PRNDL

Small consolation for losing the race. Somehow I got distracted and fell asleep at the light. I was ticked off at myself and drove with anger, which translated into faster. Now I am starting to think... "what would it take to get me into the twelves??"

1970-Bronze

Your trap speed looks good. I would suspect you spun pretty hard off the line. What was your 60 ft. time?

What's your configuration?

Glensgages

Don't know what you've got, or what you're willing to do, but my Z28 ran 13.30s/105 after droping the mufflers once at the track.
Swapping to an 8"/4500 RPM converter (from a 10"), 4.56s (from 4.11s), and 28" x 10" slicks (from 26" x 8" stickie-streets), I instantly ran 12.80s/106 (best-of 12.774/109).

PRNDL

60 ft was 2.17 which is about as good as I get. 2.25 is normal, with BFG 225/70 on the stock 15" X 7 68 wheels. original 3.36 rear and M20 trans.

I do not power shift. Thought about trying on the 1/2 shift. Wouldn't dare on the 2/3 because I often get hung up there.. no rev limiter - I would hate to blow the engine!

I have a 68 vert with original L-36 bigblock. With hardtop and me in it and 1/4 tank we weigh around 3650 lbs.

Don't know if cam is stock - car was restored not by me and I have owned it for 5 years.

Carb is a new Qjet (Edelbrock 1901) with 73 primary jets.
I put in lighter springs in the distributor and set timing all in at 36 degrees, all in by 2500 rpm. Still running points (tried pertronix, prefer a good set of points). Have a K&N air filter element.

Running Hooker supercomps (jet hot coated) into 2.5" exhaust with H pipe into flowmaster 50s. Recently had custom exhaust bent using same mufflers. Although I replaced similar pipes performance was definitely improved.

I have given a lot of thought to buying a set of drag radials, I have a carb spacer that I might put on to see if it makes any difference, but I don't want to turn this into a race car. i don't go to the track that often.

cardo0

Congrats. Respectible 1/4 mi time.
Yea man, don't just leave us in ur tire smoke. Whats your engine/driveline combo? Carb, intake heads, c.i., trans, rear gears?
cardo0

WA 2 FST

IF the rear end will take a hard(er) launch, try the drag radials. I think you'd be pleased with them. With that kind of trap speed, you can certainly run high-12s, but the factory gearing (trans + rear) is far from optimum, so that hurts.

Still, knocking off .2-.3 in the 60' (which you can do with a more aggressive launch and traction) will put you right on the cusp of the 12.99 barrier.

Good luck.

cardo0

Ooopps! I'm slow on posting again. Secound time today for me. Maybe i need some fresh air. Okay time to get out for a walk.
Thanks for posting and let us know how that carb spacer works.

joe73vette

Work on your launch and shifting, you certainly have the horsepower. Joe

Mako72

Thats a pretty good trap speed. I too am thinking you are spining coming off the line. I think you have a low 13 sec car if you hook up. I could never get my BF Goodrich street radials to hook up at the strip. I went to the BF Goodrich drag radials and the ETs just dropped. They can really hook up.

PRNDL

here is a pic....


and another one (from Saturday)