The Art of Drag Racing: A Conversation with Anthony and His Corvette

Anthony recently took his Corvette to the drag strip for a test run, but things didn't quite go as planned. As he was trying to get the car into gear, it wouldn't shift properly. "It sounded like your half was better within your 3,4 whatever it was was not better," Anthony explained to his friends. He decided to let Kyle take the wheel so that they could see what was going on with the transmission.

Kyle took the Corvette for a spin and noticed that it wasn't shifting as smoothly as he had expected. "I remember when I took rice from Miata and and I was trying to grab it on the highway," Anthony recalled. "It did not shift and I was just going easy on that one like I was just trying to get it in gear first and letting go." Kyle asked if he could try driving the car, but Anthony cautioned him that his own experience with shifting was limited.

Despite the challenges with the transmission, Anthony remains confident that his Corvette can reach a 10-second pass. "I'd be just as happy bro knowing that it could do it," he said. However, he's not sure if he has a history of success in drag racing. "I don't think I want to be that much better," he joked.

Just then, another driver jumped into the Corvette and started revving up the engine. Anthony was surprised to see the owner walking through the scene, but they seemed unphased by the sudden appearance of an unknown driver. The owner eventually pulled the newcomer out of the car and shut him down. It's clear that Anthony has a bit of experience with unexpected situations on the track.

Despite the challenges, Anthony is making progress with his Corvette. His team recently managed to trap 130 miles per hour, which is impressive considering the car's potential. "They're only ten miles behind the record holder," Anthony noted, referring to the Corvette's struggles at higher speeds. He's optimistic that with further development and tuning, his car will be able to reach even faster times.

Anthony also shared some insights into the behavior of his transmission. He suspected that it might be shifting too early or not at all, which was causing him to lose control of the car. "I think I mean for sure it was locking me out," he said, referring to the transmission's tendency to refuse to shift under certain conditions.

As Anthony and his friends continued to discuss their experiences on the track, one thing became clear: drag racing is a challenging but rewarding sport. With the right combination of skill, patience, and practice, even the most temperamental cars can reach incredible speeds and push the limits of what's possible.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enshe's supposed to have I mean Isaac feels good what's up guys right now are getting ready to head to the track today we're gonna be taking Honda route so we had some issues with it this weekend that IDRC oh yeah he's just smiling cuz he went for a ride in it with Brent and they they turned it up to you know 31 pounds so she is eating right now and we have no idea how much power it's making but it's making 31 pounds so we know it made 590 on 26 so I have no idea when it's making now I know is it I've never felt it like this before so she feels like she's ripping out like the front end comes up somewhat I made it to like it feels really good and then just now we adjusted that little training mount - yeah we adjusted the pitch mount so hopefully that helps us in shifting the but I feel like even if I don't get the gears in as fast if I could just get them in and go I think we could get our 10 today so you're just hoping we can get a 10-second pass out of it well that's the goal so yeah we're getting ready to load up right now we're already running a little late we got to get this thing on the trailer and then we're just gonna head right over and wall Emilio was messing with Han drew I also got the motor painted for the mr2 and I got it completely assembled and I just threw on this pink valve cover Brent had just for fun and through the intake manifold on and the damper right there but I got it all put together and painted so the motor for the mr2 is completely done all I gotta do now is just put the sensors on it and all the little miscellaneous things but that is ready to go outside outside I let the paint dry but I'm gonna go ahead and push this thing back in and we're gonna get Honda reloaded up to the track the last time we use those trailers when this fender takes your car I know I don't like this trailer freakin tire blew and I still have a dent in my hat trim it got on drew all loaded up and now we're off to the track to see if we can't get some better passes out of this thing you get all this dirt off the tires so muddy all right guys we got Han drew and loaded got it tucked in and she is inline and amelia is getting ready to make his first pass right now he's about to go up and you know just a couple minutes here there's only these cars in front of him and yeah we'll see what she does on the first pass are you gonna slow shift it on the first hit yeah I'll probably launch it harder and just slow shift it just make sure it goes into every gear and then maybe not shift to crazy far into the RPM yeah I'm probably gonna try to go like 85 so to see what she does and then I'll go higher from there well hopefully Brent's Street tune does work so good on this tree that's what it does on the track yeah what do you think it's gonna do Pedro I can't do the ten with your damn cheese pizza in here give it out way out 11:7 1:30 all of the crap thirty with a 1/8 60-foot work on that but then god that's the hi all eleven