I went to the track yesterday and I have a 4500 stall in the car but it would only stall at 3,000 due to sliding the front tires. It is a new stall and Transmission, a 350 from Summitt. I have front runners with 165R15's on front. It is a stock suspension, brakes and all. I have not touched any of the brakes yet. What will help get it to not slide the front wheels.? It went 8.05 in the 1/8th mile. I have some wider tires I can install very easily.

 

You will never reach full stall speed by holding the vehicle with the brakes. The only way to reach full stall speed is with a transbrake.

Based on your 8.05 1/8 mile time, I think you have way too much stall speed for whatever your engine specs and your diff gear ratio are.

 

I am running a 3.73 gear ratio, with a 355 with 12.5:1 compression ratio and a 600 degree lift cam. I am actually sliding the front tires through the lite at 3,000. Most of the time in my Nova at least I could get close to advertised stall as in 3,500 I get like 3,000.

 

i can only foot brake the stall on my car to 2200 rpm . on the trans brake it hits 5300 rpm.

 

If you were to foot brake it with new brake kits all around what RPM should you be holding at. At mine it breaks at 1000rpm. Kind of weird. Would putting a brake booster help?

 

i never have had to foot brake a car beyond 2000 rpm at the most, the rest is all flash speed and traction. my converter hits 3800 or so flash speed the engine rpm goes up from there. No reason to try to hold it to 3000 or higher with a footbrake, your brakes will never hold it.

 

As the guys mentioned you will not get full stall or very close to, but stronger
rear brakes help alot, Use ajustable perportioning valve or simply adjust if drums on rear.. This will help alot! just like the buick guys do to enable them to reach higher boost with out pushing. or install transbrake and have lots a fun.

 

I installed the new rear brakes it did not help much, but it did go a 7.81 in the 1/8th. When this motor comes off the line it seem to be very flat till it hits the 3,000 rpm range or higher, then it just plants you to the seat. I believe if I change the front wheels to a wider tread it should hold better, I have a set on my 72 Nova we are change for this weekend and try it to see what happens.

 

You need to change your launch technique.
If you want to know what your converter stall is , watch the tach right when the car launches. (on slicks)
Don't try to load up the motor against the brakes at the starting line.
You only need to raise the motors rpm on the converter enough to get clean throttle response. usually 2000+/- rpm is good. Then rug it on the last yellow.
If you have a big long duration camshaft in the motor, you need to recurve the distributor to maximize the throttle response and launch torque. If you have more than 244@.050 cam duration, you can lock out the distributor timing. 34-36deg full time.
Once you do that and dial in the carbs accelerator pump shooters, the car will launch hard without trying to launch it as if it had a trans brake.
(The throttle response and low end torque will be much better)
Ideally you want the converter to stall to the engines peak torque point or 500rpm below that peak torque output point as the car leaves the line.
By loading up the converter against the brakes you are actually killing off some converter flash and torque at launch.
What cam are you using? what is the distributor spark advance curve?
Torque converters have a rpm range where they get the best performance downt he whole track. A 4500 stall needs a stiff rear gear to allow the car to rev at least 7000rpm thru the traps. 3.73's are not enough gear. If the converter stalls beyond the point of peak engine torque at launch, it is too loose.