dB Drag Racing (Score 1)

Hey all... I didnt have time to read every response to the entire post, but I thought I would come over to your board and speak a little on the subject. I agree that there are alot of punk kids out there that mis-represent what DB Drag is all about. And just like "hackers" give avid computer users a bad name - these punk kids or people without respect for others gives the DB Drag world a bad name. To begin - most truly serious DB Draggers dont drive thier cars around annoying people. Yes - there alot of "us" that cannot drive thier cars around at all... but it pretty much equates to a real drag racing car - those arent street legal either. Alot of our cars are so specialized that it would simply be impossible to safely operate the vehicle in the street. There is a world of diffrence between a DB Drag Racing competitor and a kid who has seen one too many movies about racing and hasnt developed a sense of respect for others. Myself for instance - I listen to my car system pretty loudly while on highways with the window down... but the second I come off the highway, enter a residential area, or come to a stoplight - not only do I turn it down, alot of the times it goes OFF altogether. Not many people will ever truly understand other peoples hobbies, and DB Drag racing is no diffrent. To some people it seems a horrible waste of money. To others it seems too easy to prove a challenge. To me it was easy to reach a certain level of performance in competition, but after that you have to start applying more than simple physics or adding more and more speakers to get louder. Eventually you hit a point where you get diminishing returns. There are alot of things that are not legal in competition (the afforementioned pressurized cabins for one :-) )and therefore we are forced to come up with a way around the restriction. To some of us its just as fun as figuring out how many gigahertz we can squeeze out of an overclocked CPU. The world of DB Draggers learns alot from reading feedback such as this. It is painful to think of someone defining your hobby as something used to annoy other people. But in reality it is only a small percentage of people that do such things. It makes about as much sense as racism. We all pretty much stick together in our sport, and save the bad apples - we all come out better for it. Before I take up entirely too much space here on your board (some of you may think that already) ill draw to a close. P.S. 10 Db IS in fact a "doubling in percieved sound level" to the human ear. When you mentioned 3db being a doubling - it IS... but it is a doubling of apparent signal level. To an electronic meter, a 3 Db gain reads as twice the signal, but is sometimes very hard to pick up with the human ear. By the way... if you want to see the Good (mixed in with the little bit of inevitable bad... you can find a forum of DB Draggers at http://www.termpro.com I only ask that you conduct yourselves as civilly as I have here.