seven eight 130 that's not too bad no he the launch sucked but he trapped 130 the best that's ever tried before is 125 yep that's definitely enough to go at 10 not bad 31 30 dude that's the new fastest trap for sure it was a 180 60 buck and come out a lot better than that it still came I didn't want a 60-foot no it bogged a little bit of sounded like fog yeah didn't really I think you need to give it some more on the launch more on the launch yeah news I in fourth gear nice you definitely have enough mile an hour for a 10 easy you just got to get it into gear and out of the hole yeah and the thing is I'm still shifting it's like not letting me so I'm just election comes slow fine if I can match these gears well maybe try shifting a little faster just keep trying faster until it doesn't let you 11:7 hey 130 first hit ain't too bad so we already got her back in line luckily it's not too busy today and he's gonna go again and like what maybe 10 more minutes and just try to maybe launch it harder I think that's where slowing you down cuz I remember when you had the stock motor in this thing you let it freakin eat from the launch and it was spinning all for ya like slipping the clutch more and not giving it all yeah it is scary I don't break anything even I gave it more that time it went 1 8 is still 180 that's nothing that's honestly faster than I thought it was I thought it was gonna be in the twos yeah yeah but ideally this thing should be able to like 1 5 I mean with some we need some better tires too though it's still on the street tire session at least I think maybe a 1 6 1 7 yeah so he'll get there really has a quick-release now yeah I went to a K series parts and gotten to the hub and the quick-release and then we should be getting some steering wheels in the mail here soon we'll see this one's just the one from the ek I just took it out of my ye Kay Neeley I was getting ready to make his second run you're going up against that fast Evo that made her give you some motivation to go attend I feel like the Lightning huh letter e yeah you got it you gotta be a bad thing it's fast it going to light though so it looks like I'm gonna be racing at 810 horsepower Evo good luck brother on my second run all right one-thirty again seems like he's having some issues getting into gear though yeah he got the Evo though evil was having some issues too hey at least you got the Evo right 60-foot but that one - one - all one seven on the 60-foot and 1181 30-minute 3:30 but when 1:30 again yeah that one - shift was so slow cause I didn't get it and I shipped it at 8 - no I don't think it needs more - stuff I just did a 1 7 which isn't bad for it 130 seeped out now we're on the right track yeah it's trapping 130 but you can't get into gear all right that's what I was saying we got to get the suit Pedro my man how you doing we needed the 11 3 didn't 1/8 60-foot with 11 3 at 123 so it's just cuz I won't shift that's it yeah it wouldn't shift on the street earlier today - so who's shifting good in Florida though at the track locking you out of gear yeah this time so like the first couple runs I was just getting it in here first and then going but this one I was like you know what I stood the seat up a little bit more forward so I get more on the clutch and I was like I'm just gonna bang it like how I would have like in the beginning to see if it would go in like that and it would not go in at all so this time what I'm gonna do it cuz I've been trying to like shift earlier just to try to get it in but I think with this time what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna preload it harder launch a little harder and I'm just gonna I'll let it go all the way to nine get it in gear next gear nine get it in gear so I'll grab it out and still slow shoot and see if I can do a better pass for now you know I saw meaning I don't know what else to do really yeah she's acting up yeah cause it's like it like we took it to Omaha it felt so good like she gets shipped like butter you know we've changed so many little things it's kind of hard to like pinpoint what it is you know because after we broke the shifter or the shift-select or whatever you put that back in and then yeah has it been the same we changed the driveshaft from there we changed it to a short shifter solid transmission mount like I don't know if it just needed this a little bit of slop than it did have in the beginning maybe that's what made it work and then now that everything is nice and tight like something else needs to be adjusted I'm not a hundred percent sure I'm just trying to go through what I'm I know like the car like what we've done to the car you know it's kind of hard to pinpoint but I don't know I want it to work I want to just shift it because the power is there mile an hour is there that's 1:30 is like I 11:3 123 that was 123 yeah when I did the 11300 was it 123 and it was like a 1 7 or 1e there's a 1 8 16 foot and you just did a 1 7 yeah with seven more mile-an-hour back half so it'd be going easy tens right now you know I mean why it went a 10-8 yesterday like 126 yeah in his Civic so well we're not giving up we're gonna figure it out you know we got a figure now because I want to see it do you know attend at first but I still want to see it go faster than that - yeah I mean the motors ready for it this is the Oh 2004 transmission - which has shorter gears in like the O 7 the ho 7 is kind of like the one that everybody uses on the sti's - you know that they hold better I've just heard a lot of em like they're in Florida yeah and the gearing is longer so I don't know my just try to find the oh seven and just do that and see