New 1/4 Mile Personal Best For The Bike! 10.29!

racer54 wrote:

Just something for you to think about. Modern slicks and even most street tires have a compound that makes them very sticky after a burnout. Most recommend that once you do your burnout, go to the line and stage. The tire is ready and if you do a dry hop, you take off some of that "stickiness" of the hot compound. Burn-out, stage and go! Not trying to be a smartass, but the old tires liked a dry hop to warm tire a little more, but the new ones are best run right after the burn-out.

Interesting - I haven't raced in about 10 years so I wouldn't have known that. Every little bit helps...

well i hope that the vid has given everybody who was calling me out a good slap in the face. nothing pisses me off more than someone who dont know wut they r talking bout shooting me and the bike down. yes i didnt build the bike, but i was there helping the whole build up of it. just cause it dont come out of my pockets dont mean i dont know the bike or cant ride the bike!

didnt know that bout the dry hop actually bein bad for traction. im taught by a bunch of old school guys so thats just how ive been told.

anyways, to all the guys giving support, thanks , to all the others, i hope you learn that it aint just about putting in huge pistons and razzle dazzle parts! the right combo of parts will give you an amazing turn out and be a lot more reliable! we are still running a original push buttojn starter!!!!!!!! dont need to have huge compression boys!

Welcome to the 9 second club & love that 73 paint.Had a very similar bike to yours with a 1200cc. motor that ran 9.90's back in the early 80's and have no doubt that bike would go 9's. As far as dry hops I stopped doing them when I put the slider clutch in my bike cuz it's way hard on plates,but most of the lock up equipped bikes still do them. Whatever works for you.

As far as reaction time /ET it's possible to run right on your dial in with a zero & lose if you're late at the tree. ET has absolutely nothing to do with reaction time and reaction times win a lot more bracket races than dead on dials.

Man! How well I know that! LOL

glad to see some people understand bracket racing!

There's a few out there that do. Can be hard to explain to some spectators as they figure first across the line wins. As most find out, there are a million ways to lose but only a few ways to win and they keep moving those around so it's hard to find those few ways sometimes. LOL

iroc355 wrote:

glad to see some people understand bracket racing!

theres quite a few very fast people on this site but you have to learn how to handle the differant personalities on here without a full blown war developing over something thats not worth getting worked up about.

Yep!

Niceeeeeeee. Love the video. That bike runs righteous. I give you props for making it run like that. Thanks for the post.

nice job with the 9 sec. pass i'm a fellow bracket racer i know how tough it is to make bike consistent your starting to get that end of it fiqured out now time for some work on yourself buy a practice tree and work on it over the winter the lights will come. you will find like anything in life the more you do it the better you get.some people have a hard time beliving .so what.you did it you know you did it thats all that counts. if you ever need any help with that cool little hot-rod e- mail me.

differant bikes run differantly in differant places.(say that fast 3 times!:laugh: )differant elevations,differant air temps good tracks/bad tracks it all plays into the end result.

THis is probably the funniest thread I have read on here--

Iroc-- you can get pissed at people on here that might not know everything about dragracing when you say you like to laugh at people that know nothing about it.

Bracket racing isn't the easiest sport to understand-- especially the tree-- yes the starting line is where the race is mostly won and lost-- but no-- it doesn't have anything to do with your ET_- you can sit forever and still run the exact same time as if you had a perfect light-- like mentioned before the timers don't start til you move.

Another thing-- who the hell said it takes 200HP to go 9's--and Plummen where do you live where busa's only run low 10's-Denver?

iroc-- for your setup your bike doesn't run to bad-- the front half is much better than the back half-- a 6.27 should have put you down a little lower in the 1/4 I woudl have thought. Also you are launching at a pretty low rpm-- you shoudln't have any problem getting it to stick unless your track is that bad-- bikes run 7.0's on small slicks with no bars--- what air pressure are you running in your tire? Seems to me that if anything you would be bogging off the launch--- new tires are something and stick real well.. I have had been 1.38 on my KZ streetbike with no bars and a street shinko. Drop that air pressure.

Keep racing though-- people get pissed at the comment like laughing at them-- most just aren't sure about dragracing -- you will get quicker as you get more time-- plus getting everything dialed in.

Later-clem