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60 foot times with more weight

Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2017 1:04 am
by oldhead
My friends car goes 1.18 in 60 weighting 2800, How am I doing with 1.30 at 3575# :D :D :D :D Oldhead

Re: 60 foot times with more weight

Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2017 3:00 pm
by RCJ
Well if you you're racing to the 60 foot mark,I'm putting $5 on your friend.

Re: 60 foot times with more weight

Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2017 3:11 pm
by PackardV8
Generally, 60' is chassis, tires, gears, flywheel/stall and lowest weight. MPH is highest horsepower/lowest CD and ET is best combination of all the above.

Re: 60 foot times with more weight

Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2017 5:32 pm
by Olefud
PackardV8 wrote:Generally, 60' is chassis, tires, gears, flywheel/stall and lowest weight. MPH is highest horsepower/lowest CD and ET is best combination of all the above.
Maybe CoG, both height and fore-aft, too.

Re: 60 foot times with more weight

Posted: Wed May 24, 2017 4:57 pm
by Jeff Lee
Food for thought:
More important than 60’ is the 330’. Because in that length of time, you should have made a gear change. You will find some quick 60’ cars that are slower to 330’ than a slow 60’ car.
First couple of things to look at would be tire design and transmission splits.

Re: 60 foot times with more weight

Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2017 4:32 pm
by F-BIRD'88
Is it a 60 foot race?