How He Did It Re: <VV> Dick Griffin's B Stock drag car

[FrankCB at aol.com]

John,
    I remember reading long ago that Griffin performed  this feat by pulling 
up to the starting line at FULL THROTTLE using the brakes  to hold back the 
car.  If the race took place promptly, he usually  won, but if it was delayed, 
he most often lost.  This clearly illustrates  how important it is to fully 
load the turbo even BEFORE you begin  accelerating.  It's rather hard to do this 
with the manual trans turbo  150/180 from a dead stop.  However, if you're on 
the highway getting  ready to pass a slower moving vehicle, you can use the 
brakes to hold down  your speed while you floor the accelerator pedal thereby 
staying behind the  car in front of you,  Once it's safe to pass, you simply let 
go of the  brake pedal and rocket around the car in front of you at high 
boost.   Just be prepared to replace your brakes more frequently than  normal.
    With an automatic trans, you can perform this same  trick at a stoplight. 
 Just remember to limit the time you spend at full  throttle AND full brakes 
since all that HP being developed turns into HEAT  in the trans fluid instead 
of accelerating the car.  Also better be using  synthetic trans fluid and have 
a trans fluid temp gauge installed. 
    Frank "likes turbos" Burkhard
 
In a message dated 10/13/2007 6:14:14 PM Eastern Daylight Time,  
JVHRoberts at aol.com writes:

Does  anyone have any particulars on how he got a Corsa turbo to turn 13   
seconds flat in the 1/4, while maintaining B Stock  classification?


Dick Griffin of Lansing, Michigan, twice won the  NHRA national drag racing  
championships in a B-Stock class  turbocharged Corvair. His best time for the 
 
standing-start  quarter-mile was 13.03 seconds at 113.92 mph!

_History  Channel:  1965 Corvair Corsa Turbocharged 180 ..._  
(http://boards.historychannel.com/thread.jspa?threadID=300036842&tstart=0&mod=
1109786413378)   







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