Re: How much do you look at your tach when racing?
[Re: Streetwize]
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06/03/19 12:41 PM
06/03/19 12:41 PM
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an8sec70cuda
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I'm about to put a playback tach in my car b/c I can't watch it going down the track. I watch it in the burnout box, but that's about it. I shift when the shiftlight comes on, or grab 2nd early to come down from a wheelie. I will glance at it across the stripe.
CHIP '70 hemicuda, 575" Hemi, 727, Dana 60 '69 road runner, 440-6, 18 spline 4 speed, Dana 60 '71 Demon, 340, low gear 904, 8.75 '73 Chrysler New Yorker, 440, 727, 8.75 '90 Chevy 454SS Silverado, 476" BBC, TH400, 14 bolt '06 GMC 2500HD LBZ Duramax
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Re: How much do you look at your tach when racing?
[Re: GY3]
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06/03/19 12:43 PM
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Cab_Burge
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A SS or modified4 speed drag race car is a little bit more of a challenge to look at the tach when shifting it, especially whne they have 5.57 rear gears and 2.98 first gear ratio in them I've driven and raced 4 speed cars with a 3.09 1st gear with 5.57 rear gears with a 30 inch tall rear tire, I was real busy the first three hundred feet I use to use a tach in the first 4 speed hemi car I raced, I was a lot younger then also, it seemed like it took forever to make one run, now it seems like they don't last as long now even with a new car that is a lot faster I guess what I'm trying to say is the more I drive race cars the easier and quicker it seems to go, and I can't focus as well as I use to
Mr.Cab Racing and winning with Mopars since 1964. (Old F--t, Huh)
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Re: How much do you look at your tach when racing?
[Re: Cab_Burge]
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06/03/19 01:09 PM
06/03/19 01:09 PM
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FlyFish
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I look at it until I'm in 3rd gear, then I stare at the other car and the stripe.
67 Barracuda street car, 408, e85, 1.38 60', 6.44 @105.9 in the 1/8 mile, 10.19 @130.5 in the 1/4...so far....
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Re: How much do you look at your tach when racing?
[Re: FlyFish]
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06/03/19 01:24 PM
06/03/19 01:24 PM
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I really like the shift light better for shifting. I really only look at the tach for staging.
Rich H.
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Re: How much do you look at your tach when racing?
[Re: GY3]
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06/03/19 05:31 PM
06/03/19 05:31 PM
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Haven't used one in years after I installed an air shifter and controlled it with the msd grid. The shift light tells me when the band or clutches are wearing or need adjustment.
If it ain't broke fix it anyway!
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