True Bracket Car vs True Street Car....

[j par]

I like using my trailer for just in case as well. It's easier to get my wife to go if I trailer the car because she does not like my driving style in the duster LOL... I have gone down to the track plenty of times without the trailer, but I end up soft dropping the clutch and getting bad 60-foot times because well I want to be able to drive home LOL.. of course I'm honest and post My Time Slips and hear about my weak 60-foot times and not optimal ET's as well, but what do you expect from the slowest stroker on the Internet lol...
When I did snapped my 489 case 8 and 3/4 rear end the axles we're all twisted as well. The Dana 60 with 35-spline axles never have budged..
While any car could have a Driveline drop or a starter go out or even a coil burn out or whatever when do you know you're packing axle twisting horsepower you start thinking twice about wanting to be at the track broke down thinking about You trailer at home LOL...

 

[318willrun]

That still happens ? I remember those days, but for me it was 20 the dollar checker auto battery. lol and I can't forget the checker rebuilt alternators

LOL.. hasn't happened at Walmart, but it happened a couple years ago right here in town.

 

[318willrun]

I like using my trailer for just in case as well. It's easier to get my wife to go if I trailer the car because she does not like my driving style in the duster LOL... I have gone down to the track plenty of times without the trailer, but I end up soft dropping the clutch and getting bad 60-foot times because well I want to be able to drive home LOL.. of course I'm honest and post My Time Slips and hear about my weak 60-foot times and not optimal ET's as well, but what do you expect from the slowest stroker on the Internet lol...
When I did snapped my 489 case 8 and 3/4 rear end the axles we're all twisted as well. The Dana 60 with 35-spline axles never have budged..
While any car could have a Driveline drop or a starter go out or even a coil burn out or whatever when do you know you're packing axle twisting horsepower you start thinking twice about wanting to be at the track broke down thinking about You trailer at home LOL...

I don't want to be anywhere broken down, I don't single out just the track... track or country.... I want to stay running. But, one never knows.

 

[lead69]

take something that makes serious steam to the track and **** will break. I promise you

And a clutch adds one more thing to the list.

 

[lead69]

... You got to keep YR out of your garage, he keeps filling you with those reasons for not showing up to race LOL...
My car has Factory buckets Factory interior Factory steel wheels full weight doors the whole nine yards. All I got is fiberglass bumpers.... I've never used the nitrous so I wouldn't want to use it until it's been tested for an actual race....

Well you're right about keeping YR out of the garage but not because of what you said. Rather it seems we are a magnet for getting each other work and man neither him or I are getting anything done on our cars. I was serious about getting to the track and then all this bs hit and between that and my job I'm getting burned out. We will race but I don't know when so there you have it, call me whatever but I just need to regroup and get some stuff done lol.

 

[n.y.340 dart]

When I raced my car, I would worry about breaking something. After a couple of time trials I would settle down and run it! After all we invest a lot of what’s it called, “money”. When I drove someone else it was balls out from the get go!

 

[famous bob]

And a clutch tamer... LOL..

I think that is a negative ghost rider but rather a case of, if you need to trailer it anywhere other than home from a purchase or to the shop to get fixed, as in trailer it to the track.... then it’s not really a street car since a street car can drive to and from the track.

Streetability , street car, daily driver, it’s all a point of view and what the loose nut behind the wheel is willing to live with, or not.... LOL

Dont agree on this one , what if ur engine makes enough power to tear up stuff , hence the trailer to the track only---------------

 

[famous bob]

If a stall speed for an auto is the exact thing as a clutch tamer, then get an auto and quit saying real race cars have 3 pedals.... LOL
*Actually, you posted the clutch tamer and add LOL, so I was helping you laugh - laughing with you, not at you. Gotta be able to laugh at yourself before you laugh at others

OR, watch a s/stock hemi race where there are 40-50 of them , and notice how many of those real men , ''run automatics!"

 

[famous bob]

If I had a trailer, I might trailer mine down just to save me from something as simple as a starter gone bad. *I know J par, if I had 3 peddles I could push start it

NOT W/ HIS FIBERGLASS BUMPERS-------

 

[rumblefish360]

what if ur engine makes enough power to tear up stuff , hence the trailer to the track only---------------

This would be myself to be honest since traveling through NYC on it’s ridiculous pathways that they have the nerve to call roads is also slow, thick with traffic & is a general exercise in evasive driving (avoiding pot holes & other vehicles) that taxes the driver well and good long before the New Jersey boarder is met.

Again I say, the line of this all is truly up to the driver and what there willing to live with and without.

 

[Hot Metal]

Well my mate is driving his RR to our first T&T this year in 2 weeks time, 2 days £150 entry per day. The new motor puts out 724ftlbs@4400, has a solid roller, a Dana 4.10 split leafs/caltracs and 10x29 bias slicks and will be run on a race prepped track, also its a race 727 with low first gear. It has low 10 sec potential at his 3850+ weight. I hope we make the drive home as well. Me, I would trailer it as its the first time its been out, its not far to go tbh but far doesn't come into it when its broke as most things are new down to the cooling system etc. etc.

