Dusty Bradford
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- May 24, 2001
I have a couple video's from this last weekend's race. I was driving/tuning Alan Kennedy's mustang in the Ultimate Street class. The class runs on a 275/60 radial, is limited to a small blocks with single 80mm turbo, single plate nitrous system or a small blower like the F1 procharger.
I was able to run 5.18 at 137 thanks to a 1.22 60' with an old cast wheel Precision 47-80 and qualified 3rd out of 33 cars. The nitrous car I faced in the final qualified 2nd with a 5.12 and a blower car was #1 with a 5.11. We're looking at upgrading to a new turbo to help out. The blower cars run more mph, nitrous cars run the same mph. It took alot of work through the week to get the car to 60' and 330 with the top 2 cars. We ended up going to the final but shook the tires and got beat. From the data it appears the 30 minute cool down we had from semi's to final didn't allow enough heat out of the transmission so it didn't put enough power to the tires which is what causes tire shake. Hot fluid loosen's the converter. Lesson learned on how to address short cool down's. It's a shame. I went 5.19 in the semi's, my opponent went 5.15 in the final. I had him enough on the tree I could have won with a 5.20.
Test pass. You can see the difference from a 4.6 pass to a 5.3 pass
UStest - YouTube
Qualifying pass
USQ1 - YouTube
3rd rd elims
Ultimate Street Redemption - YouTube
4th round elims
Ultimate Redemption - YouTube
I didn't have final on video. I lost lane choice so I didn't know what position the camera should be in.
I was able to run 5.18 at 137 thanks to a 1.22 60' with an old cast wheel Precision 47-80 and qualified 3rd out of 33 cars. The nitrous car I faced in the final qualified 2nd with a 5.12 and a blower car was #1 with a 5.11. We're looking at upgrading to a new turbo to help out. The blower cars run more mph, nitrous cars run the same mph. It took alot of work through the week to get the car to 60' and 330 with the top 2 cars. We ended up going to the final but shook the tires and got beat. From the data it appears the 30 minute cool down we had from semi's to final didn't allow enough heat out of the transmission so it didn't put enough power to the tires which is what causes tire shake. Hot fluid loosen's the converter. Lesson learned on how to address short cool down's. It's a shame. I went 5.19 in the semi's, my opponent went 5.15 in the final. I had him enough on the tree I could have won with a 5.20.
Test pass. You can see the difference from a 4.6 pass to a 5.3 pass
UStest - YouTube
Qualifying pass
USQ1 - YouTube
3rd rd elims
Ultimate Street Redemption - YouTube
4th round elims
Ultimate Redemption - YouTube
I didn't have final on video. I lost lane choice so I didn't know what position the camera should be in.
