There have been alot of post with times in them.....which I have no problem with but when you guys go out and race do you mark off a quarter mile or what?
And another thing please don't ask questions like what does this car run in a 1/4 mile, we have a drag racing board for this.
And please don't put up posts that are NON THIRD GEN RELATED.
Please try not to FLAME anyone, I know that some people are RUDE but try to keep a level head about it....some people do that just for attention, 9 times out of 10 if you don't post on it they will leave.
I read everypost that gets put up here and some of them are meaningless. For example a post of LOL........it says that wow there are alot of locked posts on this board....REALLY well it had to locked too.
Please don't clutter up the board with these questions.

HOWEVER I will be talking to a few people and TRY to get a GENERAL DISCUSSION BOARD put up.
Not trying to be a butthole or anything just trying to do my job.

I DRAG 2

PS Please post on this and let us know what you think.

 

I will volunter to moderate a general discussion board

 

makes alot of sense to me. I heard that you guys had a couple of problems with BS and non-related stuff a while ago, so I can respect having to keep a close eye on things, its the only way to keep the board clean. I think that maybe a couple of posts got locked or moved recently because they were worded as if they were just comparing cars, not actually racing (I made that mistake), and I could see why they were locked, when maybe they could've stayed open, but that's your call, and I'll respect it. I think a general discussion board would be a great idea because there are a lot of things people want to post but don't know where they should go, so they post them here (again from personal example: my hello message) but a general discussion would make that alot easier.

 

I doubt they'll ever do another general discussion board. It ended up closing the site for awhile.

 

so, unless i race a thirdgen, all my Vette stories will be locked. guess you guys will have to start liking LG4 kills

 

True but that was awhile ago. I think this site really needs a general discussion board again. A place where members can get together and shoot the $hit. Or something like that.
Later Barrett

 

Why did it close?

 

Well all I can do is try.......






HAIL LALA RACING :lala: :lala: :lala: :lala: :lala:

 

A general chat board would just allow more people to start huge flame wars and make fools of themselves. Look at Camaroz28.com, hardly any tech but a HUGE general discussion board. It's just a waste of bandwidth to have "My girlfriend farted in front of me today LOL!" type posts on a TECH website... If you want to BS go to a chat room or (as everyone used to post) nethirdgen.org

 

bow down

 

I think a general section would cut down alot on the off topic posts. Common is Camaroz28.com, LS1.com can all have off topic board we sure as hell can. Not like were 12 and will flame.



(Why would the whole site get shutdown cuz of a general discussion board?)

 

https://www.thirdgen.org/techbb2/sho...hreadid=101897

I wouldn't even bother trying to ask for this because it will get you no where, take my word for it. Read Inwo's post.

 

Well guys I tried, but no go. All I have been hearing is that they have tried it twice and it never worked. I guess some childish people get on there and start flame wars....sorry.......but tell me what can I do to make the board better?

 

"All I have been hearing is that they have tried it twice and it never worked."

Yup. No more of that.

"but tell me what can I do to make the board better?"

Just keep watching it and taking care of BS or things that will turn into BS quickly. And off-topic stuff.

 

Obviously, not, but can you think of a better comparison between two cars? 0 - 60 might be a great comparison for most stoplight to stoplight, but who has the capability to go out and get a 0 - 60 time? Not me. What's left? 1/8 mile, 1/4 mile...


Why? Isn't that theoretical? I guarantee if I went over to the drag racing forum and posted "what does a '95 Eclipse GSX run in the 1/4?" it would get locked or deleted. If I were smart, I'd go to the DSM forum and do some research on my own to find out, but some people haven't caught onto that concept yet. They need to find their info somewhere, so IMO stuff like that should be considered appropriate as it's more theorectical than technical and the info presented could easily be used for comparison.

Should I refrain from posting any more LS1 kills?

I'd be happy about that. I enjoy hanging out over here with you guys. You're not pompous *******s like most of the members of the larger mustang sites. My suggestion to keep the flame wars/****/etc. down would be to make it clear what is and is not allowed, kind of like the lounge guidelines on the corral.

My .03 on the subjects at hand :lala:

 

In my mind the purpose of this board would be to post STREET RACING kills or losses, or to do research for future street races (THEORETICAL). My definetion of street racing is a set up race with another car over a set distance. Just like at the track only over a set distance of public (hopefuly desolate) roads.

Everyone should keep in mind that both of these topics will in turn start general discussion in thier replys. That is just the nature of the beast.

I think many people (including myself) are guilty of posting irrelivant information because this board has a larger audience than most of the others on the site. We should all do our part in keeping this to a minimum.

A general discussion board would be nice, but I have a feeling that it wont happen. It is too hard to control and uses tons of bandwidth...I definetly understand the moderators reasoning behind not having this.

So for now lets do the best with what we have. If you have something to add that relates to the original topic, then go ahead and post away.

