Anyone regularly drag race?

[JD8]

What's frustrating now is a Tesla will pull up, push a button, and rip of a ~9.5@150ish 1/4.

 

[Bocephus123]

looks nice always wanted a drag car or bike just never got there financially yet love to follow NHRA and Street Outlaws. anyway good looking car

 

[Bocephus123]

What's frustrating now is a Tesla will pull up, push a button, and rip of a ~9.5@150ish 1/4.

yea but none of the great sounds and smells

 

[Bocephus123]

I used to go to Thunder Valley often but just on test and tune nights as the work of bracket racing is just not appealing to me.
I just like to go to the track with buddies and have a good time racing each other with our slow cars.
11 and 12 second rides with no power adders and old gen 1 SBC or BBC engines usually.

That car you have in the picture looks nice and quick.

Here is my 57 in race tune mode.

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It's heavy and not any aerodynamic benefits going on there.


A video of me racing my buddy with a 2015 Supercharged Mustang he put down 550 to the wheels with more boost and other mods.
He ran a 6 speed and 373's.
My timing retarded on me during the burnout to 28 total I was normally running 38 total so my top end pull was way off the mark.

any old car you can put out there has got to be a blast.

 

[JD8]

yea but none of the great sounds and smells

No argument there..... just a changing of the times.

 

[Bocephus123]

No argument there..... just a changing of the times.

True

 

[GnometownHero]

I wish that the Pre 1967 NHRA rulebook racing like the Southeast Gassers Association was held at Tulsa and OKC. I am not a big fan of the high tech whizbang nitrous, turbos and procharger stuff we see on tv. Old school was more fun to watch

 

[swampratt]

I have $4,500 tied up in my 57 chevy and that included the purchase price of $1500
If I could get a running driving Tesla for that I would do it.

I am old school and a tight wad when it comes to spending money on myself but 4500 is usually what I end up with
in a ground up build.
If I could do an electric car for that and still pull my Pontoon to the lake and back and go off road I would be all over it.

 

[KurtM]

Old school was loud, smokey, and wild. What made it so darn fun was we built a lot of "grenade motors". Something was always popping, flaming, or scattering parts at the lights or the traps! Everything was experimenting and few had the $$$ to do it right. Remember scatter shields and tranny blankets? Remember safety chaining intake manifolds?

 

[Bocephus123]

used to be able to get an old F85 OLDS with a rocket motor and blow peoples doors off . those days when we were young are long gone so are most the cars