Toying with the idea of making a drag strip

red6spd

Come to Long Island New York and open a track here. We have an old abandoned Air Force base out east that has two long runways just sitting around. The land is slowly being purcahsed and turned into various companies but the runways are still there. We have a few groups that are pushing for a track since we have NONE at all on the island but it keeps getting turned down.

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chuckd05

My old professor Steve Kenny was pretty much the head guy who got the west Hampton track shutdown for "noise pollution" amongst other reasons.

I liked him until he told me that. He was ao against it and I tried to explain to him why it's good and he had 100 reasons why it is a negative and in a the town of south hampton propery owners get what they want.

They were fighting back and forth and than two agreed upon
A hefty payment plus kickback On the property's future revenue. Pretty much made it a no brainer for the guy to give it up. He originally only had the track open On weekend days than as they kept it open longer more and more people
Complained. He said he would be surprised for any town to let a track
Be built from here on out. It's a tough one to sell to a board.

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red6spd

So F***ed. Its not like we have a track in like montauk and we just want one closer ,we have none!!!!!!!!! Such a shame how many tracks and road courses closed down. All because people moved to locations that had track near by for years and then complained

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AlphaSnacks

I was one of them.

Thing is, one strip is not abandoned. The 10,000 ft strip is actually being leased by Skydive Long Island, who also opposed the idea of sharing the property with cars. Basically, that entire area has a d*ck up their *** about cars trying to be in a safe and controlled environment.

red6spd

Its really messed up. The runway not being used is in really good shape. They could maybe just spruce it up a tad and let us run with all the proper precautions of course. I hate LI cant wait to move!

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Nismo221

Well let me start off by saying thanks to the people that have had helpful comments.

But I started this thread to find out more about what it takes to run a drag strip. Yes everyone knows large straight flat land, concreate and alot of money. I'm looking for info. like what kind of software do tracks use to keep up with time or what kind of glue is used to prep the track. I dont want to have to sort through a load of crap about you dont have that kind of money and this thread is a joke or stupid. If you dont like it dont read it or comment. And yes I understand to most of you I'm some 22 year old kid. But dont pretend to know what I do for a living and what I can I can not afford. I dont think that you are my accountant now are you.

I understand this is going to take alot of money. That is why I said I was toying with the idea and would take several years of planning. I'm not pretending that I'm just going to build a track overnight. I have alot I have to figure out before I make that kind of investment. Because this is something that would require a lot of my time and to someone that already works 7 days a week and any where from 16-18 hours a day time is hard to comeby. So again I have to figure all that stuff out. But this thread is for suggestions on things I could be leaving out or suggestions on what addons a drag strip needs to make it better and more functional.

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Kingbaby

Bro!


Call a drag strip for real info...


Everyone here is going to be blowing smoke about knowing what it really takes...

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wh1te370z

One is leased by the sky dive place the other is owned by some other guy. Im really close friends with the guy who owns the motorcross track by the baseball feilds in grumman, right next to the abandoned airstrip. Hes trying to buy the airstrip from the guy and HOFULLY buulding a drag stip there.... as long as riverhead lets him. and he most def has the money for it.

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