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reaction dont matter, unless your heads up racing, in the same class,
with those 60's, you ve not enough power to get near Kev

pete walton wrote:This a copy of my last run at the nats.reaction.4048,,,,,,,,60ft 2.0831,,,,,,,330ft 5.9462,,,,,,,,,1/8 8.8562,,,,,,,,,1/8 mph 86.53mph,,,,,,,,,1000 et 11.1961,,,,,,,et 13.2612 mph 113.70. I would guess if i had not had a cup of tea and a biscuit on the line that could have been a chuffing good time poss fastest a bod.

Julies Dart ran 11.6 @ 112mph at the Nats.
Went 11.4 @ 117mph at Shakey with a 1.5 60 foot time.

A bit to go yet, Pete

When Dave & Mags Bailey are running we are not even in the Ballpark..........

My 60 was 1.755 ET 12.008 @ 115.510

1.58 on me 11.72 run

pete walton wrote:I will get there Pete just got to make enough power to drag my massive wheels of the line

Pete , why are you running on those mahoosive wheels , genuine question , not tryin to be funny , cos I'm sure you'd get better results with another combo.

Very true Adam! But would you chop up an original 60's race car???? Work with what you have, Pete (and what gears are you running!!!!!!! Again!!!!!! )

Yea , thought it must of been summat to do with it.

Can always experiment with different wheels though , when he beats you & Pete he can put the mahoosives back on.

3.55 ?

here is the maths that will work if a few things are constant

in reality your acceleration isn't but for back of fag packet calc to see if 1 second on 60 foot time = 2 seconds extra at the line

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equations_of_motion

the classic equations are easier to understand

A level stuff unless you did O'levels

GCSEs just involve drawing a picture of the thing in motion so if ya 35 or under you are screwed...

I know, i taught it (in english to children who couldn't speak english, i was supposed to i wasn't being spiteful).

I think if you use classic equations 1 and 4

where u is the speed at 60 foot V is the speed at the line

use equation 1 to work out average acceleration

R or S is the distance traveled 1/4 mile - 6o foot in this case
use meters, meters/second and meters per second squared for acceleration its easier

convert back to mph later

can't be arsed to do one.... i had to erase everything i learned to fit in idiocy, humour, how to rebuild a VW flat 4 and how to make things go bang

let me know if it works, i probably got it wrong...sbeen a long time

James!!!

integration diferentiation and stuff it scares me and I've lost me notes

dave

Thanks Dave.. ..............................................

yeah it seemed like such a good idea then i thought.....i really can't be arsed too much like hard work

acceleration is the key

and maintaining it for the full 1/4

first 8th its accelerating a big lump of car as fast as poss
second 8th its overcoming the wind resistance that goes up exponentially with every mph. which is why a ford pop aint the best car to go drag racing in

to do it right and miantain the same acceleration for the full 1/4 you would need a very wide torque curve and a lotta gears

a variator gearbox like on a modern scooter would be the go.

dave

Pete wrote:When Dave & Mags Bailey are running we are not even in the Ballpark..........

Yeah! But they are hardly street driven to and from the track,eh? Oh! I forgot! Mr TrailerQueen!!!!!!
Reckon I could go 11.4 if I trailered my car!!
Should we have a "Trash Talk" section???