[DeTomaso] DeTomaso Digest, Vol 80, Issue 31-Hard Launches

[michael@michaelshortt.com]

I also have a high horsepower 393 stroker and it hooks up immediately, if I
want to spin the tires or revert to amy inner 16 year old
( who NEVER bought $1,000 worth of  rear tires) and do a smokey burnout, I
have to nurse the clutch in and out by feel
( hard to explain this ) and induce wheelspin.

The car with all the suspension mods (I have never driven a stock Pantera
hard) is just plain glued to the road,

Start it, Gas it and it Goes like an electric slot car.

Michael Shortt

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Will Demelo <wdemelo at cogeco.ca> wrote:

> I launched my old 393 stroker (500+) fwhp at 4500-5000 w michelin pilots
> 335's and barely got a spin at the dragstrip.
> Will
>
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> Hard Lauches breaking the Zf????
> Not sure how you can get the tires to hook up
> unless you are running crinkle sided drag slicks that
> you heat up before you launch.. my Pantera has maybe
> 600 hp and if I hard launch with my Dot Road Race tires
> it is really hard to hook up and all I see is smoke
> ... As we say the weakest link lets go and I would say
> that it is the tires... I call it the governor or protector for the Zf
>
> Bob Benson #3 Black Pantera
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