crochunter said:
Yes but your numbers are done in a lightweight dragster.
Yeah...so? I guess that I missed your point. I don't "hide" behind my numbers either. I don't have a problem telling everyone every detail about my combination, including my race weight. In fact, I don't have a problem telling everyone that I'm not even a "real" racer, but that I just like to go out and have fun going fast. To me, it is play time. I dink around with my electronics (of my own design, not something out of a box ordered from somewhere) and I learn this or that about the machine, about the tune, about the weather and how it all relates to performance. I think that if you took the time to carefully consider the accomplishment of going into the (albeit high) sevens with a 393 N/A, that you would spew forth a lot less "nitrous" from your nostrils in haste. It isn't quite the same as falling out of bed or running a 12 in a "big" car.
If you're not quite getting the picture, perhaps a contrast is in order?
http://www.corral.net/forums/showpost.php?p=5452813&postcount=2
...a guy named Dave C on the Corral.net forum says that he's running:
225" Undercover Dragster
alky injected 557 BBF
4.88 @ 143.5 1/8 mile, 1.09 60'
...per his signature.
My longer (more length means more chassis weight) 256" dragster running 164 CID *less* is running *quicker* at:
1.070 60' 4.743 @ 146.82 in the 1/8th and it is SET UP for the quarter mile.
His car must weigh a bunch! I wouldn't know how much, but it certainly isn't a lightweight by any stretch of the imagination. Of course, his engine is 142% the size of my engine, but he's not exactly running 142% quicker than me.
If I was to put my spare 393 in my F100 (assuming that I could hook up in it) I'd expect somewhere in the low 11s in a +4000# ride.
Those are respectible numbers regardless of any bickering or personality conflicts. But, as 4V Man illustrates, we're not about the numbers we run in the quarter mile. A guy with a totally cherry straight 6 early Falcon wagon is just as cool as the guy running a flat 6.0 in a 815" '50 Ford Custom...okay, so maybe the "kind of cool" is different, but it isn't any less cool.
I ought to remove my numbers. I've been working on a new car in addition to the F100...and the old numbers are meaningless these days anyway since I changed to an engine making some 804 HP at 7400 RPM in the old RED. I sold one of the 393 strokers and have two left to sell, the original and a spare.
If I thought that it would be helpful, I'd reply to your PM that basically tells me that you are a man because you're out in the open about what bothers you. Funny method, PMing to say that you're open...oh well, I don't really care...or to use WH's expression, I don't give a rat's red ring...I love that one, BTW.
Anyway, before this gets completely out of hand and forever boring and repetitive, it is all about you, isn't it? You need some metric to base yourself against the rest of us, right? If nitrous helps you get there, great. Enjoy yourself. Some of us prefer the N/A approach because we can get there without the kicker. Me, I just like things that are simple and easy to work on. Once you start messing around with nitrous, you have to retard the timing and the next thing you know, you're wasting your time thinking about it and not out playing and having fun with it.
Good luck in your future endeavors. You've been a real pal.
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