I just think there's more to drag racing than buying a 550hp car and thinking you're going to win. Anyone who doesn't understand that needs to spend more time at the track watching home brewed combos lay the smack down on high dollar cars.
I just think there's more to drag racing than buying a 550hp car and thinking you're going to win. Anyone who doesn't understand that needs to spend more time at the track watching home brewed combos lay the smack down on high dollar cars.
I just think there's more to drag racing than buying a 550hp car and thinking you're going to win. Anyone who doesn't understand that needs to spend more time at the track watching home brewed combos lay the smack down on high dollar cars.
Any forced induction for that bad boy? Even N/A that thing is going to scream!
yeah sort of like ford being supercharger happy huh?
That's because you've been brainwashed into believing that rear drum brakes = poor braking performance, Brian. The gains from discs as opposed to drums is not in stopping power, but in repeated stopping conditions where discs shed heat more rapidly than drums due to increased surface area and because ambient air can travel throughout the entire system. Obviously that's not the case with drums. However, drums are plenty enough to lock up the tires or to keep them on the verge of locking up for one stop from high speed.
You don't even have to have huge brakes out back, especially if you're not running skinnies up front. In that case, your fronts are going to do the vast majority of the work, anyway since that's where the weight tranfers under braking conditions.
For example, only one of my three Fox body Mustangs would lock up the back wheels with the E-Brake no matter how hard I pulled the handle and even then, that was only when brand new. In most cases (and I think most here will agree) if I wanted to prevent my car from rolling away on me even on the slightest grade hills, I needed to leave it in gear to do so. Otherwise there was no guarantee that my car was going to be in the same spot I parked it when I get back. I can't tell you the amount of times I actually drove away with my E-brake on, without know it and the only clue to its existence being the light on my dash.
If you size a turbo right for your combination it will have the torque if a roots blower and the top end of a centrifugal supercharger. There are lots of turbo motors that make full boost by 3500 rpms and carry the tq curve almost all the way to redline. There is nothing like a turbo car that is built correctly. Turbos kick ass.
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Not in a billion years.
Well, considering the majority of vehicle braking is done with the front brakes (which I hope at least they were upgraded), I was making more reference toward braking "control" than stopping power, but either way I have to disagree with you on their capabilities.
It has nothing at all to do with being “brainwashed”. The geometry and by association, clamping force/controlability with the mechanical drum set up if far, far inferior. Hydraulic disk brakes however, even something as bare bones as a set of stock GT rear disks have much...much greater advantage when stacked up to the stock drum brakes the Fox originally came with. If you want to compare surface area, just look at the surface area of the drum shoes in comparison to the tiny rear pads on the disk set up? The drum shoes have a huge size advantage, yet their stopping ability, even cold is still inferior. Couple that with the fact that cable stretch and shoe glazing isn’t only common with rear drum set ups, its inevitable and you could get yourself into real trouble trying to halt the car down from serious speeds in the ¼ before running out of track. And that’s even with stock front tires.....could you imaging the roller coaster ride on a cold track trying to haul a car down from 130-140mph with a set of bias ply skinnies out front defeating most of the effectiveness of your front brakes and a set of inferior stock drum brakes out back to aid the decent. Sign me up for a set of Adult Depend’s please.
For example, only one of my three Fox body Mustangs would lock up the back wheels with the E-Brake no matter how hard I pulled the handle and even then, that was only when brand new. In most cases (and I think most here will agree) if I wanted to prevent my car from rolling away on me even on the slightest grade hills, I needed to leave it in gear to do so. Otherwise there was no guarantee that my car was going to be in the same spot I parked it when I get back. I can't tell you the amount of times I actually drove away with my E-brake on, without know it and the only clue to its existence being the light on my dash.
Hydraulic disk > mechanical drum all the way across the board. Many drag racers stick with the stock drum set up to keep the rotational mass down, but make no mistake.....they compromise safety by doing so.