here's TP's post on power braking

 

If you are going for best et and not worried about going rounds flash the converter. If you want to be consistent put a light load on the converter every time. It is amazing the kind of reaction times you can get with a FX4, especially after a three or four races to practice.

 

Yup, that's the post I've seen before. Was wondering what everyone elses experience is with it. Seems my truck doesn't kick off the line as hard if I don't stall it up a little.

Wonder if it's okay to do it to take the slack out of the driveline before you go.

 

Intel486, since you’re going to be at the track try a few different launch techniques and see which one works best.

Taking the slack out of the driveline and power braking are two different things altogether. Slightly raising the rpm’s to take the slack out isn’t going to heat up the tranny and it’s also not considered power braking. I get my strongest launches when I hold the brake with my left foot and raise my rpm’s up between 900 & 1,000. No excessive tire spin and a good solid flash

 

Will do and report back on the times... Hopefully it gives me motivation to put money into my truck now We're planning on hitting it up tomorrow. I'm heading out there with a couple friends. One has a WRX and another a VW. I'm pretty sure I'll take the VW... lol

 

Last check in b4 I'm hitting the track.

So far I've taken the spare off and taken everything out of the bed I had (couple tool boxes, golf clubs, bunch of my detailing supplies, etc.) and taken the spare tire off. Prbably won't be taking the tailgate off for a run but I will see when I get to the track. I also got enough gas to arrive at the rack with around a 1/2 tank where I like it.

It's about 92 degrees here today... hopefully it cools off some. Last week it was liek 50 degrees and it has warmed up :-(

 

If you have stock treaded street tires, please stay out of the water/bleach box. All you will do is get slippery water to the starting line which will affect others launches. The proper way to "clean" your treaded street tires is just to brake torque and gentry spin them a few revolutions to clean off road grime/stones..
If you can't spin them, dont worry about "cleaning" them...

I learned all about drag racing and worked on my reaction times in a 1996 contour!!!! 17 sec 1/4 mile, but was very consistent.
Got down in top 3 a few times because of consistency and R/T. Lost 1st place to a 10 sec corvette.

Good luck and have fun!!!!!

 

I call bs. The gap in your et's (7 seconds)...what in the h-e-double hockeysticks is that.

 

The tree handicaps different classes

 

Yep, this is how it works:

You do a few test and tune runs and you determine what you think your lowest time is (best) that you can run and you turn that time in to the tower. They then handicap you by the difference in everybodies time. So lets say I think my most consistent time is 17.0 secs and the corvette says his best consistent time is 10.0 secs, we would both line up at the same tree, but my tree drops 7 seconds quicker than his does. Yep, that means I get a 7 second head start. The winner is still the first one who crosses the line first. But you cannot beat your time that you gave the tower or you get disqualified. This way it boils down to reaction time and consistency.

Drag racing is alot of fun and you can do it with pretty much any vehicle as long as your vehicle is not faster that the track is insured/certified for or if your vehicle leaks fluis on the track. Go check out your local drag strip "test 'n tune" night. Usually costs under $40 to run as many times as you want. You will see everything from full blown long dragsters to 1970's conversion vans running down the track at a blistering 23 sec in the quarter.

 

You learn something new everyday, thanks for the clarification and no offense on doubting you.