I've been day (and night) dreaming about getting my new car....

[JimInNY]

Thanks!

Man, I was checking out the car in your garage, holy shiites!

Can you keep it quiet enough to sound like the sleeper it looks like?

[BurnTire]

It has stock manifolds, catted x pipe, and flowmaster mufflers. Super Quiet. Look at some of my vids in the media section.

[JimInNY]

Just got my MT 265-40-18 ET radials mounted up on new wheels, tossed them on the car and tried them out.

Is holy shit an adjective?

Those things provide some serious gription. I sprayed down a good sized burnout area outside the bay door on my shop. I backed into the puddles, and put all 215 lbs of me into that brake pedal, the tires break loose at about 21 - 2200 rpm, spin for about 2 seconds, then start hooking up and throwing the car sideways. I had to let up. I didn't even get enough spin to get a good read on contact with the pavement, so back into the puddles, and this time, as soon as they break loose, I let off brake and push the pedal through the floor. They hooked up in the still somewhat damp area in the lot, I was like WTF?

On the third try, I guess my timing was a bit better and I did get some wheel spin out onto dry pavement, but only about 3 feet. lmao.

I get a full foot print with 24lbs in each tire. I didn't even bother trying to adjust from there. That will come at the track.

So now I'm ready to see how she leaves on dry pavement, and I pull out of our lot onto a road that runs along a river and freight train line, so there's not much that can be disturbed or annoyed by a quick test launch. I hold the brake, bring it up to 2k, count down a tree in my head, and nail the beast. I get a a sissy sounding little squeak out of the tires and a little over a tenth of a mile later, I let up at 80 MPH.

This thing is such a strange animal. I know I had ET radials on it, but they weren't even warm...

30 years ago, if I bought a car reputed to have 415 HP at the engine, and all it could do was squeak a tire, I'da shoved it up the ars of him that sold it to me. Yet, I am loving this. There is no time wasted at all spinning tires with this thing.

Maybe tomorrow I'll bring my laser range finder to work and range out an 1/8 mile.

[BurnTire]

So when does your local Drag Strip open?

[Wharf Rat]

Maybe tomorrow I'll bring my laser range finder to work and range out an 1/8 mile.

Range out 2 of them and run the full 1/4!

For what it's worth when you get to the track those tires will hook better with less air pressure. I've had about a dozen sets of drag radials over the last 10 years and pretty much across the board the sweet spot is somewhere around 15-17 PSI.

[JimInNY]

Lebanon Valley opens for test and tune April 15.

I'm too chicken to run 1/4 mile on the street now. When I was a young man, suffolk county police had 318 Plymouth Volares, and I had all sorts of big block horse power advantages most of the time. Plus, the cops back then liked a little horseplay on the streets at night. It broke up the routine.

Now the cops are too serious and they will bring in the army, navy, marines, tactical air support, IEDs, whatever it takes to apprehend and punish them that try to mock the law,

[JimInNY]

Hey Wharf, how can anything hook up any better than that little squeak I hear? Seriously, my mother's 73 225 plymouth duster could spin its tires more and that was the slowest car in the history of the world.

[Wharf Rat]

On a prepped tack with DR's you should be able to launch north of 4,000 RPM. You'll cut better 60's with a slight spin than launching at a lower RPM and bogging.

[BurnTire]

On a prepped tack with DR's you should be able to launch north of 4,000 RPM. You'll cut better 60's with a slight spin than launching at a lower RPM and bogging.

He has an auto

[Wharf Rat]

Oh shit that's right! Sorry, never made a pass in a stick car so you're on your own.