New Best in the Heat!

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grandville455
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New Best in the Heat!

#1 Post by grandville455 » Mon Aug 23, 2010 8:28 am

WELL Had the convertor loosened to 4200 from 3600 on my continental 10" and the car loved it picked up 3 tenths and 2 mph! running 11.87@113.20!! In crappy air!.matched my best 60 foot of 1.70 and that was in awesome conditions in april!. end of the day still went 12.05 spinning 1.78 and on the brakes at 3800 DA!...
74 Pontiac Grandville
7.33- 1/8th @ 94.55/ 11.501 @117.74- 4550 pds
1.60 60 ft....all bests

74 Firebird 3580#
2016 1.377 60ft, 6.33@106.87- 10.02@ 132 mph

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Re: New Best in the Heat!

#2 Post by spib » Mon Aug 23, 2010 9:55 am

CONGRATS!!!!! its always fun to go a new best PASS :D
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Re: New Best in the Heat!

#3 Post by 427belair » Mon Aug 23, 2010 5:38 pm

Congrats on a new best, and send some of your "crappy" air my way....lol

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Re: New Best in the Heat!

#4 Post by grandville455 » Tue Aug 24, 2010 8:27 am

427belair wrote:Congrats on a new best, and send some of your "crappy" air my way....lol
If I could I would!,lol... Get out of the mountains man! :D
74 Pontiac Grandville
7.33- 1/8th @ 94.55/ 11.501 @117.74- 4550 pds
1.60 60 ft....all bests

74 Firebird 3580#
2016 1.377 60ft, 6.33@106.87- 10.02@ 132 mph

427belair
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Re: New Best in the Heat!

#5 Post by 427belair » Tue Aug 24, 2010 6:00 pm

Ive been trying to get to the coast for a couple years, to see what my junk would run around 1000', but time and $$$$ have never been around at the same time. I love what your doing with your barge.

grandville455
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Re: New Best in the Heat!

#6 Post by grandville455 » Wed Aug 25, 2010 8:02 am

You can go to dragtimes .com and enter your racetrack and the day u were there and it will correct to sea level times... Here is a vid of my 11.87 run...

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v2...0822104307.mp4
74 Pontiac Grandville
7.33- 1/8th @ 94.55/ 11.501 @117.74- 4550 pds
1.60 60 ft....all bests

74 Firebird 3580#
2016 1.377 60ft, 6.33@106.87- 10.02@ 132 mph

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