How much can I blame on track prep

beertestr

beertestr

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Went to the test and tune this past Wed at Milan to see how the new setup runs. This is my 79 Caprice. Motor is unchanged from last year, but I went to a 60E, 3600 stall, 4.10's, and 28x10.5 ET drags. The tires are a little old, but I was not hooking very well. The best I could get was a 1.87 60'. Car with me in it is about 4100#. The suspension is mostly stock, and I'm looking at Instant Center Brackets (OEM 4-link) to see if I can get it to bite harder.

Just wondering if anybody else ran this week, I want to know if the track prep was decent or not. I have not run much at Milan, but others have said the prep was not great.
 
beertestr said:
Went to the test and tune this past Wed at Milan to see how the new setup runs. This is my 79 Caprice. Motor is unchanged from last year, but I went to a 60E, 3600 stall, 4.10's, and 28x10.5 ET drags. The tires are a little old, but I was not hooking very well. The best I could get was a 1.87 60'. Car with me in it is about 4100#. The suspension is mostly stock, and I'm looking at Instant Center Brackets (OEM 4-link) to see if I can get it to bite harder.

Just wondering if anybody else ran this week, I want to know if the track prep was decent or not. I have not run much at Milan, but others have said the prep was not great.
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I was there Wed and it was overall good. I had the silver hatch that scattered the engine at 1000'. Sorry about that. lol
 
allthrottle said:
I was there Wed and it was overall good. I had the silver hatch that scattered the engine at 1000'. Sorry about that. lol
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So it was you! LOL, I overheard some shit talk in the staging lanes about chevy powered fords to fix the problem. Not a problem, it's always better to be the guy that just got a hard hit in the wallet.

Thanks for the feedback, I guess it's time for some better slicks, and some chassis tuning.

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look at the fast guys on small tires if they were hookin and you arent ..well its not the track then ...there is more to hookin than a set of tires ...shocks springs suspension all play into it ...try to video the car and watch what it does ,,,does it transfer weight ??squat ?? seperate ?? ect ..
 
chevelledave said:
look at the fast guys on small tires if they were hookin and you arent ..well its not the track then ...there is more to hookin than a set of tires ...shocks springs suspension all play into it ...try to video the car and watch what it does ,,,does it transfer weight ??squat ?? seperate ?? ect ..
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Didn't have any time to sit and watch other cars, which is why I was asking others that were there on Wed. Fully understand there is a lot to hooking, I'm just getting started with the car, and wanted a general consensus from others on the track conditions. I had 2 friends running their Impala SS's (different body, same frame/suspension), and they were getting similiar 60's. My car has stock suspension, cop shocks (no, really), 94-96 rear swaybar (79 didn't come with any rear bar), and no suspension mods. One of the 96's was running the stiffest rear bar available for a 77-96 B-body, ET streets, and IC brackets, same 4.10 axle, but a Turbo400 stalling 4000 vs my 4L60E/3600 stall. His 60's were comparable even with the 2 most popular mods most guys do to the b-body, stiff rear bar and IC brackets. We e.t. /trap very similarly too. So, I am debating if the bar and IC brackets will help or not..

On my car, the front end was lifting 2-3 inches at least from what I can tell of the video it took in-car. Not sure about rear squat.

Next time out, I'll have to get some video from outside the car.
Thanks for the input, love your avatar, it's a good reference to your feedback on hooking :D.. Is that car still running a splayed 4-link? What have you done for traction?
 
mikesfastss said:
I think you need to post up some build pics of this boat so we can see all your hard work
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Hmmm... I started a thread a while back and just found it.. Last post was 363 days ago.. I've done a few mods since then :D.. I have a thread on Impalassforum.com, but I'll see if I can copy the good stuff over to here.

HERE
 
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