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Wow! Looks like you got some lift on the hood as well! Cool shots!
I've got extensions I install under the hood latches at the track to prop rear of hood open a little. At first I did it to clear a 1" spacer under the carb to get a few more HP....but I soon found the real benefit was to release some underhood air to keep the lift and hence the nose down. Since it helped at the dragstrip running 140+ MPH before the turbos...I figured it would definitely be a good plan for this event.
too would like to know what that red Vette was doing so close to you, do they not clear the course before another car starts ?
Congrats on the 177mph, it will soon be 200mph if you keep at it.
The runs are made side by side usually. He was my first run and he said he "didn't drag race" from a standing start and wanted to go from a roll of about 40 MPH or so. Since it was my first time doing this too, I agreed to do it that way. I let him set the pace and we rolled down track a good ways until we hit the "roll start" pylons. So this pic was made right after we got started and it looks like the top was already getting pretty pregnant at maybe 75-90 MPH or so there.
For me, I found the "roll start" to be OK...it let me get into 2nd gear early and then roll into the power. They had sprayed VHT around those pylons so you had a chance to get moving. On later runs I tried to get into it from a standing start and it was just a lot of wheelspin. Once they are spinning it's hard to get it back under control.
Next time I do this, I'll start from a standstill...and roll out and get into 2nd early and then apply power as hard as possible long before the "roll start" mark and get a lot more usable track to run on.
Heck of a fun way to send a sunny Saturday though!!
I borrowed one from a buddy...but it wouldn't clear the main hoop. Figured it would since we built it to allow soft top to go up and down but it lacked about an inch sitting down on the deck.
Jim,
It sounds like you made everything else for this car how about longer
guide pins like extenders for the hard top roof?
Then it could clear the roll cage/bar.
Just thinking out loud.
I saw the Jim Gardner L-88's were blue convertibles too but ran
hard tops on the track.
Marshal
Originally Posted by 427Hotrod
I borrowed one from a buddy...but it wouldn't clear the main hoop. Figured it would since we built it to allow soft top to go up and down but it lacked about an inch sitting down on the deck.
Unbelievable that the softtop blows up like that.
I didn't drive 177 MPH yet and will never do with my 68, but had already over 200 kmh on it , never realized that the softop blows up .
Anyway, congrats on the 177 MPH .
I posted this link with a pic on the German Corvetteforum.
Soft Top pics at high speed!!
