First Time Drag racing

brian6pac said

O.K. Now we are getting somewhere. I went back and read all your post and not once did you say anything about consistency. You said faster. Automatics are more consistent and I got beat by a 75 B100 running 21.00 all day long, at the end of the day he won the trophy, out drove everybody. Now it was not faster it was just consistent. A stick is faster than a automatic and I will stick with that because I have lived it. So you can stick your red X, you know where !

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When I was younger, I used to go to the track and watch the weather. I'd hang out with the Comp guys and they were following the weather pretty close in the early 1990's, if not before then.

You could track all their runs for the day and the at the end, add in the weather. If you throw out tire shake, broken parts and such, almost every single clutch car was as good as or better at consistency as the slush boxes. Same thing with Stock and Super Stock. You can even look at PS today. Follow the weather and compare the ET and just as important the MPH and you'll see a clutch car is no more or less consistent than an automatic.