dustergal
I have serious issues, so I'm
12 second timeslip for the Duster...
Took the Duster to Milan Dragway's Friday night King of Street race. The place was packed so I knew I wouldn't get many runs in. We decided that instead of going for consistency and reaction time, like I usually do, (it is a bracket car after all) that we were just going to go for the best ET possible. It usually runs in the low 13's. The air was cool, I had just put on a brand new set of Firecore spark plug wires and installed new NGK plugs. I decided to do a harder launch than I normally do (around 2,000 rpm foot braking) and bumped up my shift points to 6,100 (usually shift at 5,800). My reaction time was dismal, as Piggy kept telling me, DON'T worry about the tree, just leave when you are ready. The result was a new best by far....12.91 @ 103.7 mph with a new best sixty foot of 1.81.
I'm pretty happy considering how mild the combo really is. '68 340 (stock rods and original forged crank), stock unported X heads, comp XE274 hydraulic cam, Edelbrock AirGap intake, Holley 650 carb, cheapo flow tech headers. PTC 9.5" converter, home built 727 trans with 28" tall drag radials and 3.91 gears. The car weighs 3,500 pounds with me in it.
Video of my 12 second run against a Ford Focus that didn't know how to stage, I sat on my converter longer than I wanted waiting for him. I'll give you guys the link to the unedited video, where Piggy say to the Focus driver, "Hurry up and stage, dickhead"
[video=youtube;yFjXavmNSzM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFjXavmNSzM[/video]
Took the Duster to Milan Dragway's Friday night King of Street race. The place was packed so I knew I wouldn't get many runs in. We decided that instead of going for consistency and reaction time, like I usually do, (it is a bracket car after all) that we were just going to go for the best ET possible. It usually runs in the low 13's. The air was cool, I had just put on a brand new set of Firecore spark plug wires and installed new NGK plugs. I decided to do a harder launch than I normally do (around 2,000 rpm foot braking) and bumped up my shift points to 6,100 (usually shift at 5,800). My reaction time was dismal, as Piggy kept telling me, DON'T worry about the tree, just leave when you are ready. The result was a new best by far....12.91 @ 103.7 mph with a new best sixty foot of 1.81.
I'm pretty happy considering how mild the combo really is. '68 340 (stock rods and original forged crank), stock unported X heads, comp XE274 hydraulic cam, Edelbrock AirGap intake, Holley 650 carb, cheapo flow tech headers. PTC 9.5" converter, home built 727 trans with 28" tall drag radials and 3.91 gears. The car weighs 3,500 pounds with me in it.
Video of my 12 second run against a Ford Focus that didn't know how to stage, I sat on my converter longer than I wanted waiting for him. I'll give you guys the link to the unedited video, where Piggy say to the Focus driver, "Hurry up and stage, dickhead"
[video=youtube;yFjXavmNSzM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFjXavmNSzM[/video]
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