VegaJohn wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2019 1:03 pm
Here is there performance chart. At sea level. My car is 2626lbs my engine is a 412 but similar to the 23 degree 427 in the chart. My best is 6.12@112 at 4200DA
Brother your tenth or more is with out a doubt the density altitude!!!!!
I just can’t wait to hear how you do. You are going to be well into the 5s. I would seriously think about wheelie bars. You don’t want to destroy a sweet car.
You think so? I was shifting in to high gear about 75 to 100 ft before finish line. Now I should cross some where around 7100 to 7300 in high gear. I cant imagine it picking up that much but I hope so. I want to run the 5.80 or 6.0 index. If i need wheelie bars then so be it!!!!!
Its for sure going to be a fun ride for the first 60ft or more. I have always told my buddies the best part of the ride is the first 60!!!!
Here is my car with old motor and 150 shot of spray.
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Brother your tenth or more is with out a doubt the density altitude!!!!!
I just can’t wait to hear how you do. You are going to be well into the 5s. I would seriously think about wheelie bars. You don’t want to destroy a sweet car.
You think so? I was shifting in to high gear about 75 to 100 ft before finish line. Now I should cross some where around 7100 to 7300 in high gear. I cant imagine it picking up that much but I hope so. I want to run the 5.80 or 6.0 index. If i need wheelie bars then so be it!!!!!
Its for sure going to be a fun ride for the first 60ft or more. I have always told my buddies the best part of the ride is the first 60!!!!
Here is my car with old motor and 150 shot of spray.
That’s awesome. The huge jump you did in gearing is going to make it pitch up more. Unless you are 4 link. My car never hardly wheelied at all with this engine and 4.88s and the 1.76 first gear. Now with 5.67s I really think I could stand it vertical if I wanted to.
With chassis adjustments you can turn some of the excess wheelie energy into forward motion energy.
Its about finding the happy medium between weight transfer and getting rear bite and moving forward quickly.
(Sooner). It will come.
F-BIRD'88 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2019 3:47 pm
With chassis adjustments you can turn some of the excess wheelie energy into forward motion energy.
Its about finding the happy medium between weight transfer and getting rear bite and moving forward quickly.
(Sooner). It will come.
Yes I’m going to go with double adjustable front shocks and travel limiters. In the rear I have some new single adjustable to replace the old ones. Wheelies look cool but it wastes time.
I just can’t wait to hear how you do. You are going to be well into the 5s. I would seriously think about wheelie bars. You don’t want to destroy a sweet car.
You think so? I was shifting in to high gear about 75 to 100 ft before finish line. Now I should cross some where around 7100 to 7300 in high gear. I cant imagine it picking up that much but I hope so. I want to run the 5.80 or 6.0 index. If i need wheelie bars then so be it!!!!!
Its for sure going to be a fun ride for the first 60ft or more. I have always told my buddies the best part of the ride is the first 60!!!!
Here is my car with old motor and 150 shot of spray.
That’s awesome. The huge jump you did in gearing is going to make it pitch up more. Unless you are 4 link. My car never hardly wheelied at all with this engine and 4.88s and the 1.76 first gear. Now with 5.67s I really think I could stand it vertical if I wanted to.
Mine is a ladderbar set up. it does well. I hit the old motor with a 300 shot of spray before and it did a 1.29 60ft with the bumper about 3 to four inches off the ground and just carried them out a ways. Drove strait as can be. Im banking on it doing the same thing now. Here is a pic of that launch.
p.s. This is before I had the car wrapped.
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splitdecision71 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2019 2:48 pm
You think so? I was shifting in to high gear about 75 to 100 ft before finish line. Now I should cross some where around 7100 to 7300 in high gear. I cant imagine it picking up that much but I hope so. I want to run the 5.80 or 6.0 index. If i need wheelie bars then so be it!!!!!
Its for sure going to be a fun ride for the first 60ft or more. I have always told my buddies the best part of the ride is the first 60!!!!
Here is my car with old motor and 150 shot of spray.
That’s awesome. The huge jump you did in gearing is going to make it pitch up more. Unless you are 4 link. My car never hardly wheelied at all with this engine and 4.88s and the 1.76 first gear. Now with 5.67s I really think I could stand it vertical if I wanted to.
Mine is a ladderbar set up. it does well. I hit the old motor with a 300 shot of spray before and it did a 1.29 60ft with the bumper about 3 to four inches off the ground and just carried them out a ways. Drove strait as can be. Im banking on it doing the same thing now. Here is a pic of that launch.
p.s. This is before I had the car wrapped.
