....perhaps just a little TOO WELL !

http://youtu.be/081Q1WNCpIw

Probably should have short shifted to 2nd but it was a first pass and the "Event Horizon" was rapidly approaching and I backed off. 60' sucked 1.79" but my 30' time dramatically improved!!

Chip was there and suggested a brand new set of shocks using the old "dead lift vs Clean and jerk" theory of lifting unsprung weight....besides wheelie bars kill the whole sleeper motif....

why did you lift? it wasn't that high

That car has the wheel base of a shopping cart, I probably would have lifted as well. Glad to see you're out there sorting the combo.

What was the ET and MPH?

It would darn near be 90 deg before the back bumper touched for sure. You need to spin the tire. If you dont have ajustable shocks go up in air in the rear and put 20 lbs on the nose.

Nice Camaro

Stubby runs good!

the big question is ...

did you beat the camaro ?

Once I got back on "all fours" I started easily running down the Camaro but ran out of track. Still ran 11.89 @ 116.89.

@sduarity, I'm thinking about a Big Marine battery since it's directly over the right front control arm. Verts there for a sub 1.5 60' though. Was running 16 psi, I'll go up to maybe 20 and see if I can take just a little bite out of it. Thanks much for the great advice, and if anybody knows how to get down the trackI know it's you Daurity Boyz!!

Tune, test, tune, test.....been working 10 days straight and decided to take off a couple hours and take the 15yr old daughter down to have some fun and let off some steam. Was great seeing Chip again, thanks for the advice too my friend!

I can't tell you how much FUN this thing is and I get a kick out of all the attention it gets, if it was another A body (nothing against them at all but I've had about 7 of them over the years) it'd already be in the 10's but I'd probably be bored with it by now.

Good seeing you again too Bobby...and it was nice to meet your daughter Erin. That Rocky definitely turns heads at the track to say the least, lol. It's gonna fly when you can leave on it and not go vertical! Slow down the front end, add some weight, and try it again.

The camaro is a friend of mine. LQ9 6.0 w/ a small cam, converter that's a little tight, headers, etc.

I haven't seen this and don't know what's up with the combo but I like it

Another Clip,

http://youtu.be/Fu-Xxqu2cUA

This was a 'hot lap' and temp was around 215

You can see how quick I staged.

Anyway, this was a soft launch and then I nailed it, the vert lept up sweet and it really took off, (felt it too) fast enough that the 6800 limiter suprisingly bit me.

Just ran it out easy (just really T&T'ing the launch). But my 15 yr old daughter was filming and she cut the clip off at around 1100' .

I could feel the engine Heat and high ambient was killing my top end (Chip can tell you it was hot and Muggy all night) and I let out a little early. Still went 11.60 @ a slowing 115.75.

So it's showing potential little by little and I really like the Converter (and new T/A SCS shifter) A LOT.

3 times more fun to run down the track than any car I've had, it goes straight as a rail from stripe to stripe

Well, that will impress a lot of people ( and many on this web sight ) - as long as you don't post that 60 ft time.

Tough crowd....

I guess my point is it's actually Fun trying to sort it out, I learn something new each time and everybody really seems to like it. My daughter was blown away by the people in the stands digging it....so it was fun for her too which makes it all the more enjoyable. There was even a little bit of the "that's my Dad!" Pride goin' on....can't beat that in my book

Been a long time since I had this much fun! And no matter how fast you go and how much you spend (to me) that's really the goal to a Play Toy. And I seem to have that IN SPADES.

What vert in there?

So let me get this straight.

Your running a roller cammed stroker motor in a light vehicle with heads that flow 300+ and its running mid 11's at 117?

Or am I missing something

Ya, if it were an A body I'd be going quicker by now cause I know (probably better than many of y'all) how to get a dart/duster down the track.

Look I knew this thing was gonna be a handful to sort, but I can promise you I'm having a lot more fun sorting it than I did running high 10's an any A/B/E I ever had.

It's got the power, Chip can tell you that, and now it's got the Hook, just zero in on the 60' and there we are.

Reminds me of the Yamaha V-max I used to own almost 20 yrs ago took quite a few passes to get it in the 10's and it was all technique. And if I jumped on it now I'll bet you I could still run a 10...because I learned the bike. I doubt theres many who could jump on it and do the same even if they were 50 pounds lighter than my 230 pound butt. Good Bike racers know exactly what I'm saying and this ain't far from the same experience. In theory...Anybody should be able to ride a bull or do 10's on a 1000+ cc sportbike, the reality is sometimes a bit trickier. And with the Rocky, the fun for me is getting the 'on paper' to reality, what's wrong with that?

@ sixpackgut,



Actually, I HAVE!!!

That light of a car, you can literally take off in second gear once just for the heck of it....likely to slow it down about 3 tenths( based on my track record of stupidity of having done it by mistake several times)...lol... but the mph wont actually be off by that much.
at least you could see what kind of mph/horsepower its making without blowing off the tires....wouldn't do it more than once or twice, but at least you will get a tame lap and can mph it out the back door....

I likey!