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Hot Rod Drag Week
Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 7:50 am
by markss327
This sounds pretty cooool.
I can see us now... A Chevelle, Firebird, a couple of Caddys, and a Nova, rolling 'cross country....
http://hotrod.com/upcomingevents/113_0505_drag_weeks/
Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 8:24 am
by MostMint
My guess is that in order to win this, they would have to allow me to submit 1/8 mile times against everyone else's 1/4 mile times - but that probably won't even be enough.
Now if they had a second category for best reaction time at each track, or closest to dial, or the combined of those two...
Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 12:29 pm
by TireSmoker
One of the guys on the Megasquirt site participated in Drag Week and was posting daily updates. They won the power-adder/SB class with a turbo'd 6.0 Chevy pickup running Megasquirt (low 10s). The funny thing was they won a FAST XFI fuel-injection system, which they promptly turned around and sold.
It seemed like a pretty cool event -- I guess there was a guy racing a factory '68 Hemi Dart (big $$$ -- estimated value at $200k??) and the guy that won overall was basically driving a pro-street '66 or '67 Nova, that I think ran in the 8s, and pulling a small trailer of gear between tracks -- on 87 octane. (not sure if he raced on higher octane, but at he least drove between tracks on 87)
-Dave
Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2005 6:40 am
by markss327
Just to participate, and compete at all 5 tracks, AND make it home, would be a win for me !
There were a lot of DNFs. (Did not finish)
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I saw the Mega Squirt truck, and was impressed. If I recall, correctly, he toasted the rear dif, showing off at a rest area somewhere. The rear diffs are a weak link in this generation of trucks - my AV included. I think it's a 8 1/2 dia in size. I think for '07, this gets upgraded to a 9 1/2.
Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2005 10:59 am
by TireSmoker
You're right, just finishing would be an accomplishment. Sounds like it could be a fun way to spend a week's worth of vacation, that's for sure. I've always wanted to do the Car & Driver One Lap of America, but it's pretty expensive. This might be more affordable (and something I could probably do without a co-driver)
Hmm.. the daily driver class has a lower limit of 12.00 -- some new heads & cam, a 700r4... I could get it down there!
-Dave