How to prepare my car for the dragstrip?

A factory stripper '62 Dart weighs in around 3444 pounds, and has a wheelbase of 116 inches. That is pretty light for a midsize car (it is not an A-body), and the wheelbase is pretty short compared to the '61 models, and it grew again in '63 to 119. Although it is a pretty light car, and would be similar to yanking the wheels in an early GTO...a pretty difficult task with a big block; hard to picture with a small block.