Been a while since my last post. Got the car running and decide since it is a rough car and keeping in that theme it gets rat rod style rust repair and patching in the floor and or trunk. I made it for a first test this past Saturday night during a 'Ultimate Street Night" which is DOT only and I have the MT ET Street 255/60 DR's on it I could. Something funny though happened though, unknowing to me I had some trapped sand and dirt in my cross-member front frame area that came out after the initial jolt of the launch. Needless to say I didn't know the it did that and explained my confusion on what happened when my first pass against a white Charger Hellcat. it hooked front end up and maybe only 10 feet into the 60 foot it pegged out the tach on the limited at 6100 spinning apparently an di lifted on throttle and then stabbed it again and road out second to third. The Hellcat was snoozing and I had a big reaction hole shot and made it passed the 1/8th before he did a FAST flyby on his way to a 10.89@134 almost 107 at the 1/8 ! to my wheel spinning on and off throttle 12.5@108. My friends saw the dirt and thought it was smoke and it had went down the track requiring clean up. I pulled around to go again and switched to left lane still unaware of that being the issue. I was spinning in my own dirt ! LOL I left hard and pulled the left front wheel on initial hit and then immediate on the rev limiter spinning again but I didn't lift and spun all thru second gear and just lifted and cruised to my trailer. Track security came to see me with lights on and told me about the dirt. Good news it s my current goal of 11.9 is very doable next time when I get an actually full hooking run. My first pass had 1.82 60 foot with about the last 50 feet spinning. I didn't even get my slip on the second. The car met my weight goal it is just about 500 # lighter than the Cutlass wagon was 3780# w me in it versus 4250# on old wag. Car had no vibration at speed and felt smooth .. LOVE using radials Updates again over the next few weeks.
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