Popped my 9 second cherry yesterday

[LIMEY VALIANT]

What a great day yesterday .. no breakages, no drama and everything went according to plan

Ran a new pb in my 1968 Valiant 408 stroker

9.844 @ 134.04 mph

1.364 sec 60 ft

Hit it with approx 140 hp NOS ... the rest is down to weight saving and traction

:cheers:

Still using a 7.5" rear wheel and standard spring positions

 

[doug 371]

congrats! that's pretty awesome with the small tire...

 

[440Ken]

Very good:cheers:

 

[BrianT]

Very cool, congrats!! I love drag racing American iron in Europe. Too cool.

 

[69Chrgr]

Way to go!! Let's here some more about that 408!

 

[HEMI-ITIS]

Congratz!What's the weight with thw 4088)

 

[daredevil]

congrats! that's pretty awesome with the small tire...

He said wheel not tire. Not gonna run 9s on a 7.5 tire. Looks like 10.5s under the rear. Still a good pass.

 

[Wylde1]

Awesome run, dude! :cheers:
Let's hear more about the combo. :burnout:


Wylde1.

 

[djwhog]

congrats, darn fast awesome day

 

[Shaker223]

He said wheel not tire. Not gonna run 9s on a 7.5 tire. Looks like 10.5s under the rear. Still a good pass.

Maybe not on a 7.5" tire but maybe on a 6.5" tire. Check out the F.A.S.T. class. I believe the record is 10.05 @ 138+mph on a stock bias ply= Goodyear polyglass.

http://board.moparts.org/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=6198241&an=0&page=1&gonew=1#UNREAD

 

[memike]

I see way more then 10'' under the rear Look Very Closley at the two pictures
Congrat's on an outstanding pass LIMEY VALIANT :cheers:
And with no breakages is a good thing :-D
Yes!! Can you give us some info on the rear suspention and 408 =P~

 

[CudaChick1968]

Congrats Limey! That's fabulous.

 

[LIMEY VALIANT]

Thanks everybody

It`s a 7.5 wheel with a 10.3 tyre ... I was waiting for new wheels to turn up from Bogart Motorsports, but didn`t arrive in England before this meeting

Full spec of car is in the 10 second sticky

Main change from last time out was using the NOS sniper kit ( I wasn`t using it correctly first time out and it made little difference )

Jetted it up for 143 hp gross with a calibrated fuel pressure of 5.8 psi, used an NGK number 8 plug gapped at 0.028

Need to play some more with jets / fuel pressures and it may run a 9.6 ??

 

[Shaker223]

There is always more in every combo...keep looking. Nice job!

 

[turbodart68]

Thanks everybody

It`s a 7.5 wheel with a 10.3 tyre ... I was waiting for new wheels to turn up from Bogart Motorsports, but didn`t arrive in England before this meeting

Full spec of car is in the 10 second sticky

Main change from last time out was using the NOS sniper kit ( I wasn`t using it correctly first time out and it made little difference )

Jetted it up for 143 hp gross with a calibrated fuel pressure of 5.8 psi, used an NGK number 8 plug gapped at 0.028

Need to play some more with jets / fuel pressures and it may run a 9.6 ??

I guess you will have to move it to the 9 second sticky! Congrats that is fast no matter how you did it!

 

[CHEATHAM]

Congrats

 

[pete walton]

Jon i will never take the slash out of small blocks again.Well done mate ... :cheers:

 

[gts340]

Nice run!

 

[mopardude318]

congrats man! That's a big feat to accomplish!

 

[360duster]

very nice run, impressive car and power :thumleft:......need to read more about your combo....

greetz Michael

 

[Mopar-Man]

Wow! One fast small block.

 

[ian]

welcome to the 9 s well done whats s her weight:cheers:

 

[LIMEY VALIANT]

Thankyou

Car weighs 2619 lbs with driver fuel and nitrous

 

[ian]

wish mine was that weight, keep up the good work

 

[one bad fish]

Nice job