[s-cars] 1/4 miles and clutches

[Brian Link]

Paul,
Sounds pretty familiar.  What a wonderful smell. I can slip my clutch in
1st from launch if I drop it from above 3500 rpm.  I bet your clutch has
lots of life left unless you keep doing the drag races.   My car, 91 200,
 with a Steve Eiche special chip and a garret T3/T4 hybrid turbo at 22 psi
can run 15.6s at Bandimare Speedway 7000' elevation.  Trap speeds were 92
mph.  I would like to know what it would do at sea level.  Some people
claim a full second difference for NA cars from 7000' to sea level.  The
most interesting car at the drag strip was a 7000+lb Ford F-250 diesel
running 15.0s.  He had nitrous and propane injection very cool guy, must be
a cousin of Haps.

Brian Link
Boulder, CO.
From: Paul Krasusky <KrasuskyP at FirstInterBank.com>

<<<Paul's car has the MTM Stage 1+ chip and a Stebro exhaust from the cat
back.
Same 17" Avus though with 255 tires vs. my 235s, so probably slightly more
rotational mass.  As I recall, his last two runs were 15.13 and 15.15 sec
ET, with a trap speed of 97-98 mph.  I'll let Paul describe the first run
when he gets back.  I don't know.  Something to do with clutch not engaging
until 3rd gear.  It wasn't pretty.>>>