Street Driven 8 second car on 17 inch drag radials

[us7race]

Bad Ass Ride. You did a Great Job of building not only a fast car but a real sleeper. Most you see don't run half that quick!
Congrats!!

[Novi357]

Originally Posted by Shane Gilstrap

Honestly would rather have that car than an Outlaw 10.5 car....

Thanks, that is quite the compliment.

Originally Posted by warrant

MOAR!

Heh. Here are some other pictures:

When I was on pinks all out and Rich was like, "wtf??"



What I always thought was a great shot of me going against an nmra car at a track rental:



A video from a track rental. I was sleeping at the tree, but the et is good.

click on picture for video

[7DMACH1]

I've seen the car at a few events including 1320x at MIR. To look at the car you would never expect it to be that fast. Nice job!!!

[JMatt]

Wow!!! I love sleepers, and yours may be the best I've heard of. Nicely done!

[76855]

OOOOMMMMGGGG

[Novi357]

Originally Posted by 1320

Where are you from?

I used to live in San Diego, but live in Maryland now. I know, I know, it makes no sense to me either.

Originally Posted by BFreeZ28

Very impressive and well thought out ride.

Thank you. I have a set of friends who all built similar type cars. It really helps to have a group of guys to bounce ideas off of and see what works and what does not.

Originally Posted by steve99

That is awesome, the stock hood is the best!
My favorite color and model.

Thanks! Once upon a time the car was that 89 midnight blue with a blue interior. Painting it black and getting rid of the blue interior was definitely a good move!

Originally Posted by two70novas

I'm not even a stang fan, but that car is just plain bad ass!!!!

Thanks, that is almost the best compliment you can give!

Originally Posted by mj79stang

1100 or so horsepower is definitely believable. you could probably clean house street racing or grudge racing somebody at the track. especially if you kept the hood closed. just awesome. period. the ultimate sleeper.

I am sure it would not surprise you how many times street racers have asked me to bring my car out. A lot of guys are happy to bet on me at the track and sucker their friends who show up later in the day and have never seen my car run.

Originally Posted by looking4vr

I feel bad for those unfortunate folks who haven't had a chance to see this car in person. It was far and away my favorite car at 1320x this past weekend and it was sitting in the pits all by its lonesome...no one around it. In fact, when I first saw it I assumed it was just a street car that belonged to one of the race teams that was there (it was parked near the Anger Management Racing trailer) and I thought, wow, thats a really clean fox. Then I saw it run and just about shat myself. I was in the tower with a room full of about 15 hardcore fans/racers and we all were like "Did that car just do that?"
It leaves the line kinda lazy and then just builds speed and looks like a train going down to the big end...
Dude, you have a serious bruiser on your hands there and much respect to you for it....AWESOME

Thanks. I was probably hiding under the tent of the guy pitted next to me. It was so hot out! I had hoped to hit an 8 second pass during the event, but it just wasn't going to happen without upping the boost.

Originally Posted by Viper TT

Awesome build man! Hopefully I will be able to see it run sometime soon.

Thank you. I am a huge viper fan. Hope you get yours back running soon. I definitely want to see yours run too.

Originally Posted by us7race

Bad Ass Ride. You did a Great Job of building not only a fast car but a real sleeper. Most you see don't run half that quick!
Congrats!!

Half the fun is definitely the surprised look on people's faces after a pass. People at 1320x were definitely looking at me strange when I wrote the 8.95 dial in on the car for the bracket challenge.

[BFreeZ28]

do the tech people give you a hard time? does it have enough roll bar/cage to go 8's and what about a parachute?

[qwiknotch]

Major props to you. Your car is the shit.

That's an 8.50 car with 160mph traps

[qwiknotch]

Originally Posted by BFreeZ28

do the tech people give you a hard time? does it have enough roll bar/cage to go 8's and what about a parachute?

You can see the front halo in this picture.

[Novi357]

Originally Posted by BFreeZ28

do the tech people give you a hard time? does it have enough roll bar/cage to go 8's and what about a parachute?

A lot of the tracks around here know the car pretty well so they know it has everything to pass tech. The car has a cage that is certed to 8.50. I made sure when it was done that it was tucked in as much as possible. The top cross bar by the windshield is tucked up against the headliner to the point you can barely fit a zip tie between it and the headliner.

I have a wolfe mount for the chute so it is easy to take on and off. I think I am pretty much done being able to get away without running it on the car. Everyone knows the car can trap 150+ so they are starting to yell at me for not having the chute on the car.

Here is a pic of the car where you can see the mounting hole in the bumper:




Here is a pic where the chute is actually mounted:




The chute kind of screws up the sleeper effect, but I think most people just think I might be a poser ricer sticking a chute on a car for looks

[Fastmover]

I saw the whole in the bumper for the chute, just didn't have it on the car, sleeper right!

[TMK Photography]

Originally Posted by BFreeZ28

do the tech people give you a hard time? does it have enough roll bar/cage to go 8's and what about a parachute?

He said in another post that the chute was laying in the back seat...

I had the opputrunity to look the car over on saturday as well and will compliment you 100% truly a unique piece. Congrats on a awesome ride.

[Novi357]

Originally Posted by qwiknotch

Major props to you. Your car is the shit.

That's an 8.50 car with 160mph traps

Thanks. I know that I give up a lot on the et side because of the 17 inch rims, but it really is fun to do something different.

I did not build the car to fit into any particular class of racing so i'm just basically out there to have a good time.

[Miniracer1992]

I remember a friend showing me this car, It's definately impressive, Haha, Wonder what the kids at my school would do if I rolled up in something like this

[SHAKEY]

AWESOME SLEEPER!! very nice car, my kinda thing for sure!! im changing the hood on my ol truck, but it will never be the sleeper like you have!!! good job!!!