Traction Failure

crackedback said

Big burn out with BFG makes them greasy. A quick hit to clean them off and go. Never do test hops. Burnout and go to the line. Every time you do a test hit, you take anything good from a burnout off the tire.

I agree with others in here, Radial T/A's are horrible tires for getting a good 60' time.

Don't do big burnouts with et street radials either, get the tires spinning in high gear at high rpm, count one and let it roll out. They get greasy as well when heated up too much. My 2 cents, Try a 235/60/15 ET street radial or similar sized tire. Short tires will help with effective gear ratio.

94 is a pretty good MPH so keep at it. That's low 14's in the 1/4. It's got 13's in it with tuning.

Most important... Did you have fun?

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Thanks Cracked for the input.

I did have good fun and it was good to know the gears held. (It was my first MOPAR gear install.)
I believe the car does have the 13's in it.
I have just got the AFR installed and have not had any real test and tune time with it so that will help.
I know I have my initial timing a little low but need to run it that way until I can get the mechanical limited on the top end.
With all that, tires just became my next purchase so that will delay the rest.
I did look up some CalTrac instructions that can be fabricated at home.
I have a welder and I am pretty good with it.
What do you think of them?
Seems like a good plan on the surface, metal is cheap and I can do the assembly in the garage and the reviews on this site seem to back their performance.