The "BEAST" - My Pride and Joy
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BoostedBug
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Is it even legal to run? I thought it had to have the cross bar for a 10.99 or faster car.. Nice car by the way!
The "BEAST"
Hi Rice. I haven't had the opportunity to drag her yet; however, I've had several builds similar to the one I have now and I'm pretty much estimating it should easily run mid-high 10s on the "Good Juice" with decent boost; however, the builder states low 10s with decent boost (I'm Optimistic
). Another GN I owned that only had a T70 and 72lbs injectors being ran by the F.A.S.T was able to consistently run 10.80s and dynoed 505 rwhp / 488 rwtq. This one recently dynoed 563 rwhp / 508 rwtq at the same boost levels. So I'm thinking it should definitely be in that mid-10 area even without leaving on the brake.
Thanks for the compliment!
got rice? said:
Hi Rice. I haven't had the opportunity to drag her yet; however, I've had several builds similar to the one I have now and I'm pretty much estimating it should easily run mid-high 10s on the "Good Juice" with decent boost; however, the builder states low 10s with decent boost (I'm Optimistic
). Another GN I owned that only had a T70 and 72lbs injectors being ran by the F.A.S.T was able to consistently run 10.80s and dynoed 505 rwhp / 488 rwtq. This one recently dynoed 563 rwhp / 508 rwtq at the same boost levels. So I'm thinking it should definitely be in that mid-10 area even without leaving on the brake.Thanks for the compliment!
The "BEAST"
Well, I'm quite sure the Chrome-Moly cage setup is legal because I run at MIR and the last couple of GNs I've owned ran 10s and didn't have a violation problem. Unless the track officials were just lenient and didn't mind at all. I think as long as you have 6 points your fine; however, I knew a guy who built a 4 point himself and MIR pull him from the track after the first run becuase he didn't have as much protection. Well, if I have to, it's toooo easy to install the cross-bar but hopefully I wont have to.
BoostedBug said:
Well, I'm quite sure the Chrome-Moly cage setup is legal because I run at MIR and the last couple of GNs I've owned ran 10s and didn't have a violation problem. Unless the track officials were just lenient and didn't mind at all. I think as long as you have 6 points your fine; however, I knew a guy who built a 4 point himself and MIR pull him from the track after the first run becuase he didn't have as much protection. Well, if I have to, it's toooo easy to install the cross-bar but hopefully I wont have to.
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Very Nice... I will have to ask about this...I am in the middle of deciding to put one in or not...But I love the idea of having a usable back seat.. NICE CAR!
BoostedBug said:
Yes, I know what you mean regarding the usability of the back seat because my kids love jumping in the back freely and joy riding with me. Well, I figured I would find out specifically from MIR what the actual requirement for a roll-bar, roll-cage, cross-bar, etc... was relative to a certain E.T. They stated specifically a 6-point roll cage along with a 5-point seat belt harness is required for any full body car running 11.49 or quicker (Wow!!!!). So, you don't necessarily need the cross-bar as long as you have 6 points of frame contact and the roof top roll-bar, which is what I have always had in my other GNs. So friend, it's probably best to go ahead and build her right if you know you're going to bust 11.50s wide open.
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flipmo said:
LOL..The car went 11:29 on ET Streets...Man I like the idea of no cross bar...