Later everyone,
Doug

 

Good post. At least a few get it.

 

if a few get it then the rest will follow

 

When we go out to race we take it to long straights and just go at it until you reach the point where you can see who is pulling ahead or who has already met the horizon.

As for the anything goes board. It would be nice, but I've seen it in the supra boards and other places and it's just anarchy.

Rob

 

How about a naked lady picture forum? I highly doubt there would be much in the way of arguing on that.

 

I really don't understand the lack of General Discussion board... We do like to talk friendly BS and this is the forum that gets the most of it... I Can't comprehend why we would have more childish members than a Stang or Honda board... I post regularly on both http://www.stangnet.com and http://www.hondahookup.com they both have General discussion boards and neither one seems out of control... but hey if we can't handle it we don't deserve it.


A true race is the 1/4 mile, I don't believe in 500 foot or 1/8 mile tracks... for a street race, if someone revs and a race ensues, the first one to prove superiority wins and has the right to turn their flashers on.

 

What if they set up the bord so that when you first become
a member, you get access to a certain group of boards you cna
post on. you can read the messages on other boards, but can't post.
then on the boards you can post. have some sorta system
set up so that moderators can flag you negative points. then after so many weeks like say.. 1 month.. if you have a certain
low ammount of points, the system automatically allows access to a few more boards.. and so on.. and as the person has been around for a bit they can eventually "POST" on all the boards. However, negative points always being a factor.. If a person has access to all the boards, but gets some negative points from the moderator, then he/she could be demoted to only post on a few boards like a new user.

Just a thought.

 

That's not a bad idea, maybe have an open discussion board, but once you mess up you're out, no more posting for you on that board. But I still doubt it's going to happen.

 

Everyone want's a board to just hang out and BS in, but for the most part we BS about street racing and car cruising related stuff. I don't see why this board can't serve that purpose. This board isn't a exactly a wealth of knowledge when it's on topic, but it's pretty damn entertaining. Lets not make it out to be something it isn't. There just needs to be a less strict interpretation of what's on topic and off topic. For example, there was a post about if using N2O is cheating or not. That was pretty interesting and seemed to be getting more interesting when it was locked. I don't give a rat's ace what your favorite bass song is, but that thread is still going on in the car audio board, and it's totally non tech. At the same time I don't think there should be a dedicated board for non car related stuff. MonteCarloSS.com has their supersport lounge, and aside from the occaisonal funny link, it's all crap. Sure there is some stupidity that goes on on this board once and a while, but it's a lot better than the crap you have to listen to when hanging out at cruise spots. The moderators are more that capable of telling if someone knows what they're talking about, and what their intentions are, so why not delete individual posts?

 

All of us run 1/8th mile distances... most of the time anyway. That gives the driver a big role especially on radials. Keeps the grudge rather large.

We mark it off, the spectators are at the end and judge the winner.
If you keep in it past the finish line, you're just wasting your gas.

 

That is why people get killed in street races. Not very smart. IMO racing is NOT about spectators, its about two cars and two drivers.

-Doug

 

If a person can't get out of the way of a loose car an 1/8th mile down the track by a street car on radials he deserves to get hurt.

If the cars aren't any faster than 7 seconds, I don't see much to worry about on spectators.
Most tracks around here, spectators stand only 5 feet at the most from the track.

The flag man has more chance getting hurt than that.

And when since racing isn't about spectators. Name a race that doesn't have spectators. Street racing isn't any different. It's about pride and money. (Then again that's opinionated and priorities.)
I don't run my car on the street for kicks. I can do that while I'm tuning at the track.

It may not be very smart on eithers part true. But everybody knows the risks.

Shad

 

You may want to also note that when you are at the track there is a concrete wall keeping cars on the track and away from spectators.

Racing was about racing...then came Fast and Furious. Now everyone wants to watch.

-Doug

 

Why have a non tech board? www.nethirdgen.com takes care of that. Just have it be the non tech board. A lot of the same people frequent both sites anyways. And we do have a chat room, do we not? I've never been in there, but I'm sure it could handle some of the non tech needs. Guess it would only be good at peak usage though.

 

"You may want to also note that when you are at the track there is a concrete wall keeping cars on the track and away from spectators. " quoted



I can name you 4 tracks with in at least 40 miles of my house that doesn't have a concrete wall seperating the spectators. (Blue Mountain, Holly Springs, Fulton, Columbus, Byhalia) They just have a single cable fence to keep spectators from walking on the track.
That's your average 1/8th mile track.

Every since I saw my first street race little over 10 years ago, people enjoyed watching streetracing. I'm pretty sure before then people got in big crowds bet and watched also.
I see nothing wrong with it.

I see marking off a deserted road early the morning as being much better than running from stop light to stop light in traffic.

Either way, I guess you can call it street racing.