Fri night Drags !

HighPlainsDrifter · #1 (**permalink**) 08-30-2003, 09:38 AM

Wow ,what blast at the friday night street legal drags at Mission Raceway. It's 100 mile roundtrip drive to the track and back, so I short shift at 5,200 rpm - don't want to break anything. The cobra was jumping off the line to a fine 11.92 ET, backed it up with an 11.93 ! Finally got the 'right' launch on a slippery starting line.
Not bad for a cobra that runs on REGULAR gas.
Perry.

colin mullaney · #2 (**permalink**) 08-30-2003, 11:16 AM

Way to go Perry, I knew you'd get that "11" someday. What was your MPH? I look forward to you letting it rev out someday and doing even better!!!

My car is finally back on the road!!!!! Went to the track last weekend and made a few shakedown runs. Tomorrow is "Alberta's Fastest Street Car" in Calgary and I think I'm ready. Too bad it's still in primer but I ran out of time. Talk to you soon.

Colin

RACERAL · #3 (**permalink**) 08-30-2003, 11:18 AM

What are you runing in the 1/8 or 1/4 and what is your motor combo... just wondering...

HighPlainsDrifter · #4 (**permalink**) 08-30-2003, 11:52 AM

Hi Colin,
Great to hear your going to let her rip again.Your headers are a work of art! Hope you keep her straight and turn a" 7" ! Dal's turbo'd mustang went 7.78 @ 185 last night, he's running 30 lbs of boost !
Hey Al,
I have a '77 Lincoln engine ,20 over flattops, open chamber 98 cc smog heads that I ported the smog bump outta the exhaust port,[get better flame travel out of open chamber heads] , balanced,rods shot and resized, comp cam 280 H , blue thunder dual qual, dual plane intake with twin 600 edelbrock carbs. Home made hooker headers under the car into edelbrock 409 stainless 3" mufflers exiting at the side pipe. I run a GER pro street C-6 auto with a custom road racing 2,800 stall converter with 7 lb inertia ring.[launches hard, only 1/3 throttle launches] Lots of fun getting off the line on the street. I built it to pass the Air Care smog test here so the cam is mild and with the 8.8 compression ratio ,regular gas is easy to run, makes tons of mid-range power.
I put on too many miles to have a hi compression kantankerous engine.
In Fun,
Perry.

HighPlainsDrifter · #5 (**permalink**) 08-30-2003, 12:01 PM

My best offical run so far:

1.66 60'
7.57 @ 91.5 mph 1/8th mile.
11.92 @ 113.3 mph 1/4 mile.
cobra weighs in at 2940 lbs with me in it.
about 2,760 with a full tank[need weight over the rear wheels]

Al,
Like I say, it's hard to get a good launch and I'm easy on the rpm's as I don't want to break anything.
Perry.