Hot Rod Drag Week Live Stream

>that old chevy
cute!
CUTE!

I've waited all year for this. The Galaxy that's reaching is sexual

>>17858328
I've never seen this kind of thing on tv.
more interesting than expected.
>tfw I'm not living in Murica
It is the best country for petrol heads

Update from datl24 and his 80s civic: he's so far ran a 23.33 seconds as a best e/t, he's got the slowest drag week time, and he's racing in about an hour.

freiburger i'm keking

>try to drive all the way to Alaska in a ranchero
>fail the first time make it the second try
>drop your fuckin wedding ring in a lake

I'm impressed

>50 years later and Americans are STILL entertained by stomping the gas pedal in a straight line
Do you guys never ache for more?

>>17858967
Yeah
So we do it even faster

>>17858967
All we ever need are empty parking lots to do burnouts in and drag strips to go fast on

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can we address the civic that ran a 23.5 at 53? V-tec power man

>>17859181
That dude is an /o/tist I was referring too here >>17858474

>>17859250
I'm really glad he made it there in one piece.

>>17859263
Me to. When was the run? Trying to watch it on the stream

>>17859250
if I can get my buick fixed i'll make it there and run even slower

>>17859346
Currently my truck and his Civic are about .2 seconds off on the e/t. If he comes through Denver, we'll do a heads up street race.

>>17859281
1:02:00

>>17859359
hahahaha let me know if you guys come through indy

>>17859362
You are a scholar and a gentlemen.

>>17859365
I'm in Denver, he'll post in this thread later though to keep you updated

I'm seriously considering doing this next year.
I've got a red swb last gen S10 that I've recently been burdened with. I'll be putting either a 5.3 or a 6.0 in it, and removing about all of the body panels.

>>17859396
In cubic inches please this is 'murica

>>17859625
>Detroit used metrics for their engine labels since the 80s or so
>some people still only comprehend cubic inches
Are you just stubborn, or actually challenged?

>>17859625
327ish or 360ish

>>17858967
2017 and Europeans STILL have fucked-up teeth. Do you guys even dentist or do you ache for dentures from a young age.

>>17859632
Some engines were advertised in metric since at least the 70's.

>>17859877
That'd be 325 or 364.

>>17859910
Yeah whatever, which one should I use?
I feel the 5.3 is a way more common swap engine, so it may be cheaper.
But 6.0 is biggarrrr

>>17860369
Depends, do you want to run naturally aspirated, turbo, nitrous, blower? A better idea of to look at the class rules, and build your car to that specification

>>17860388
I'm not made of money, so either stock, or ebay turbo kit.
I guess I should look at the rules, but I'm really in the idea stage of it. Not sure exactly what I want to do with it.
Not sure even what the truck currently is, but I believe I saw somewhere that the 4.3 and the 5.3 had the same bell housing pattern, and it should bolt on to the 4l60e in it. So I'm hoping that it's an auto v6 s10

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>>17860369
Get what you deserve, get the 6.0.

Honestly though, if you're keeping it stock the 6.0 is what you want, more power and tq, and will respond better to mods (if you decide to in the future.)

>>17859632
Just the way i was raised

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>>17860462
>>17860617
Well if you're building a drag car there's a lot to consider. If you plan on doing a cam, headers, valves and a tune you night BTFO the stock 4l60. Keep that in mind when speccing out parts.

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>>17860694
Oh yeah, I'm on 4l60e #4, and this one's on its second set of guts. Looking now for a 4l80e, this 60 isn't done yet, but it's just a matter of time. He's going to have to upgrade the rear for that matter as well if he uses any kind of sticky tires, then he's gonna want/need a suspension, etc. I just figured he already knew all that.

>>17860617
Okay, I did a ton more research. The 4.3 uses the older v8 bolt pattern. So a 350 would bolt up, ect.
It is easy to modify it to fit a gen3 v8 though.
But apparently the 4.3 auto can't hold up to a v8 anyway, weaker internals.
So I'd be likely doing a whole engine and trans swap regardless.

This is all auto though. I have not completely ruled out manual. There's no way I can afford a t56, but surely they made more affordable manuals in trucks and stuff.

