Has anyone taken their V to an 1/8 mile drag

[Maddbomber]

I recently went to the drag strip with my V, i was just curious if anyone else had and what you ran....primarily 1/8 mile.......my V is pretty my bone stock, i have a magnaflow hi flow cat, with a thrush turbo muffler thats pretty much it with performance....i ran an 11.1 in the 1/8, out ran a civic hatch, a S-10 with a performace chip, a ZX3 focus and stuck door to door with a 5.0 mustang.....i have also stuck door to door with an automatic V6 tiburon........anyone else have braggin rights

[kcourtad]

5.0 mustang u are you sure ???

[Great White Versa]

5.0 mustang u are you sure ???

Just cause its a good car doesn't mean that the driver knows how to use it...

[bigdog]

that's certainlly true. dont u watch pinks?

[Zadkiel]

Cause the Versa is a drag machine...

[my_new_v]

5.0? Those things are slow unless they are built...at least from my experience lol. I raced em all the time in my 240 and never lost against one. I went to the track last weekend (didnt race my V or anythin) but I did see someone race in a V...17.4 at the 1/4. Once I saw him I was looking at it....bone stock, nothing done to it, and it was the automatic. And anyone can race their car, its how you race it...just like what Great White Versa said.

[jfanaselle]

If it was a "fox" bodystyle mustang 5.0 (1987-1992), then they have TERRIBLE traction, which has a negative affect on their drag strip performance.

A very close friend of mine used to fix these up. The first thing he would do is put about $3k into the suspension in the rear end so that he could get it to hook up (new springs, stabilizer bar, new wheels, tires, etc). He could usually smoke almost anyone at that point without even modifiying the engine.

Ford definately designed a great drivetrain, but the car that they built around it didn't do it any justice.