07 Thunder Valley Dragways Schedule

[midnight94R]

i know having interstate dragways right there reason enough to not venture out of the city too much for racing but i did notice that they do charge you guys 60 bucks to race up there so i figured with the extra 35 bucks most of you can use that to drive down here to sioux falls then head out to marion for a change of scenery.
A group of us at sfr started the street legal drag events 2 years ago and they have shown good success. on avg about 60 cars but if its good we've seen it as high as 100 cars going down the 1320'. plus a lot more spectators, cars, beer, chicks you guys know what its all about.

http://www.thundervalleydragways.com/2007%20Schedule.html

edit* we also have established a sport compact class, basically its for anyone thats in the how to say, tuner scene. not limited to number of cylinders, power adders, or choice of drive wheels. its set up as a bracket race with usually enough cars to go 4-5 rounds of eliminations. i also know that this will most likely be the year that the sport compact track record falls. theres a good number of high hp local cars that made some tuning passes towards the end of the year and should be ready to go. as well as the sls guys from fargo.

[Bookem]

Are there any special rules for sport compact besides the "no electronics"?

[midnight94R]

the no electronics is such a wide area. basically you cannot run a dial box. most of you have see where a rail car will lauch really slow and basically put for the first 80 feet or so then take off like crazy. thats a boxed car.

but you can run a two step and stuff like that without problems.

rules are you need a battery tie down, IHRA said its supposed to be at least 1/4rod with a half in wide strap. if you have a relocated battery then you need an appropriate batter retainer and cutoff switch.

you need to have an adequate radiator over flow tank,
brake pedal needs to be somewhat firm,
snell 90 or better helmet
slicks require extended wheel studs
rwd cars need a driveshaft loop

11.49 -10.00 requires a 6 point cage.

[treimche]

Thunder Valley is the shit.

[STiSchucky]

the drives boring as shit though.

[treimche]

It's WELL worth it. The time I was there they raced until about 2am.

[midnight94R]

for the street legal events we usually go to 11:30 or so...our first event 2 years ago drew 113 cars plus another 80 spectator vehicles i think we went until 12:30 we have no noise ordinance laws as the track is out in the country so that helps.