk to the left was what through me off, there could have been several reasons. I can say that I will never have a car that front biased again. There should be some kind of rules in place for that to be banned. I was close to 75% front bias, which looking back was not safe by any means. I am sure it contributed to the weight transfer in the crash, and hopefully other racers dont follow suit and can learn from my "mistake" in this situation. I think another situation was was not in my favor was that the front braking system was its own system, and manual (no booster). The rears were hydraulic on a staging brake, and separate. When I applied the brakes it further aggravated the situation since the rear wheels could not scrub any ground speed. I also found that the manual booster made it harder to feel the lock-up of the brakes compared to a booster. The future car will have OEM honda front/rear brakes with an OEM booster. I am keeping this OEM and more simple this time around!!!

tmar253

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Congrats on record!!! Third time out with the car and putting those numbers up is just impressive. Sucks about the car I hope you come out next time and pick up right where you left off! I look forward to following the new build!!! Also thanks for info on the turbo!

13173

That is some good info for future racers to digest. It may not happen with every car, but you said your car was fairly front biased. With racers adding weight bars to the front and using these parts in the brake systems like many others this could potentially become a small problem. I am no physicist but it is clear, to me, how this sort of incident could happen again. Not to mention it seems that tons of FWD cars are easily going 9's now. I think we hear and read it so much that we often forget just how fast a 10 sec car really is.

tmar253

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^Well said