DeTomaso Mailing List: January 98, Message #254
     



From: 	Kirby Schrader <schrader@sugar-land.spc.slb.com>

Subject: Re: PCNC drag times

Date: 	Wed, 7 Jan 1998 18:02:53 +0000





Shane,



You know them QuickTime movies against the Ferrari?



I still had a hydraulic cam at the time, 345/35 P7's....



Technique for the 13.64 I ran was; clean the tires real good in the water

they had as you came up to the line, stage, and then as soon as the yellows

started coming down, run it up to 5,000 rpm and when that last yellow lit,

dump the clutch.



Worked everytime against that twinturbo 308 as the movies can attest....



:-))))))



I really should find out what the solid lifter cam does to my 1/4 mile

times someday....



The 12 seconds and under are the cars that really impress me! Especially

when they're still easily street driveable.



FWIW,



Kirby



At 11:49 -0600 7/1/98, Shane F. Ingate wrote:



>	Are you sure 13.5 is the best that PCNC can muster over the 1/4?

>Jeeze, even I pulled 13.81 at my first drag race with a weinie motor and BFG

>Euro T/As. Also at the last SDP shootout at the Carlsbad Raceway last

>October,

>Alan Foster pulled 12.75 (with slicks) and Cary Foster pulled 12.95

>(on BFG Euro T/As).  No nitrous on any of the SDP cars.

>

>	Alan Foster gave me a really good tip.  Run the car to 2500 RPM

>waiting for the Xmas tree then feed it revs as the clutch bites.  I never

>got any wheel spin, and it never bogged.  It may be harder with a meatier

>motor, but for me it was as easy as pie!

>

>	If 13.5 is the best that PCNC can do, I'll bring along my Triumph!

>

>	Hehehehe, throwing down the gautlnet should get a little

>North-South Calif. competitiveness going.

>

>	Shane Ingate in San Diego