Ford 272 C.I. runs low 11's. Why do Mopar guys need 408's?
yes, I said "bracket car". I did NOT say all races. So for bracket races, you have bracket classes. I didn't say index races, heads up races, F.A.S.T. races, stocker races, or dirt bike races. I also didn't say "want" list. I said need. Not much is needed for anyone to bracket race. :D :D
That’s how YOU define a bracket car, not me or anyone else I know that races.
In 2001 my dad bought a Camaro. The dealer and all the know it alls said it’s a 14.50ish car at best and most likely high 14’s.
I looked at the HORSEPOWER number it made (didn‘t look at torque because torque has never went fast or won a race) and the advertised weight and said that turd should go well into the 13’s. Everyone laughed.
July 4th that year, my local track had a race and my dad and brother went there to run his car. I went because I was tuning on my friends Nova or I would have went to work and made money.
My dad couldn’t get it out of the 15’s and my brother had it running mid 14’s. They tapped out and called it good.
So I said WTF? That means either GM lied about its power or its weight. Or both. Then I found out that all the smart “bracket“ guys down there said put it in drive and run it, and that’s when they go the quickest and fastest.
I called HORSESHIT on that and all the moron who said and think that. There ain’t no way on God’s green earth that the GM engineers who programmed that junk **** GM transmission programmed it for the quickest and fastest time slips. They programmed it for daily driving.
So in between tuning on my friends car, baby sitting and diaper changing for a couple of my customers I started making passes on that hunk of ****. And yes, I hated that pile of steaming dung the first time I drove it. Straight garbage.
At any rate, before the night was over I have that pile of manure running 13.50’s like clock work. No tuning, nothing. I didn’t even check the tire pressure.
What I did was work on where my shift points SHOULD be (and it went quicker and faster with different shift points from gear to gear) and then hitting them, without a shift light or any other crapola.
And you know what, not one single dude had the balls to walk up and tell me how much faster the car would be if I let it shift on its own. Not one.
There are two points to the story.
1. Just because you are at a drag strip (or any track for that matter) it doesn’t mean they know Jack ****. Most of them never even heard of Jack ****. They repeat what they heard or read.
2. Even if I went to the track every week religiously that car would never be classified by me or anyone else with a clue as a ”bracket“ car. Not even close.
You may define it that way and you have the right to be wrong. But you are. You can even call it a bracket car but that’s not what it is.
This is why arguments rage over this ****. People want to label this and that and whatever and they don’t ever get it right.
If you call that, or any other driver car a bracket car you are just plain wrong.