Here are the facts on that 10.48 run...
I talked to the sources.
Burns Motors is the dealer that provided the cars. They were both sold cars that the owners graciously allowed them to use to put this all together.
Runs were done at Edinburg Raceway in TX.
The driver is actually normally runs a blown 67 Camaro with solid experience. Supposedly is at the track every weekend running his car in the 8's.
RGV Lighting in McAllen TX does lighting and street car mods. They worked with the car and the driver.
The only modifications to the car were in fact drag radials and race fuel. In fact, BOTH cars had race fuel. So the 11.05 run was done with race fuel too.
The tires were the Nitto 555r's, here's the kicker: they were the factory size!! 275/40/20
Several tire pressures were tried. The optimal pressure was 17 lbs.
Third pass on the black car resulted in the attached pic.
Track was heavily prepped and a bit warmer temps on day two resulted in super track conditions. The guy said the track wanted to pull his shoes off.
For the fuel the car had below 1/4 tank of normal pump fuel and they added 8-10 gallons of the VT109 racing fuel.
It was originally reported that you had to roll it out some before you mash it but after talking to the driver he said the best runs came when you were in fact able to mash the gas right at the green light. Period!.
An important thing to note also is that he said they did not start getting good times / hookups until they turned the stability control completely off. He said once they got that off (which required them to hold the button for 8 seconds), then they started getting good runs. So the car was in track mode and stability control was turned completely off and this was a requirement to get the car to start hooking up properly.
Driver confirmed that he put the car in track mode and turned stability control off. No other changes to suspension.
Launched as close as possible stalling it to 2000 rpm. Launch control NOT used.
Lastly, the driver used the paddles to get the best times out of it!! His shift rpm was 6200 RPM when he hit the paddle.
That's it!!
Tires and race fuel!!
Vids coming. They have to wait for a few things to happen before they can release them but they are coming.
