Made four passes with our local DOT heads up street car organization.

I'm flat out impressed with how well these BFG drag radial tires work (325/50-15 on a 9.5" wide rim). I thought they were good when new, as they hooked equal to a pair of 9 x 30 Hoosier radial slicks. As these drag radias are wearing down, there just getting better and better.

Todays 60's were 1.471, 1.445, 1.443, 1.433 :eek: :D graemlins/thumbsup.gif . Previous best was 1.464.

Our class has a per race bonus for the quickest 60' in competition. It's a 10.0 index/breakout heads up class. Last event I won the very first bonus award ($50). This event has the same bonus which I may have won again...won't know till probably tomorrow. Pretty odd how my car is in the middle/back of the pack ET wise for the class (lucky to go past first round), but my car 60's about the quickest of any car in the class graemlins/thumbsup.gif .

Assuming I stil have the car come next spring, it's likely be due for new tires. May have to try the MT ET Street radials next time as I heard rumors of BFG changing the tread design of the drag radials to the G-force import style tread...no confirmation of that though.

way to go Todd! I really wish I had made it to one of the MSRA events, you guys put on a good show from what i hear

nice todd which track were you runnin at?

Originally posted by FIG:
way to go Todd! I really wish I had made it to one of the MSRA events, you guys put on a good show from what i hear I don't know about DOT, but the R/S and UDR cars are definately worth watching...8 second ET's on 10.5" tires are pretty impressive at small local tracks.

Originally posted by TROY:
nice todd which track were you runnin at? Believe it or not, but this event was at 75/80 of all places. Can't believe the track was hooking that well today given it's past of poor traction. Apparently the friday night OPS has better track prep which helps us on our Saturday programs.

Originally posted by 10secBu:
Pretty odd how my car is in the middle/back of the pack ET wise for the class (lucky to go past first round), but my car 60's about the quickest of any car in the class graemlins/thumbsup.gif
Thats not Odd, thats BSE power!

Originally posted by Motor Martyr:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by 10secBu:
Pretty odd how my car is in the middle/back of the pack ET wise for the class (lucky to go past first round), but my car 60's about the quickest of any car in the class graemlins/thumbsup.gif
Thats not Odd, thats BSE power! </font>[/QUOTE]Yup, them BSE's run great when equiped with aluminum rods, single plane intakes, large 2" headers, x-pipes, tail pipes, street tires, fiberglass hood & bumper, anti-roll bar, blah, blah, blah. :rolleyes: tongue.gif :D

Remind me again how many BSE rides are equiped this way and how many of these pieces of equipment are on the BSE recipe? ;)

The whole basis behind the BSE was to build torque. This lil rat doesn't make much in comparison to Ed's 454 (this has just 360 ft/lb at the rear wheels IIRC). What it does have is a chassis that is working well in relation to the power production in conjunction with a fairly efficient driveline.

Put my tires on Ed's car and you'll likely see him smoke the tires to the 1/8 mile timers.

Whatever.

Brian, I'm not discussing this any further with you. It's none of your business.

anybody have pics of those 325/50-15's on their ride? i'm thinking of gettin'em for mine!

Todd,

Very impressive times. That malibu sure is a sweet ride.

I have tried to email you a few times but it keeps bouncing back. Please shoot me an email as I have a few questions that I am sure you could answer.

Thanks!

BSE?

Originally posted by 71chevy0192:
BSE? Don't ask, it causes wars!!!!!! :D Bigley Special Engine I believe. Very smart guy with a very good running car, but there's more than one way to skin a cat and this topic gets everybody up in arms!

I couldn't get better than a 1.98 with the 325/50 DR's......guess that has a lot to do with a Cobra not being exactly right for drag racing and a crummy track! graemlins/clonk.gif

Congrats, that's flying!

