Headed to the Texas Mile!

[Budnicks]

Damn 169+ is impressive for what it is... Congrats
seems/sometimes more MPH there can be, if you had a bit of tire spin early
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I know my big HP drag cars would MPH like a mofo
when they'd spin somewhere near or off the line & then hook up quick
some almost 10mph higher in the quarter, in a 7 second car
that'd normally run like 7.80-7.90 @ like 178, (at 1250-1280hp, 2500# car)
sometimes with spin early then hook & would trap-speed at as high as 188
back when they still had a 320 ft trap speeds lights/timers
180' before & after the stripe... drive it out the back door
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8.50 Pro-gas car, could run deep into the 7's
I ran it a few times in Super Eliminator S/E 7.90 class NHRA events
the S/E was mostly Altered's & dragsters, hard to win in a full bodied car

I had something for them too,
it could run 6.90's at 190 A/A trim

7.90 S/E trim

 

[feets]

Damn 169+ is impressive for what it is... Congrats
seems/sometimes more MPH there can be, if you had a bit of tire spin early

Wheelspin wasn't helping here. Dragy was saying my 1/4 mph was down 2-3 mph. The 60-130 times were 2 seconds slower than normal.
I tried all the tricks I could pull off. It started getting a bit better with a full tank, all my tools and stuff in the trunk, rear Michelins to 29 psi and fronts to 40. However, the headwind was not going to let it happen.
I'll see if I can get a pass in this morning before the wind gets ugly.

 

[MarPar]

Good Luck @feets!

 

[feets]

Sunday was a no go. I got one run in at 169.9 before the headwind got stupid. We had steady 20 mph winds gusting 35+ straight at us.
Kinda took the fun out of it.

In the end, I had 5 runs within 0.5 mph. Not too shabby for a bone stock daily driver with zero prep.