Put 3/4 of your weight stack in the bed and leave the rest hanging off the front. 4Hi, hammer down and see what breaks

 

If I got it moving I'd have to have a parachute to stop it

 

Well I did it. Good times. Being super nervous and not knowing what I'm doing, the first run I was 2wd and after the guy explained how to stage and then staging me....I drove up to the tree. And started spoolling. The I get a knock on the window. He laughed and said" Umm the stageing lights are back there". Oops. Then I staged and spooled first, after a few seconds I looked over and the s10 next to me was pushing buttons. So I let off then he pulled up and the light went green before I could spool again. Lesson learned, let the other guy stage first. The next run was 2wd at 20 lbs boost, it blew the tires off

 

2nd pass. Got loose so I backed out. I did stage correctly though

 

3rd and 4th run. 4wd. 10lb boost the first run then 20 lbs the next. It leaves lazy off the line then pulls hard thru the gears. Can' get it to hold any more than 20lbs on the line before it starts creeping. Needs 30 lbs probably. Plus I need to be better on the tree. If you take away my sucky reaction time then the numbers look better.

 

I made some tranny program changes out these 2 runs. Raised shift points 600rpms and raised the convrtor lockup from 20 mph to 32 . I was trying to let it breath more to build boost but hindsight I should have probably went the other way to load it more. It'll be 3 weeks before I will get to try again but it was fun and nothing broke. I gotta get fans on it before next time and also a 2nd tranny cooler. Turning a spooled front axle with the hubs locked on that sticky track sure makes some funky sounds and movement but everything held.

 

Watch "Bonne Terre, MO Drag Strip" on YouTube

 

Watch "Bonne Terre, MO Drag Strip" on YouTube

reaction time is what makes the start close. At the big end it was a good stretch between us.

 

Watch "Bonne Terre, MO Drag Strip" on YouTube

4th pass 20lbs boost 4wd

 

Watch Kaskaskia island full pull Sept 2 2018
I finally got this old truck lined out as far as tuning goes

 

 

 

Yeah it felt good to finally get that thing to do what it should. The weights helped a lot. 2000lbs on it for that pull. The real secret was in the tranny tune. I kept the converter unlocked till half way through 2nd gear then locked hit and held 2nd till the end. The flagman was waiving for me to stop or I could have went farther . Good times. I won a medal too. And 30 dollars

 

Good work! It's nice that it worked. Now to do it again.

 

That is a short track. What is that 200'?