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Short WB FED's

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Zooman:
My injected nitro digger is 200". It has a Gene Adams early hemi tune up, so it starts out with the full load hammer blows - not creeping up on it!...........At times, I sure wished I had an extra 25" wheel base, but we are working with what we have. So far 50 lbs weight have been added up front. Next move is to re-locate the fire bottles from midship to up front.

I've driven lots of cars down the track (even wheelstanders!) but this my first FED and the first few hard hits in the Fossil Fueler felt spooky. Front end was real light - but thats probably just my inexperience with this kind of car.

As mentioned above, you can make it work with any wheelbase if you go about it in a methodical way. Just takes a little time.

voxnut:
125" Wheelbase:



140" wheelbase



140" wheelbase



It looks like it can be done, it just depends on what you want to do with the car, and how bad you want it.

gasserx:
I have no clue about how the different length wheelbases behave on the strip as i havent tried yet.... But i do own an 180" wb FED and i had to extend my garage a little bit to make it fit straight in.
I also wanted a shorter wb, but the guys on this forum converted me  ;D

Oh, and talking about short wheelbase - i have an Fiat 600 in the making that will be powered by a turboed flat4 vw engine. It has 78" wb   ;) Should be able to do low 10`s.

George:
Our 223" car goes straight as a string but as we make more power the more difficult it has become to control . At seasons end we were about 50% in getting the car off the line. Half the time it would 60' below 1.00 sec and the other half it would smoke the tires.  This winter we moved the fuel tank (3 gallons) as far forward as possible. Also installed a 1.69 low gear in place of the 1.80. The 2-20# fire bottles are as far forward as the cables will allow, We have a 40+# battery inside the nose piece. Also we run a 4.10 with a 33" tire.  We have some ballast installed as well. I can't imagine how much weight we would need out front on a shorter car. My goal is to run 4.50 in the 1/8 mile consistently .

dreracecar:

--- Quote from: dusterdave173 on December 17, 2014, 04:14:49 AM ---Go to any Nostalgia meet and watch--the short cars all look cool but usually never make full hard passes--they are cool / fun but--- the long cars all stage up and rip it
Good Luck!

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That statment is the biggest load of #### I have ever seen posted!!!

  As a chassie builder, If the car is built correctly, wheelbase is a non issue. I have been working on a 225" chassie (from a well know builder who people worship) that the owner has been fighting for years to get down the track consistantly. Just finnished front halfing it because everything was off

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