Ok, been a while since I ran a car down the drag strip, and then it was in a dedicated bracket car with slicks. Next week up at Hot August Nights the local drag strip offers a couple nights of street drags free for registered HAN participants. I am thinking about taking the Studebaker out just to see how she goes down the track. My tires are Yokohama Avid T4 235/70-15, they are fairly new so they have quite a bit of tread. Manufacturer recommended air pressure is 38 PSI. My question is, how best to prepare to launch, should I do a burnout or just a dry hop to clean the tires? I can do a pretty good dry burn out without getting them wet if thats a good way to go. I'm thinking I should stay out of the water. Do I want to lower the tire pressure some or run them at 38? I am pretty sure I am not going to be able do a hard launch without smoking them. I have a 2800 Stall converter behind an LS1 with 3.80 gears. Car weighs about 3450 without me so figure just over 3600. Track is at 4500 ft elevation.

What do you folks recommend? Hopefully I will have a chance for several passes so I can try various things. I don't expect real good track prep as this is jsut street only drags.

thanks

Pat