hey gary, I see you put a set of 17x9 r/t wheels on the rear for the track.
Those probably hurt you more than helped. They are much heavier than your
stock rim and being a 17 have less side wall to flex, theoretically giving
you worse traction even thought they are wider.
>From: "Gary Hedlin" <ghedlin@theramp.net>
>Reply-To: dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net
>To: dakota-truck-moderator@bent.twistedbits.net
>Subject: DML: Another day at the Track
>Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 11:26:22 -0500
>
>Yesterday I went back up to the drag stip and tested out some new mods i've
>added to the truck. I actually gained 3 tenths, and gained close to 2 MPH
>on by best run, putting my personal best at 17.328 @ 77.98MPH. I also had
>the opertunity to run agianst a felow DML member, Chad Evans, ans
>suprisingly his 4.7 V8 only beat me by 1.7 seconds.
>
>You can see my times at http://www.garyhedlin.com/dakota/times.htm
>
>I''ve still got to install my shift kit, so that might prove helpfull in
>closing that 1.7 second gap! :)
>
>
>Gary Hedlin
>"The Crazy Quadraplegic"
>ghedlin@theramp.net (business)
>ragingquad@yahoo.com (personal)
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Greg Conner
1996 RC
3.9 hybrid
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