|
Re: How many drive their street/strip cars to the track ?
[Re: blairboy3]
#355358
06/25/09 03:22 PM
06/25/09 03:22 PM
|
Joined: Jan 2003
Posts: 10,766
Central Valley, CA.
Quicksilver440
I Live Here
|
I Live Here
Joined: Jan 2003
Posts: 10,766
Central Valley, CA.
|
Quote:
Don't go too often, but when I do, I drive 270 miles round trip to Famoso & back. With a C body, you have a built in storage unit! Spare parts, mounted drag radials, nitrous tank, pop-up tent & tools all in the trunk! 12.7 sec car, not the fastest. But, I've seen plenty of slow cars break at the track... especially if they're heavy like mine.
 ...I can attest to his claim. You wouldn't believe the pile of stuff he had taken out of his trunk....lol. It looked like he was going camping!  
|
|
|
Re: How many drive their street/strip cars to the track ?
[Re: sixpackgut]
#355362
06/25/09 05:57 PM
06/25/09 05:57 PM
|
Joined: Jan 2003
Posts: 15,439
Val-haul-ass... eventually
BradH
Taking time off to work on my car
|
Taking time off to work on my car
Joined: Jan 2003
Posts: 15,439
Val-haul-ass... eventually
|
Quote:
Quote:
All you guys that drive to the track,what do you do if your car breaks???..wait for the tow truck??...
broke twice. cost $150
how much did your trailer cost?
And the truck to haul it? 
Yes, blowing up your street car at the track sucks. For me, it's been only once  and the other times I've hurt the car (converter, differential) I've still been able to limp it home. You make your choices and pay for the "piggyback ride" home when things turn out that way. 
|
|
|
Re: How many drive their street/strip cars to the track ?
[Re: sixpackgut]
#355363
06/25/09 06:11 PM
06/25/09 06:11 PM
|
Joined: Jan 2003
Posts: 2,916
A shed in England
Tig
master
|
master
Joined: Jan 2003
Posts: 2,916
A shed in England
|
Once the car started running into the 11's we sorta stopped driving it to the local track, 75 miles one way and got a trailer. More than once we drove to the track, ran lo/mid 12's on the saturday then drove 50 miles one way to a cruise, back to the track for a BBQ and beers and watch the sun come up.  Man I usually felt rough racing on the sunday  250 miles and 20+ passes a weekend @ 10mpg, it was expensive but memorable. Car is still street legal and putts to the local cruise but we trailer it to the tracks now. A 200mile trip usually takes 5 hours due to traffic, crappy roads, roadworks etc and I've broke it a few times now. We hope to get another car which will be a mild street stripper 528ci and hopefully running 11's. Really miss those "road trips" 
'74 Challenger..9.46 @ 145.9 1/4, 6.001 @ 118 1/8 so far. 4023lb !!! # N/A, Marsh performance 655ci, Indy Maxx, T/R, Indy 600-13 X's, Street legal, pump gas, full interior, Cal-Tracs, mufflers, 3:73's and real 10.5 radials.
9.51 @ 142.4 1/4, 6.003 @ 114 1/8 with our old mule KB, 572-13, 580 wedge.
RHD '68 Barracuda Fastback 323ci street/strip. Best ET 13.88 @ 99.03
|
|
|
Re: How many drive their street/strip cars to the track ?