what happens from there then try something 12:1 that train is Melanie on a gear call it sounded like your 1/2 was better within your 3 4 whatever it was was not better third was ID I was what two two three yeah alright guys so I'm just gonna let I'm gonna let Kyle run it so you could see what I'm talking about and then who knows maybe it's just me maybe that maybe 100 doesn't like me broke no I doubt it to you I remember when I took rice from Miata and and I was trying to grab it on the highway I know you mean it does not shift and I was just going easy on that one like I was just trying to get it in gear first and letting go but you'll see how it goes maybe maybe it'll do something different for you try it out and see what you can do if you hit a 10-second pass right now then you can just have my car bro oh yeah ten how do you stop it doesn't matter to me I'd be just as happy bro knowing that it could do it I'll try I mean I don't know your car very well I've never driven your car down the drag strip so we'll see good luck I have a history for missing news so if you're missing it - I don't think I want to be that much better I really don't have a history of Misha dome right but this Honda has been giving me a history Cup I was building my resume dude you want me to do it yeah I just want you to feel it honestly just to see you know you never know maybe it's something I don't think it's something that I'm doing I'm kind of confident that it's gonna happen to you but yeah I'm hoping it I don't know if it runs fine I don't know I'm gonna have to like think of another game plan bro because I honestly don't know it's definitely not you it's they've seen the old videos when it was now it's shifting fine bro yeah I remember you in the comment like I don't know if that if those are something the transmission just like little by little you know it's given out the seat grows or something might be messed up in the higher rpm I'm Anthony all bro negative 13/5 blood and it was mostly written at for care undergrad I someone hall for first year like crazy but yeah well we just left the drag strip we are done racing for today's test and tune next until next week yeah have some issues with Han drew but he went 11s twice no personal bests ET but she did trap 130 so we're getting somewhere there that's the best trap by like 5 or 6 miles an hour I don't know what to say because it's like how much yours tried shifting it at 7 now it spun like crazy cuz I launched it really hard yeah and then I was shifting yeah I was shifting way sooner than you were so maybe it was locking you out I don't know I think I mean for sure it was locking me out I just I would think that it could at least shift the 8 you know then I think it's just into higher reps you know never just got a little thing has so so much up top is like I could rev it out to 10 if I wanted to it's like I can't with this you know transmission now it needs it that much but it at least needy yeah car revving it up all this time I'm thinking this the owner look you trying to kick them out right now Lu wait really some random guy look I just wait at some random guy random dude he's just jumping in people bro he's just jumped in that car man up in the Corvette and started revving it up and I see the owner walking through it right and all of a sudden I see the blinkers turn on and then the owner looks in the car he's like pulling him inside now he's on some time huh that's why that guy's lucky he still has this Corvette that kid just hopped in it and that's why he was revving it I thought that was the owner I was like what is he doing random kid wasn't the owner thing rides like kid he just started revving it up turning off the blinker lights and I'm like does he know does he know sure enough yeah I like a cop to shut up we'll get her figured out one day still made progress though trapped 130 which is pretty good for an STI considering that the record holder is trapping 140 so they're only ten miles behind him and there's still more that's a fully built EJ yeah so yeah hon do definitely still is way more in it yeah that's nothing that's I mean it's at spike in 30 pounds and forward we'll see till next timeshe's supposed to have I mean Isaac feels good what's up guys right now are getting ready to head to the track today we're gonna be taking Honda route so we had some issues with it this weekend that IDRC oh yeah he's just smiling cuz he went for a ride in it with Brent and they they turned it up to you know 31 pounds so she is eating right now and we have no idea how much power it's making but it's making 31 pounds so we know it made 590 on 26 so I have no idea when it's making now I know is it I've never felt it like this before so she feels like she's ripping out like the front end comes up somewhat I made it to like it feels really good and then just now we adjusted that little training mount - yeah we adjusted the pitch mount so hopefully that helps us in shifting the but I feel like even if I don't get the gears in as fast if I could just get them in and go I think we could get our 10 today so you're just hoping we can get a 10-second pass out of it well that's the goal so yeah we're getting ready to load up right now we're already running a little late we got to get this thing on the trailer and then we're just gonna head right over and wall Emilio was messing with Han drew I also got the motor painted for the mr2 and I got it completely assembled and I just threw on this pink valve cover Brent had just for fun and through the intake manifold on and the damper right there but I got it all put together and painted so the motor for the mr2 is completely