Anyone regularly drag race?

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Bocephus123

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I used to go to Thunder Valley often but just on test and tune nights as the work of bracket racing is just not appealing to me.
I just like to go to the track with buddies and have a good time racing each other with our slow cars.
11 and 12 second rides with no power adders and old gen 1 SBC or BBC engines usually.

That car you have in the picture looks nice and quick.

Here is my 57 in race tune mode.

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It's heavy and not any aerodynamic benefits going on there.


A video of me racing my buddy with a 2015 Supercharged Mustang he put down 550 to the wheels with more boost and other mods.
He ran a 6 speed and 373's.
My timing retarded on me during the burnout to 28 total I was normally running 38 total so my top end pull was way off the mark.



any old car you can put out there has got to be a blast.
 
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I have $4,500 tied up in my 57 chevy and that included the purchase price of $1500
If I could get a running driving Tesla for that I would do it.

I am old school and a tight wad when it comes to spending money on myself but 4500 is usually what I end up with
in a ground up build.
If I could do an electric car for that and still pull my Pontoon to the lake and back and go off road I would be all over it.
 

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Old school was loud, smokey, and wild. What made it so darn fun was we built a lot of "grenade motors". Something was always popping, flaming, or scattering parts at the lights or the traps! Everything was experimenting and few had the $$$ to do it right. Remember scatter shields and tranny blankets? Remember safety chaining intake manifolds?
 

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