Jody

Originally posted by 10secBu:


I heard rumors of BFG changing the tread design of the drag radials to the G-force import style tread...no confirmation of that though. The tread is staying the same. The only thing that is changing is the name on the side of the tire according to BFG's press release from Comp T/A to GForce T/A's

Link to the new G Force Drag Radial (http://www.bfgoodrichtires.com/bfgapp/catalog/tires/gforcetadragradial2.jsp)
G Force Radial pic (http://www.bfgoodrichtires.com/images/catalog/tires/gforce_drag_radial2_large.jpg)

Congrats Todd....I've had my best ever 60ft on BFG's also, 1.64 smile.gif

Congratulations Todd! graemlins/thumbsup.gif

It looks like those rumors may be true about the tread changing.

http://www.bfgoodrichtires.com/bfgapp/news/press_release/03232004A.jsp

...see the second paragraph.

graemlins/thumbsup.gif

If you follow the link above to BFG you will see it says "alternate tread pattern available". Click on it and you go to another version of the same GForce T/A Drag Radial tire with a different tread pattern. One version is old-school and one is the new style like the ricers use. A great marketing move.

I've edited this post out of request of the moderators.

Todd,

I got your email, responeded and it bounced back.

I got the following message:

Reason: Remote SMTP server has rejected address
Diagnostic code: smtp;554 Service unavailable; Client host [24.201.245.36] blocked using rbl-plus.mail-abuse.org
Remote system: dns;mail.qis.net (TCP|10.23.32.21|45960|209.150.96.22|25) (floyd.qis.net ESMTP Postfix)

You must have a serious spam blocker or something...

Originally posted by Chris_69_SS:
Todd,

I got your email, responeded and it bounced back.

I got the following message:

Reason: Remote SMTP server has rejected address
Diagnostic code: smtp;554 Service unavailable; Client host [24.201.245.36] blocked using rbl-plus.mail-abuse.org
Remote system: dns;mail.qis.net (TCP|10.23.32.21|45960|209.150.96.22|25) (floyd.qis.net ESMTP Postfix)

You must have a serious spam blocker or something... I don't know Chris...my ISP does have some sort of spam blocking on thier server which it goes through before it ever gets to me. Maybe there's something in your e-mail content or address that it doesn't like and it bounces it...don't know.

Guess we can just use TC PM?

I re sent the email from another account and it hasn`t bounced back yet...

Admin notice.
Per request of the participating posters some trimming in this topic was allowed/performed.
Thanks guys!
Al

Wow, I actually got to read one of these before it got cleaned up. :D

Is the alternate tread similar to the gforce KDW? I think it looks kinda cool myself...

10secBu, are you able to "mat it" on leaving? seems so with the consistancy of your passes.
I have the 295/60`s and I definetly have to "drive it out" as they will haze if I lean on them too hard.
My Bud`s Camaro has run 1.5`s with the same tire but only a couple times, his 534" will annihilate them if he doesn`t ease into it.
You setup seems near perfect with just the right amount of torque, nice job graemlins/thumbsup.gif

Originally posted by BigRed-L72:
10secBu, are you able to "mat it" on leaving? seems so with the consistancy of your passes.
I have the 295/60`s and I definetly have to "drive it out" as they will haze if I lean on them too hard.
My Bud`s Camaro has run 1.5`s with the same tire but only a couple times, his 534" will annihilate them if he doesn`t ease into it.
You setup seems near perfect with just the right amount of torque, nice job graemlins/thumbsup.gif Yes, leaving the line at a footbrake rpm of 1800-2500, then swapping peddles and leaving at WOT immediately. Guess this "low torque" short stroke bbc works well with the DR's. With a larger stroke engine, the outcome would quite possibly be much different.

Pics from the 9/11 MSRA stock suspension shootout event.

http://www.pbase.com/mdstreetracing/maryland_street_racing_association_091104_at_7580_ dragway

Nice launch!

Todd , is that you , lic # 145 46N?

Yeah baby! graemlins/thumbsup.gif Nice launch is right!

see...drag radials don't hook :rolleyes: :D

Be carefull of nosebleeds at that altitude! ;)

very nice launch todd. im amazed at the hook at that track when prepped. only time i ever tried drag radials was at 75 80. i only could get a high 1.70's out of them. definetly would have to do some susp tuning. we got a set in today at work with gforce on them,tread looked the same though at a quick look ill have look at them closer tomorrow. we are putting them on a 69 camaro with a 540 4 speed and no suspension. dynoed 670 ft lbs of tqe, thatshould be an interesting ride. lol

Nice job Todd, way to go. Keep up the good work and keep us posted.

Originally posted by bottlerat:
Nice job Todd, way to go. Keep up the good work and keep us posted. Thanks Don. Hey, how's that wagon doing?