I have a pretty modified 96 Camaro B4C. And I am turning 17 on October 21, is when its legal for me to drag race. And I am DYING TO GET SOME TIMES on my car.

This is what I got:
13,650 miles on rebuild engine
275/40/18 Kumho Ectsa ASX STREET TIRES on rear 274/40/17 front
Automatic 4
3.23 gears
COMPLETLY BUILD UP TRANNY (all the goodies)
B&M Tork Master 2400 Torque converter
Comp Cam 305
Comp Cams Hydraulic "R" lifters
1.6 Roller Rockers
Isky Valve Springs
Custom machined heads, (flow like lloyd elliot LE2 heads, a little more)
edelbrock headers
K&N Cold Air Intake
30 lb injectors
58MM Throttle Body
Intake manifold bored to 58MM for tb
hooker exhayst
Y-Pipe
Electric Cutout
PCM For Less Programming
MSD 8.5 mm spark plug wires
Bosch +4 plugs
MSD 6A Ignition box
MSD Coil


I think thats it, Give me some tips, suggestions.

THANKS SO MUCH!!!

Also what do u think I will run anyway?

 

Find a place where you can do some burnouts.

Do some short ones at different tire pressures to see what pressure produces the most consistant pattern of blackening across each burnout stripe.

I forget what type of rear suspension you F-Body guys have. If you have coil springs in the rear that don't have a shock inside them, make it a point to get some air bags for the back. The kind that go inside the spring.


In the meantime, when you go to the strip, use the pressure you figured out with your burnout tests. In the fronts, use a pressure a few pounds over the max on your tire. Like 5lbs or so. Don't worry about hurting your tire. You wont be driving enough to get the tire hot enough for the pressure to be a problem.

Do NOT do a burnout at the track. It doesn't work well on street tires.
Drive AROUND the water box and just do a quick spin to clean the tires, or even do nothing, just pulling right up to the line.

I suggest you flash your converter. I think that'll be less likely to fry your tires. You may also need to bring the pedal down a wee bit slower. An old saying is that your gas pedal is a rheostat, not a switch.

Deep staging, where you drive far enough forward to turn the top staging light back off, will help you run more consistantly, but it will slow down your ETs. (And no, I'm not real sure why.)

Once your opponent comes far enough forward to light up the upper staging light, focus all your attention on your last yellow. You'll see the yellows start coming down in your peripheral vision. Gently bring your breathing to a stop and focus on the last yellow like it was a nipple shot in a movie and you're 15. When it comes on, don't "burst" into action... tensing up slows your muscular speed down. So just watch it as close as you can and as gently as you can, letting yourself relax, and when it comes on, just... leave. Move fast, but not tensely. Speed but not rigidity.

Remember to drive it completely out the top end. There are 3 sets of lights with corresponding lines on the pavement. The first should be the #1 speed light, and usually the last is the #3 speed light, with the ET light in the middle, although I have seen the speed lights be first and second with the ET light last.

In any case, always drive it out the top, at least in time trials.
In competition you usually want to drive it out the top too, although if your opponent is WAY back you can back off so as not to redlight.

 

Drag Radials and make certain to set the rev limiter low enough so you don't smoke the motor while you are getting used to it.

 

Great information, but I think you're going past his current experience status. The guy's never been to a drag strip and you're already talking about elimination racing. Bracket racing is really nothing you can read about except the fundamentals. The rest is just advice and experience. Let him get used to the drag strip and his car before you get him into eliminations. It took me well over a year before I felt I should start doing eliminations. The only thing I disagree with is the lack of burnout. It depends on the compound of the tire. Sure, street tires it's usually bad to smoke em off, but with certain ones it helps. Take me for instance. I run on Kuhmo Ecsta Supra 711s (the cheapest tire you can get) and I give em a good smoker and they dead hook.....surprisingly. I even go through the water(no choice at Cordova). He'll really have to try it out on his own at the strip. No burnout? Burnout? Longer burnout? It's all stuff he's gonna have to try. He's gonna have to try where to launch it, idle? Flash it to 2 grand? It's all trial and error until you get used to it and find what's right. With me, I launch at 1k, just a lil' above idle. If I hold it up as far as I can (around 1700) it smokes the tires off. Good luck with it though.

 

Burnouts are overrated.

Sure, there are some folks who really do need them, but you'd be surprised how well a good set slicks work with little or no burnout.

As to street tires, it's too easy to overheat them. At least, in my opinion it is.

 

don't crash into the wall or other person. i do this and it seems to work well for et's.