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Originally posted by Mike Nitzsche:

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Originally posted by CURTIS REED:

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Originally posted by Mike Nitzsche:

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Originally posted by CURTIS REED:
I'm only talking bottom.

They aren't allowed here and don't need it anyway. I have a tach. D1 is using buttons now anyway aren't they?

I'm sure that is for bottom bulbing. I've seen those and they are super cool for footbraking. You can set your idle kinda like a PTO on a wrecker. Really cool idea.

Yeah Mike I know what they are. You can't use them around here though.

You can't bring the idle up in bottom bulb? Most of the guys I know were setting up chokes to hit the fast idle cam.

Yes we can bring the rpm up as long as you do it with your foot. We were told though, no fast idle solenoids or any of the rpm set devices like Ed has.

I think ed means traditional tachometers and their size aren't necessary. I think he means racepak display is all you need. Might be mistaken, but if you have a racepak dash you have a tach. Those hand controllers are pretty slick. We are allowed to use the TB in Modified so I do. I do have a rpm module- shift light deal for footbrake but rarely have used it.

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Originally posted by 1320racer:
don't need, want. It's 2021, time to leave the 60s! Again, a tach is useless today in our race cars.

Don’t you reset/verify the throttle stop cruise RPM at the start of each event?

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Originally posted by BG7X77:
I think ed means traditional tachometers and their size aren't necessary. I think he means racepak display is all you need. Might be mistaken, but if you have a racepak dash you have a tach. Those hand controllers are pretty slick. We are allowed to use the TB in Modified so I do. I do have a rpm module- shift light deal for footbrake but rarely have used it.

We were No-Box for a couple years but I stayed footbrake anyway. It gives me options to race anywhere. D4 voted to go back to footbrake and all the other divisions went No-Box.

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Originally posted by Lenny5160:
Don’t you reset/verify the throttle stop cruise RPM at the start of each event?

Not once, old school!

If you have a racepak. You have a tachometer. I do not think you will find too many race cars without a means to monitor rpm in real time. Am I wrong??..

Never stated I don't have a tach, said they are useless today. we don't look at them because we don't need to and if the tach portion of my race pak dash shyt the bed, it doesn't effect our ability to make a run in any way.

10-4.

Is the hand throttle control PA Performance. Are there more than one model of those. I have only found one for sale. I know you can also make one.

No, Division 1 racer Dan Walleigh builds them, none better. Around $500. Sold mine last year to a long time poster here.

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Originally posted by BG7X77:
10-4.

Is the hand throttle control PA Performance. Are there more than one model of those. I have only found one for sale. I know you can also make one.

There is a guy from PA that makes and sells them also. He is a friend of mine on Facebook, although I don't know him personally. They aren't as nice looking as the Walleigh one but probably not the cost of one either.

Curtis
Dan Dissenger is what I found anyway, called PA performance on Facebook page. I haven't contacted him at all. It said 225. Obviously a little less sizzle but looks like plenty of steak. I have considered trying to footbrake more just because there is additional opportunities to race and I'm kind of use to leaving on the button. I wouldn't mind trying this as I dont practice enough on the footbrake.
I wonder what the best footbrake racers use in the country use. Be interested to know (Hastings etc). I know you have won several track championship but you dont have the option it sounds like. It wouldn't bother me if they outlawed two steps and TB where I race, but since its legal I choose to utilize it.

I have a tach. Its in the dash and as Ed said really do not need it. But that being said I will use it to see what the conveter flash is and once to see what the fall back is. After that I cant tell you the last time I have looked at it during a run. After burn out habit is check oil presure,glance at water temp, stage and done.Old guy here seat of pants no Race pack,YET!!!!maybe?

Old guy SLICKSTER...KNOWS!

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Originally posted by SLICKSTER:
I have a tach. Its in the dash and as Ed said really do not need it. But that being said I will use it to see what the conveter flash is and once to see what the fall back is. After that I cant tell you the last time I have looked at it during a run. After burn out habit is check oil presure,glance at water temp, stage and done.Old guy here seat of pants no Race pack,YET!!!!maybe?

You race top?

I was gonna say, use the tach for stall on stop. I know there are guys who set it and never change it. Some are dang tough racers too. I have gotten in the habit of checking it, maybe that’s why I can’t scatter s—-t with a rake.

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I was gonna say, use the tach for stall on stop. I know there are guys who set it and never change it.

the biggest names in SC/SG are amongst them.

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Where is the best place to mount a tach on a daily driven Nova?

You should probably just throw the tach away before you start running Super Comp with this Nova. You don’t need it.

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Originally posted by Footloose:
Where is the best place to mount a tach on a daily driven Nova?

You should probably just throw the tach away before you start running Super Comp with this Nova. You don’t need it.

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Curtis Reed, Yes I race top and bottom both.When I won Moroso many years ago I was leaving both on the other guys top and my own bottom. That was before cross talk and you could see both top lights. I had an open wheel car and people were watching my hands move from about 3 rd. on. Ike Hamma was there and then 2 years later he marketed the interfacer I believe 1991 when he started selling those. Charlie Hamma would know for sure.

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Originally posted by SLICKSTER:
Curtis Reed, Yes I race top and bottom both.When I won Moroso many years ago I was leaving both on the other guys top and my own bottom. That was before cross talk and you could see both top lights. I had an open wheel car and people were watching my hands move from about 3 rd. on. Ike Hamma was there and then 2 years later he marketed the interfacer I believe 1991 when he started selling those. Charlie Hamma would know for sure.

The reason I asked is because you aren’t footbraking where the tach is needed.