Drag Strip tips and advice needed.

12many said
I’m gonna go ahead and say you don’t need to start throwing money at stuff like Caltracs, springs, adjustable shocks or any other specialized suspension parts for drag racing.............................................yet. Seems that’s what many resort to before optimizing what there is now. For now, learn how to work with what you have. Tire pressure, launches, shift points etc. The idea of throwing stuff at it, replacing this and that makes no sense. Learn with what you have and then have a better understanding of what might need upgrading. Many hook and cook with plain shocks, old springs, maybe a adjustable pinion snubber....but also You seem down on MPH for what you have. Like the brakes are dragging, being held back somewhat. Or fuel/air just isn’t enough....IDK, but one thing at a time always works best:thumbsup:

I agree do with what you have, up grade later

Kent mosby said
This cam was designed to be prepared for a boost of nitrous. Perhaps that is why it is not very big on lift. Ken from oregon cams said it would also be very streetable. In the rear are SS springs and competition engineering shocks, (CE shocks up front also). Torsion bars are PST 1.03, brand new. The alignment is set for drag racing. It launches straight as an arrow and stops straight, no pulling to one side on either. I will need to do some data logging to see about the AF ratios. I will also check about brake drag, never thought about that. This is the launch video of the first run. Remember that he shut it down 1/2 way through. It seems to hook up pretty well, but with more power maybe it would not. The tires are 255/60-15 mickey thompson ET street s/s tires. 727 goes to an 8 3/4 3.91 ratio rear.

Also RockinRobin post is grate!

Now that i have quoted and said all of that.
The T Bar is way to big for drag racing........street, OK.......
there is vary little front end raise under launch(smaller T Bars would help a lot. PST are to BIG! something under .9xx /6 T-bars would be the best for drag racing and getting that front end to lift.

I'm not saying run out and buy some. Tune with what you got, but if a t-bar come floating by don't pass them up. By them, and put in a corner, and later on switch to them. When you decide to do some front end parts replacing......that's the time to slide them /6 t bars in while your at it. they can collect dust until them.