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Front Engine Dragsters / Re: Frame recert.

« on: April 25, 2014, 08:35:11 PM »

My car was certed for 7.50.  3 yrs agoso had to havea recert done and was told that the front two bars of the cage are not laided back far enough ( can' t remember if  he sad the bars needed to be at 22 or 25 degrees) so I have to add a couple of diagonals in the corners of the cage to the top frame loop.
Does'nt affect me,but was also told if the car would have been a 6.0 cert that I would need to add kidney bars from the rearend upright mounts all theway around the back of the car. Which would have made it impossible to remove the rearend.
Just wanted to let you guys know what I had heard so no one has any trouble recerting their cars

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Front Engine Dragsters / Frame recert.

« on: April 25, 2014, 04:13:08 AM »

Any one having any trouble with getting their car recertified?  Just had mine done and have to add a couple bars to the cage. I guess feds are getting to popular so the powers that be are updating the rules for chassis cert.  Just wanted to give peple a headsup if you need to recert soon. Would'nt have really cared about anding the bars to mine if I had'nt just spent a grand on striping and repowder coated the frame.

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Front Engine Dragsters / Re: What is everyone using for as a gear ratio

« on: April 25, 2014, 03:56:03 AM »

Running a 4.30 in mine on a 33 M&H. Launch @ 3800, shift @ 6500, cross the stripe@ 7100. I run  a  stroker smallblock mopar, so I don' t care to twist it as hard as if it were a 340.  I have thought about going to a shorter time though, just because it seems like all of the tracks are running super- pro on the. 1/8 mile now.

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Gassers / Re: mopar gassers ??

« on: June 18, 2013, 07:40:58 PM »

416 small block in mine. Mopar or No Car

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Front Engine Dragsters / Re: How fast with short wheelbase?

« on: May 12, 2013, 05:28:05 AM »

   Just one more thought to throw into the mix. In a front engine dragster we set behind the rear wheels, so the drivers weight also needs needs to be added to the equation.
   When we weighed my car on a set of four corner electric  scales the weight on the front wheels was  10 pounds lighter after I had gotten into the car.

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Roo Man's Room / Re: Set-up for better 60' ?

« on: May 06, 2013, 09:25:08 AM »

Thanks for all the ideas guys, good things to think about and try when I get the car running.

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Front Engine Dragsters / Re: What scares unbelievers most about your FED?

« on: May 05, 2013, 03:57:40 PM »

Hang in there man, its well worth the wait.  At times I thougt it would never be done, hense the name "Pipe Dreams". I'm sure I could have finished sooner but I've always wanted a FED  since I was about 5 and I wasn't going to skimp.

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Roo Man's Room / Re: Set-up for better 60' ?

« on: May 05, 2013, 03:05:20 PM »

   Had a set of used  31x13 Mickey's on the car when I first ran it. Then went to the 33x12 M& H Nostalgia top fuel tires. 60' times improved almost a tenth with the Bigger softer compound tire. I do think I need more wheel speed though as you guy's have suggested.
   The cars seemed to like low tire pressure and the wheelie set lower to help in get up on the tire. As this Picture shows I am sure that it is dead hooking. It seems to wad the M&H's up pretty good.

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Front Engine Dragsters / Re: What scares unbelievers most about your FED?

« on: May 05, 2013, 11:49:48 AM »

Yep, she'll hang the hoops everytime. Thank god for wheelie bars. Just started a new thread in Roomans seection to see about help with the short times.

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Roo Man's Room / Re: Set-up for better 60' ?

« on: May 05, 2013, 10:40:54 AM »

No, I don't have a data logger on the car. Have run the tire pressure is low as five and a half pounds didn't feel safer going much lower than that.

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Roo Man's Room / Set-up for better 60' ?

« on: May 05, 2013, 09:07:15 AM »

     Ok guys, lookin around the site and  think my set-up is really lacking in 60' compared to alot of others. Granted I need more test passes to see what the car likes, but just wondering what you guys thinks for basic set-up and and how close or far off I may be.
   Here is my setup so far.
170" wb flexable flyer, motor set 30" out 
1583 lbs w/ driver  18/82  front to rear weight bias
415 12.8/1 cr smallblock mopar est. 600hp on gas
1.76 shorty glide 5200 stall 8" custom coan convertor
4.30 gears
33x12 m&h set 6.5 psi
35 lbs ballest and 5' single wheel wheelie bar  set at 3"
Launching @ 3800 to 4000 w/ transbrake-per coan
 
 Best 60' has been a 1.22 but averages 1.25 to 1.30' depending on track prep.
Currently converting to injected alcohol.
If any more info needed is needed let me know and any help is great.

 

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Front Engine Dragsters / Re: New NT/F from Illinois

« on: May 05, 2013, 08:33:30 AM »

Man, thats NICE!

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Front Engine Dragsters / Re: What scares unbelievers most about your FED?

« on: May 05, 2013, 06:00:52 AM »

   When people say I'm crazy, I just smile and say " No, I'm getting smarter, I used to race a motorcycle"

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Front Engine Dragsters / Re: What scares unbelievers most about your FED?

« on: May 05, 2013, 05:54:28 AM »

thanks, last yr was the first full season on the car. Only took me 9 yrs to finish!! Had the old problem of either no time or no money. The great thing about building a nostalgia car is no matter how long it take to finish, it will still be a nostalgai car.
 Here is a pic of the day all of the hard work paid off. July,31 2011 First full pass on the car 9.03 @ 148.2

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Front Engine Dragsters / Re: What scares unbelievers most about your FED?

« on: May 04, 2013, 04:39:53 AM »

 Definitely the rear-end, but when I show them every thing I did when I built the rear they seem to change their mind. I guess maybe I was the same way and that reflex how I built It, but I can honestly say nothing short of an act of god is anything getting to " The Boys".
  I know I could have saved alot of weight in this area but I don't skimp on safety, so I guess you could say I over engineered it. Never understood how a 1/8 piece of flat stock on the back of the housing behind the ring gear would do anything. So mine  looks like a fabbed rear with 1/2 an 3/8 plate shielding, double flange mounts and 8 1/2" grade 8 bolts holding it in the car.