Fire in the HOLE! We will have it at Dragfest in Bakersfield in two weeks! Come out and say “Hi” and watch us smoke the tires! Sam
That is super cool Sam, about as basic as you can get for a drag car. Did you sell the Drag Rod pickup yet?
Oh trust me Sam, there’s plenty of interest in the Drag Rod, I’m just about $9,000 short right now haha. Good luck at Dragfest, have fun!
Quite a bit... For starters, the chassis on any car that runs faster than 9.99 have top be certified. On a car like this, SFI specifies every tube and it's size, thickness, and placement. They even specify how they are joined together. For instance, on an SFI funny car/ altered chassis, the shoulder bar has to be two pieces with a tube joining them and rosette welds properly placed. It's pretty technical... and the manual to build a chassis for a car like this that is legal is like 15 pages long. Also, the seat is a fiberglass bucket that is not reinforced with a steel tube... which nowadays you wouldn't run. The rear end isn't mounted per SFI specs. You also get into things like the flywheel isn't SFI approved... nor is the scattershield... and it just gets worse from there. FWIW, we've talked about making this car legal... What we would have to do is keep the body, the engine, the wheels and tires... and throw the rest away and start over. In the end, we decided to preserve Pat's creation for people to appreciate.
It's a direct drive car so when it hooks... it starts out kind of lazy and then about 500 feet out it starts pulling like a freight train. Check out the one pic with the left front wheel hiked off of the ground. That was at half track doing 120mph... which puts it in perspective.
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