J.D.F, Hi! Thanks for backing Me on the fact that a regular cab 318 can
beat a R/T Club Cab. Your 15.6 ETs are impressive. Hey I heard of a
place you can take it and it will run 14.9s. Once again Thanks Dave
Waco
94 Dakota V8 14.9 69 Super B 12.8 78 Arrow 360 V8 11.7
"J.D. Forinash" wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 10:09:19AM -0500, Jason Grubb wrote:
> > myself, so I want the least restrictive possible. Could this cause the
> > difference in 1/4 mi. times that seem to be occurring? (i.e. 318 guys
> > claiming 16s 1/4's for cc r/t's, when the bone stock cc r/t's around here
> > run 14.9's to 15.2's)
>
> Perhaps a little, but not a whole lot. More difference will be found
> in weight of the truck when run, air temperature and density, and the
> production tolerances to which the vehicle is built, how long the
> engine is left to cool before a run, how much traction there is to be had
> at a given location... There's a million zillion variables in a quarter
> mile time, and that doesn't even get to the fact that some drivers are
> better drag racers than others. And some people get their quarter mile
> times from a Gtech, some from a dragstrip, to add just a little more
> question into the equation...
>
> As a point of (completely useless) information: My club cab R/T ran a best
> of 15.776 bone stock. That day it got beat by a mostly stock (MP Computer
> and flowmaster cat-back-dual exhaust) RC 5.2L Dakota by about a half a
> second. So I expect the RC truck was faster than me even before its mods...
>
> -JDF
> --
> --J.D. Forinash (foxtrot@cc.gatech.edu) / '69 Coronet 440, yellow, 318
> The more you learn, the better your / '70 Fury III 'vert, mostly white, 318
> luck gets. / '99 Dakota R/T 15.601 @ 85.57
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