>>17861213
Thought that might be the case but didn't know for sure so didn't say anything. Well that's good in a way, you get to eliminate a weak point from the start instead of waiting for it to break. You also get to choose what you want, there are adapters made for bolting the gen3 up to anything, auto or manual.

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>>17861213
You could do a 4 speed, but you're better off thing with an auto. 4l80 is a great trans. Heavy, but stout. The other option would be a th400 with a gear vendors but gear vendors units are fucking pricey.

Other picture from datl24

>>17862279
I think I may go by route of light as possible, may just end up with a built 4l60e. I'm basically going to be stripping it down to cab and frame, and going full scaffolding, as the entire body is ruined.
Hard to nail down a game plan this early though.

>>17862892
Not a bad idea for the body, but do your research on the transmission and what you can do for a rear end. In certain classes they limit what you can do with rear suspension.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5APYAA_0Ac

Day 2. Some audio issues with commentary.

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>geo tracker drag car
>gasser doing a fucking insane wheel stand
woah
also what's happening with out /o/tist in the civic?

>straight line racing
congratulations to the mechanics involved i guess.

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>>17866412
they arent even really racing its basically time attack where et is all that matters

but yeah Drag Week is really a engineers race

watch no prep racing if you want some more exciting racing where you have 1000s of hp on a shitty surface

>>17865648
According to our last message, homie is having a tad bit of carb issue, but he's running consistent 24.35 second quarters. So far he's on track to have the slowest average of all drag week history

for people interested in /ourguy/

https://youtu.be/p5APYAA_0Ac?t=10718

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Friendly update from datl24
>"Sploosh"

Bump?

>>17866664
>So far he's on track to have the slowest average of all drag week history
That's fucking hilarious. What are the chances Civicbro gets a mention from Beardy or Ballcap?

>>17869069
They love it so far. As for beardy, he's out of the race. Dropped a valve and he deletd a piston and cylinder in that fancy as 540 aluminum hemi

>>17869226
Shit, neat for the first half, sucks for the last half.

Hey civic anon if you're reading this, if they approach you with a camera, you better tell them that you haven't done anything to your car other than a few simple mods so we can all giggle like manchildren.

>>17869226
I thought his Chevy had a 427 iron hemi, or is a different car?

>>17869373
No that's a different car. Finnegan has a 55 with a 540 hemi that was aluminum and had hillborn injection, but not sure if it was supercharged for this iteration.

>>17869311
I'll send a screenshot too him.

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>>17869396
Bump

>backing over /our guy/'s civic in a truck

no

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>>17866776
Glorious

>>17870884
The bants are excellent

Does the civic guy even have a cage, or need one?
Hell he could probably go down the track in a hat and aviators and no one would care

>>17871100
No cage needed, not even a helmet. I wonder if they waved the drag slick rule for him though

>>17871100
you dont need anything chassis related unless you run faster than 11.50

dont need a helmet unless you run faster than 14.00

cool to see a car that makes my old 18 second Toyota seem fast tho

>>17871126
>>17871135
He should like unbolt a seat or something to lighten it
Or just take off the hood, the doors, the seats, the bumpers... Aero don't matter when it's that slow

>>17871215
I don't think you can run without a hood.

And if he takes a seat out, then he has to put it back in at the end of the day. Either way, it's going to be slow as fuck.

He was saying something to me earlier about maybe getting a b18a for super cheap from the other Civic guy, and swapping that with a gsr trans. Would make for a really fun, fairly quick little car.

>>17871415
Why not get something competitive for the sport?
I mean, fwd Is nice and all I guess, but it's really niche.

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>>17871415
shame the 11 second 2nd gen isnt there

B16A iirc

>>17871468
meh there are 7 and 8 second fwd Civics these days

>>17871468
Fwd drags are huge in America. The Civic has been a competitive car for a long time. He'd mostly do it for fun and drivability though

>>17871493
I've literally only seen Iike 8, and I watch a lot of drags on YouTube

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>>17871664
SFWD is popular as fuck

>>17871664
Look up import Nationals and import faceoff. There's some incredible Hondas and vws out there that are just mental.

It takes a lot more to get an all motor Honda to the 10s than a typical us fare. Not that it means anything or is inherently better in any way, but it's pretty fun to watch. The launch is just insanely violent