Quote Originally Posted by shawnlee28 View Post
He did have a helmet on......

I would have to imagine he has done hundreds of launches to keep it as straight as he did in those videos.......I would have like to have seen the videos of the first 50 launches......I would imagine soiled pants and big eyes were frequent untill they dialed it in.

Videos like that kind of give the wrong impression of how easy it is.....launches like that take tons of tuning, changes to everything over and over and a good wheel hand.


It would be nice to see a base line of what they started with...tune/gearing etc and how many /what changes untill they got it to launch and go straight like that.


To get something like that to launch straight on 3 wheels and stay straight and not go up in a smoke show takes more than rolling a fresh build out the door and lining up to race......
Anybody can make a long wheelbase car launch straight, takes a good chassis man to get a short wheelbase to do it!!! My friend Rick many moons ago traded into an Anglia with a big block and glide---whenever someone asked him how it launched Rick would tell them "Straight and hard----Straight up and Hard Left"!!!!!!! Had a really wacko ladder bar setup in the back with junk joints and tubing, we built a 'moly tubed ladder bar setup and 4" travel Koni coilovers in it, with a bit of tuning it eventually worked great and was a blast to drive---low 10's in the 135+ mph range!