dusterdragracer
Drag Racer
@crackedback:
I apologize to you from my previous postings. Your tone offended me, it was like "mine work", you are stupid, and I am not going to tell you why. But never the less, I apologize to you. You seem to be friends with inkjunky & oldmanrick, so you can't be all the bad! LOL Enough said.
You finally came out and said something that would help people in your last posting. And I admire your input. I don't totally agree with you on everything. You left a few things out, like the cuda is a SB, most of us are BB's. Let me add the cuda has a 904, I am running a JW ultra bell 'glide. The case weighs more then a complete 727 or 904.It also has a tall 1st gear, like leaving in second with a 727 or 904.I am transbraking because I run S/Pro, Cuda is footbraking, which doesn't carry the same hard hit.Our weight might be close, but it isn't in the same places.
There are many other factors to consider like our track. Now that it is well prepped toward the end of the season, including warm weather, my car has come around to a 5 hun window, not the 2 teethes swing it had. But it is still not consistant as I want it to be, and can be. It can run 5 11:24-26's (@5000') then pop out a now and again 11:15, which is not dictated buy altitude or temp. It just gets a killer 60'.Somethimes because they just track prepped, other times for no reason.
I talked to my Seattle Abody friends this weekend. Troy went to the finals at the Summit Race Of Champions in Boise 2 years back. He lost in the final because his transbrake didn't hold. Anyway, he said that after 6 months struggling with his Cal Tracs, he got them work pretty good after Toby Lang (you know the lang family?) told him that he needed to run a stiff wall tire and TUBES. I asked this question to Mr. Calvert, he said no. qutiarjones and I talked about it too , he also made a posting about it elsewhere on Abody's.
What happens is, with the low tire pressure (I only got mine to work with 8LBS, he runs 13) coupled with the soft sidewall and no tubes, the tire wades, and then you drive over the wade, this causes slight spin. Makes sense to me, and it works for him. Also remember, SIR is at sea level, and is always really well prepped. I ran 10:91-92-91-93-92-91 last year on my SS springs, so you can see why I still like them. Heck, I may put them back on.
As for the afco shocks and weight in the boot. I can't argue that it works for you, but the cornet that struggles at our track too (he was # 4 in points, I finished #3 this year) added 120 lbs, and ran the afco's, he tried the combo of afcos and leaf sliders with very little success. The only thing that worked for him, was taking it too Yakima on a well-prepped track last summer, where he gained a little more consistency. They were using PJ1, we were using laneswamp! We are now using PJ1, but cut, except for this weekend, and during our divisional, when NHRA comes in.
Chipping it down like I did to 3500 on a 5500 converter (per Mr. Calvert), then going to 8lbs pressure is what finally worked for him, as does for me. He also still has the weight. I tried it, but it didn't work for me. My reaction times went nuts. I threw it out, and won the race.
Bottom line, I can't argue that the cuda works, my hats off, and I am not saying they can't work, but I have to agree with skews, instant center too high, too short, and that is that, especially on a heaver BB car. Just stand back and look at the geometry.
As far as the cuda's E.T.s. That is awesome. But when I switched back and forth
in my 10 second SB Duster, I ran 3 teethes quicker with the 940/Grinner,over the 727/same grinner. Both ran 8" Neal Chance 5500 converters.
All I can say is, we can beat this dead horse to death, but in most Abody’s (notice I said most) applications, they are not consistent. They give good traction, you can get a hemi to run 9's, and if you are into going fast and running your car for fun, they work awesome. But if you are a serious bracket racer, looking for even a thou more of consistency it isn’t going to happen on Cal Tracs.
Hopefully this posting was helpful to others, there was no intention of putting you or the cuda down.I tried to stay on the issue. So Iam hoping I get the same respect back from you.
Cheers Chris
I apologize to you from my previous postings. Your tone offended me, it was like "mine work", you are stupid, and I am not going to tell you why. But never the less, I apologize to you. You seem to be friends with inkjunky & oldmanrick, so you can't be all the bad! LOL Enough said.
You finally came out and said something that would help people in your last posting. And I admire your input. I don't totally agree with you on everything. You left a few things out, like the cuda is a SB, most of us are BB's. Let me add the cuda has a 904, I am running a JW ultra bell 'glide. The case weighs more then a complete 727 or 904.It also has a tall 1st gear, like leaving in second with a 727 or 904.I am transbraking because I run S/Pro, Cuda is footbraking, which doesn't carry the same hard hit.Our weight might be close, but it isn't in the same places.
There are many other factors to consider like our track. Now that it is well prepped toward the end of the season, including warm weather, my car has come around to a 5 hun window, not the 2 teethes swing it had. But it is still not consistant as I want it to be, and can be. It can run 5 11:24-26's (@5000') then pop out a now and again 11:15, which is not dictated buy altitude or temp. It just gets a killer 60'.Somethimes because they just track prepped, other times for no reason.
I talked to my Seattle Abody friends this weekend. Troy went to the finals at the Summit Race Of Champions in Boise 2 years back. He lost in the final because his transbrake didn't hold. Anyway, he said that after 6 months struggling with his Cal Tracs, he got them work pretty good after Toby Lang (you know the lang family?) told him that he needed to run a stiff wall tire and TUBES. I asked this question to Mr. Calvert, he said no. qutiarjones and I talked about it too , he also made a posting about it elsewhere on Abody's.
What happens is, with the low tire pressure (I only got mine to work with 8LBS, he runs 13) coupled with the soft sidewall and no tubes, the tire wades, and then you drive over the wade, this causes slight spin. Makes sense to me, and it works for him. Also remember, SIR is at sea level, and is always really well prepped. I ran 10:91-92-91-93-92-91 last year on my SS springs, so you can see why I still like them. Heck, I may put them back on.
As for the afco shocks and weight in the boot. I can't argue that it works for you, but the cornet that struggles at our track too (he was # 4 in points, I finished #3 this year) added 120 lbs, and ran the afco's, he tried the combo of afcos and leaf sliders with very little success. The only thing that worked for him, was taking it too Yakima on a well-prepped track last summer, where he gained a little more consistency. They were using PJ1, we were using laneswamp! We are now using PJ1, but cut, except for this weekend, and during our divisional, when NHRA comes in.
Chipping it down like I did to 3500 on a 5500 converter (per Mr. Calvert), then going to 8lbs pressure is what finally worked for him, as does for me. He also still has the weight. I tried it, but it didn't work for me. My reaction times went nuts. I threw it out, and won the race.
Bottom line, I can't argue that the cuda works, my hats off, and I am not saying they can't work, but I have to agree with skews, instant center too high, too short, and that is that, especially on a heaver BB car. Just stand back and look at the geometry.
As far as the cuda's E.T.s. That is awesome. But when I switched back and forth
in my 10 second SB Duster, I ran 3 teethes quicker with the 940/Grinner,over the 727/same grinner. Both ran 8" Neal Chance 5500 converters.
All I can say is, we can beat this dead horse to death, but in most Abody’s (notice I said most) applications, they are not consistent. They give good traction, you can get a hemi to run 9's, and if you are into going fast and running your car for fun, they work awesome. But if you are a serious bracket racer, looking for even a thou more of consistency it isn’t going to happen on Cal Tracs.
Hopefully this posting was helpful to others, there was no intention of putting you or the cuda down.I tried to stay on the issue. So Iam hoping I get the same respect back from you.
Cheers Chris