That super high 1.76 first gear was why. Now with your 5.67s you are going to hit those tires harder than ever before. Just be cautious. I had to pedal mine from a wheelie going hard left at the end of last season and my tranny pan fins scraped the rubber off the track. Slightly buldged my oil pan and flat spotted 2 header tubes. No matter what happens you make sure someone is recording that launch cause I want to see the footage.
That’s awesome. The huge jump you did in gearing is going to make it pitch up more. Unless you are 4 link. My car never hardly wheelied at all with this engine and 4.88s and the 1.76 first gear. Now with 5.67s I really think I could stand it vertical if I wanted to.
Mine is a ladderbar set up. it does well. I hit the old motor with a 300 shot of spray before and it did a 1.29 60ft with the bumper about 3 to four inches off the ground and just carried them out a ways. Drove strait as can be. Im banking on it doing the same thing now. Here is a pic of that launch.
p.s. This is before I had the car wrapped.
That super high 1.76 first gear was why. Now with your 5.67s you are going to hit those tires harder than ever before. Just be cautious. I had to pedal mine from a wheelie going hard left at the end of last season and my tranny pan fins scraped the rubber off the track. Slightly buldged my oil pan and flat spotted 2 header tubes. No matter what happens you make sure someone is recording that launch cause I want to see the footage.
That's 5.86s, did I say 5.67s? Lol. I will definitely have some one fiming! Thanks vega John. Again thanks for the post. Keep me updated and I'll do the same. 979-703-9040
Mine is a ladderbar set up. it does well. I hit the old motor with a 300 shot of spray before and it did a 1.29 60ft with the bumper about 3 to four inches off the ground and just carried them out a ways. Drove strait as can be. Im banking on it doing the same thing now. Here is a pic of that launch.
p.s. This is before I had the car wrapped.
That super high 1.76 first gear was why. Now with your 5.67s you are going to hit those tires harder than ever before. Just be cautious. I had to pedal mine from a wheelie going hard left at the end of last season and my tranny pan fins scraped the rubber off the track. Slightly buldged my oil pan and flat spotted 2 header tubes. No matter what happens you make sure someone is recording that launch cause I want to see the footage.
That's 5.86s, did I say 5.67s? Lol. I will definitely have some one fiming! Thanks vega John. Again thanks for the post. Keep me updated and I'll do the same. 979-703-9040
The first car in this video is one you may be interested in, one of the friends I raced with. In the vid his class required a .76 nitrous pill. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTi71uG5BL8
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Steve.k wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2019 9:01 am
Was that Gliddens ol Fairmont or tribute car
The only thing I know about that car is that he ran a 500+ ci Pontiac engine, thats the reason for the sticker on his hood scoop.
He is actually in the class above my buddy, you can tell the difference of the 2 classes for the most part by who has and who doesn't have wheelie bars.
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VEGA JOHN, went and tested this weekend. Picked up about 2 tenths over last time out. Pretty please with results. Going to play with suspension some now. Gears turned out perfect as I crossed right at 8000. This was best pass. Track was not great and it will run better at HMP or XRP. It always does!
1.41 60ft and 6.35 @ 107.91 mph. Tried to post time slips and video. Guess im to dumb for that!!!!
splitdecision71 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2019 8:53 am
VEGA JOHN, went and tested this weekend. Picked up about 2 tenths over last time out. Pretty please with results. Going to play with suspension some now. Gears turned out perfect as I crossed right at 8000. This was best pass. Track was not great and it will run better at HMP or XRP. It always does!
1.41 60ft and 6.35 @ 107.91 mph. Tried to post time slips and video. Guess im to dumb for that!!!!
That’s awesome. I’m sure you have close to a tenth in your 60ft left with chassis tuning. I better get working on my car. Our first race is May 25th.
splitdecision71 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2019 8:53 am
VEGA JOHN, went and tested this weekend. Picked up about 2 tenths over last time out. Pretty please with results. Going to play with suspension some now. Gears turned out perfect as I crossed right at 8000. This was best pass. Track was not great and it will run better at HMP or XRP. It always does!
1.41 60ft and 6.35 @ 107.91 mph. Tried to post time slips and video. Guess im to dumb for that!!!!
That’s awesome. I’m sure you have close to a tenth in your 60ft left with chassis tuning. I better get working on my car. Our first race is May 25th.
Thanks and that's what im working on next!!!
p.s. That was at 32 degrees of timing.
