FED versus Altered!
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10/31/11 07:04 PM
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With one would be most fun to drive? Same engine and trans. Thinking of switching to an altered insted of my FED. But i have never driven an altered.
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Re: FED versus Altered!
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The FED is really a lot of fun to drive, but im usually alone on the races and i thought an Altered , would be a little easyer to handle in the pits.
Cuda, -70 Valiant-65 AWB, Valiant Signet200 -65 Topchopped dragcar. Topolino Fuel Altered. NostalgiaFED Sold, SuperComp Bantam Altered, Sold Ex Harlan Thompsons Nitro funny car American Graffiti Sold,
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Re: FED versus Altered!
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10/31/11 08:01 PM
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FED you are sitting behind the axle, legs over. Altered or F/C, you are sitting on top of the axle or slightly ahead. I'd guess that the FED with less eye height and backside closer to the ground would feel faster, even ignoring those slicks next to your elbows. Aside from less overall length making it steer tighter, I don't know how the same drivetrain would make it easier. Adding cooling? Haven't driven either, but have dreamed of both!
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Re: FED versus Altered!
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10/31/11 09:29 PM
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The FED is really a lot of fun to drive, but im usually alone on the races and i thought an Altered , would be a little easyer to handle in the pits.
They're both fun to drive but as you said the altered is definitely easier to handle in the pits, 90 degree staging lanes, 180 hairpin return roads like some of our little 1/8th mile tracks that don't have a lot of extra room. A bud of mine has a 200" Tuttle car with a 358" Injected alky P7 thats running 7.40's 1/4 mile and the car runs so straight he's actually getting bored with it. Judging by some Go-Pro video I've seen I can understand why, car is on a string. My car, while going straight most of the time, will jump up and bite me when I least expect it, keeps it interesting......
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Re: FED versus Altered!
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10/31/11 10:47 PM
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Not sure how you guys drive those things with the butter fly steering wheels. I see a couple of altereds locally that use a small regular steering wheel and have front brakes and can do a typical burnout, and that would be the car I could drive, and as said, a 4-link will make it very tuneable for the car and track... FED's are cool, and I always like seeing them. Couldn't imagine driving one though..
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Re: FED versus Altered!
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11/01/11 01:23 PM
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Had both, both ton's of fun! My FED was a 165" wheelbase with the engine way back, it ran a shorty trans with just a 4" coupler. The altered is a solid car, a Cadillac to drive.
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Re: FED versus Altered!
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11/01/11 03:26 PM
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If you know some people around Stockholm that want to help ut, let me know.
Cuda, -70 Valiant-65 AWB, Valiant Signet200 -65 Topchopped dragcar. Topolino Fuel Altered. NostalgiaFED Sold, SuperComp Bantam Altered, Sold Ex Harlan Thompsons Nitro funny car American Graffiti Sold,
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Re: FED versus Altered!
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11/04/11 12:24 AM
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I'd love to try an FED. Here's a vid of my buddy's son, Willie. Nickname is WhiteSlip Willie. He moved from Jr Dragsters last year to this beast this year. He's 16 or 17, can't remember. SBC with a mechanical injection of some sort. It's old school. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO9MjJ8_jt0codfish
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Re: FED versus Altered!
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Ive driven ..Test driven..filled in as driver both (looking to find my pics) Fisrt off my personal impressions.. Ive driven a modern link/shock topilino...Fun but 9.33et we/I never got a fullspeed pass..and aside form the primative cockpit it drove like a car..
Ive driven an Injected Aletered (aluminum buick/range rover engine) with small amount of nitro.112"wheel base nostaliga car..ET 9.01 the most fun ive ever had..the injection set up allowed you to see ahead clearly.. the car had to be driven/steered &shifted .. and its the best memories i have..I want one..!!
Ive driven a real nostalgia Sbc blown (not modernised) 123" FED..Honestly Everything about that car was a blast except the driving..A pain to get into and out of..i couldnt see anything inside the car.. and people park there damn golf carts in the worst places...you find all of them in a dragster. the power was incredible..but after about 3 straight weekends the driving part got boring. but everyone comes to the line..when a blown fed pulls in...thats hard to deny...fun..
Ive driven a modern rear engine bbc 225" wheel base "spitster" style dragester..et 8.0's IMHO all of the negatives..and the only good part of the ride is the shot when the tires grab after the burn out.. and the launch on the leave...the rest..a monkey could do...they are lawn Darts.
Just my opinon yours may vary.. Id take a AA/Fa alterd any day.. just not the modern suspension/shocked up,,Winged up..fiberglass airfoil wedge, spoiler type.. those things are fugggley... Gimme an old school with a buick or hemi engine injection with a splash of benzene... or blown..gotta have enough body panels to have a CRAZY METAL FLAKE PAINT JOB..!!!
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Re: FED versus Altered!
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11/04/11 01:19 PM
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Codfish, that digger is way overtired! It would run a lot better with a 10.5" tire on it.
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Re: FED versus Altered!
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11/05/11 05:26 AM
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I think it's from the early 80's, originally an Omni024 funny car.
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