raced a lt1 trans am tonight in my abody!

Hey, bigtommy,

I reckon you are primarily interested in 1/4 mile runs??

Have you been to a drag strip and test / tune your car?

Does the engine and transmission run decent now?

If your engine - trans is running smooth, then focus on the suspension for a bit. All the 1/4 mile street races I saw won were primarily based on a good basic engine / trans, decent gear ratio and excellent traction.

You can learn alot of good from some people at the track, others will be a-holes and others will share lies and worthless bs info. You gotta sift thru it all and observe peoples cars while they run.
Look for cars like yours, basic setup but doing well. Best to go to a small track where you can talk with people similar to your setup.

If you are intent on drag racing, first like people said, focus on traction and hook to the ground.
I have seen stock engine cars w headers and intake run super fast (for a stock heavy car) and consistently because they focused on the suspension reaction and traction.

Start with decent basic drag race suspension setup. Soft T bars in front (you have slant six bars already??) Drag shocks front. Decent normal shocks in back. If you cant afford drag shocks, just put worn out shocks on the front and decent ones in back.

You want the car to raise dramatically in the front and settle slowly. This dumps the weight to the rear. Soft T bars and front drag shocks help this process.

An adjustable pinion snubber and learning how to use it will help the rear end "plant" and make the rear tires dig into the ground. It pushes up on the body which forces the rear end into the asphalt. It seriously helps traction when adjusted properly.

A drag race car usually does not handle very well around curves, so be careful!

Lastly but most importantly: hopefully you are racing somewhere far away from town on a long open space where you can be 100 % sure no one is coming or preferably in a vacant parking lot where there are no poles or buildings to run into and plenty of "shut down" space in case something goes wrong (which it does about half the time when you are running on low budget at high speed) or even more safely, at a track.

Don't be the ones giving hot rodders a bad name by racing in town in public areas :) Lots of folks died already and they were just trying to have fun 'till it was all twisted steel and dead people everywhere.