done all I gotta do now is just put the sensors on it and all the little miscellaneous things but that is ready to go outside outside I let the paint dry but I'm gonna go ahead and push this thing back in and we're gonna get Honda reloaded up to the track the last time we use those trailers when this fender takes your car I know I don't like this trailer freakin tire blew and I still have a dent in my hat trim it got on drew all loaded up and now we're off to the track to see if we can't get some better passes out of this thing you get all this dirt off the tires so muddy all right guys we got Han drew and loaded got it tucked in and she is inline and amelia is getting ready to make his first pass right now he's about to go up and you know just a couple minutes here there's only these cars in front of him and yeah we'll see what she does on the first pass are you gonna slow shift it on the first hit yeah I'll probably launch it harder and just slow shift it just make sure it goes into every gear and then maybe not shift to crazy far into the RPM yeah I'm probably gonna try to go like 85 so to see what she does and then I'll go higher from there well hopefully Brent's Street tune does work so good on this tree that's what it does on the track yeah what do you think it's gonna do Pedro I can't do the ten with your damn cheese pizza in here give it out way out 11:7 1:30 all of the crap thirty with a 1/8 60-foot work on that but then god that's the hi all eleven seven eight 130 that's not too bad no he the launch sucked but he trapped 130 the best that's ever tried before is 125 yep that's definitely enough to go at 10 not bad 31 30 dude that's the new fastest trap for sure it was a 180 60 buck and come out a lot better than that it still came I didn't want a 60-foot no it bogged a little bit of sounded like fog yeah didn't really I think you need to give it some more on the launch more on the launch yeah news I in fourth gear nice you definitely have enough mile an hour for a 10 easy you just got to get it into gear and out of the hole yeah and the thing is I'm still shifting it's like not letting me so I'm just election comes slow fine if I can match these gears well maybe try shifting a little faster just keep trying faster until it doesn't let you 11:7 hey 130 first hit ain't too bad so we already got her back in line luckily it's not too busy today and he's gonna go again and like what maybe 10 more minutes and just try to maybe launch it harder I think that's where slowing you down cuz I remember when you had the stock motor in this thing you let it freakin eat from the launch and it was spinning all for ya like slipping the clutch more and not giving it all yeah it is scary I don't break anything even I gave it more that time it went 1 8 is still 180 that's nothing that's honestly faster than I thought it was I thought it was gonna be in the twos yeah yeah but ideally this thing should be able to like 1 5 I mean with some we need some better tires too though it's still on the street tire session at least I think maybe a 1 6 1 7 yeah so he'll get there really has a quick-release now yeah I went to a K series parts and gotten to the hub and the quick-release and then we should be getting some steering wheels in the mail here soon we'll see this one's just the one from the ek I just took it out of my ye Kay Neeley I was getting ready to make his second run you're going up against that fast Evo that made her give you some motivation to go attend I feel like the Lightning huh letter e yeah you got it you gotta be a bad thing it's fast it going to light though so it looks like I'm gonna be racing at 810 horsepower Evo good luck brother on my second run all right one-thirty again seems like he's having some issues getting into gear though yeah he got the Evo though evil was having some issues too hey at least you got the Evo right 60-foot but that one - one - all one seven on the 60-foot and 1181 30-minute 3:30 but when 1:30 again yeah that one - shift was so slow cause I didn't get it and I shipped it at 8 - no I don't think it needs more - stuff I just did a 1 7 which isn't bad for it 130 seeped out now we're on the right track yeah it's trapping 130 but you can't get into gear all right that's what I was saying we got to get the suit Pedro my man how you doing we needed the 11 3 didn't 1/8 60-foot with 11 3 at 123 so it's just cuz I won't shift that's it yeah it wouldn't shift on the street earlier today - so who's shifting good in Florida though at the track locking you out of gear yeah this time so like the first couple runs I was just getting it in here first and then going but this one I was like you know what I stood the seat up a little bit more forward so I get more on the clutch and I was like I'm just gonna bang it like how I would have like in the beginning to see if it would go in like that and it would not go in at all so this time what I'm gonna do it cuz I've been trying to like shift earlier just to try to get it in but I think with this time what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna preload it harder launch a little harder and I'm just gonna I'll let it go all the way to nine get it in gear next gear nine get it in gear so I'll grab it out and still slow shoot and see if I can do a better pass for now you know I saw meaning I don't know what else to do really yeah she's acting up yeah cause it's like it like we took it to Omaha it felt so good like she gets shipped like butter you know we've changed so many little things it's kind of hard to like pinpoint what it is you know because after we broke the shifter or the shift-select or whatever you put that back