[Re: BradH]
#355364
06/25/09 06:16 PM
06/25/09 06:16 PM
|
Joined: May 2003
Posts: 2,414
St. Croix, US Virgin Islands
David_in_St_Croi
top fuel
|
top fuel
Joined: May 2003
Posts: 2,414
St. Croix, US Virgin Islands
|
Being a 28 mile long island we always drive to the track. We can see the lights form our house. Our routine is to throw the slicks in the boot, drop the exhaust, which is only 4 bolts each side, then bolt on the collector extensions. Motor on down to the truck. We have friends who have heavy duty floor jacks we can borrow but always bring a small one just in case. We pull in, jack the car up , change to the slicks. lower the torsion bars and off we go. We just leave the tools in a milk crate, our track is pretty good that way. Even if I had drag radials or ET Streets I would still change them at the track as our road would kill them. So far I have broken one axle shaft, lost a rocker arm adjusting screw, and had the clutch go. In the case of the axle shaft, I was able to get to the bottom of our hill as at the time it had a clutch style sure grip in the 8-3/4. I had already called Michelle to bring her Land Rover, a rope and some rum, as she had stayed home for whatever reason. Had to use the Land Rover to pull it up the hill as the sure grip clutch could not hold it. Now, with the Tru-trac in the S60 that is in the car now I would not have been able to make it tot eh base of our hill but the chances of breaking the S60 are much lower, too. The rocker arm I just limped home. The clutch failed by not disengaging so that was not too big of a deal in terms of limping home. So far we have not been bothered by the Gendarmes with the collector extensions on. Once a couple of cops in uniform were working security at the gate. They just said "Sounds good".
|
|
|
Re: How many drive their street/strip cars to the track ?
#355366
06/25/09 06:19 PM
06/25/09 06:19 PM
|
Joined: Jan 2003
Posts: 27,421
Balt. Md
383man
OP
Too Many Posts
|
OP
Too Many Posts
Joined: Jan 2003
Posts: 27,421
Balt. Md
|
Quote:
All you guys that drive to the track,what do you do if your car breaks???..wait for the tow truck??...
Call my brother to bring his trailer up and tow me to his house as he lives only 5 miles from Cecil where I usually race.  Ron
|
|
|
Re: How many drive their street/strip cars to the track ?
[Re: roadrunnerreds]
#355368
06/25/09 07:08 PM
06/25/09 07:08 PM
|
Joined: Apr 2007
Posts: 871
WA 98043
thecarfarmer
super stock
|
super stock
Joined: Apr 2007
Posts: 871
WA 98043
|
I drove my Valiant to the track and raced, but it just had a stock 383. So I didn't worry much.
My truck will make me worry a bit more about breakage (4.25" crank 383, solid roller); I'll be in the market for a cheap open trailer, and weld a hitch on the Crown Vic when money frees up.
But I'll probably drive it to Bremerton or Pacific (with the 'pucker string' tight) a time or two before a trailer appears...
-Bill
Seduce the attractive, and charm the rest.
******
489 C.I.D., roller cam, aftermarket heads, tunnel ram, stock '54 Dodge rear axle assembly: which of these doesn't belong?
|
|
|
Re: How many drive their street/strip cars to the track ?
#355369
06/25/09 07:14 PM
06/25/09 07:14 PM
|
Joined: Sep 2004
Posts: 22,873
Chicken coop
dustergirl340
Chicken Little
|
Chicken Little
Joined: Sep 2004
Posts: 22,873
Chicken coop
|
Quote:
All you guys that drive to the track,what do you do if your car breaks???..wait for the tow truck??...
Call my husband to bring our truck and trailer from home 20 minutes away.
|
|
|
Re: How many drive their street/strip cars to the track ?
[Re: Mr.Yuck]
#355370
06/25/09 09:01 PM
06/25/09 09:01 PM
|
Joined: Jan 2003
Posts: 27,421
Balt. Md
383man
OP
Too Many Posts
|
OP
Too Many Posts
Joined: Jan 2003
Posts: 27,421
Balt. Md
|
Quote:
"Are you sure they are a drag radial and not a bias tire ?? I know the radial slicks from Hoosier says Radial right on the tire. And the QTP tires that I did run had 2 groves in them but they were a bias tire. Ron"
yup here ya go. They say "radial" right on the side.
I dont think I have seen them from Hoosier before. Are they listed as a drag radial and do they get very sticky ? Ron
|
|
|
Re: How many drive their street/strip cars to the track ?
