4G63 Rail Car, does anyone have any info on this?
May 21, 2009 | 08:08 PM
#31
Hey Guys, I'm Tony being referred to in this thread. Let me try to clear some stuff up, but before I do, here's a video from Tuesday night: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvyRJjbjmTw
There are in fact two of these cars out there, both in PA. Ken of Ken's Kustom Chassis has his own car and the first one. You can see pictures of it here: http://www.kenskustomchassis.com/Ext...0Dragsters.htm All of those pictures are of his car. The first video posted in this thread is of Ken's car on the dyno at PSI Motorsports. Ken's had his car to the track a few times but has been battling some problems with torque converters and random 4G63 problems being he's new to this platform. I believe his best pass is somewhere in the mid/low 8's. I'll ask my dad to confirm.
The second car is my fathers (not mine). He's a long time bracket racer who always loved doing something different. He used to run inline 6 cylinders in his 63 Nova when everyone else was running small blocks and big blocks. Anyway, he got bored with bracket racing recently and was really loving the heads up racing I was doing in my car. He was pretty set on building a Mirage or Colt to compete in a Sport FWD type class when we met Ken. We started looking into it and decided to build a dragster instead.
We just got our car started in January of this year for the first time and took it to the dyno, again at PSI motorsports. We've made it to the track twice now. The first time, posted earlier in this thread the converter was WAY too tight. We weren't getting into boost until nearly 300ft down track. Managing to still go a low 10 at 156 MPH with that much lag impressed me. The second time out is in the video I just posted. We're still at low boost and learning the car. We are having some growing pains that are to be expected when just two guys take on a project like this. We both feel we're making some pretty good progress in a very quick time though, my fingers are crossed that things continue on this smoothly.
If you guys have any questions about the car, feel free to ask. I need to get some good pictures of the car online once I get some decals on it. We'll hopefully have some more videos soon as well.
Here is my youtube page with all the videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/Drivengsx
There are in fact two of these cars out there, both in PA. Ken of Ken's Kustom Chassis has his own car and the first one. You can see pictures of it here: http://www.kenskustomchassis.com/Ext...0Dragsters.htm All of those pictures are of his car. The first video posted in this thread is of Ken's car on the dyno at PSI Motorsports. Ken's had his car to the track a few times but has been battling some problems with torque converters and random 4G63 problems being he's new to this platform. I believe his best pass is somewhere in the mid/low 8's. I'll ask my dad to confirm.
The second car is my fathers (not mine). He's a long time bracket racer who always loved doing something different. He used to run inline 6 cylinders in his 63 Nova when everyone else was running small blocks and big blocks. Anyway, he got bored with bracket racing recently and was really loving the heads up racing I was doing in my car. He was pretty set on building a Mirage or Colt to compete in a Sport FWD type class when we met Ken. We started looking into it and decided to build a dragster instead.
We just got our car started in January of this year for the first time and took it to the dyno, again at PSI motorsports. We've made it to the track twice now. The first time, posted earlier in this thread the converter was WAY too tight. We weren't getting into boost until nearly 300ft down track. Managing to still go a low 10 at 156 MPH with that much lag impressed me. The second time out is in the video I just posted. We're still at low boost and learning the car. We are having some growing pains that are to be expected when just two guys take on a project like this. We both feel we're making some pretty good progress in a very quick time though, my fingers are crossed that things continue on this smoothly.
If you guys have any questions about the car, feel free to ask. I need to get some good pictures of the car online once I get some decals on it. We'll hopefully have some more videos soon as well.
Here is my youtube page with all the videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/Drivengsx
May 21, 2009 | 10:50 PM
#33
May 21, 2009 | 11:29 PM
#34
8.0s at 163! My god, I would be lucky to run 8.9s at that kind of mph. What does that thing 60', 1.2s??
Whats the race weight and what would you say it puts down on a Dynojet at this level? This really wants to make me scrap the drag car body and put our setup into a rail car.
Whats the race weight and what would you say it puts down on a Dynojet at this level? This really wants to make me scrap the drag car body and put our setup into a rail car.
May 25, 2009 | 06:18 AM
#40
Yeah, the class index is currently 7.30 and you need to run roughly .5 quicker to be competitive, so right around a 6.80 is our current goal. We know it's going to be a long road to get there but we'll just keep at it.
Jun 4, 2009 | 08:27 AM
#41
Quoted from another site...their latest pass.
Last night we made it out to Atco Raceway. They only made one run, though they are still happy with the results. The car went 7.77 @ 171. This was on 36 pounds of boost, short shifting (shift light was set wrong), and the car still running very rich.
I'm posting a copy of the timeslip. A video should be posted by Friday.
I'm posting a copy of the timeslip. A video should be posted by Friday.
Jun 4, 2009 | 10:08 AM
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