Agreed.....this is great.

It was indeed a special kind of fun. He thought it was right there for the taking. Nope. Not so easy!

@@TeslaPlaidChannel I get the sense that (like your Model S Performance) he rarely gets beaten, running sub 10s. He would have been able to walk away from the Tesla Raven on demand. But then when he really gave it all of the beans in the 2nd race, and ran a 9.8 he probably thought that it was game over for you. I don't think that he could wrap his head around the idea that you now have so much extra power that you can simply choose to win at any point, and that your only consideration of speed was not getting kicked out for running too fast.

@@lemongavine Ya I bet he had NOS on this car as well. I bet he thought he was going to turn it up and win, still lost!

Hahhahaahhaahh

I thought the exact samething

all these cars detuned to stay above 10.0... not hurting them at all lol

up next... Rimac Nevera 1/4 mi: 8.58s & 167.5 mph DragTimes

​@@pablopicaro7649 I bet tesla plaid will do a 1/4 mile in under 8.99 sec after they remove the speed limit at 155 miles/h so ...whatever

@@courtney5796 Detuned with a nitrous oxide engine, haha.

He's trying not to get kicked off the track from their archaic rules

Not embarrassing them? He’s totally embarrassing them with that on/off/on/off fender racing, lol.

@@blow0me so safety rules are archaic?

@@cbanks5678 When they were written in the dark ages based around pieces of junk that didn't handle, can't brake and are poorly constructed...of course. They are not fit for purpose. Sure the rules would also state that car needs an engine diaper too ? The Plaid is probably safer than most of the cars at the track.

@@blow0me so you would be fine with no cage or neck collar when a tire blows at 160 going down track in a tesla and runs you into a wall then flips you down the track?

That’s a rich dude laugh 😂

I was thinking mr.Burns from the simpsons

Yes👍

Rimac Nevera 1/4 mi: 8.58s & 167.5 mph DragTimes

@@pablopicaro7649 $$$

@@howardchan3451 yes and the Plaid is bargain basement huh.

@@cbanks5678 It is compared to 2.4M

@@pablopicaro7649 2,4million dollars, still a prototype car and once Roadster comes out probably useless

when rollcage.. watching track forced sandbagging isn't as fun :)

@Pandacat 666 Sandbagging is deliberately performing worse than what you are capable of.

@Pandacat 666 It means not going as fast as you can / still barely winning.

130k for a car isn't enough. xD

Lets be real here though, this is a test and tune night where you aren't allowed to run a sub 10. There are PLENTY of 8s street cars out there, tons here in my state. They just don't go to these events unless actually testing something. If you took this thing to a real open track it would probably get gapped by most of the stuff there.

@@fry.master yeah there are 7 second mr2s its pretty crazy.

My dude there are Old Volvo 740 in the nines, and Hondas in the sevens with 4 cylinders and front wheel drive! You need to get out more! Pfi speed, gonna learn u.

@@TurboWorld I don’t hang at race tracks anymore, got too much other stuff to do. Are these cars you’re taking about street legal? Do they have actual seats (not race seats) and air conditioners and stereos and Nav systems and moon roofs and stuff? You are right, plenty of cars are faster and you can make any car very fast if you want to put $$$ into it. But would you want to drive itanywhere more than 1/4 mile at a time? Would you girlfriend or wife be caught dead in it? My point is these new Tesla’s are way faster than most people who aren’t pro drivers can handle. Fast enough to get you kicked out of a lot of tracks. And you can drive them to the track and runs 9s, and then to work, to take your kids to school, church, wherever in total comfort. That is a whole new thing. I wish I could afford one. But I do love V8s and turbo cars too.

