Lookin For My First Drag Racing Car (Have an Idea Of What I Want)

[big1]

I currently have a drag car for sell, but I can't let it go for $5,000, but I will take $9,000, and that would include everything to go racing.
It can be seen on my web page:
http://www.fordexp.freehomepage.com/photo3.html
I can't tell you 1/4 mile time's I've only ran the 1/8th with it. It's ran a best of [email protected] on the bottle and [email protected] without the nitrous. It 60ft's on average at 2.38 with the wheel's up.
I will post a more informative description in the "FOR SELL" section when I can find it.

[Cryo boy]

Well, the quote thing ain't workin, but i remember 96TSi saying

bah, you make it seem like just because its a rear wheel drive its fast....

Well Let me teach you a lesson. There is this little thing called "weight transfer". What happens is that as a car leaves the line weight transfers towards the back. Now this puts weight over the rear axel. Now because there is more weight pushing down on the rear tires it will be harder to make those tires break loose (thats why dragsters run those huge wings, to keep the tires trackin'). Thus, you can put more power to the tires, and as a result go faster. There are no awd dragsters for a reason, once those tires break lose on the front at 250 miles an hour you are dead.

There is only one place were awd is better than rear wheel drive... OFF ROAD

[SuperchargedGS]

there is a Pontiac GTP running 10.3 in the 1/4 it has a wheelie bar that forces up on the rear to lessen the weight transfer though. I spent 2K in my car and only running in the mid 13's

[50bulletnoz]

KG, I dunno how old you are, (sounds like you're pretty young), but take it from an old drag racer.... Find any 5.0 Mustang to get started. Make sure the body is sound first and foremost, a tired engine can be rebuilt, and that's what you want to do with it anyway. They're out there, can be had cheap, have almost endless aftermarket support, can make lots of HP, can eventually be worked into awesome drag race cars, and they aren't the same old fart pipe junk you see turning stomachs all over the place.

5 grand isn't a whole lot of money to start with, but find your basic car, get it mechanically sound, take it out to the track and get racing. You can build on it little by little, as you get used to racing and find out what the capabilities of the car are.

Good luck!!

Sonny

[86MonteSS]

if is going to be a strip only car 5k is plenty you dont need 30k.....im 18 make min. wage and built my mid 12 second montl carlo for about 3500 bucks i would say find a g-body car that has factory 4 link and make it a light as possible its free and it works my car was 3300 lbs. now its 2500 lbs.. with a cheap barely over stock 350 and a 4.56 rear end gear

[samandiar]

If you plan on using the car for bracket racing, it doesn't really matter how fast it is. Yeah, it wont be as fun to race a 16-second car, but if you can get consistent times and avoid breaking out, you can beat 9-second cars all day.

[rydinturbo]

what do u have in your car doing 11s dont u need new enternals

[JekylandHyde]

If you want to run 1/4 miles fast for cheap, the AWD DSM and Mustangs are the way to go.

Originally Posted by rydinturbo

what do u have in your car doing 11s dont u need new enternals

Depends on the car. I am well into the 11s on a 100% original factory engine with 200,000 miles on it.

Originally Posted by 96TSi

bah, you make it seem like just because its a rear wheel drive its fast....

Until they decide to change physics ... RWD > FWD.