Quote Originally Posted by skids72 View Post
Hey, Dave - still just 12V optima red-top. Thinking of switching to yellow-top for next year. I've pondered ways to use the alt switch to advantage in "fender racing" situations but haven't really messed with it due to risk of voltage/current spikes. If I get motivated I'll come up with an electrical choke/filter arrangement for that. Would be nice to have an "add horsepower now" button in some situations. A racer here in 14s Vega wagon has N2O system he uses only when someone puts a fender on him early... give away the stripe and push the other guy out

Who would want to stage deep? An extra 3/4 - 1" of roll-out is a good thing! Longer head start and harder to go red so long as you hit the tree right. Pro tree maybe another story.... or 19s truck (leave on the 2nd amber )
Ooops, you don't run a Pro Tree, forgot... When you get old and slow on a Pro Tree the deep stage thing sometimes equalizes things with the young-uns!!!! Deep stage almost by accident the first couple times, then kept doing it...too old and slow to go red maybe??? Probably going back to the long tree next year, might do some nostalgia running... Haven't had problems with a voltage spike---yet...hadn't even thought about what could happen to the electronics if it did spike... Haven't done the switch to 16v yet either, wanting to talk to some who run it.