What Will said is spot on. Last year my first pass I went 11.10. When I pulled up to the line for my second pass, the starter opened my door and said "what did you run last pass". I said "mid 11"...he said "no it was 11.10...don't do it again!" I then proceeded to run a 10.91 and never went back to run another time trial . I too have no rollbar or harness or anything. I qualified 14th out of 94 buicks last year and got paired against a mustang that ran a 9.45 on our match run . After he was a good 20 cars out on me, I just coasted...no need blowin the heads off just to get beat by 25 car lengths ! It was still fun. I hope there are more fast cars there this year. There's no way I should have been the 14th fastest buick there. In my group when I pulled to the staging lanes, every ford had a 12 pt cage, fire suit, wheelie bars and chute. I was out of my league with my little drag radials, factory seat belts and T-shirt!!!BP , thanks for the reply. I know what it SHOULD and BETTER run
I was hoping to get some tuning done as Jack Cotton is making the trip. But a low 10 would not be unreasonable at all and possibly a high 9 if it hooks and the tranny can handle it. Torque converter may be a little loose now with the added cubes...
I will get moving on the motor when it arrives and hopefully make the trip with the car, get some shakedown runs in and then get thrown out
Bryan