@@markbeasley1 Pfi speed has a you tube channel, Kenny Howard has a youtube channel with the 9 second uncaged volvo 4 cylinder turbo. To answer your question, all but one are race cars, one has ac and street comfort, I think, the nsx of Kyles, maybe(boosted boiz, PFI speed). I'm with you on full street , that's why my 505 verified dynoed 4 cylinder Volvo powered wagon has cold ac , full interior and I am struggling real hard with the fact I need to cage it for the speed it should go, at the track (but I suck at rowing the gears and operating the clutch right on the sticky. And so my car has failed three times at the track but outruns ferraris and other hotrods on the street.) . I can haul anything a suv can and pull anything a suv can, and it seats eight. Because of Volvo THAT tesla has seatbelts.The swedes actually cared about safety enough to innovate. Honestly i didn't build it to race, until recently with the ford Mountaineer rear end that i put under it. It wasn't until my wife was driving it coming back from the beach, that I fully understood that I needed to keep the build focused to Street car. She gapped some young dude and his girl who kept coming up beside her making noise on the highway, we were fully loaded with beach supplies and dog. Now not all wives would not want to be in my car with a turbo sitting out of the hood looking like a dildo in public. Until they felt the power and saw all the smiles and reactions it brings, everywhere it goes. and that's what personalizing your car is all about. All the plaids are the same soulless. Difference is what sells. I'm telling you Musk is missing out on me right now in his corner.LOL. I joke. I like how he interviewed those builders, of those awesome machines, and he gave credit where credit is due, because most of us like that couldn't afford to pay someone else to do it , so we built our own. Tesla has a specific clause I have heard that prevents you from servicing the vehicle or anything on it, is that correct information? if so, none of us will be driving them for that reason and we will build our gas cars to eventually gap by bus lengths with all the creature comforts pulling a tesla plaid, because that fact will keep them from getting faster at the same rate our gas cars are already at. See what I mean? I forgot to mention my buddy Cleetus Mcfarland or SRC , They both have wicked fast street cars,Other yt channels- But Cleetus has "mullet" which is an 100% street el camino I promise you No plaid don't want no smoke from, and they have ac in it, nav, and just did rocky mountain race week with it. It could literally pull a golf cart and put a greyhound bus length on that rc car, I mean that ev.But its not full interior and it's a all out street legal record holding racecar. The competition is fierce, you have no idea, he is a few seconds behind. literally, all the fast gas cars! 9 seconds is fast to me but not to the pros.. But man, like I said Props to him, because a day at the race track beats the hell out of talking shit behind a keyboard! So congrats and take care! i look forward to more conversations and videos with this kind Sir! and you as Well, twas a pleasure! *edit that elco "mullet just trapped 150 in the eighth and ran sevens in the quarter mile....Rear wheel drive, full body. New video out now on cleetus mcfarland-js.

This would be hilarious and would very much enjoy watching that.

Yes! "Is that all you got?" in a loop...

Haha

Or a kid saying vroom vroom

Elon.

@@Wirmish thx✌️

he is crying now./...Rimac Nevera 1/4 mi: 8.58s & 167.5 mph DragTimes

@@pablopicaro7649 I don't think tesla cares too much about Rimac. Rimac is respectable in that they make absolute speed machines (at $2.1M a pop, tho) that compete with in-class hypercars. The Model S is just a 4 door sport saloon car that competes with similar M, AMG, RS, N and other models in that class.

Who is Elan ?

Every Friday and Tuesday…

@@TeslaPlaidChannel Tesla needs to update Valet mode and let people set the speed limit all the way up to 140mph, that would solve this problem lol.

👍Unless they look inside at the yoke… ⚡️🚙💨

@@TeslaPlaidChannel The Yokes on them. With egg on their face.

@@TeslaPlaidChannel or watch your channel..

It’s the fastest Redeye I’ve ever raced! (Out of 7 or 8 now.)

I had a full bolt on gtr with full stock interior and on pump gas. Ran 10.5-10.6 at 133mph all day. This was a not a great FBO gtr

@@thantzar In fairness, this wasn’t his best run. He usually does a mid 10

let the car drive and you watch ;)

@@Nordlicht05 Less weight...

More testing of this will be shown in the next several videos…

Well it can still hit a wall at 150 mph. Could be that the Tesla never gets out of control but could get taken out by the other car. Not saying it should have a cage or not but anything can happen out there.

