What would you do in a bumper scraping wheelstand?

[BlueOval Ralph]

he put his shifter into high gear
This would be OK if he had a H pattern shifter, but if it were a inline shifter it would take a lot of stumbling & fumbling to get to High gear. It apperars Travis hasn't driven a inline shifter in some time!

Originally Posted by Travis Miller

Okay, we've seen the Bob Porpora wheelstand video. If you get into one of those situations is there anyway to come out of it short of banging the front end down? Here's something that may work...

A few years ago a local S/S racer here in Louisville broke his wheelie bars and started to climb way too high. Realizing something was wrong he put his shifter into high gear, skipping second gear. Still under power the car settled down smoothly after the transmission shifted into high gear. All that was damaged was the broken wheelie bars.

Travis

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[Travis Miller]

Originally Posted by BlueOval Ralph

he put his shifter into high gear
This would be OK if he had a H pattern shifter, but if it were a inline shifter it would take a lot of stumbling & fumbling to get to High gear. It apperars Travis hasn't driven a inline shifter in some time!

Most automatics I've seen have inline shifters.

Travis

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[John Leichtamer Jr]

Did anyone notice that it looked like the right headlight came out of the car on landing???

Also I watched Brett Mc Farland & Arnold Greene Go up on the back bumper, Brett just kept on shifting and came down when he hit 4th gear. Arnold road his out the same way. This was a Orlando.


Hammer

[Dale Shannon]

With a Automatic car keep foot in the gas use your left foot and get on the brakes, will slow rear wheel speed.

Allow a wheelie bar that actually works and does not unload the tire. Nah, that makes too much sense. Ralph's car looks like it unloaded the tires and then stuff happens quickly. Ours bent the motor mounts, headers, radiator support, spindles, tie rods and new front rims. Hope it didn't do too much damage Ralph. Shifting early sounds logical.

BP

[Jim Blankenship]

pray,hammer down , shift , ride not always in that order ya also need to look out side window to see if wall/rail's going same direction as the car .
if not all above is null and void jim

[Belair 7548]

Oh to dream of a bumper draggin' wheelie..........expecially difficult to imagine with the car here on the jack stands trying to wait out the economy..........I kind of got scarred when the front tire(s) came 12" (ok so maybe it was 6" really) off the ground...LOL

[junior barns]

Originally Posted by Barry Polley

Allow a wheelie bar that actually works and does not unload the tire. Nah, that makes too much sense. Ralph's car looks like it unloaded the tires and then stuff happens quickly. Ours bent the motor mounts, headers, radiator support, spindles, tie rods and new front rims. Hope it didn't do too much damage Ralph. Shifting early sounds logical.

BP

I dont think Ralph had any wheelie bars on his car that pass? WHY? The car appeared to unloaded when it hit the rear bumper.

[Alan Roehrich]

Originally Posted by junior barns

I dont think Ralph had any wheelie bars on his car that pass? WHY? The car appeared to unloaded when it hit the rear bumper.

There have been questions about the legality of some of the bars in Stock. Ralph had a set on the car that looked like an erector set, but I think NHRA decided they don't like them. I guess maybe he hadn't found a set he liked to replace them yet.

Even cars with bars will have problems on a pass like that. I've seen really good cars get steered to the other lane by the bars, even with those orange wheels they say won't do that. When you get up like that with the regular bars, it drives them into the gravel pan, and that can often steer the car or unload it.

Originally Posted by junior barns

I dont think Ralph had any wheelie bars on his car that pass? WHY? The car appeared to unloaded when it hit the rear bumper.

Yeah I saw that. I was commenting on the outlawed bars. Still ticked about that. I would not take a chance on not having them on an A-C car now. Too many variables and besides, it's too expensive to fix and loose a round.


BP