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60 foot times with more weight

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My friends car goes 1.18 in 60 weighting 2800, How am I doing with 1.30 at 3575# :D :D :D :D Oldhead
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Well if you you're racing to the 60 foot mark,I'm putting $5 on your friend.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Is it a 60 foot race?
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