Analyze These Performance Changes
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Hey Warren how are your R/Ts? Did they change?
I was thinking about this the other night. I may be out in left field but follow me
IF you are popping the car straight up out of the lights faster. So even if the car is 60ft faster it is not showing because you tripped the lights sooner simular to deep staging but with out the penalty on the top end.
Just a thought
My R/Ts are .100 faster on juice then N/A
I was thinking about this the other night. I may be out in left field but follow me
IF you are popping the car straight up out of the lights faster. So even if the car is 60ft faster it is not showing because you tripped the lights sooner simular to deep staging but with out the penalty on the top end.Just a thought
My R/Ts are .100 faster on juice then N/A
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Also, when they're trapping around 100+ MPH and I'm coming up on them at 123+ MPH. A really great rush! Hey, I knew there was a reason I'm doing this, much more exciting than golf or fishing!
Last year at an out-of-town race I was paired-up with some dip-$hit in a Trail-Blazer dialed in at 17.80 and me at 11.20. I waited "for------ever" for the tree to start, and I cut a great light and came by him at about 50 MPH at the stripe and got the win.
FYI. At our local track, 13.99 is the minimum dial for No-E. Which I think is the right thing to do. Just how long can a converter stay stalled-up? Ouch!
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I dialed an 11.99 year sago at super chevy.....and the car I raced was a GTO I never looked but I thought he broke til I was about 2 feet from the stipe.....he dialed a 7.60....My car blew over about 2 feet I broke out by 2 thou he broke out by 1 thou.....threw the laundry in my face and put my *** on the trailer
I broke out by 2 thou he broke out by 1 thou.....threw the laundry in my face and put my *** on the trailer
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I dialed an 11.99 year sago at super chevy.....and the car I raced was a GTO I never looked but I thought he broke til I was about 2 feet from the stipe.....he dialed a 7.60....My car blew over about 2 feet I broke out by 2 thou he broke out by 1 thou.....threw the laundry in my face and put my *** on the trailer
I broke out by 2 thou he broke out by 1 thou.....threw the laundry in my face and put my *** on the trailer WD
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There is a quick 8, 10.5" shootout this weekend. I'm going to run in that...just t&t. But there should be some cool stuff there.
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Question, does a front end alignment that helps at the track have any negative effects on the street?
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It ran 122.4 MPH and low 11s this past weekend in really bad air (4200 D/A). And, I'm enjoying the MPH increase. Also, the weight transfer on the launch is working well with the new K-Member and front-end weight reduction.
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Yes, the down-track photo-electric cell beams and center-track reflector cones are at 6 inches above the track surface. Therefore, the beams often trip on the car body down-track, rather than the tires. Additionally, 4th Gen F-Bodies often have an issue with the front air-dam (spoiler) tripping the down-track timing beams “intermittently” due to the like-of cross-sectional area. However, my car has a fix installed to prevent that anomaly from occurring and ensure my times are consistent.
Check-out this photo and the black-tab in the center of my air-dam (I've thought of everything). Also, I couldn’t find anything in the NHRA rulebook that said the tab was illegal. Additionally, I had the same trap MPH in both lanes, so that indicates there wasn’t a glitch with the timing beams and cones (a track-lane issue).
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Check-out this photo and the black-tab in the center of my air-dam (I've thought of everything). Also, I couldn’t find anything in the NHRA rulebook that said the tab was illegal. Additionally, I had the same trap MPH in both lanes, so that indicates there wasn’t a glitch with the timing beams and cones (a track-lane issue).
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Could you show where you got this mounted at. I take it that its at least 6 inches off the ground? Whats the length also. How did you mount this also. Pics would be great. We race also bracket race. Sorry
for all the ?s
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