Agreed. 60 rolls usually work in my favor. Below that, I can seem to get decent traction even with these 275 drag radials. Spring needs to hurry up and get here. I'm excited for our run too.
When I was making 540-623 rwhp my 17 inch Mickeys did well most of the time from a 40 roll. Anything under, forget it. It has to be the temps up by you. Living in Florida has its advantages in winter time. LOL
This is me a few years back (~2007) racing a full bolt-on, ported eaton that made 505 rwhp and then he had 60 shot on top to cool things off. I had the factory LS1 with Vortech and a 50 dry shot thru the blower. He was making ~565 and I was making 570 (dyno verified) and you see the outcome.
Fast forward to 2:46 for the GTO vs. ported eaton Cobra race:
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He has 275 17 inch Mickeys and I had 18 inch BFG G-Force DRs as the time and you can see and hear me pedaling quite a bit. That first race my car stepped out towards his car so I let out.
The point is, anytime I raced a Cobra that made about the same power as me. I won the race 9 out of 10 times. Ported or not, the eaton will heat up and the power will drop unless they have something to cool it off (i.e. hidden nitrous, ect). Back in 07 there was not a lot of meth kits around but hidden nitrous was there.
I think this ported eaton car that raced the 402 GTO in this thread had a little hidden help that he wasn't fessing up to. Just my .02.
Another point!!! Most of those races were digs!!!!