Originally posted by SCDIV1: Go right ahead if you have a hankerin to build an altered and run it anyway you like...fast top end, slow top end, Big power, Small power....All your choice...
.370 tree 8.900 is the Dial....
NHRA will welcome you as long as you play by their rules and pay the entry fee.
You don't even need to be vaccinated or wear a mask.....just a helmet and a fire suit....
The way it should ben, and the way that it is. Except in keyboard hero land.
Foxtrot Juliet Bravo
September 24, 2021, 02:17 PM
BP758
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Originally posted by Holytown: With even the slightest head wind, a door car or altered running 1/4 mile can never compete with the consistency of a dragster due to the aerodynamic disadvantages.
Just is what it is.
Simply not true. If you’ve ran a late model door car you would know what I mean. I have enough fast data to choke a horse! Larry is correct. Dragsters are very dirty in the air. Just look at TF/FC q speeds.This message has been edited. Last edited by: BP758,
California Screaming! Raceless in California!
September 24, 2021, 03:33 PM
Jeff Gillette
Ed has never run into the wind at Sonoma !!!!
00 on the tree
8.90 - the rest is BS
September 24, 2021, 03:38 PM
Floyd Staggs
Ed picks his races so he doesn't look stupid. He can't compete with the big boys.
Eddie is a baiter, if everyone ignores him and DOESN'T respond to his posts he will eventually go away. I can assure you I won't be baited by Eddie. Talk among ourselves and no more responses to Eddie's posts. Eddie loves to get people's shorts in a bunch. Don't let him.
When everything is coming your way, your probably in the wrong lane.
September 24, 2021, 07:14 PM
Floyd Staggs
Larry, I really like getting in his head. It's so easy to get that inflated ego started. Easy to pull his chain. Do you remember that VW altered we ran? I'm sure you saw it.
Originally posted by J69: Just think how much better he would’ve been in a suspended dragster
I can also run a GRID or stick with my points ignition setup. Lol
You know, I see Grid issues in the tech section quite often. I can't remember the last time I saw a points ignition problem. Take care. Tom Worthington
If it seems that bracket racing has gotten too expensive for you, maybe you are just doing it wrong.
September 24, 2021, 09:46 PM
BP758
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Originally posted by Tom396:
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Originally posted by J69: Just think how much better he would’ve been in a suspended dragster
I can also run a GRID or stick with my points ignition setup. Lol
You know, I see Grid issues in the tech section quite often. I can't remember the last time I saw a points ignition problem. Take care. Tom Worthington
Good one Tom! Points = First attempt at a hall affect switch! ?
California Screaming! Raceless in California!
September 25, 2021, 01:21 PM
wideopen231
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Originally posted by Tom396:
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Originally posted by J69: Just think how much better he would’ve been in a suspended dragster
I can also run a GRID or stick with my points ignition setup. Lol
You know, I see Grid issues in the tech section quite often. I can't remember the last time I saw a points ignition problem. Take care. Tom Worthington
Had a issue with points box(MSD MAG 44) on TA/D last weekend does that count? LOL When was last time you paid thousand bucks for anything ignition wise with word points as part of it?
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September 26, 2021, 01:29 PM
Lenny5160
Door car in the semis in St. Louis! Been on the 8.90 index all 4 rounds.
Tony Leonard
September 26, 2021, 02:04 PM
Floyd Staggs
Millwood had a .008 light and went dead on 90 with a zero 4th rd.
Except in D5 where Kunkel runs a door car going like 128 and busts them up pretty regularly so it’s not all about the car, but a good car certainly helps
Not real impressed. Kunkel is currently 19 in points and has no real shot at the division championship, some guy named Stinnett stands in his and everyone else's way. Also watched him run at Indy, paired against nobody until he lost to the fastest guy on the property round 3. That said, this is a drivers class not a dialers class. We got a few 120-130 mph dragsters, an occasional altered and door car in D1 and for the most part they are just burning gas and in the way.
don't just talk about it ed............get out of the way.
September 26, 2021, 02:56 PM
1320racer
Old men getting hard, something they haven’t done in years over a door car running S/C because they hate dragsters which are without question the best tool! Funny but pathetic.
September 26, 2021, 04:16 PM
BP758
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Originally posted by 1320racer: Old men getting hard, something they haven’t done in years over a door car running S/C because they hate dragsters which are without question the best tool! Funny but pathetic.
Don’t recall anyone including me that said they hate dragsters. Not the case. I’ve ( and others) had great success in dragsters and we are having a blast in a Bad a s s door car.
California Screaming! Raceless in California!
September 26, 2021, 05:22 PM
60 falcon
James Paul won a couple of div 4 championships and multiple national events in s/c with a Mopar powered alterd and anyone in this part of the country who knows James Paul also knows there was no luck involved in it.
sammy mathis
September 26, 2021, 05:24 PM
Floyd Staggs
I don't hate dragsters. But I do admire a door car that can hold with them. With the horsepower available today over the counter a lot of ingenuity and skill has been taken away. Might as well put Tesla controls in it and drive from the starting line. People complain about cookie cutter pro stock cars, Nascar and they race cookie cutter dragsters.
Well by golly, let me be the first then. I hate those lawn darts. They have no soul. I always root for the non-engine-on-a-stick in any pairing. Take care. Tom Worthington
If it seems that bracket racing has gotten too expensive for you, maybe you are just doing it wrong.
September 26, 2021, 09:19 PM
Lenny5160
I run Super Comp in a 180+ mph long skinny car like almost everyone else, but I see no reason that something else couldn’t compete if it had the right equipment and a good pilot.
I do run mechanical injection with a linkage stop, and run Super Street with a 3600 lb 9” radial tire car. So I like unconventional setups.
Tony Leonard
September 27, 2021, 05:35 AM
Bucky
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Originally posted by Tom396: Well by golly, let me be the first then. I hate those lawn darts. They have no soul. I always root for the non-engine-on-a-stick in any pairing. Take care. Tom Worthington
Americans indeed are easy to divide.
Foxtrot Juliet Bravo
September 27, 2021, 06:05 AM
1320racer
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Originally posted by Floyd Staggs: Millwood had a .008 light and went dead on 90 with a zero 4th rd.
and the very next round your hero blew his load with an .085 bulb, running 8.948
Make that another S/C race where an altered nor door car won! This message has been edited. Last edited by: 1320racer,
Take care. Tom Worthington
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