Drag Racing Tech - Chromed out dragster build-up

This is one of my customers dragsters that I'm building. I wouldn't bore you with an average one but this one has quite a bit of detail and chrome work that should make it a stand out at the track. everything has been taken apart and chromed.

Heres some pics. I'll post up some more pics when some more progress is made.

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Jeez that thing is tiiiight!

sweet man....... ran in to some fender problems today with the narrowed rear...... ran into literly LOL :jest:

Mini-tub in the near future....

sweet man....... ran in to some fender problems today with the narrowed rear...... ran into literly LOL :jest:

Mini-tub in the near future....

:eek2: What happened?

Thats cool. Let me know when and well get it scheduled in.

Chrome roll cage could get his ass in hot water w/ the tech guys...Been outlawed since 1/1/03.

nice bit of Jewelry there....what is going in it.????

The chassis is a 00' so were good to go. It just got the tag put on it sunday. But your right on the 1/1/03 manufactured date.

There are some SLICK rails out there. Given how much bracket racing I do I see a ton of them, a speed shop by us does some of the nicest out there. I'd like to have one for bracket racing purposes but I just can't manage to justify dropping 30k into some tubes although I know labor/parts add up. I like my door cars but man sometimes when they're dialed a 4.50 and you're dialed a 5.90 it's hard to judge looking out my passenger window for something that low to the ground lol

Lookin' good, I wish I knew how to do it myself.

EDIT: Never heard of the chrome hoop deal, why don't they want that?

nice bit of Jewelry there....what is going in it.????

I hate to dissapoint everyone, but a small block ford. :jest:

It will be a nice one though. All aluminum. Cubic inch is around 423ish.

EDIT: Never heard of the chrome hoop deal, why don't they want that?


Through the chroming process, a chemical reaction goes on which the name of it has slipped my mind. They say it eats the metal from the inside out. Its the customers decision on if they want to take the chance or not. For the record, I've never had a problem with it.

bling bling!!!!!

Nice!!

:eek2: What happened?

Thats cool. Let me know when and well get it scheduled in.



nahh nothing that cant be taken care of...... its part of the game when stuffing/tucking 325/50's lol :jest: :devil:

I do need to swing by and check ya out after the 1st of the yr.


Kyle

wow looks real nice. Makes me want to move back to virginia and beg you for a job. I would love to work in a speed shop just sweeping and mopping floors.

can i have that powerglide

Through the chroming process, a chemical reaction goes on which the name of it has slipped my mind. They say it eats the metal from the inside out. Its the customers decision on if they want to take the chance or not. For the record, I've never had a problem with it.

Hydrogen embrittlement maybe?? I was under the impression that chroming was only bad on 'moly tubing because the heat used in the chroming process ruined the heat treat on the 'moly. Dunno. Nice looking digger.

Craig

Nice looking, but man I'd hate to have to clean that after every burnout sprays crap all over it!

Derek

I'm not a big fan of rails at all, but that is still very nice!

Chrome roll cage could get his ass in hot water w/ the tech guys...Been outlawed since 1/1/03.
thats what i was thinking, also used to be no plating of susp, components?? but i guess things change for the masses, but real nice looking , :)

Thanks for the compliments guys.

This chassis was built in 2000 so they let the chrome stuff go. Undercover and Race tech still sell there cars with chrome suspension pieces so I guess they changed that.

very nice setup

Nice looking, but man I'd hate to have to clean that after every burnout sprays crap all over it!
Derek

:jest: I just can't get this thing to look as good as it did in the shop. :bang:

Nice work BTW.

is it a super comp car? have you had better luck with the live suspension rails over the other solid mounted chasis'?

Yea, cleaning it is going to be a nightmare. Glad I dont have to do it.

skipper, on a perfect track, I think there pretty close to equal. When you get to some of the bad tracks, thats where a 4-link car shines. They dont tend to hop as bad when your on the brakes either. Overall they ride nicer on and off the track and the resale is usually a little higher on a live suspended car.

Its just a top et/super pro bracket car for him right now and his daughter is more then likely going to get in it later on.

Few updates:

* Originally the car didnt have an analog tach, just the one in the delay box which was a biondo mega 200. I made a new dash panel to now house a 3 1/2" tach, and a biondo mega 450 delay box. i mounted the box in a way to make it flush with the dash. the dash is at the chromers getting plated. Ill post pics when it comes back.

* I made a new radiator support brace and a new fan/shroud assembly. The ones that were on the car from Ed Quay i didnt care for how they looked. All this stuff will be chromed as well.

* started laying out the electronics as well.

* started fabing and mounting fuel system

not a whole bunch of progress due to the holidays

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Lookin good man

nice rail to clean to drag race

really like how that rearend turned out u buy it chrome or did u have someone do it for you.....looks great cant wait to see it complete.. gonna need sun glass's to look at it in the sunlight :drive:

we sent it out and got it chromed along with everything else. Thanks.

we sent it out and got it chromed along with everything else. Thanks.

About how much does that run? I'm looking at having my dzus fasteners, spoiler, (maybe) wheelie bars and a few other small parts sent out and I'm just curious what something like that would hurt in the pocket.

I think the dzus buttons are like $20 a piece. Wheelie bars is a few hundred. Its hard for me to price the stuff, but big areas or things like a rear end housing that has brackets on it to make it harder to chrome cost a great deal more. The guy I use is more expensive then a lot of others but his quality is by far the best I've ever seen from anyone.

I love that red powdercoat. I had it on my last junior dragster I had a few years ago. Almost got it this year on the new Mullis car but didn't... Car looks good :) Too bad you're going small black though. LOL

We've had 12 juniors over the years. Most of which were halfscales. Heres a pic of my sisters I built for her.

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This car has won a best appearing award at the eastern conference finals, and 2 best engineered awards.

This is a 8.90/7.90 index car I built her.
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This car has a best engineered award as well.

Little do people know these cars are harder to run then a top sportsman car!

Same here. LOL I had a Motivational Tubing Bracket Star, Mike Bos Pro 1 (loved that car), Halfscale Top Fuel (this is the purple car that won the Eastern nationals last year in the 12 yeard olds), Funny Car, and a Halfscale 330 Outlaw car. All of them were bought new except the Motivational. My dad is actually a Halfscale dealer... I raced juniors for 6 1/2 years before moving up to Super Quick and my sister raced for 3.

You may know of my outlaw car... We sold it to Buddy Perkinson (2003) and he ran it for a while. May still have it. Black laydown car with the red powdercoat. He's from Virginia.

EDIT: Just saw the Dowdy on the car. Robbie Dowdy ;) I used to race with you guys (not with literally but at the same races I mean) in the junior days. I've got a couple pictures of you guys' cars around here somewhere.

I know the Perkinsons real well. Small world! Cool to see you moved up! If you find the pics, e-mail them to promod1955@aol.com. Thanks.

Finally got the motor. Little more progress. Having to fab some stuff up that didnt get done before i took over on the build.

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Youve been busy..... the Alt fit???

Kyle

Its tight. I got it all in there though to where you can still pull the engine with everthing attached on the front. The remote oil filter has to go between the alt. and the fan. Once everythings in there shouldnt be much open space left.