Dave Hance First 6 Sec Drag Radial Pass

First ever 6 sec run on Radial tires. Bradenton Motorsports Park on 1/23/09. Video by http://www.urbanhillbilly.us

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[Kneedragon1962]

I must be missing something. I know all about Ford : GM rivalry, happens a lot here in Australia too. What I don't get, is that the whole object of this post / clip - as I understand it, is about the performance of the drag radial tyres. You guys have hijacked it into some stupid Ford v GM thing. 129 comments, and not one of them is about the damn tyres. WTF?

[bigbobkropp]

@3000gtvr45Lebtt There is no clutch pedal on these cars. They are almost always two or three speed automatics. A manual is too slow at this level of competition. Everything is done with engine tuning. And full throttle means nothing unless the engine is under load with turbos of this size. Everything is done with engine tuning and suspension. You cant shock the tires with that much power, it just wont hook until the car is moving good and has transferred its weight to the rear suspension

[carrick166]

I remember when this happened in 09. 1 year later in 2010 david wolfe goes 6.57, everyone is going faster and faster!

[dragula1973]

@Elkarateka3 Aftermarket BBC, seen it for sale on racing junk and noticed that it had an all aluminum BBC

[Stickman53fe]

I don't give a shit what powers that car, that's a flipping amazing time for a drag radial.

[ranchoposi]

you sir are fuckin awesome! foreels'

[3000gtvr45Lebtt]

@bigbobkropp i dunno man, i've seen quiet a few drag cars reach max boost at the starting line, especially when you launch it, cuz it goes from half throttle to full throttle, the engine starts spitting out more exaughst fumes, intern spooling the turbo faster, creating more boost. if the tires can't take the power then feather the clutch, since its probably a trailer queen the clutch is the least of your worries.

[bigbobkropp]

@3000gtvr45Lebtt Any kind of car is going to require large amounts of finesse at this level of drag racing. You arent going to be able to build more than a few pounds of boost with these cars while staging, the turbos are just too big. A good 6 second turbo car will be running two 105 mm turbos and i dont care how big your engine is, you wont be spooling those turbos unless your engine is under full load. And you wouldnt want to anyway. Those tires wont be able to put down 3500 hp at launch.

[3000gtvr45Lebtt]

@bigbobkropp that all depends on how you drive your car, you can get a supercharged car to pull smoothly, you just have to know what your doing. and turbos can reach peak boost quicker than that, i've seen them max out after the first 20 feet, its all about building boost before you launch. turbos require timing, superchargers require finesse.

[blownpony306]

@bigbobkropp That is true of positive displacement blowers. Centrifugal blowers build boost as RPM increases. Much more peaky like a turbo.

[bigbobkropp]

@Elkarateka3 Turbos, thats why it launches so smoothly and why almost all fast drag Radial cars are running turbos. Supercharges and nitrous deliver all their power instantly at launch, so you are much more likely to shred your tires off the line, Turbos take a couple hundred feet to get to peak output and when your in the groove of the track and accelerating as hard as him you are much less likely to spin your tires once full boost hits around 200-300 feet.