Topic: drag racing

[Chowmaster]

so im at the track last night for some reason, and nobody is runnnin their junk yet, so i figure ill just run mine.  its a 1/8th track, and i know my junk will bog down if i try and launch in hi range, so i put it in low and start off in 2nd gear.  my rig is pretty much stock with 4cyl, 32"s, 4.10 gears, winch etc. well i come off the line plenty hard and wrap the motor out through all the gears. i hit the rev limiter in 5th gear just before the lights and run a 11.8 at 52mph.  not too bad i guess.  i was gonna test it out some more but they said i dropped too much mud on the track.

[Erik]

hahahha, whoa.....   4 wheel low?  at 52 mph?

[SMC4WD]

That's awsesome!!  Just to have numbers is pretty cool.  Now you canget to building things, adding things and whatnot, and see how the numbers grow.  Gotta figure it can only get better.

I've got two drag racing thoughts as I read your post.  The first had to do with a friend of mine who was dead set on building a //jeep that would race the 4cyl. rice racers.  He wanted to build a supercharged motor and bump it up to the most power available.  Then he wanted to smoke all four 35" tires down the track, and leave them in his dust.  
(We can all dream, right?)

The second thought has to do with true, real live top fuel dragsters...   Back in the day I owned a brand new (1986) Ford Mustang.  It wasn't the faster street production car on the market, but it was up there...   Well I've been to many a major event, and saw all the best in top fuel racers...  What astonished me more than anything was the way they could blow thier engine at the line, literally burp the engine and it was off...  These things would coast down the 1/4 mile at a walk, but getting a time well under what I was able to do at a full pass.  I mean giving it everything I had, compared to them walking...

Just goes to show you...  Those guys are fast!

Chowmaster, I hope you had fun playing!  Whether it be a dyno or a race track.  It's cool to see the numbers...

[Chowmaster]

yeah i had fun, even if all the spectators were laughing at me! well i put on a good show i guess.  i was into drag racing before offroading and had a sweet old 79 z28.  it ran 7's in the eighth but seemed slow compared to real race cars.  figure if i had 4.88 gears and about 20 more horsepower i could give the ricers a run for their money. course i would leave it high range.

[Erik]

if you wanna race ricers buy an srt8 grand cherokee and smoke 'em, haha

-Erik <--- saw one running mid 11's with just a little spray a few weeks ago

[chrisfranklin]

Like the SRT-8, but it really needs to be set up to do double-duty:  ludicrous acceleration, stock, and then adjustable-height  suspension, locking diffs, transfercase, 33" tires, too (maybe kind of like the Range Rovers LR3s or whatever but with a 6.1 Hemi)

Of course this would not exactly involve off-the-shelf parts, most likely, and your SRT-8 would cost $300,000 a copy and DC would sell them in limited numbers and at a loss after the cost of the R&D

AEV needs to advertise a 6.1 Hemi/Atlas Transfer/Axle converstion for CJs/Wranglers.  Course, I'd settle for the 5.7.