Last Friday night at Test-N-Tune my son ran the track owners Mercedes E-55 tuner sedan. The Suburban has a medium nitrous hit and the Mercedes has a supercharger. Suburban weighes 5500 lbs. vs 4600 for the Mercedes. This Mercedes has run a best of 12.46 but recently replaced the original tires and the new ones have hurt his bite quite a bit. You can watch the race at http:// www.personal.utulsa.edu/~joshua-whitney/files/video/dan-g.wmv.

lol, thats amazing. Those 55's are no slowpokes for a streetcar. What an amazing suburban, I like the older body styles too. Cool vid

Thats just cool. :cool:

sweet!

I will have an E55 one of these days.

lol, thats amazing. Those 55's are no slowpokes for a streetcar. What an amazing suburban, I like the older body styles too. Cool vid In defense of the Mercedes it ran quite a bit faster before he cheaped out on the new set of tires. It used to run high twelves at about 109 MPH when he could come out harder and get the boost up before letting the clutch out. It can't dig with the Suburban down low though. That big barge has cut a 1.91 - 60' on real street tires. Those lights on our scoreboard are one decimal point off. That light my boy put on the Mercedes was a .002 on a .500 pro tree start while "Rip Van Guterman's" was a .3xx.

Whats in that sub? 454?

That's cool...you guys are sick!

I love it!


JIM

That is funny as hell! I would have liked to of seen the look on the E-55 owner's face after that run. He would have been hard pressed to catch your son running a 12.4x pass given the advantage at the starting line. That burb' must react pretty quick to cut a .020 light. I've raced my Duramax a few times and I think .050 is the best R/T I've had in it. Thanks for sharing, Harold :)

SSSSWWWWEEETTTT!!!!! That thing gotta hemi? :p

That is funny as hell! I would have liked to of seen the look on the E-55 owner's face after that run. He would have been hard pressed to catch your son running a 12.4x pass given the advantage at the starting line. That burb' must react pretty quick to cut a .020 light. I've raced my Duramax a few times and I think .050 is the best R/T I've had in it. Thanks for sharing, Harold :) Actually Ken the decimal points on our scoreboards are off one place to the right, the light was a .502 by the old way and .002 by the new way. If you notice the Mercedes shows a 3.xx light but in reality it was a .3xx light, still way late though. I hear NHRA has reset the time on their national event Pro Trees to eliminate red lights in Pro Stock and the timers now have a .375 second delay instead of .400. I don't know if it's true but it might be. I know the timing systems used to have the capability of being dialed all the way down to a 1/4 second. I don't think anybody could redlight without anticipating it.

SSSSWWWWEEETTTT!!!!! That thing gotta hemi? :p He used to drive around in an old '71 longbead pickup that was way meaner than this Surburban. He broke a roller lifter in that one. It ran 11.32 @ 116.9 on the motor and 10.57 @ 125+ on a 150 shot of N20.