Hey I am running what used to be an 82 Berlinetta, now it is sort of a hybrid of a lot of things. Mods are in the sig plus a Hughes 10" 3000 stall converter and true dual exhaust with an x pipe and bullet mufflers. My question is, my car hooks really good. Like really really well, better than any of my friends. I got to drive my friend's 74 nova, it runs 14.2's, it doest pull or launch nearly as hard as my car, but anything past half gas in his car and both tires are lit up and the back end is all over the road. Even when you are getting on it it does this. My Camaro just launches. I was curious if this is because of my "luxury" suspension that comes stock in Berlinettas. I have tons of wheel gap at the moment, and my suspension is really soft (luxurious?) so i get awesome weight transfer. Any thoughts on this?

 

the gearing in the th350 is probably longer than the nova, cause i thought i once heard first gear in the th350 is pretty long

 

1st in a turbo 350 is not too long, its sorta long, but all of my friends have turbo 350's. I have 3.73's also, my 1st is pretty short.

 

Just a thought, whats your 1/4 time anyway?

 

weight transfer like you said could be why your getting good traction..

my guess to his 1/4 time is mid 13's

good tires help also

 

Hey dont worry I get comments on what kind of stuff I have in my car & When I tell them Stock they give me odd looks. I am runing a almost totally stock 87 Iroc-z with the 350 & hook up 99.9% of the time. The only time when I dont hook up is when I am messing with my tire pressure. ( I lowered it a few times to see if I can hook better on street tires & Nope I run sloppy rounds. SO I stopped raised it back to stock pressure & went from there)

 

It can be a lot of things. My car would merely chirp the tires with the AOD when I had my MAM and injectors. I then went back to the stock MAM and injectors and it picked up alot of low end torque and would smoke the tires off the line. Your car may be lacking some low end torque and sometimes this is not good. My car would only pull a 2.1 60' when it didn't spin the tires, and it would do no better, no matter how much traction it had. Too much traction especially in an auto can hurt the launch by bogging the motor keeping it out of it's powerband and with steep first gears, like most autos, it takes a little bit to get back in the RPMs. This is just what happened to me to give you an idea of the different things that can cause the difference in launch!

 

Well I know I have 380 ft lbs of torque, and it launches like it has a lot of torque, I guess I will just have to wait month and run it and see.

 

Hey, maybe you luck out and it hooks great and you are pulling good 60's. I hope so, but all I can suggest is to expect the worst and pray for the best!

 

yeah i have this fear of running my car and having it not put down time that i want lol. i will run it and let you all know. i was just thinking one day about all the suspension stuff i could get, but then i realized that if my car puts down decent 60 foots stock, that is money that could be spent elsewhere. i will keep you all informed.