It's very interesting to watch these turbocharged Pro Mod cars as they stage using the transbrake button. With the cars 'jerking' forward as much as they do, I wonder how consistent the drivers are when staging the car from one pass to the next, in terms of exactly where the front tires are relative to the 2 staging beams? I imagine that most drag racers get into the starting line with relative consistency, or at least try to do so, but I wonder if that is also achievable with the transbrake button on these Pro Mods? Regardless, they must be a handful to drive!! Thanks for the upload!
The vast majority of these cars are based off vehicles from the 1950's - the early 1970's, but you do have the occasional car that's based off of a newer Mustang or Viper. Secondly, these cars have tubular race frames, custom engine blocks and transmissions, and have fiberglass bodies. There's nothing remotely like a factory production car on these beasts.
the floppers I'm referring to are the Funny cars of the late 60''s & 70's & early 80's that did run fiberglass bodies as well as tube chassis and still retained more of a factory look to them then these rags. I ran a A/A Firebird Funny car from 1975 thru 1981 on the match race circuit so to me these cars are nothing new just a bunch of stream lined bottle fed copies of what we already did
pontiac reddz You can look at it that way, but none of these cars are running any nitro methane, and the engine's are hand-built - mostly in some guy's garage. There's also room for variation, here. Turbos, supercharged, nitrous, all allowed, but all have different displacement and weight limitations. Supercharged engine's can't exceed around 525ci, Twin Turbo engines can't exceed something like 620 cubic inches, and N/A Nitrous engines are limited to somewhere in the 900ci range. The Supercharged cars also have to weigh the heaviest, turbos being in the middle, and the nitrous cars being the lightest.
the floppers my dad ran in the 70's were all hand built in the home garage only thing that was not done at home was the actual machine work to the motor and the modification to the body construction of the car assembly of the engine and paint work were all done in the garage as with most guys that ran the match race circuit that we ran in.
Chip King and that Twin Turbocharged 1970 Dodge Daytona is the best i swear
It's very interesting to watch these turbocharged Pro Mod cars as they stage using the transbrake button. With the cars 'jerking' forward as much as they do, I wonder how consistent the drivers are when staging the car from one pass to the next, in terms of exactly where the front tires are relative to the 2 staging beams? I imagine that most drag racers get into the starting line with relative consistency, or at least try to do so, but I wonder if that is also achievable with the transbrake button on these Pro Mods? Regardless, they must be a handful to drive!! Thanks for the upload!
Yeah dude, idk how they stage these beast without bumping in to far...
Usually you stage with a normal brake and then once you're staged you use the transbrake and Rev up to their desired rpm
YES!
All five people stay in your seats!
these are just fancy late 70's early 80's floppers sucking on oxide
The vast majority of these cars are based off vehicles from the 1950's - the early 1970's, but you do have the occasional car that's based off of a newer Mustang or Viper.
Secondly, these cars have tubular race frames, custom engine blocks and transmissions, and have fiberglass bodies. There's nothing remotely like a factory production car on these beasts.
the floppers I'm referring to are the Funny cars of the late 60''s & 70's & early 80's that did run fiberglass bodies as well as tube chassis and still retained more of a factory look to them then these rags. I ran a A/A Firebird Funny car from 1975 thru 1981 on the match race circuit so to me these cars are nothing new just a bunch of stream lined bottle fed copies of what we already did
pontiac reddz You can look at it that way, but none of these cars are running any nitro methane, and the engine's are hand-built - mostly in some guy's garage. There's also room for variation, here. Turbos, supercharged, nitrous, all allowed, but all have different displacement and weight limitations.
Supercharged engine's can't exceed around 525ci, Twin Turbo engines can't exceed something like 620 cubic inches, and N/A Nitrous engines are limited to somewhere in the 900ci range.
The Supercharged cars also have to weigh the heaviest, turbos being in the middle, and the nitrous cars being the lightest.
the floppers my dad ran in the 70's were all hand built in the home garage only thing that was not done at home was the actual machine work to the motor and the modification to the body construction of the car assembly of the engine and paint work were all done in the garage as with most guys that ran the match race circuit that we ran in.
You totally look like John Cena
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