New Best E.T. !!!!!!
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Safety Car
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From: Youngstown Ohio
New Best E.T. !!!!!!
.....was achieved Sunday (June 6), at Quaker City Raceway. The local chapter of the Hollywood Knights hosted their annual track rental day for all who wanted to "test and tune" their vehicles (even snowmobiles were racing).
I knew traction would probably be an issue, but I did get a good hook and was rewarded with a new quickest time of 10.46 seconds!
I knew traction would probably be an issue, but I did get a good hook and was rewarded with a new quickest time of 10.46 seconds!
Burning Brakes
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From: Adelaide South Australia
Congratulations
Exceptional times.... 60' and ET!
What was in the adjacent lane? You had him beat everywhere.
Obviously it had plenty of power with the 133mph trap speed... just couldn't get it to the ground though I guess. What was it?
well done!
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St. Jude Donor '03, '06, '17
The new house is 4200 sq/ft with a attached 1600 sq/ft 6 car garage and it's a lot of work remodelling that size home..
I have had no chance to do anything with the race car for months now.. The car hasn't run since last year and I haven't even had a chance to get some fresh race gas yet. My motivation is also not to great.. There's no more Corvette Challenge around here and the South Florida Challenge requires mufflers and I will not install any mufflers.. I rather sell the car than putting a muffler on a race car.. If I can get the car running again, I might be doing some racing in the Fall/Winter.. Never ran a bigger shot in the car, so I never found out what it would run with the full 250 HP shot... My NHRA license and chassis certification is still valid for another year.. Hopefully I'll get to race again this fall..
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Motor head, when are you and Dave going to get your track time slips? I keep thinking about going to the nearest NHRA track about 75 miles away, but at nearly 4400 feet times would suffer. On a hot day It had 8600 feet ADA
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Thanks, all, for your compliments. Some of the info is answered in my signature, but to answer a few questions:
My track tires are MT ET Street drag radials, 235/60R15 (26" tall), inflated to 22 lbs. I ride just through (past) the water, heat them up then chirp to the line.
TH400 Trans, 2900 stall: footbrake to 2000 rpm, then let it flash on last yellow. (Flashes to 4300 rpm.)
4.11 rear gears, stock rear end, 3" aluminum driveshaft; trap speed about 7000-7100 rpm; shift religiously at 7000 rpm through the gears.
BTW, the car in the adjacent lane was a supercharged ZO6 .....AND RED TO BOOT! 505 hp plus whatever his MagnaCharger was adding......I thought I was going to get smoked!!
My track tires are MT ET Street drag radials, 235/60R15 (26" tall), inflated to 22 lbs. I ride just through (past) the water, heat them up then chirp to the line.
TH400 Trans, 2900 stall: footbrake to 2000 rpm, then let it flash on last yellow. (Flashes to 4300 rpm.)
4.11 rear gears, stock rear end, 3" aluminum driveshaft; trap speed about 7000-7100 rpm; shift religiously at 7000 rpm through the gears.
BTW, the car in the adjacent lane was a supercharged ZO6 .....AND RED TO BOOT! 505 hp plus whatever his MagnaCharger was adding......I thought I was going to get smoked!!
Last edited by C3 Stroker; Jun 10, 2009 at 08:47 PM.
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when it was over.
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Dang dude, that's a heck of a car and some incredible times for a smallblock street car. That was on pump gas, no power adders? And stock rear??!!! WOW! I can't imagine that rear is going to last long with that setup. Way to represent us knuckle-draggers!
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George I am trying or sell my Turbo PT Cruiser for a track car I have over 50 grand tied up in my Vette and I am not sure it is ever going to see the track, I did lots of racing back in the Shirley Muldowny / Don Garlits days in my '70 Cuda. I would be on the return road eating a sandwich in this Vette by the time the Cuda went thru the lights at the top end.
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Burning Brakes
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From: Salina Kansas
That is sweet that you beat an LS 427 motor with an old 23* head motor and even more so since you were naturally aspirated. With his MPH, if he hooks, you might be in trouble.
I'm sure mine won't be as fast, but with the new 4-link and detroit locker, I should be able to launch it hard with slicks! and no more broken spindles..watch out for that and you better have a trailor with you man, lol.
I'm sure mine won't be as fast, but with the new 4-link and detroit locker, I should be able to launch it hard with slicks! and no more broken spindles..watch out for that and you better have a trailor with you man, lol.