[Re: Valiant_Showoff]
#355372
06/25/09 09:48 PM
06/25/09 09:48 PM
|
Joined: Feb 2004
Posts: 4,501
Gainesville,FL
goldmember
master
|
master
Joined: Feb 2004
Posts: 4,501
Gainesville,FL
|
I made hundreds of trips to the track,most tracks were 25-40miles from the house,one track Jackson Dragway I had 125 mile drive each way. In my 11 second duster only once did I have a failure and that was a flat on the ride home. I plugged it and put air in and got home. some years ago I decided to take my Dakota to the all Mopar race at Jackson Dragway,what could go wrong with a 14 flat street truck? Well long story short,made the finals,won the round and on the U turn to head back to the pits the truck wouldn't pull itself. Darn 7 1/4" rear had enough and left me walking to the pits. Since friends were waiting to tow back to Memphis,we left my truck at the track(owner left the gate unlocked),then dropped a car in Memphis turned around went back(125miles) slid the axle in enough to get it to drive onto the trailer. Got home before the sun came up.I had lots of fun and never missed having a trailer,enjoyed putting cars on the trailer then passing them on the highway to the house.
Last edited by goldmember; 06/25/09 09:51 PM.
|
|
|
Re: How many drive their street/strip cars to the track ?
[Re: Quicksilver440]
#355374
06/26/09 04:23 AM
06/26/09 04:23 AM
|
Joined: Sep 2005
Posts: 2,179
California, USA
blairboy3
top fuel
|
top fuel
Joined: Sep 2005
Posts: 2,179
California, USA
|
Quote:
Quote:
Don't go too often, but when I do, I drive 270 miles round trip to Famoso & back. With a C body, you have a built in storage unit! Spare parts, mounted drag radials, nitrous tank, pop-up tent & tools all in the trunk! 12.7 sec car, not the fastest. But, I've seen plenty of slow cars break at the track... especially if they're heavy like mine.
...I can attest to his claim. You wouldn't believe the pile of stuff he had taken out of his trunk....lol. It looked like he was going camping!
I could have had my own swap meet
1968 Plymouth Fury III 4-Door: 12.79 @ 115, 60'- 1.93 (Hey... it's a Cruise ship... what do you expect?!) Famoso Raceway, 02/08
|
|
|
Re: How many drive their street/strip cars to the track ?
#355375
06/26/09 07:58 AM
06/26/09 07:58 AM
|
Joined: Jan 2003
Posts: 24,562
Brookeville, Md
Mr.Yuck
Not enough dumb comments...yet
|
Not enough dumb comments...yet
Joined: Jan 2003
Posts: 24,562
Brookeville, Md
|
Quote:
All you guys that drive to the track,what do you do if your car breaks???..wait for the tow truck??...
AAA plus... free hook up free tow $150 a year for my wife and I, including all kinds of other services. I highly recommend it. 
|
|
|
Re: How many drive their street/strip cars to the track ?
[Re: 383man]
#355376
06/26/09 08:05 AM
06/26/09 08:05 AM
|
Joined: Jan 2003
Posts: 24,562
Brookeville, Md
Mr.Yuck
Not enough dumb comments...yet
|
Not enough dumb comments...yet
Joined: Jan 2003
Posts: 24,562
Brookeville, Md
|
Quote:
Quote:
"Are you sure they are a drag radial and not a bias tire ?? I know the radial slicks from Hoosier says Radial right on the tire. And the QTP tires that I did run had 2 groves in them but they were a bias tire. Ron"
yup here ya go. They say "radial" right on the side.
I dont think I have seen them from Hoosier before. Are they listed as a drag radial and do they get very sticky ? Ron
Drag Radial...got them of of e-bay $238 shipped for the pair. I haven't mounted them up yet but the seem pretty sticky. The guy claims only 4 passes and they look it. Plus he said he was cutting 1.40 60 foot!
|
|
|
|
|
