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I saw Tim Tosto post up this vid of this Stock Eliminator car doing a huge wheel stand running a 10.30 that's not ungodly fast by any means but I would love to get my wheels up in the air like this. So what do you use and how do you get your all's cars to pull decent wheelstands beside a healthy motor?
Heres the vid...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fkawxlUUO4
Heres the vid...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fkawxlUUO4
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I am not worried about spending cash to have fun and as far as ET loss goes, one of my best friends races a full weight (minus tubbing) Chevy II that runs 6.1x's deadly consistent sits the tires down at the 60' mark at 4'! We adjusted his 4 link and wheelie bars accordingly and it ran the same numbers all night. Some cars love to pack the tires and some don't, I would rather have the problem of standing the car up and put wheelie bars on it than not. So someone has to have some experience to help me out here?!
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He's not talking about spending money to get the car to stand up, he's saying that you'll more than likely break a ton of stuff coming down. I've seen many cars break oil pans, blocks, trans cases, front suspension parts, wheels, headers, etc from those huge wheelstands... Not worth the risk IMO. Our cars are so low they seem to have a greater chance of breaking parts coming down than some of the older cars.
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I understood what he meant, I need to find the picture off Ott's Nova breaking the wheelie bars and litterally pulling all 4 wheels off the ground just to set it down and break the transmission case completely out of the car, destroy a spindle and two front rims, an oil pan, among many other things. lol Anyways like I said I don't care to spend cash to have fun and this is what I have always wanted to setup my car to do.
Anyone with any advice? I am going to get a tubular k member and a lift off hood to shed some more weight off the front end. I have already ditched the front sway bar, bumper support, and ac an accessories to shed some weight just in the front end. I just need to know what direction I need to go when it comes to suspesion parts and setups...
Anyone with any advice? I am going to get a tubular k member and a lift off hood to shed some more weight off the front end. I have already ditched the front sway bar, bumper support, and ac an accessories to shed some weight just in the front end. I just need to know what direction I need to go when it comes to suspesion parts and setups...
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Those stock eliminators love to pull them. Always hear guys saying that pulling the wheels wastes ET but I can assure you that cars wheelie was no surprise to the driver, that thing is dialed in and the 60' is as good as it can get for the power those cars make.
Here's a vid of my car-basically all the usuall bolt on suspension parts+dual airbags, limiters and wheelie bars.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVdBZk5Y3s4
Here's a vid of my car-basically all the usuall bolt on suspension parts+dual airbags, limiters and wheelie bars.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVdBZk5Y3s4
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People always give the "it kills ET" speech, it kills very little and if you're not heads up racing... Who cares? My dad's cars old setup had about 300 passes, the fastest ones by far were 60 ft. wheelies. Now the weather was good but you get the point.
Having a A3 goes a long way for having a stout first gear. It usually just kind of happens, I don't think many people specifically go out to make their car do wheelies. You just slowly add on and once you get the power/hook it's there.
Having a A3 goes a long way for having a stout first gear. It usually just kind of happens, I don't think many people specifically go out to make their car do wheelies. You just slowly add on and once you get the power/hook it's there.
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I can tell you, when you do pull a big one and you're not expecting it, it's not really all that much fun.
Just went thru that last weekend, looking at the sky really wasn't on my list of things to do that day LOL, pic is my sig now.
I'm not 100% sure exactly what does what anymore after reading some of the old threads on here about instant center... I'm just hoping the travel limiters stop it from happening again.
Just went thru that last weekend, looking at the sky really wasn't on my list of things to do that day LOL, pic is my sig now.
I'm not 100% sure exactly what does what anymore after reading some of the old threads on here about instant center... I'm just hoping the travel limiters stop it from happening again.
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I need to find the picture off Ott's Nova breaking the wheelie bars and litterally pulling all 4 wheels off the ground just to set it down and break the transmission case completely out of the car, destroy a spindle and two front rims, an oil pan, among many other things.
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I still won't forget the time I was at about the '330 for a quick 16. A 10.5 tire guy was trying to spray his way in, I hear him lift... Look at the track and can't see anything yet, then when he finally comes into view he's draggin' the damn bumper
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I can tell you, when you do pull a big one and you're not expecting it, it's not really all that much fun.
Just went thru that last weekend, looking at the sky really wasn't on my list of things to do that day LOL, pic is my sig now.
I'm not 100% sure exactly what does what anymore after reading some of the old threads on here about instant center... I'm just hoping the travel limiters stop it from happening again.
Just went thru that last weekend, looking at the sky really wasn't on my list of things to do that day LOL, pic is my sig now.
I'm not 100% sure exactly what does what anymore after reading some of the old threads on here about instant center... I'm just hoping the travel limiters stop it from happening again.
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I can tell you, when you do pull a big one and you're not expecting it, it's not really all that much fun.
Just went thru that last weekend, looking at the sky really wasn't on my list of things to do that day LOL, pic is my sig now.
I'm not 100% sure exactly what does what anymore after reading some of the old threads on here about instant center... I'm just hoping the travel limiters stop it from happening again.
Just went thru that last weekend, looking at the sky really wasn't on my list of things to do that day LOL, pic is my sig now.
I'm not 100% sure exactly what does what anymore after reading some of the old threads on here about instant center... I'm just hoping the travel limiters stop it from happening again.
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