Went to the Drag Strip Sunday

[greg schroeder]

Originally Posted by ItBites

Thanks Greg. Runs were around 11:00 AM, so I'll guess about 1200ft for DA. And thanks for the kind words. Of course I have seen your old car run a couple times and you know how to go fast. My runs were much less violent than yours, I remember your 1-2 shift was wild. As I recall your 60ft times were significantly faster than mine. So I might pickup .3-.4 if I could get to a 1.5second 60ft? Similar to you I also had the best luck coming right off idle, instead of loading the converter. Had to just ease into it. So thats 1 Ford and 2 Chevys in the 10s for Phoenix. I can't recall any other 10s in Phoenix, going back to 2003...

Edit: Just checked your slips and saw 1.7 for 60ft, so I'm not too bad for not having ETs on the back and still get a 1.7. Maybe if my DA was 750, i'd get a couple more mph? Not that I'm not happy with the performance of this 2800 pounder, set-up for road course work...

Actaully I never had a 1.5 60 ft time in the time I owned the car. Most often I tried to start from idle. The days when it was hard to start would be when track prep is bad and slippery. That probably does look pretty violent even though it's not all that terrrible in the car.

Here's a 2800 DA pass


Here's a 750 DA pass, the video is in my signature.


I think if we gave it a go next to each other it would be side by side.