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tony: It's obvious you dont know the first thing about drag racing if you think it takes no skill,I would like to be at the drag strip and here you tell all the racers what they do doesnt take skill    
                                         
                      curt



-------------- Original message -------------- 
From: Tony Underwood <tonyu at roava.net> 

> At 12:41 hours 03/25/2006, UltraMonzaWest at aol.com wrote: 
> >In a message dated 3/25/2006 12:34:13 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
> >tonyu at roanokeinternet.com writes: 
> > 
> > > If that were true, then why did my 3700 lb '66 Plymouth 
> > > outrun every 302 Z Camaro I ever raced...? ;) 
> > > ..including a tweaked LT-1 "Mr Bigshot" 1970 Z that had 
> > > this mean rep on the cruise strip here in town? 
> > > 
> >------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
> >------------------------------ 
> >1 Gearing??? 
> 
> 
> Whose? Mine or theirs? Mine had 3.23 gears in back. 
> 
> Before you scoff at the 3.23s: 
> 
> Short wide low profile tires, Sure-Grip, and a 2.66 1st gear combined 
> with a *lot* of midrange torque. 426 cubic inches didn't hurt 
> either. It did help in that these contests for the most part were 
> almost always from a rolling punch. If I had to launch, I had to 
> slip the hell out of the clutch to get the car off the line without 
> lighting the tires. 
> 
> >2 Driver skill 
> 
> How much skill do you need to point the car straight and snatch 2nd/3rd? 
> 
> >3 They weren't racing you? 
> 
> Well, if they bust into it beside you, revving the engine to redline 
> and dumping the clutch smoking tires, I'd take it that they were 
> trying to tempt me. Of course, any moron who smokes tires off the 
> line like that is doomed to loose anyway. Then again, that orange 
> LT1 Z just punched it from a 25mph roll and took off... I had to 
> catch him. And I did. And I passed him right in front of the 
> bunch at the burger joints. 
> 
> 
> ...made me wonder what all the hype was about his Z-28 since it 
> wasn't that hard to whip him. I'll admit his car sounded pretty 
> good... but then IMHO so did mine. ;) 
> 
> 
> What was that old adage...? "There's no substitute for cubic 
> inches." ...? 
> 
> 
> People who bought those factory-hotrodded 302 Zs and thought they 
> were street killers never stopped to consider that other larger 
> engines built equally would also be equally stronger. 
> 
> In short, no matter how good the 302 Z engine looked on paper, on the 
> street a 302 Z engine in a 3100 lb Camaro was not able to outrun a 
> 3700 lb Satellite with a 426 in it. Got witnesses... :) 
> 
> 
> 
> ...sorry to pop the Z-28 bubbles... ;) Oh, for sake of mention, 
> the Sat had a windage tray. 
> 
> 
> tony.. 
> 
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