Thread: Move over John Force, I'm going racing !

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Originally Posted by ScooterCO

You smoked the other guy off the line..... Great job!
What a blast!

7.9

Hey, does that equate to a 13 or 14 Second Quarter time?
Thats pretty quick!

Scott, sorry, I missed the question you posted. I went on line to a 1/8 to 1/4 mile conversion calculator and it says 7.90 would be about a 12.32 in the quarter. I know the motor was good enough for better times, it was those dumb Firestone old timey slicks that weren't.

What surprised me when I looked at the conversion table is that if I could have gotten the car down to a 7.65 that would have put me in the 11.s at 11.93. And if I could have knocked a second off of my 7.90 time and turned a flat 7 second run, that would relate to a 10.92.

But I had a lot of fun and came home safe with no real problems. There were so many things that could have gone wrong, like I have no blowproof bellhousing and I kept worrying about the flywheel coming through the floor, or getting sideways and hitting the wall or worse. The Man upstairs let me have a nice day with a lot of nice memories, and that was enough for me.

As for another project..........maybe, but this one will be my Son Don's. He and I did a little horsetrading recently and I traded him the 460 engine and Jackson Racing C6 I have had sitting for a 93 Mustang fastback he had sitting. He is going to build the 460 to put in his 79 Capri drag car. He got bitten by the bug to go racing while at the track Sunday, so I think I will help him spend his money.

Don

Originally Posted by Itoldyouso

Scott, sorry, I missed the question you posted. I went on line to a 1/8 to 1/4 mile conversion calculator and it says 7.90 would be about a 12.32 in the quarter. I know the motor was good enough for better times, it was those dumb Firestone old timey slicks that weren't.

What surprised me when I looked at the conversion table is that if I could have gotten the car down to a 7.65 that would have put me in the 11.s at 11.93. And if I could have knocked a second off of my 7.90 time and turned a flat 7 second run, that would relate to a 10.92.

But I had a lot of fun and came home safe with no real problems. There were so many things that could have gone wrong, like I have no blowproof bellhousing and I kept worrying about the flywheel coming through the floor, or getting sideways and hitting the wall or worse. The Man upstairs let me have a nice day with a lot of nice memories, and that was enough for me.

As for another project..........maybe, but this one will be my Son Don's. He and I did a little horsetrading recently and I traded him the 460 engine and Jackson Racing C6 I have had sitting for a 93 Mustang fastback he had sitting. He is going to build the 460 to put in his 79 Capri drag car. He got bitten by the bug to go racing while at the track Sunday, so I think I will help him spend his money.

Don

Yeah Don,I was going to say for you to get a 1,800lb Alter that wouldn't take much motor to get you going and not continue with you street car.But you answered that question already.

Nice thing about you guys in the sun shine St is you can race almost anytime of the yr you want.Wears on part more,but to me it would seem the investment return being able to race more would be greater.

You get into a lower numbers would require a roll bar/cage on your car.

I know what you mean about the roll bar or cage. 92 mph was fast enough for me without one, sitting with my head as the highest point in the car. On about the second run when I hit second the car went a little to the left and I was in the right lane. I had to lift until it straightened out, but that wall looked too close for comfort. Don was shooting a video on that run and he got so concerned when he saw the car get out of shape that he forgot to keep shooting.

It sure if fun and addictive though.

Don

When I made my first pass the other day I had the timing set where I run it on the street.......it runs good there and runs cool, so I put a mark on the distributor and block and keep it there. When I made my second pass I advanced the distributor a bit and it really liked it there. It was much stronger out of the hole and when I hit second it went to the left pretty good and smoked the tires almost all the way through second. I was turning my best times of the day. But as the day went on the car started slowing down both in mph and et. I figured I had hurt something, so I quit racing while I was ahead........I had enough fun anyway by that point.

Today I decided to go for a little ride in it to run some errands and while I was at it I decided to put the distributor back on the mark where it runs best on the street. What I found was that during the day my distributor had retarded itself quite a bit and was retarded twice as much as I had advanced it ! In my haste at the track I must have not tightened up the clamp enough and the counter rotating distributor turned itself backwards.

I set the timing back to the mark and it drove just like it always did. I kept telling Don something was wrong those last few runs because my rpms would drop from 1200 to 600 or 800 after a run, and I was thinking fuel pressure. But I am relieved to see nothing mechanically was my culprit.

Don