I like the idea of the torque arm or the 3 link but i was wondering if anyone took off the autox wheels and tires and bolted some slicks on and really tried to hook with any pt setup or know someone who has. I would rather have a car that handles and drives great vs a drag car. I do however want to trap in the mid to high 140s.

Remember the project - not sure what the status is - called Unfair. The premise was build a capapble PT car, AutoX and roadrace and with a wheel/tire, shock adjustment and link bar removal you could go drag race. They used an Art Morrison frame with a combo 3 and 4 bar arrangment, IIRC.

They got razzed pretty good for the name tho.

Not to mention the Wheelbarrow firewall mod :innocent:

That's what I was getting at a post back. I had a car built for handling with high rate springs, big sway bars, appropriate shocks, and at the time, 40 series tires. Car ran 13.2 pretty consistently. Swapping to the equivilent of a 60 series drag slick dropped it to the high 12s to 13 flat.

Sometime later, I took the engine/trans out of that car, swapped it into a purpose built drag car and ran low 12s. This car had very high rate rear suspension, a very loose front suspension, no sway bars, 90/10 shock up front, etc. Typical drag type set up.

Now, since this was back in the early 90s, it was a leaf spring car using an oem style front suspension, in both cases. No 3 or 4 link set ups or torque arms or anything else with a decent amount of adjustability. I did have a smal range of adjustment in the leaf mounting system, angled shims, and the typical amount of front end adjustment. Could you go farther with a more modern, link style set up, maybe. One difference I did notice in the e.t.s is teh drag car would vary 3-4 tenths whereas the handling set up would only vary a few hundreths.

It depends on how much tweaking you want to do to the car. IMO, if you spend too much time changing the set up and altering or removing/adding items, it takes away from the fun. A rim and tire swap is no big deal. Altering all your instant centers and re-calibrating shocks is a pain to do on both ends of a drag strip visit comapred to just driving up, unloading and running. I'll gladly give up elapsed time to the ultimate e.t. chase to have more fun.

yep that is what I do the Nova had 60' times of 1.92-93.
1.8 60' is good !!likely on a better start line than I was using. I want to go to Vegas and try it there.

This very familiar Ford one off beast used a torque arm
 

http://i573.photobucket.com/albums/s...sicman/IMG.jpg

John Coletti and his crew worked with Roush to build this seemingly no expense spared 1994 'Boss' 10L Mustang which used a Griggs torque arm so it would launch better. Still looking for a pic of the rear setup.

IIRC it started out with a 429 cid Boss motor and then things got outta hand from there...lol

Saw this data on a website (but not gonna vouch for it ;) ).

604cid
855 hp
794 lb/ft

0-60 1.9 sec
0-100 5.5 sec.

Jack Roush now owns it and talks about it in the 1st vid.



In the 2nd vid it makes some very nasty noises.



http://slickstang.com/Photos/concept...oncept_001.jpg

http://image.mustangandfords.com/f/2..._v8_engine.jpg

Very cool Skipper!

This car consistently runs mid 8's on our gLink rear suspension when he puts on slicks It has double adjustable VariShocks and a FAB9 housing too. Read about it here.

And here's a link to the car on StangTV.

Nice mustang.. for rear suspension Eval 60 foot is often a lot more important the ET.