holy high rise you may have to cut the hood nice hemi thats not injected are you running a carb?
We should have a big rt meet every year to see who gets to the crown for the year as the fastest dakota in the US lol Consider this a call out 1000 a truck to enter lol
i'd still enter even if i had to push it to a 14 sec pass lol
That pic niebs provided reminded me of back in the day. You know what you hardly see anymore that was the dominant set-up for the fastest cars in my heyday? Stacked barrel fuel injection. Most funny cars back then used 8 stack Hilborn or Strombergs with their intake tubes sticking out of the hood. These cars at first were running 10's. They started to go 9's with some eventually popping into the 8's when a bit of nitro was added to the mix.. Pretty good n/a back then.
Back then a 4 stack cost $1500. Now I think they go closer to 8k. No wonder you don't see em much but boy they made a car run and they looked so cool..
For sure.
Chassis build may be on pause for a little bit. Im thinking of going 25.5 cage now which will require getting a tube bender and all to build it.
Original plan was to just do a 10-12pt cage for 8.5s 1/4mi index but now im thinking i may push for 4/5s 1/8mi racing .
Hope your planning on a new trailer also your taking it off the street by the sounds of it so might as well just skin the whole truck and call it a pro mod i bought a trailer just because im running 4.56 gears and will go to different states and fuels expensive lol What classes you tring to run in?
I've had race cars i think its more fun tring to go as fast as you can and still keep it street legal so you can enjoy driving it and not have to tow it to a track and pay them to let you drive it. At least in MI we don't have a lot of rules with emissions and inspections if we did id have a track car also
I agree completely with your assessment of what makes a "fun" vehicle for our kind of preference. Like you, I have gone the race car route but that is not my continued inclination.
There are some seriously fast trucks here that may be driven on the street on a limited basis. More power to those so inclined but I am not as interested in what they've done as I am (except perhaps what they went through on their journey) as I am that guy turning 12's or dipping into 11's even and still able to get in his truck and go to the lumber yard or get groceries or go for a ride in the country or get to work in and have a perfectly behaved vehicle.
That is also what perks my current interest.
lookin good i'm still on the road working but all good still waiting on a few parts to show up. forward progress thats what i keep tellin myself lol
Jim
RaceMagnum
Just wondering if your slicks will come off without taking shocks off and drive shaft ? I know you are planning to tuck them it as far as you can. Thats a lot of tire lol
Holy shit Batman! Nice progress !
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Would this work !