 

[66fs]

Bullshit I've had the 4.30's and spool in the rear for over 4 years now not 1 issue you just have to know how to drive,and I wouldn't go to the track without a trailer..don't want to be the goof sitting there broken trying to figure out how I'm getting home seeing as I drove the car to the track..cause' you NEVER know when and if your going to break something..

You can do anything you want and with your car. Your time, your money. Never would I run a spool on the street, and I have never needed a trailer. My friends have trailers and real race cars.

 

[j par]

Well my mate is driving his RR to our first T&T this year in 2 weeks time, 2 days £150 entry per day. The new motor puts out 724ftlbs@4400, has a solid roller, a Dana 4.10 split leafs/caltracs and 10x29 bias slicks and will be run on a race prepped track, also its a race 727 with low first gear. It has low 10 sec potential at his 3850+ weight. I hope we make the drive home as well. Me, I would trailer it as its the first time its been out, its not far to go tbh but far doesn't come into it when its broke as most things are new down to the cooling system etc. etc.

Before I had my own trailer I would just rent one from U-Haul for a $55 for a day..
Cheap insurance and I could driving the air condition truck back and forth LOL..

 

[j par]

You can do anything you want to your car. Your time, your money. Never would I run a spool on the street, and I have never needed a trailer. My friends have trailers and real race cars.

Seem to be hating on the spool. have you had one on the street and had a bad experience?...

 

[Hot Metal]

Before I had my own trailer I would just rent one from U-Haul for a $55 for a day..
Cheap insurance and I could driving the air condition truck back and forth LOL..

Thats what I did for a weekends racing when I ran my 446 Cuda, 4.88's /14x32's/Spool/[email protected] sft.....never hurt a thing in 2 yrs but fancy driving that to the track...common sense needs to prevail.

 

[66fs]

Seem to be hating on the spool. have you had one on the street and had a bad experience?...

My friends all have them in their drag race cars. What happens when you take a corner? What does that do to your tires, axles, and other rear end components? Maybe even further up the drive train. How many miles do you put on your "street" cars with a spool? I would never run a spool on the street. You guys can run race cars on the street, but would you run cross country through NYC in stop and go traffic for hours or going over the Rockies through switchbacks?

 

[j par]

My friends all have them in their drag race cars. What happens when you take a corner? What does that do to your tires, axles, and other rear end components? Maybe even further up the drive train. How many miles do you put on your "street" cars with a spool? I would never run a spool on the street. You guys can run race cars on the street, but would you run cross country through NYC in stop and go traffic for hours or going over the Rockies through switchbacks?

LOL translation you've never drove one on the street so you have really no idea...

 

[j par]

Just so you know having a spool for many years now it seems to drive pretty much normal everywhere except for like making a very slow very tight turn then you can feel it squawk a little bit or bind. Everywhere else it more or less seems to drive like a normal car.

 

[66fs]

LOL translation you've never drove one on the street so you have really no idea...

I absolutely have never driven a spool on the street, but I do have an idea. Plus my stuff don't break, and I put a lot of miles on my cars.

 

[66fs]

Just so you know having a spool for many years now it seems to drive pretty much normal everywhere except for like making a very slow very tight turn then you can feel it squawk a little bit or bind. Everywhere else it more or less seems to drive like a normal car.

I know how they drive, I have worked on and driven friends race cars. So you think the tires don't spin every corner?

 

[Hot Metal]

I would certainly give it a try if had the chance, you can always hop the car round a corner if need be

 

[318willrun]

Before I had my own trailer I would just rent one from U-Haul for a $55 for a day..
Cheap insurance and I could driving the air condition truck back and forth LOL..

now, an air conditioned cab sounds enticing....

 

[j par]

I absolutely have never driven a spool on the street, but I do have an idea. Plus my stuff don't break, and I put a lot of miles on my cars.

Dana 60 with 35-spline axles.. I'm not in fear of breaking anything on the street. The car was built for durability....

 

[318willrun]

Dana 60 with 35-spline axles.. I'm not in fear of breaking anything on the street. The car was built for durability....

I drove a '69 barracuda on a 1000 mile trip with welded spider gears in a 7.25 rear end. Isn't that the same as a spool? I didn't have any issues.

 

[j par]

I know how they drive, I have worked on and driven friends race cars. So you think the tires don't spin every corner?

I'm well aware of the physics that you're talking about but it's not as personified as you may think. I did just say that I'm very tight very slow corners you can hear it click or bind... Driving out in the country going around curves you certainly don't feel it and in town going around corners you feel at once in awhile but it's something you completely get used to. I'm well aware of the physics LOL...
Also it's a huge safety factor on those times when I do take it down to the track...