New car finally hitting the track: estimates?
i'm just happy for you that you are able to get her on the track now
tbh i would dial in / adjust / tweak things
build another engine separately, to do all the roller stuff etc
get it all done and ready before you swap it in.
in the mean time you can get the chassis and 60' times to a consistent baseline.
otherwise you lose a lot of tracktime it will become shoptime while you are rebuilding
11.7's are not to shabby and right now with the money invested you are not too worried about breaking stuff. after you get the roller special and ported heads etc you will be.
so if you are gonna put that kind of cheddah into building the engine you want to be meticulous get everything just right not be in a rush so you can get back to the track.
nice car bro
addendum: i have a buddy who has a 7 sec camaro. he's been racing someone else's car for a while, a bb chevy dragster
he only races for money purses, he dont go to tracks where there is no money or low payouts. he's all about dial in, consistency, lights etc.
anyways i asked him last week how racing went. he said i made it down to the group of 8 but that's it. i said what happened you miss the lights or something. he said no all day we were racing in the left lane but the last race they opened up the right lane i was put over there and then we all knew why they had that lane shut down. it made me lose the race. (this was at bud's creek)
so my point is on the consistency/dialing in/tuning make sure not to let track conditions trick you. changes you make could be the right ones but the track conditions can make you double guess yourself