starting line gear ratio?

[GUMP]

Originally Posted by 6130

An FS/C car is not a traditional Stock Eliminator race car, it's a factory race car with no VIN. The factory race cars come with Ford 9" rear ends and engine combinations that may not be available in regular production-based cars.

A better comparison with a traditional production-based Stock Eliminator race car, might be a '99-'02 LS 346 V8 Camaro A/SA car. The current national record in A/SA is 9.65 at 136.3 mph.

A car like that would have a stock throttle body, stock intake manifold, stock heads with an NHRA-legal valve job, stock bore (plus up to .040"), stock stroke, stock compression ratio pistons, stock valve lift, stock rocker arm ratio, and so on, with a "metric" TH200 3-speed automatic transmission with no trans brake, an 8" converter, and 9x30" tubeless radial slicks.

You get my vote for "Clueless Post Of The Year".....

[rod]

guys, thanks for the input. the charts are very neat. very possibly the Dick Miller 11.25 # was with a torque converter [didnt say in the book] and when you ad in torque multiplication, it changes everything.
with mine,as is, at 13.69, its high from Miller and low for both the 2 charts. however, I will rather be under geared than over reved at the stripe. plus I could just gain more MPH if the engine will continue to pull.

have to wait till Thanksgiving to run at Vegas [that just sucks-every track in the country is runnin' except Vegas]
Thanks again, all.
Rod in AZ

[68/ss]

Need Help,2350# 15x33 tire,6.20 rear gear. going stick racing with G-Force 2000,Ram billet Clutch as reccomended by Mike @ Ram. tranmission is coming from G-Force with 3.167 1st,2.148 2nd,1.576 3rd1.250 4th 1.000 5th according to my calculation SLR of 19.63 ,engine makes 850@8750 and peak torque 595@6500 is this too much SLR ?

[GTX JOHN]

That sounds like a lot to me in that light a
racecar and that HP!

[Mike Gray]

Originally Posted by GTX JOHN

That sounds like a lot to me in that light a
racecar and that HP!

I’m thinking 4.56

[Stan Weiss]

Yes that seems very high.


Without changing anything, I would think it would like launching in 2nd much better than 1st gear.


Stan

[Mike Rietow]

Originally Posted by GUMP

You get my vote for "Clueless Post Of The Year".....

It was a copo with a 409cid LS. The explanation may not be up to your standards, but at least I understand the announcer when he says "this is a copo.