Dave, your combination is very similar to mine. And you run similar mph. Biggest difference I see is your 60'. What are you trapping RPM wise? What front suspension are you running? My car works best when it gets higher up on the tire. I actually just got home from the track. Ran back to back 10.12s @ 130.5 with 1.36 60'

whats your car weight? trap rpm is 6700.

I should be at a 1.44 in relation to my best 10.39@131. so,what do you think needs attention, vert, rear gear or trans gear or is the car just too damn heavy?

Car isn't to heavy to not 60 foot better.
I went 1.43 on leafs running Eddie heads and a flat tappet when it weighed 3450 and ran 10.70's. Just didn't have enough steam past 1100 feet or so. That combo was 11.8 compression.
You have about a tenth in 60 foot that is possible to be picked up, IMO.

My car weighs 3000 with me in it.

what rear gears are you runnin? any low gear sets in the trans? i'm gonna talk with dynamic this week to see if they can take a look at my vert on paper and made a recommendation if theirs an issue. i'll talk to cope again about the low gear set,but he talked me out of that last time.
the vert has 3% slippage when I run the numbers on Wallace.

It has 4.10s w/ standard 727 gear set (~ 2.45 1st, IIRC).

3% slippage is really good. Mine was 7-8% when I calc'd it and was told that's reasonable (not great).

than i really am lost as to whats dragging me down. the trans has 4 pinion planetaries front and rear from a truck trans. do you think they would cause any friction there, enough to hurt my 60?