interestingThe cars on the show with us are 5.30-5.40 cars on the street.
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SignUp Now!interestingThe cars on the show with us are 5.30-5.40 cars on the street.
that's still a ton of power to get a/b on a road.no ballist is an interesting rule also.Just for reference I went to a track to see what my tune up guess would run. It went 1.27 60' and 5.28 at 143 which is a 8.10 or so in the 1/4.
Just watched it last night. Good job. The maveric was all over the road too. I see no one mentioned the Buick powered Ratsun!
that's still a ton of power to get a/b on a road.no ballist is an interesting rule also.
That's frikin awesome.Yes the Ratsun uses a junkyard stock 3800 Buick V6 with some sort of junkyard turbo. It runs high 6's in the 1/8. He actually blew the motor up a few days before filming and went to the local yard, bought that motor for about $300 and stuck it in, just in time to leave.
It's hard to disagree with that.If you've watched SO for a while you might remember a white Mustang that rolled several times on the show. He had loose dumb bells in the trunk for weight. When he rolled all those weights crashed through the rear fire wall and bounced around inside the car. Luckily he wasn't hit. After that they strictly enforce the NHRA ballast rule. An actual inspector went over the car prior to the race, even checked the neutral safety switch.
Dusty,when was the filming?
it was great to see a GM powered Buick on the show finallyLast September
Thanks!!w
it was great to see a GM powered Buick on the show finally
Sick car brother
LOL guys. Thanks.
It was like that for the OKC guys as well. They use the home court advantage and the element of surprise when they travel. They make sure your interested but you only have a couple days notice so there really no time to prepare. In our case they wouldn't even tell us the location. We figured it would be at the pad and planned to test Friday night but was told they were moving the filming location elsewhere....but they didn't. And they all tested on Friday night. We knew the deck was stacked against us but it was more about the experience.
The cars on the show with us are 5.30-5.40 cars on the street. I had never had my boost under 14psi when it ran 4.81 at 153 so I just guessed 8psi which is what I usually launch at would be close. To further kill it I pulled 15 degrees of timing and was really aiming at just going a-b and hoping it was enough. If I made a clean pass and got out run I was fine with that. I had no idea it would still be to much power for the road and was surprised when I tested it at the track that it still went over 140mph.
they want to call this street racing then ditch the wheelie bars. no street cars have wheelie bars....
There is a second gen Camaro in my town that has a tunnel ram, dual carbs, chrome wheelie bars out back & 20" wheels!![]()
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I just checked on demand for the Discovery channel through my cable provider but I can't find that episode. Perhaps this week needs to subside first before they throw it up to be able to watch it on demand. I had no idea Dusty was racing, does anyone have a youtube clip of it by any chance? Dusty, is there still talk of Tuff Enuff behind the scenes, or is he essentially a forgone conclusion at this point...?
Dusty,
How much different do you think your car would have ran on the OKC "street" ? From a viewers point of view it looks closer to a prepped track surface or at least as well prepped as the tracks up here were I race.
AG.