They are the safest vehicles on the road, so probably not in most cases, but I don’t think we can say for sure unless there is data on 150mph collisions. Either way I think the rules should be more nuanced. So dumb that there is no distinction between a Tesla and a 50 year old muscle car. 150mph collision in a Plaid is probably safer than a 100mph collision in other vehicles.

A factory stock car surely don't need a cage. It's road legal, so why it's not drag legal?

@@dmh1367 There's only one 5 star crash rated vehicle on that track and it's the one without a roll cage.

@@GerardPinzone They don't crash test into a concrete wall at 150 bud. I ts all good. All the airbags in the car won't work with a cage. Not sure how they mix with wearing a helmet anyways.

I know it looks that way. The bursts that I do in the Tesla make it look like slow shifts by the other car. Lambo and cars last week all looked the same way

No, it looks like that GTR really did have an issue on the 1-2 shift, separate and apart from what you were doing. He ran an 11.0 @ 130 but could have gone mid 10s.

He, he, he, suitably maniacal.............

Might be a “Performance”, but I’m no expert on Model Y and 3…

@@TeslaPlaidChannel my bad that’s a typo. I have a 2021 model Y performance! Lol my bad. Heard good things about you from someone that knows you.

They prevent the rubber from slipping on the rim. Cars with tons of power and lots of traction need them, because the tire wants to stick to the ground at launch, while the wheel wants to rotate immediately. It’s a major problem when the rubber slips on the wheel. Bead lock wheels have tiny bolts around the edge of the rim the secure the rubber to the wheel. 👍

Thanks! These last couple of weeks have been lots of fun! ⚡️🚙💨

@@TeslaPlaidChannel I see...!

They are actually brighter than most cars’ headlights out there. In all of my Teslas, I almost always get oncoming traffic flash me thinking I have my brights on. I only wonder what they think when I flash them back with my actual brights. One pickup truck I came up behind let me pass him so he could ride my ass with his brights to “teach me a lesson”. I had to ignore him because Im pretty sure he wasn’t going to be civil at any point.

You may be right. I wouldn’t recommend this approach to a noob. Not saying I’m the most experienced drag racer in the world, because I’m not, but my 1000+ time slips is a decent starting point…

When the second Plaid arrives later this week, I’ll start shopping cages.👍 We ran the Nittos last week and I hope to post the video tomorrow 🎥

Nice! 🤔🎥🤣

this mean the roaster will have 2 doors and be lighter. I think Dragtimes said the plaid is ~170lbs less then raven.

No adverse affect on my other Tesla (2019 Raven) after 1001 time slips. See video posted a week ago…

And yes, I store the car on non-race days at 60-70%, as I don’t generally drive it most days. (I work at home.)

No charging is offered at any of my (3) local tracks. But note: On my “20 Runs” night, during intermission I went over to a nearby Tesla Supercharger. Not because I had to (I was already over 70%), but because there was no reason not to. The RE-prepping of the track allowed time to easily do it.

It’s like a “chase car” in movie making. It stays ahead and films the action!

@@TeslaPlaidChannel I’m getting my Model Y tomorrow, I’ll continue racing vicariously thru you :)

Still investigating…

@@TeslaPlaidChannel I think the parachute is for brake fade. If you have motor braking, maybe you don't need one.

@@maxsinventions8913 Or brake failure… 150MPH is not for noobs…

Pretty sure he can afford it.

It would be a shame to put a roll cage in that car.

@@strykerace why not. Not worth getting kicked out of every track. Not to mention he can never go full tilt on A run.

@@brownsfishingadventures4001 relax dude, just saying it would be a shame. that's it, that's all.

@@strykerace I am beyond relaxed man. I want too see the real numbers. Unfortunately the cage a chute would add some weight.

Showtime with the Nittos. (Bradenton was rained out.) Should post on Tuesday… ⚡️🚙💨

@@TeslaPlaidChannel Ok thanks