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The far quad in the pic is one of our drag ATV's. The quad was primarily used for bracket racing, but in this pic it was being used for heads-up/grudge racing.

I did the initial research, development, building & testing of our NHRA legal 1/4 mile drag ATV. The project started around 2005. Around 2015 I gave all the quad stuff to my son's.

Anyway, the main drag quad is coming home to dad. It will be reconfigured primarily for 1/8-mile heads-up racing. I might swing my leg over the seat for some testing, but it's primarily for my youngest son to race again.

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1980 Camaro
Taking the Best Working Small Tire Shyt Box & making it Greater Than Before!
3000 lbs.
Pump Gas 436
 
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My grandson would absolutely love that.


His Mom, not so much.... Eek

goob- always in trouble with Mom and Dad


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Not directed at you specifically Goob. A properly built drag ATV is a very quick straight-line performer. Most people take them for granted on their ET & the #1 comment is "that's cute". Our comeback is always "wait till you see cute run".

Anyway, our quad in the pic is a Yamaha Banshee with a bored & stroked 443cc twin on race gas. The quad ran low 6's in the 1/8th & 10.0's in the 1/4.

The performance example was old school times & doesn't hold a candle to what they are doing now with them!

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Taking the Best Working Small Tire Shyt Box & making it Greater Than Before!
3000 lbs.
Pump Gas 436
 
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Oh, I know them things are rockets.


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Hmmmm! HMMMM


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Watched a guy go 5.40 this past weekend on a banshee…moving!!!
 
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One of my son's, went 4.99 about a month ago!

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1980 Camaro
Taking the Best Working Small Tire Shyt Box & making it Greater Than Before!
3000 lbs.
Pump Gas 436
 
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This slip is from an import event at Orlando Dragway about a month or so ago. It's funny how he didn't even want to share any info about it.

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1980 Camaro
Taking the Best Working Small Tire Shyt Box & making it Greater Than Before!
3000 lbs.
Pump Gas 436
 
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Hmmmm! HMMMM


What's the HMMMM for?

Me throwing a leg over the seat for some testing!

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1980 Camaro
Taking the Best Working Small Tire Shyt Box & making it Greater Than Before!
3000 lbs.
Pump Gas 436
 
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This is the same quad as the OP, with a slightly bigger motor. The last time it was on the track was 2019. It was running well into the 9's in the 1/4 mile.

It is currently getting freshened up for testing sometime this fall or winter.

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1980 Camaro
Taking the Best Working Small Tire Shyt Box & making it Greater Than Before!
3000 lbs.
Pump Gas 436
 
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We got the Banshee DMX home about 3 weeks ago. Between it, the new grandson & the race car I've been pretty busy.

The main thing I've been working on is the clutch; it's critical with these engines that make very peaky HP & not very good torque. While I didn't make any changes to the clutch. It got inspected & baselined with its current set-up. We are using a single stage lock-up system for now & may change to our multi-stage eventually.

As for the engine tune, we'll be starting from scratch on the fuel side. We're switching it from methanol to Q16. The carbs are Lectrons & we had to replace the needles & changed out the power jets with ones suited for gas. As for the ignition we are staying with the same timing/curve as it was with alky. We also removed the dual fuel pumps but are using dual needle seats on each carb using gravity to feed them.

The quad does use a wheelie bar, but it's not on in the pic.



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1980 Camaro
Taking the Best Working Small Tire Shyt Box & making it Greater Than Before!
3000 lbs.
Pump Gas 436
 
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Looks like a young person toy, way too crazy for this old guy
 
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Big,
I have no desire to climb on this thing for a full hit. The only thing I will be doing is short hits to get the clutch right! I will tell you this, it was a hoot to race this quad on asphalt, 300' dirt/sand & hill shoot! Big Grin



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1980 Camaro
Taking the Best Working Small Tire Shyt Box & making it Greater Than Before!
3000 lbs.
Pump Gas 436
 
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Merry Christmas! You are bringing back great memories for me !
Cool stuff!


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Merry Christmas! You are bringing back great memories for me !
Cool stuff!


Merry Christmas to you!

We put some heat cycles on the engine today. Then got 2 short hits on the quad. We were without any traction on the coarse asphalt in front of the house. It was black tracking the tires until we got out of it in 3rd gear. The 1st hit was without the 2-step & the 2nd with. The latter was worse & got into a little tire shake; I don't remember that happening before.

Anyway, going to buy some prep & pour a puddle. Then go down the road a little for some better asphalt. Hopefully get a little better traction for more test hits.

Then it's off to the track in late Jan. for more testing


1980 Camaro
Taking the Best Working Small Tire Shyt Box & making it Greater Than Before!
3000 lbs.
Pump Gas 436
 
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