Most expensive, least helpful and useless advice

[Ed Wright]

Originally Posted by Tom Moock

Dale, tech made me take my fire extinguisher out from inside my stocker, said it was not legal ballast. Tom

IHRA requires a fire inside the car. NHRA does not allow it. I was told, when they made me take mine back out, it was a safety issue. That (correctly) if it was easy to get out of it's mount to use, it could also come out & bounce around inside the car during a wreck and injure you.

[Lee Valentine]

Allstar Racing Products sells an NHRA legal quick release fire extinguisher mount.

[cutta]

I hope this thread takes off. For those us looking to get in it someday, this will help us spend our money wisely right off the bat.

[Lee Valentine]

You want to get in the cheapest way,buy a turn key car. Or build a 5.0 mustang, best bang for your buck.

[Larry Hill]

The six-pac picked up when I changed from a 5/16 fuel line with a sock on it to a 1/2 with a good pump instead of that Carter thing.

Snake oil = 0wt. anything its a little quicker but way more expensive in the long run.

Racing hyd. lifters the ones that bled down and did not pump up.

Some kind of collector that boosted power and torque yet slowed the car down.

The smaller camshaft that is supposed to be faster in the summer. Man talk about gullible!

Like Billy stated some piston rings.

The best one was the nitro in the oil trick. It smells like you are going to set the world on fire, but alas its just perfume.

Ceramic coating on a light weigh drum to improve service life of the drum, it worked very well, but it would burn the band up in four or five runs.

And just bunch of stuff I have thought about and built that did not work, but every once in a while I make something that helps a little or a lot and best part is I don't have to share or sell it.

[Jeff Stout]

Bought a quadrajet from carb builder x and I was told to buy from carb builder y. X was slower front half and Y was slower in back half. Same ET.
Take the rubber seal off where hood meets firewall. Found out it wasn't legal. Put seal on and it went faster.
Had square lipped seal on brake calipers. Put the round type seal on and have less drag. No ET gain.
I quit at 8 converters for one motor combo.
Monte has more frontal area then Camaro so you need more gear. Went from 5.67 to 5.86 nothing gained but a couple more RPM's at finish line.

[SSGN]

Snake oil, fancy plugs and wires and yes those damn converter things Best advice always came from grumpy old grey haired guys Great topic

Kevin

[goinbroke2]

Originally Posted by SSGN

Snake oil, fancy plugs and wires and yes those damn converter things Best advice always came from grumpy old grey haired guys Great topic

Kevin

So from anybody in the pits? :O

[Greg Hill]

I've learned just as much from what doesn't work as from what does work. If you don't try things you don't advance.

[FireSale]

Originally Posted by Lee Valentine

Allstar Racing Products sells an NHRA legal quick release fire extinguisher mount.

I read that through Summit before putting the extinguisher in. The factory mount is fastened to the sill bar on the drivers side with stainless steel zip ties and I'm prepared to remove it if I'm asked to.

With regards to my fuel pump, what it needs is a pressure gauge at the pump as well as the carb. Then I can back the feed from it down to a more reasonable level for my current needs without having it nearly choked at the carb end. A smaller one would have done the job, though and that's the point of this thread.

Some guy told me he uses two regulators under the hood on a single carb just to mess with the competition...

Dale