Setting the motor low as possible?

bruno wrote:

feetfirst wrote:Low and forward........thats all im going to say about that.....

interesting feet

Nick, its a power/weight bias thing......the more power, well....watch what happened to KY's car...

When talking to a bunch of different ADRL guys (PX, PN, & XTF) at the Motorplex, I asked why they had such a wide range of engine placements car to car vs the more cookie-cutter placements you see in the NHRA/IHRA cars. A lot of them said that since they run the 1/8 mile shows & little or no rule limits they found that they had a much larger engine placement window to work with not having to worry about what the car would do/how it would handle in the 1/4. Traction control being legal might have also played a part too.

So some guys that were running with the engine sitting out on the nose of the car & high off the ground (& also with a bunch of extra nose ballast too) said that they were getting incredible 60 ft & 330 numbers, but at the expense of some top end MPH & stability. And some of the guys with the engine sitting farther back & real low were having lazier 60's, but a killer top end charge (and were more stable) from about 200ft on out. These ADRL cars also looked to have quite a range of deferent 4-link settings as some of the I/C heights & lengths were very different car to car.

One of the guys said that Jerry Bickel is the first guy that started experimenting with moving the engine back out on the nose of the ADRL cars. But I guess it could have been any of the big time builders that started it. Just goes to show that nothing is set in stone & any number of ideas could work in building a drag car depending on what the rules allow you to do, & how much power you have to work with..

Sounds like the return of the Gassers!!

They had to do that to get the hard tired to hook I guess!?!? They didn't have the HP but the tire/suspension technology wasn't too good.

Bill