motorpirate
serial mopar owner
My daughter had her intro to the world of drag racing this weekend.
We went to Edgewater in Cincy fri night and due to the rain right at 5:00 when the track opened she had the track TO HERSELF after they got it dried off for almost 2 and a half hours!!
She ran "hot laps" with about 6 to 8 min between passes until she was too tired to do it anymore!!
She has a lot of work to do on her reaction time etc but she had a blast!!
Then Saturday we went to Thornhill in KY and she entered in Bracket 2 where after 2 test passes she got picked off in the first round.
She had so much fun both nights I doubt you could stop her from going again!!
The car is a '66 Barracuda (my first car) with a 273 2bbl and a 904.
BBP conversion/disks/8.25 w/ 3.55's
I have a 5.9 Magnum to swap in now that she has gotten a little seat time and i think she will stick to it.
Her biggest problem was burnouts. Brake on, line lock on, foot off brake throttle on in 1st, shift to 2nd, let off line lock THEN let off gas.
If she could just do the whole thing in 2nd I think she would be fine, but i guess the pressure of doing it in front of a crowd and my "Front Drum explosion" lecture has her intimidated.
So all of that said, does anyone know of a shift kit that will allow manual selection of 2nd, but still has automatic function in Drive??
(i have some video, if i can figure out how to post it)
Thanks guys!!
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We went to Edgewater in Cincy fri night and due to the rain right at 5:00 when the track opened she had the track TO HERSELF after they got it dried off for almost 2 and a half hours!!
She ran "hot laps" with about 6 to 8 min between passes until she was too tired to do it anymore!!
She has a lot of work to do on her reaction time etc but she had a blast!!
Then Saturday we went to Thornhill in KY and she entered in Bracket 2 where after 2 test passes she got picked off in the first round.
She had so much fun both nights I doubt you could stop her from going again!!
The car is a '66 Barracuda (my first car) with a 273 2bbl and a 904.
BBP conversion/disks/8.25 w/ 3.55's
I have a 5.9 Magnum to swap in now that she has gotten a little seat time and i think she will stick to it.
Her biggest problem was burnouts. Brake on, line lock on, foot off brake throttle on in 1st, shift to 2nd, let off line lock THEN let off gas.
If she could just do the whole thing in 2nd I think she would be fine, but i guess the pressure of doing it in front of a crowd and my "Front Drum explosion" lecture has her intimidated.
So all of that said, does anyone know of a shift kit that will allow manual selection of 2nd, but still has automatic function in Drive??
(i have some video, if i can figure out how to post it)
Thanks guys!!
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