I OCCAISONALLY struggled on a .370 but not usually...Was mostly at certain tracks and if you traveled around you'd know that can happen

Had as much as .050 in the box and was .00x at times with my RaceTech

It was a slower reacting car than my previous shorter wheelbase dragster and that was obvious to me from the get go once I got that car

That older car could go red anywhere by a lot with a NON pro tree trans brake equipped trans...had .050 in the box at Numidia 2004 S/C to go .00X

My age and old eyes did not help and no matter how much one applies himself you cannot undo what father time does to you....

That's whey I am now EX-SCDIV1.....

5 Wally's over the years says I "applied myself" and my skills pretty well.....IMHO......

And my friend and co-worker who I taught the game and is nearly 20 years younger than me

Won 2 National events, 3 Open series titles, 1 local S/G series title and the NHRA Div 1 S/G title....He was way better than me obviously....

So I think I may know just a smidge about the sport of drag racing.....and I am always learning something new everyday

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i am confused here. my son talked to the guy in charge for the event and he said 400 tree. rules say 400 tree but somehow they will run a 370 tree. which is to his advantage because he can hit a 370 tree.

i am with scdiv1. i dont care cause i aint going.

i was just going to have my son look you up and say hello and if he were to have problems i would know someone in the area that might would help him out if needed. retow you do live close by so if he were to be broke down or need help i would appreciate you looking out for him. he wont know a sole there. thanks in advance.

ep-being serious here. dont want him 10 hours from home and feel better knowing he has a phone a friend.

A friend at Orlando just broke the chassis on his Race Tech 4 link dragster one of his daughters drive, above the rack. Do you have any experience with that?

It's a nice car he's modernized, but I think it's a 2005. Goes low 4.50's 582 Nesbittttt BBC, Brodix BB3.

Where should he take it to get repaired Elite Jacksonville,,, Or??

As far as my deal goes, I got 1.070 in the box set up to go .010, 3400 leave chip staged shallow, slow transmission brake, Sonnax billet 10 clutch drum crammed with as many slow frictions as I could get crammed in it.

What's that tell you? Not as much as you might think if you're not a transmission guy, with 25 years experience.

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i dont know anyone down that way for repairs. if he was this way Maddox Race Cars is the only people i would let work on it. where is ray ray millers new shop? is he in Fla or Tenn?

ep

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Originally posted by pauley:
i dont know anyone down that way for repairs. if he was this way Maddox Race Cars is the only people i would let work on it. where is ray ray millers new shop? is he in Fla or Tenn?

ep

There's an Idea, they just sold a Maddox car for another Race tech.

They liked the Maddox car a lot, but wanted matching cars for the daughters.

Ray is in Tenn, or it would be a no brainer.

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Originally posted by pauley:
i am confused here. my son talked to the guy in charge for the event and he said 400 tree. rules say 400 tree but somehow they will run a 370 tree. which is to his advantage because he can hit a 370 tree.

i am with scdiv1. i dont care cause i aint going.

i was just going to have my son look you up and say hello and if he were to have problems i would know someone in the area that might would help him out if needed. retow you do live close by so if he were to be broke down or need help i would appreciate you looking out for him. he wont know a sole there. thanks in advance.

ep-being serious here. dont want him 10 hours from home and feel better knowing he has a phone a friend.

No sweat, I'm close by.

I can make it to the top of the Skyway bridge in 20 minutes.

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Originally posted by pauley:

ep-being serious here. dont want him 10 hours from home and feel better knowing he has a phone a friend.

And this guy would set you at ease? LOL Besides that he is banned from Bradenton by his own admission.

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Originally posted by CURTIS REED:

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Originally posted by pauley:

ep-being serious here. dont want him 10 hours from home and feel better knowing he has a phone a friend.

And this guy would set you at ease? LOL Besides that he is banned from Bradenton by his own admission.

It's a tough job but somebody has gotta do it.

It's like wrastling a turbo 400 in and out using a floor jack in the dirt, testing converters.

You don't wanna do it but you know you have to.

the ONLY way this will be settled is for you to take those Brodix heads off and swap on some other comparable out of the box heads and head back to the track.

You would think that everyone running a 3200lb car with out of the box heads on a SBC were a member of this forum. If that were the case, you could brag on your combination. Since that's not the case, you're combo is the fastest ever posted to this site, and that's about as far as you can take it. There are thousands of people that could potentially be faster that don't spend any time on any internet forum. Whatever makes you feel good about yourself though.

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Originally posted by David_D.:
the ONLY way this will be settled is for you to take those Brodix heads off and swap on some other comparable out of the box heads and head back to the track.

You would think that everyone running a 3200lb car with out of the box heads on a SBC were a member of this forum. If that were the case, you could brag on your combination. Since that's not the case, you're combo is the fastest ever posted to this site, and that's about as far as you can take it. There are thousands of people that could potentially be faster that don't spend any time on any internet forum. Whatever makes you feel good about yourself though.

Actually I'm in it for the youngsters being swayed by illogic and disinfo from drag racing internet guru's without any examples.

I've been all over the internet, closest thing I can find is a Copo Camaro Super Stocker with a big cubic inch LS.

But look around, let me know when you find one. I've been on the hunt since 2017.

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Originally posted by Mike Rietow:
A friend at Orlando just broke the chassis on his Race Tech 4 link dragster one of his daughters drive, above the rack. Do you have any experience with that?

It's a nice car he's modernized, but I think it's a 2005. Goes low 4.50's 582 Nesbittttt BBC, Brodix BB3.

Where should he take it to get repaired Elite Jacksonville,,, Or??

My Racetech cracked the lower frame rails both sides just back from the steering box

My good friends car did it as well and he told me how Racetech would fix it. I know of 2 others that also cracked there.

