Do wheelstands effect 60' times ? Better to set up high or low. My car's currently 60ing at 1.37 and the bars are set low with about 4 - 5" under the wheels.
thx chryco

All you can do is try it out and see what happens. Go up about a foot and see what the slip says. My car responds best to about a two foot wheel stand. Pro Stocks, on the other hand, need less
Isn't the track a little slippery this time of year? I grew up in the Grand Forks area, never had good traction from December till April!

Mine 60's 1.28-30 When i set it up to do a bigger wheelie.If i tone it down it's around 1.35. So to those that say a big wheelie is wasted motion

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They do when the rear tires are tripping the beams... ...this one went out 120ft. Normally I'm 1.24 or so...it was a 1.33 60ft.

I have to watch which tires trip the lights.. if its
all of a sudden slow its usually the rear tires

I know that others will disagree but with my car bigger wheelstands equal better 60 ft! Don't know exactly why but that is just my experience!!
Mike

Mine is best at about 8"-12". More than that it starts to slow. However traction does not seem to be an issue with my car.
Doug

This car is lightweight, 2750 lbs. with me in it, it is nose heavy, over 55% on the nose and doesn't have a lot of power either 676 HP. It does 60 ft well, 1.27, with the chassis barely lifting the front tires Powerglide with 5.86 rear gears in this run I have to throttle stop it down to 10.00 and under 135 MPh t allow me to drive it legaly

Bigger wheelstands like this one below, slow down mine around .3 in the 1/4. Best Et's and 60ft's come from touching down just before 60ft.

No, just set the wheelie bars (raise or lower)until the car is smooth in first gear you will have the quickest times when the car feels smooth and slow. It will not matter how high you go when everything is right.

I see it as a situation of how quick total weight transfer can occur. A slow stocker doesn't have the power to weight to transfer quick enough to not have to use artificial weight transfer, like rear suspension reaction , soft front springs and travel. The more powerful the car, and the sharper the setup, (CG, suspension, applied power at the hit)the quicker all the weight gets on the rear, and the lower the wheelstand needs to be. If you watch a video of Billy Gliddens Mustang, you will see a car that has a better setup than most of the class he runs in. The car flat leaves with the fronts just off the ground, where others are pulling wheelstands to achieve the same thing, but not getting down track as fast. I suspect he learned a lot from another Glidden.

When you leave and the front tires go straight up does that effect your reaction time. Mine pulls them straight up at the hit and I have been having a problem red lighting. Thanks...

big wheelstands slow me down but i put that down to shifting early, (wheels in the air, select another gear), a nice long wheelstand gets me into the high 1.2's, no wheelstand & we looking at mid 1.3's.

The higher the wheels are in the air, the quicker my Demon goes.

"The higher the wheels are in the air, the quicker my Demon goes"

How many passes do you get out of a rear bumper Dan?

Mike