How hard do YOU launch?

[driller]

Now for some of you, this may seem funny... but try not to laugh. :p

So I went to the track to do some tuning on the Blue Flame. :D

http://photos.imageevent.com/driller/cdchanger/websize/IMG00226-20100417-0713.jpg

The car ran fairly well, I was testing different shift points to work on the tune. So occasionally I would pull into the pits to check tire pressures and change the tunes on the chip.

While checking the air pressure in the drag tires, a friend suggested I draw a line on the tires with something next to the valve stem to see if the rims were wanting to spin in the tire. I laughed out loud saying something to the effect that "I don't have that kind of power!"

Before I took back off to the staging lanes, I decided to humor him and took my dial-in marker and dabbed it on each wheel so it marked both the tire and rim.

After the event I loaded the car on the trailer and found this.

http://photos.imageevent.com/driller/cdchanger/websize/IMG00227-20100417-1205.jpg

:eek:

Look closer...

http://photos.imageevent.com/driller/cdchanger/websize/IMG00228-20100417-1206.jpg

... and the other side...

http://photos.imageevent.com/driller/cdchanger/websize/IMG00229-20100417-1206.jpg

I would have never believed it. :rolleyes:

Oh, by the way the best of the day was 13.442 @ 101.94. :)

[Rodeheavers]

thats a good bad problem... time for rim screws..

[cwh19]

Thats awesome ha.

[driller]

thats a good bad problem... time for rim screws..

LOL, I doubt it started just now, so it's probably nothing to fear?

Now, if I start lifting the wheels... then we'll start screwin' the rims. :nod:

[AdamantiumSilvr]

Dang I would of never thunk it either, ummm pretty crazy! X2 on the rim screws. I'd say your comin pretty close thou to gettin those front wheels off the ground.

[Bdubya]

That Mark VIII looks hard as nails with the Hoosiers on it.

[driller]

Pics from the track...

[MBH]

your Mark viii is bad $$$, is it slammed? It looks really really low on the trailer pic.

Great launches btw. You and I are pretty much polar opposites when it comes to that it looks like hahahaha

[driller]

Stock air suspension with an aftermarket height adjustment module. I lower it on the trailer and strap the body down, so yeah it does look slammed like that. :evil:

[police4.6]

i want a 4v motor.

[Mach1Mush]

thats sick...... always like hearin track stories especially when its a 4v.....better yet a sleeper 4v