GM Performance Parts - LSX True Street Challenge
If you haven't participated in a True Street event, here is the gist of the program. All vehicles must be actual streetcars, which have a current state inspection, valid tags and insurance. All tires are DOT approved with a max width of 10.5 inches. These cars are escorted on a 30-mile round trip on city roads and highways, and then they are led back into the staging area of the track. Upon arrival to the staging area, no one is permitted to open their hoods. No pit crews allowed, no tire swaps, no adding fuel to the tank. The only thing permitted is to change the tire pressure to suit the track conditions. Then these vehicles are sent down the dragstrip with a 0.400 pro-tree to start them off. The cars must return directly to the staging lanes after each pass, again with hoods remaining shut. This goes on until each car runs three passes down the track. Those timeslips are averaged for each car, and winners are awarded for the 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15-second classes. To win, your vehicle needs to get an average as close as possible to those second increments, without ever going quicker than the increment. For example, in order to win the 9.00 ET class, your average of three passes needs to be as close as possible to 9.00-seconds, but you cannot ever run an 8-second pass to get to that average. Going quicker would put you into the next quickest class, basically breaking-out.
Sounds brutal doesn't it? It was indeed, as 16 of those 80 entrants didn't complete the event due to breakage, overheating, and other technical issues. Your author went on a ride-along during this 30-mile cruise, and I saw a couple cars stalled on the side of the road just from the cruise alone. These True Street cars live up to their class name, they truly are street-driven cars that perform under extreme conditions.-TW
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