Interesting day at the track - New personal best.

[DV2000NJ]

Sweet Deal Dan! Soooo close to 12's
That S-10 was very clean, was it a nitrous explosion?
And how the hell did you just get away with a warning.... I got a ticket for that a year or so ago.

I think it may have been, but I'm not sure. I know there was a fuel line leaking onto the ground that kept lighting going up in flames.

EXCELLENT DAN, almost there.

Oh, and you lucky sh*t, figures you get the nice cop.

Trust me, I've been unlucky with cops before (going with the flow of traffic 3 miles from my house, had a PBA card, clean record, and still got the ticket for 14 over).

 

[Tomget]

F100 racing

I used to do some Wed night local bracket drag racing at Infineon Raceway with my 92Ranger 2.3L. Slow but lots of fun as I raced for years in Sports category for 4 and 6 cylinder cars. I built this truck as a street strip unit, but it took so long to get it finished and I was so much older that I've only gone out and raced it twice. It runs pretty good. Would be a second faster if I had some sort of Radial drag tires etc. Just don't have the money and don't want to risk breaking things now that I'm older and poorer haha. But I might do some tweaking and do the Summit ET series in my neighborhood next year. Who knows.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_Mu572rBDU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6HUyJ_bdIQ&feature=related

 

[Tomget]

So far my best time is a 13.25, and that's with a 2.5sec 60foot time haha. Need some sticky tires. So I'm guessing 12.25 with stickies would be right on. Meaning my 60 ft time should be around 1.5 sec with good tires.

 

[DV2000NJ]

What kind of MPH are you trapping? If you can knock a full second off your 60', that should put you well into the 11s.

 

[66nova]

What kind of MPH are you trapping? If you can knock a full second off your 60', that should put you well into the 11s.

+1

1.5 60' should put you into the low 11's or high 10's


What does your truck weigh and what kind of combo are you running?

 

[Tomget]

What kind of MPH are you trapping? If you can knock a full second off your 60', that should put you well into the 11s.

I looked around for some time slips and I could only find those from 9/2/2009, and it shows mph 101.72. But the ET was only 13.73? and the 60 ft time was 2.468. I "thought" i ran 13.25 at least once?? But maybe I'm misremembering? Anyway I can't find a time slip that says I did. Getting old makes the lies bigger .

 

[Tomget]

What kind of MPH are you trapping? If you can knock a full second off your 60', that should put you well into the 11s.

+1

1.5 60' should put you into the low 11's or high 10's


What does your truck weigh and what kind of combo are you running?

I'm not sure what the truck weighs, but its heavy. All steel. Nothing light weight about it. The OEM weight with a yblock was I think 4000#. The glove box i.d. plate says max weight 5000# which would be right for a half ton pickup. And I've got a 485hp 460 and a C6 which would add 300+pounds on top of all. So I'm guessing 4000#+300#+200#for the driver=4500#!! So its a big boy! And I'm running a Ford 9" narrowed housing with 35 spline axles, 4:11 gears, and a DetroitLocker. The rear is a 4 link setup with inexpensive coil over shocks.

 

[CJ Hungus]

What kind of MPH are you trapping? If you can knock a full second off your 60', that should put you well into the 11s.

+1

1.5 60' should put you into the low 11's or high 10's


What does your truck weigh and what kind of combo are you running?

I'm not sure what the truck weighs, but its heavy. All steel. Nothing light weight about it. The OEM weight with a yblock was I think 4000#. The glove box i.d. plate says max weight 5000# which would be right for a half ton pickup. And I've got a 485hp 460 and a C6 which would add 300+pounds on top of all. So I'm guessing 4000#+300#+200#for the driver=4500#!! So its a big boy! And I'm running a Ford 9" narrowed housing with 35 spline axles, 4:11 gears, and a DetroitLocker. The rear is a 4 link setup with inexpensive coil over shocks.

What kind of tires are you running? is your 4 link setup correctly? you should be able to get pretty decent traction with a properly setup 4 link.

 

[Zembonez]

I used to do some Wed night local bracket drag racing at Infineon Raceway with my 92Ranger 2.3L. Slow but lots of fun as I raced for years in Sports category for 4 and 6 cylinder cars. I built this truck as a street strip unit, but it took so long to get it finished and I was so much older that I've only gone out and raced it twice. It runs pretty good. Would be a second faster if I had some sort of Radial drag tires etc. Just don't have the money and don't want to risk breaking things now that I'm older and poorer haha. But I might do some tweaking and do the Summit ET series in my neighborhood next year. Who knows.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_Mu572rBDU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6HUyJ_bdIQ&feature=related

Absolutely cool Tom!

 

[Tomget]

What kind of MPH are you trapping? If you can knock a full second off your 60', that should put you well into the 11s.

+1

1.5 60' should put you into the low 11's or high 10's


What does your truck weigh and what kind of combo are you running?

I'm not sure what the truck weighs, but its heavy. All steel. Nothing light weight about it. The OEM weight with a yblock was I think 4000#. The glove box i.d. plate says max weight 5000# which would be right for a half ton pickup. And I've got a 485hp 460 and a C6 which would add 300+pounds on top of all. So I'm guessing 4000#+300#+200#for the driver=4500#!! So its a big boy! And I'm running a Ford 9" narrowed housing with 35 spline axles, 4:11 gears, and a DetroitLocker. The rear is a 4 link setup with inexpensive coil over shocks.

What kind of tires are you running? is your 4 link setup correctly? you should be able to get pretty decent traction with a properly setup 4 link.

Ya I agree about the "launch should be better". When I did the racing I had the 4 link bars both parallel to the ground. So I was totally negating the "instant center" benefit that one gets from a 4 link . And I did that because I was reluctant to drive around the streets with the bars not-parallel which can lead to damaging the bars when one enters or exits a driveway like going into a gas station at an angle rather than straight on etc. I was told that one needs to avoid this because the bars aren't made to twist in such a fashion. But since then I've angled them somewhat and they're not totally parallel but haven't been back to the track this year. And I don't really drive it often. Its a specialty truck I just drive for fun once in a while. I've read articles about adjusting the rear 4 link etc for instant center and all but I get a little confused. Need some hand holding here. The tires should really be good enough for a low RPM lauch. I'm using Hoosier 31x18.5 tubeless Pro-Street tires. And I have a programmable launch rev limiting feature MSD that would help by limiting the RPM's at launch, but no matter what I've never got that thing working?? Don't know what's wrong with that. But if I could get that sorted it would help also. I've just gotten lazy and quit working on all, but I kinda would like to try again next year. And if i spent the money I could get some M&H Drag Radials ROD-07R 390/45R15 that would likely?? be a lot stickier and help too. I did a study months ago and dont' recall the specifics now, but this is a "similar" size diameter tire and would probably be OK gear wise, and from my earlier drag racing my 92Ranger I recall the the drag radial compounds made a huge improvement in grip at launch with it, and would with this truck too I suppose.