I fixed my car myself.....was easy....did it in one afternoon....sleeved the bottom rails on the inside with rosette welds...

Elite is an Ex Undercover guy...

Don't know him or what kind of work he may do as in repairs on other cars.

Every chassis guy is gonna want to do what he feels should be done....in his opnion..

The dragster cracking, breaking issues are pretty common.....

I am and always was a "I'm doin it myself dude" if I can. If I don't know how I'll figure it if possible....

Transmissions I've never done a ton of....sure I can take one apart and put it back together but I never did enough to have proof in hand of changes I made and how they worked....

The vast majority of racers get their transmission done by Pro's and I don't know anyone who will be telling you their transmissions react way faster than anyone else.....

I've experimented with valve bodies, solenoids and anything else I could think of along with car changes and never saw any clearly "way faster" RT's from any of it...

My repair on my car never was a problem and contrary to what others said, I added some diagonals....to reduce the flex up there. Over time it would probably find a new place to crack....

Those diagonals had ZERO effect on the car's reaction wise or anything else....

I don't even recall what my Full Tree delay setting was.....1.115 comes to mind.....4200-4400.....Top bulb full tree racing became foreign to me after spending most of my time on a Pro Tree and courtesy staging.....that was what I preferred by a mile.....and I did use an SLE for a while but only for bracket racing on a full tree.....

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Originally posted by SCDIV1:

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Originally posted by Mike Rietow:
A friend at Orlando just broke the chassis on his Race Tech 4 link dragster one of his daughters drive, above the rack. Do you have any experience with that?

It's a nice car he's modernized, but I think it's a 2005. Goes low 4.50's 582 Nesbittttt BBC, Brodix BB3.

Where should he take it to get repaired Elite Jacksonville,,, Or??

My Racetech cracked the lower frame rails both sides just back from the steering box

My good friends car did it as well and he told me how Racetech would fix it. I know of 2 others that also cracked there.

I fixed my car myself.....was easy....did it in one afternoon....sleeved the bottom rails on the inside with rosette welds...

Elite is an Ex Undercover guy...

Don't know him or what kind of work he may do as in repairs on other cars.

Every chassis guy is gonna want to do what he feels should be done....in his opnion..

The dragster cracking, breaking issues are pretty common.....

I am and always was a "I'm doin it myself dude" if I can. If I don't know how I'll figure it if possible....

Transmissions I've never done a ton of....sure I can take one apart and put it back together but I never did enough to have proof in hand of changes I made and how they worked....

The vast majority of racers get their transmission done by Pro's and I don't know anyone who will be telling you their transmissions react way faster than anyone else.....

I've experimented with valve bodies, solenoids and anything else I could think of along with car changes and never saw any clearly "way faster" RT's from any of it...

My repair on my car never was a problem and contrary to what others said, I added some diagonals....to reduce the flex up there. Over time it would probably find a new place to crack....

Those diagonals had ZERO effect on the car's reaction wise or anything else....

I don't even recall what my Full Tree delay setting was.....1.115 comes to mind.....4200-4400.....Top bulb full tree racing became foreign to me after spending most of my time on a Pro Tree and courtesy staging.....that was what I preferred by a mile.....and I did use an SLE for a while.....

The man who owns the car is a real experienced drag racer - advanced. He can fix it himself no sweat.

We were talking, his only concern was he didn't wanna get himself in a position where it didn't pass tech with something he doesn't do everyday.

Not sure I'll even talk to him anytime soon, I know he wants to get it back in action ASAP.

There's a ton you can do in a transmission to make it break the beam faster going back to the 1980's when a 454 engine was a big engine in Super Comp.

The only area checked on a dragster is the driver area, nothing else....

It's actually ridiculous that a car could be broke or cracked and get a sticker but it could....

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Originally posted by SCDIV1:
The only area checked on a dragster is the driver area, nothing else....

It's actually ridiculous that a car could be broke or cracked and get a sticker but it could....

No, I'm saying he doesn't wanna do a repair on the chassis that won't pass tech, being he doesn't do this type of work everyday, to know what tech is looking for in a repair.

I suggested Elite in Jacksonville, for these reasons. I know the man can do the repairs himself, but why take the chance when it can be a routine repair, for no hassle/drama down the line.

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They DON'T look at anything but the drivers area !!

They don't care if the car was repaired or by who or how.....

Drivers area tubing size and thickness and construction and welds look proper and done as per the SFI specs surrounding the driver.....for the ET, either 7.50 and slower or 6.0 and slower...

The seat area and seat belt mounts maybe and that's it.....

If a car crashes they scrape the sticker.....

Get it fixed and again the drivers area gets checked only....

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Originally posted by SCDIV1:
They DON'T look at anything but the drivers area !!

They don't care if the car was repaired or by who or how.....

Drivers area tubing size and thickness and construction and welds look proper and done as per the SFI specs surrounding the driver.....for the ET, either 7.50 and slower or 6.0 and slower...

The seat area and seat belt mounts maybe and that's it.....

If a car crashes they scrape the sticker.....

Get it fixed and again the drivers area gets checked only....

He might read what you're saying and do it.

If it were me I'd probably take it pro's for repairs, if I wasn't driving it.

If I was driving it, I'd repair it myself.

Is this good reasoning?

To me it's headlong into any dare with your sons, if they're anything like you.

With your daughters, it's kinda different, right?

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Originally posted by SCDIV1:

The Racetech dragster cracking, breaking issues are pretty common.

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I'd have to agree with you Ed but there are lots of other brands that have also....

It's no coincidence though when multiple cars break in the same place....as mine did....

That was some find when I spotted that...just doing a casual overall day off and routine car look over and service.....

Turned into a lot of work but it all went fine....