Build thread of the Red Rocket

[c4boom]

how would i hold the power staging i would come to the line hit the trans break and release to launch not depend on my breaks to hold just encase they stuck a little longer or slipped a bit on me causing me to red light there has to be a reason they use trans breaks. course using the rear break would alow you to pre load the chasssie

[TrickrTreat]

Originally Posted by c4boom

how would i hold the power staging i would come to the line hit the trans break and release to launch not depend on my breaks to hold just encase they stuck a little longer or slipped a bit on me causing me to red light there has to be a reason they use trans breaks. course using the rear break would alow you to pre load the chasssie

In a Race situation by pulling into the second bulb and hitting the trans break , and THEN trying to spool the car, you will not have enough time to reach full spool before the pro tree drops. And since you can't hit the the break in the first bulb..........what other options do you got bud.

[Slowhawk]

Pretty much.. Thats why this car is manual brakes so you do not loose brakes while holding boost and the 2 calipers per wheel on the back is to make sure I can control it under boost while staging/ Light first bulb, engage trans brake to bounce into 2nd bulb. Only a few seconds till the tree comes down.

[TrickrTreat]

Yup , and considering it's about a sec from the last staging bulb to the ambers, and .400 from the ambers to the green. 1.4 seconds is no where near enough time to be ready with a turbo car.

[ILuvPizzaTimes10]

Man thats some Great info!!! all the little shit us NA guys have NO clue about!

[Slowhawk]

Then hold it 5-10seconds too much and smoke the tranny. Lol

[Camaro9969]

Car is coming out awesome!!! I like those bump boxes for staging but you probably already have that.

[Slowhawk]

I've got more pics, sometime we'll post them.

Front suspension is done with AFCO shocks/springs, BMR upper/lower arms ect.

Rear shocks and coil overs are here. Mounting them in saturday.

4" exhaust is almost done under the car

3.5" aluminum pipe will be here this week for the cold side

body wiring harness will be here tomorrow

Just need to order rims/tires, going with billet specialties, parachute, and misc stuff.

On the fence of installing a Big stuff, will probly run stock for now.

[Formula413]

Are you going to run the exhaust out the back or just do a front dump?

[Slowhawk]

The 4" goes under the car through a bullit muffler and dumps before the axle. There is also a 3.5" with electric cutout exiting in front of the pass side front tire.