I don't know how much difference it makes but I may have gotten out of it a bit too soon...they have two cones at the finish line I assume is the mph lights(?) well this my first time out all year still pretty nervous and I got out of it at the first cone rather than run it out the back..I just swapped over to wilwood disc brakes from stock drums and wasn't sure about how well it would stop and what not..the MPH seemed low to me cause last year running 6.20's and 6.30's I was around 108 mph
.....I've had this car for 10 + years and it has always just barely lifted the tires maybe a ft or so..I could never feel it much just see it in pictures but today it was coming up 3 -4 feet according to my dad and it got my attention..wasn't expecting that at all and sorta rattled me a bit the first pass ....probably why I didn't shift it the first pass.....I have always had old stock BB Heads and I put some -2X's on it plus took a good bit of weight off the front with the wilwood stuff and new wheels.
Was a short day but I don't get to do stuff with my dad too much (he is in his 70's) anymore so I enjoyed it. Next time I'll be better prepared.
BJ
I weighed the car a few years ago with a factory block 454, manual drum brakes.. and it weighed 2820 (no driver 4 gallons of fuel)...Now it has a Merlin Block 540 and wilwood med duty brakes( .380 thick rotors) I weigh 220 lbs.
32 X 14 tire 5.14 gear powerglide trans
Not sure about the launch rpm today...I used to ALWAYS go dead against the converter until today...no 2 step in it yet so I just sorta brought it up on the converter an instant before flooring it and releasing the button kinda all at once...but I did flash the converter rather than dead head it like I used to.( maybe why it left harder???) Will have a 2 step next time.I only run a few times a year just for the fun of running the crap out of it I aint really a bracket racer as you can tell. :P