Rumor has it it's so high there's a new entry in the gasser class!

Naa... it was just so low before.. barely 3" and in a couple spots
it wasnt 3"... now its just over 4".. was a bunch of work to move
it 1.25" and I changed the front springs while I was at it.. it had
325# springs and I dropped to 275#.. even now they are a bit heavy
but if they are like the first set it will settle some in a few weeks

I bought three sets of springs screwing around with the front of my car.... found some formula online where you could measure all the A arms etc, use your front weight to come up with a spring..... so after my head exploded I just ordered springs.

So from a "dragweek" point of view, worth the hassle of just adjusting the preload tighter to raise the front end, and then lower it for travel at the race portion? ....or am I creating too much work for this ordeal?

You could crank up the bottom adjuster for the road but mine
was out of spec... it was almost topped out due to too stiff
of springs.. I had to move the upper mount down so the car would
be higher but yet put the shaft in the proper place(design height)..
I sure hope they are screwing with us on the day 5 location

I booked my rooms for the week... thats done... except
for the Friday deal... but I think they are just screwing
with us.. I believe its back to Gateway

looking at the prospective map it could be an interesting drive from Indy to the north side of Chicago....

No doubt.... I hate driving in the Chicago area.. the roads
are ALWAYS under construction with no place to pull over
if you were to break down(I'm talking about the X-ways)

I don't see how they could not end up at Gateway, too many logistics involved in getting tow vehicles and trailers moved from Gateway to another track. Gateway does have a regular Saturday evening program, hopefully that will not come into play this year.

I am curious what route they will decide on from Cordova to Gateway, it has to pass fairly close to me. Route 67 would be the obvious choice, but I am not sure the powers that be will make it that easy. If they wanted to be sadistic, they could make you guys run down the Missouri side and through St. Louis!

Danny

If they do Tri-State or Cedar Falls in Iowa I sure would like to meet a bunch of you guys!

Ted I'm sure they have all the tracks announced already.. Cordova
being the farthest west... how far is the eastern Iowa border
from you... I'm staying in Clinton Iowa on the 16th and the track
is just over the border

Day 5.... back to Gateway
http://www.hotrod.com/news/1504-2015-hot-rod-drag-week-day-5-track-announcement/

When is registration?

LOL.... some time down the road... the top 3 guys in each
class will get a early registration so with some help from
them we might find out a few minutes early

Seriously, I have never participated in drag week and have no idea how registration works? I take it that it is an online registration deal? Only so many cars per class? Looking to put my 09 R/T in the slow daily driver type class.

Moot point, just looked at 2015 rules and dont see the driver class. I watched some coverage last year and thought there was a daily driver class that they did some sort of bracket race for?

It is a on line registration and you WILL need to be quick..
last year it filled up in 8 minutes.. that was with 350 entries
which was 50 more than they wanted but they let it fly... there
isnt any set number of cars per class, just the total entries..
you will need to have on hand things like the insurance policy
number, vin number, plate number, drivers license number.. I
believe these are correct... if you make it in you can most
likely be allowed to change class at tech in on the 13th but
you will put a class on the registration(on line).... so get
your typing fingers prepped and ready

They changed the name to Street Eliminator and dropped the fast ET limit down to 10.00 which will make the class a little more tough. The top 32 will likely all be sub 11.50 and probably faster I bet. I am guessing this class will pull some of the competitors from the heads up classes that were to fast for DD but not competitive in the heads up portion.

Mike may be right on the registration, its been different every year I have ran. Year two I got to sign up early because I ran the year before. Year three I couldn't get in early because I got 4th place not 3rd LOL. So no telling how they will do it this year.

Bad is correct... they changed the name of the DD class this
year and lowered the ET min to 10.0 which I like and yes he
is correct that this new class will pull some heads up guys
into it.. I already know of a couple guys that will switch

id love to do this with my duster some day.. has been a dream of mine.

I tried to do it last year but it was too far out west and
to be honest I'm glad I didnt... my car wouldnt have made
it with the problems I found... this year I should have
plenty of testing on it and like I'm doing right now I'm
correcting little things that I might have had a problem with