in and then yeah has it been the same we changed the driveshaft from there we changed it to a short shifter solid transmission mount like I don't know if it just needed this a little bit of slop than it did have in the beginning maybe that's what made it work and then now that everything is nice and tight like something else needs to be adjusted I'm not a hundred percent sure I'm just trying to go through what I'm I know like the car like what we've done to the car you know it's kind of hard to pinpoint but I don't know I want it to work I want to just shift it because the power is there mile an hour is there that's 1:30 is like I 11:3 123 that was 123 yeah when I did the 11300 was it 123 and it was like a 1 7 or 1e there's a 1 8 16 foot and you just did a 1 7 yeah with seven more mile-an-hour back half so it'd be going easy tens right now you know I mean why it went a 10-8 yesterday like 126 yeah in his Civic so well we're not giving up we're gonna figure it out you know we got a figure now because I want to see it do you know attend at first but I still want to see it go faster than that - yeah I mean the motors ready for it this is the Oh 2004 transmission - which has shorter gears in like the O 7 the ho 7 is kind of like the one that everybody uses on the sti's - you know that they hold better I've just heard a lot of em like they're in Florida yeah and the gearing is longer so I don't know my just try to find the oh seven and just do that and see what happens from there then try something 12:1 that train is Melanie on a gear call it sounded like your 1/2 was better within your 3 4 whatever it was was not better third was ID I was what two two three yeah alright guys so I'm just gonna let I'm gonna let Kyle run it so you could see what I'm talking about and then who knows maybe it's just me maybe that maybe 100 doesn't like me broke no I doubt it to you I remember when I took rice from Miata and and I was trying to grab it on the highway I know you mean it does not shift and I was just going easy on that one like I was just trying to get it in gear first and letting go but you'll see how it goes maybe maybe it'll do something different for you try it out and see what you can do if you hit a 10-second pass right now then you can just have my car bro oh yeah ten how do you stop it doesn't matter to me I'd be just as happy bro knowing that it could do it I'll try I mean I don't know your car very well I've never driven your car down the drag strip so we'll see good luck I have a history for missing news so if you're missing it - I don't think I want to be that much better I really don't have a history of Misha dome right but this Honda has been giving me a history Cup I was building my resume dude you want me to do it yeah I just want you to feel it honestly just to see you know you never know maybe it's something I don't think it's something that I'm doing I'm kind of confident that it's gonna happen to you but yeah I'm hoping it I don't know if it runs fine I don't know I'm gonna have to like think of another game plan bro because I honestly don't know it's definitely not you it's they've seen the old videos when it was now it's shifting fine bro yeah I remember you in the comment like I don't know if that if those are something the transmission just like little by little you know it's given out the seat grows or something might be messed up in the higher rpm I'm Anthony all bro negative 13/5 blood and it was mostly written at for care undergrad I someone hall for first year like crazy but yeah well we just left the drag strip we are done racing for today's test and tune next until next week yeah have some issues with Han drew but he went 11s twice no personal bests ET but she did trap 130 so we're getting somewhere there that's the best trap by like 5 or 6 miles an hour I don't know what to say because it's like how much yours tried shifting it at 7 now it spun like crazy cuz I launched it really hard yeah and then I was shifting yeah I was shifting way sooner than you were so maybe it was locking you out I don't know I think I mean for sure it was locking me out I just I would think that it could at least shift the 8 you know then I think it's just into higher reps you know never just got a little thing has so so much up top is like I could rev it out to 10 if I wanted to it's like I can't with this you know transmission now it needs it that much but it at least needy yeah car revving it up all this time I'm thinking this the owner look you trying to kick them out right now Lu wait really some random guy look I just wait at some random guy random dude he's just jumping in people bro he's just jumped in that car man up in the Corvette and started revving it up and I see the owner walking through it right and all of a sudden I see the blinkers turn on and then the owner looks in the car he's like pulling him inside now he's on some time huh that's why that guy's lucky he still has this Corvette that kid just hopped in it and that's why he was revving it I thought that was the owner I was like what is he doing random kid wasn't the owner thing rides like kid he just started revving it up turning off the blinker lights and I'm like does he know does he know sure enough yeah I like a cop to shut up we'll get her figured out one day still made progress though trapped 130 which is pretty good for an STI considering that the record holder is trapping 140 so they're only ten miles behind him and there's still more that's a fully built EJ yeah so yeah hon do definitely still is way more in it yeah that's nothing that's I mean it's at spike in 30 pounds and forward we'll see till next time\n"