Throw me in an all motor car and Ill have it down by the 5th pass. Big power turbo car another story.
Even if the car owner tells you how he drives it?
11.50 340+ Dart, automatic with transbrake, really simple right?
My first pass was low 11.3x, owner called BS and let me make another pass. High 11.2x with best 60 foot the car ever did, but on a T&T night where the grip was down a bit. The owner was pissed and made a pass in his car....11.501 in a car he dials to 11.50 for brackets.
What was different in my driving? I didn't floor the gas pedal against the transbrake. I kept it at about 1/2 throttle but same rpms on the transbrake. That way the car still got a shot of gas from the accel pump and didn't stumble at launch. All time I made up was at 60 foot and 330 foot, after that the time increments were the same.
I should have married his daughter when I had the chance. Only reason I got to drive the Mopar was he gave me shit about racing "a rice burner" but afterwards was glad to see me out there still drag racing.
I have no nudes of Tammi, I didn't have any Polaroid film at the time.