well went to the track and finally got this past years goal done on the 30th lol. I went 8.98@155 on a 275/60 drag radial. motor is still with a stock truck 350 block. I was selling it (https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/engi...s-my-drag.html) but no one wanted it lol. so went and made some fun passes. itll run a 8.6x@159-160 if i got the front end down.. which i did on the last pass but third gear gave out i believe

 

Pretty stout run! Even with the slight 'pedaling!!

 

awesome video. Man she is getting it done..

 

Damn fine work sir!

 

Nicely done!

 

Wow that car has progressed a long way! Congrats

 

man, wow that's awesome! what is the raceweight?

 

Way to go!!

 

man thats awesome! you should go to a glide. same trouble i had with the wheelstands.

 

He'd be ahead of the curve if he just put a swapped the VB to a "2nd gear leaver" so that he could put more rear gear in & launch in 2nd. - A lot of the fast radial cars are figuring that out now, it's especially helpful with a small-block/nitrous combo that doesn't have enough HP to really pull the steep rear gears up top that are required down low to control the launch.

 

Couldnt you just leave on a progressive hit and tweak suspension abit more? Does it have front end limiters?

Leaving in 2nd and just adding more rear gear will lower the launch ratio but that more gear will run out of top end rpm. Not sure what you turn for rpm but you may start to over rev and need to stay on limiter for abit at the traps

 

i did mess with the progressive and thats how it left so well on the last pass. however that track I was at is hit or miss. the car usually leaves perfect but with that track you have to loosen up the suspension a lot to get it to hook.

the Th400 is perfect for this small motor i have. it really doesnt have the power like shagwell said to run a glide.

 

OSW is a lot more miss than hit.....


The longer you have to delay the progressive the more you are leaving on the table.

Many of the glide loving drag radial guys are starting to figure out the typical 1.80 low glide is not the ticket, especially with nitrous combo that doesn't have the back-half HP of a boosted motor. - Several companies working on steeper glide ratios, but LOTS of guys already switching over to the 2-speed "turbo glide" type trans.


Limiting front travel is often a band-aid for a radial car, better off if you can let it hang but slow it way down with the shocks so that it takes 1+ seconds before getting to full droop. Allows enough transfer at the hit w/o having any abrupt shock of weight that is likely to break the tires loose after the initial hit.

 

Nice tips thanks. Plan on trying a 275 radial with a brake on my turbo car once its back together

 

Is that stilletos old car?

 

Unless he had a picture from back when "stilletto" started for the pic at the end of the video then I wouldn't think so. - That car was mostly white with black on top.

 

I just remembered that Chris said it had sold locally.

 

2 speed th400 will work good too. if you tried everything and are having to remove power to keep it off the bumper, you can stand less gear off the line, imo.
as stated also, front shocks are a BIG part of it. limiters are a band-aid.

 

the nitrous guys were never running out of gear. some of these guys have been running a 3.42 gear or less on the th400 cars.
there is one person that has posted on here before that had the th400 figured out pretty dang well in x275. he was running a 4.10 gear and had it down into the 1.23-1.25 range. he has since switched to a glide and last i talked to him he said the car liked the change.

 

stilleto is my budy chris. no we have two seperate cars. yes the new motor i build will be using a turboglide. those transmissions are awesome

 

limiteres arent just a band aid imo. on these cars struts that actually work well are very very very expensive.

 

yup, a band aid because good shocks cost alot. i know, i have limiters on my car too. lol
you dont necessarily have to buy afcos or santhuffs.... if you can find a talented shock tuner, you can get better results working with a cheap shock than an out of the box expensive shock.
the better setup is to have all your travel available to you, and controll the extension. with limiters, the car comes up too fast and snaps to a dead stop. if you could slow down that first 2-3" of travel before they hit the limiter, the tires might not even come off the track.

 

How bout a bunch of rubber bands?

 

^^This guy.

So I guess no more Mexico racing for you Kowboy?

 

I use the HD rubber bunge cords........apparently not enough of them in the mustang though........

 

Kowboy if you dont mind can you shoot me a ball park on what trz charged for a cage?

Also you plan on running any of the fl ultra st races?

 

i will be running ultra street when i am not working. I dont remember what the cage cost, but i can call and find out. I do know they are very busy right now lol

 

Yeah I am curious! If Ican get a cage done this year($$$?) then I will run ultra should be able to go 5.20-5.30s

 

Are you running a 3 speed auto in that car? Sounds like its revving to the moon! What gear do you run in that car?

 

3.42 gear th400. i think transmission let go right after the pass. I no longer have reverse or third gear lol

 

You must be pulling some high rpms with that

 

shift it at 6800

 

Thats a cool car...i know my buddy switched to santuffs and it was total night and day even with the limiters!

Too expensive for me...but all of the local x275 guys run them now for that reason. Im sure a qa1 valved to your car would be just as effective!! Good luck when the trans is fixed!!!

 

Thanks^^^ i already got santhuffs on the way. lol car will be running ultimate street again this february and then ill be in x275 the end of the year. Well end of year running both classes