Who says a torque arm suspension won't let a car hook?

 

thats gonna suck on the way down! wow

 

Lol but he is spinning more than moving at that point.

 

and those headers look insane!!

 

thats the type of car where you want the bottom painted up nice.

 

I don't think he can get a good et with all 4 wheels off the ground

 

Isn't that one of the fastest drag radial nitrous cars? I remember seeing a thread about that thing somewhere...

 

That pic is on PA Racings site. He is one of the customers and it says that it went 7.87 @ 181. the car weights 3450 and has a 565 BBC. Here is the link
http://paracing.com/article_info.php?articles_id=5

 

It's Smookie's car. First radial tire car into the 7's. A big BBC with 2 stages of NOS.

You can see lots of goodies under the car. Ford 9" diff, not tubbed out. Torque arm suspension, front coil over's on factory style struts. Tubular k-member, rack and pinion steering. Header tubes go on the inside and outside of the frame rails. Looks like a Stef's oil pan.

 

Or Plexiglass. . .

 

Found some more pictures of the car.

 

i want a big block some day but i cant get over how tall those motors are thats a big hood

i'll settle for a big inch smally or lsx with some boost to make up for the power/torque. That car is hot tho!

 

That car is wicked sick. We were @ that event when he did that. Its actually the reason I decided to buy a third gen that weekend @ the race.

 

that car has a BMR torque arm and the car got stolen over a year ago, he has built another car since then. it dont look as good, but it will when its all worked out !!!!

 

I'm sure after a few landings you probably should change that to "looked"

 

that's an absolutely beautiful plumbing job!
i wonder how the strut mounts looked after "touch down"

anybody know if there are "after" pics?
it would be a great study on the true impact resistance of our cars when they're under duress.
i'm not saying the third gen's are for "dukes of hazard" jumps, but how often do you get that kind of impact information?
i almost don't want to see the "after" pics! that's one beautiful setup.
Eric B

 

just curious what kind of tourqe arm is he using.

 

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oh im retarted lol is the sphon torque arm about the same or is the bmr stronger

 

well I happen to have first hand experience with this subject, I stood it on the bumper, and when it came down, it did less then i figured it would, however i do think the front is slightly tweeked. I extended the upper strut mounts about 1/2 inch, I could slide a large screw driver under them lol, and flattened the headers some, bent the hell out of the collectors from the exhaust comming down, scrapped the front bumper some, and if i ever take the oil pan off it will not go back on im sure, all in all not bad

 

^^^^^^^ yeah thats not all that bad i guess .... jeez man sounds liek the car took a beating!!

 

three weeks later i did it again lol, now the bump stops actually work, the cross member was way too abrupt.