If what your asking, is if i pulled the chute? Then yes i did. When your moving at 150 down the track the end of the track comes up pretty quick.
jp i heard you at 40psi was just spinning on the track. derek has a vid of you runnin the 9.8x that he showed me at work today.
congrats it worked out for you
congrats
I tried running 40+ on one run… the plugs were to shot for that. So i went to turn it back down alittle… ended up running 32-33psi and ran another 9.7…
now do you think you could run similar times if you had a solid rear.full drag suspension and less power?
sounds good. ill let you know when thre are some cars of your caliber to play with (should be 4-9 car range pending the night and who is not broke). just come on good tires, as these are strictly dig races. none will do a roll. and for braging rights unless someone lets their ego get in the way.
I started a thread about PRP track prep, need people to chime in and keep it clean please so I can present it to Frank…
No, you have to remember the car weights 3650 and this isnt a N/A v8 or a supercharged cobra. With a heavy boosted car its tough/virtually impossible to run a number like i did… at a much lower trap speed, like your use to seeing with the domestics.
a different suspension would probalby help launching a tad, but i think the track prep had alot to do with higher than average 60’.
my oled kar ranned 9.60s wen i furst gott drived it
keep on practicing… low 9’s should be around the corner with some practice. if you’d like to take a trip for a well prepped track, i’d say head up to Norwalk or over to Maple Grove (near philly)… i’d tag along
on a side note, from the “english” represented in this thread “yalls from west varginia?”
a different suspension would probalby help launching a tad, but i think the track prep had alot to do with higher than average 60’.
different suspension setup would most definately help plant the power and get you off the line. but i agree, track prep is mainly the issue here. suspension is only good if you have the traction from good track prep and tires
Congratulations JP 
I’m sure you have the launching technique down pretty good with your car, but maybe b/c a different setup would be new to you, you may not have faith in it. It just seems to me that a solid rear axle would be a lot more predictable and more adjustable in some ways.
My old race nova is 3205lb and went 10.20’s at 135mph. Thats with an old 454bbc/powerglide, cam and compression… probably no more than 550hp. If I had 1000hp, you can imagine how much faster that car would be.
The only real differences are that the supra is independent rear and a stick. You stick a ford 9" rear end in that and a 2 speed powerglide, I’d think it would have to be quicker.
Your old nova was also N/A not a Turbocharged car making 25psi at the line. There is a difference between the old domestics running 10.2’s @ 13X mph and a high hp street car running 9’s at 150+. Two different catagories.
There are no supras that are going fast out there with a soild rear. Some of the really fast ones… Boost logic’s 7.92@181, Virtual Works, Titan ect… that are running glides. With that setup and the power that i am making would make it a Mid to low 8 sec car. But this is still a street car that happens to go fast at the track now. There will be no soild rear or powerglide in this car… this car is very capaable of going almost a second faster and another 15-18mph.
just keep trying it out. getting that launch down the best you can. bang the shifts and see what happens. i’m sure with better weather and great track prep which we might not see anytime soon at PRP, you’ll see alot quicker times in that car.
The only real differences are that the supra is independent rear and a stick. You stick a ford 9" rear end in that and a 2 speed powerglide, I’d think it would have to be quicker
marko’s white supra was doing 8.4’s with about 1100whp or so. he had a glide and i believe a solid rear axle.
what i would do is possibly a th400 (not sure of the power limit of these trans tho), and talk to Gear Vendors about their overdrive units for that trans and see if it will hold that power of yours. that way you’ll have a 6 speed auto trans with a good stall converter. you’ll run quicker than hell, but maintain all the street manors you could want with 6 speeds.
Wow… so people that do the solid rear really don’t get that much out of it? Thats interesting. That just means that the stock supra rear is quality then! I can appriciate it too that you want to keep it a street cruiser and arn’t interested in doing 1/4mile specific mods.
As far as launching an N/A car compared to boost, I really dont think its as different as you make it. I launched the nova at 5500rpm where it was probably making its maximum torque and close to the maximum horsepower numbers. That is nothing different than launching a boost car, under boost, at close to its peak power. Unless there is some kinda point about how the boost pressure reacts when you leave, I still see it as launching under power. I could be wrong of course.
it has to do with the power curve. Boosted cars tend to “hit harder” which cause cause a lot of back pedaling for the first 330 or so. the thing with boost is keeping it in boost but not putting the curve down too fast as to lose traction.
the thing is I think JP is building a street car to drive and also race in street classes. if he alters suspension(solid rear) or uses a tranny from another manu. he is in pro classes and will have to run low 8’s to compete and also run BFG’s
also he doesnt need a solid rear. Ryan’s buddy (Woon) with a bit larger turbo (88mm compared to jon’s 80mm) has run 8.60’s on the stock tranny, IRS and TRD rear.