Summers coming!

In my neck of the woods the snow is slowly disappearing and the dry pavement is beckoning. Heading out to the highway for my first blast is alot on my mind. Right where my grid road meets the pavement I like to leave a long pair of wide black tracks to announce to all passers by that Winter is over. Laying rubber is part of the lifestyle of all true gearheads. A major hurtle to cross in every young rodders life is to have a car that will light up the tires from a dead stop on dry pavement with no brake-torking. With some of my first hotrods I had to cheat to make this happen. I remember having to get them spinning on gravel then creeping onto the pavement. Or to punch the throttle when going around a corner to possibly unload one tire and make a little squeal. To impress friends it was a trick to ever so slightly touch the brake, hit the throttle and get them spinning without them knowing I used the brake! Or pull out of the car wash with soaking wet tires and spin them quick before they dry off. Then i made a major discovery. The high stall convertor!!! I had a mild (boring) 350 in my 65 chevy truck that needed every trick in the book to sqeal the tires then I found out about the poor mans hi-stall. A friend told me that all old chevy vega's with automatic tranny's use a light duty turbo 350 behind their 4 cylinder motors. The torque convertor will produce a regular stall speed behind the 4 cylinder but if you put that same convertor behind a V8 the stall speed goes up considerably.  So off to a wrecker I go.  A buddy and I managed to flip a vega onto its side with a jack-all at a saskatoon wrecking yard and yank the convertor without getting ourselves killed. Once out we kicked out the jack and dropped the car, the loose tranny creating a new tunnel in the floorpan. After drilling some new bolt holes in my flexplate I bolted that $40 convertor into my turbo 400. With my 350 it would stall to about 2800 rpm and with my stock 3,73 gears i could finally break loose with no cheating! It was like a major turning point in my life!  People liked me,  kids looked up to me,  I got respect,  young rodders wanted advice,  the list goes on....... ya right!  After that turning point I discovered a new problem. Ever since that day the challenge now is to not spin.  At least when racing.  Spinning the tires costs alot of time. A car that has enough power to run tens in the quarter can get whipped by a much slower car that hooks hard.  It takes alot of power to catch up lost time from spinning. Its tough all over.... I tried so hard for so long to spin the tires now I'm trying not to spin them.  Racers will tell you to ease off the line. Gradually ramp up the throttle. Peddle the car untill it gets moving. Have you tried these suggestions? When I'm lined up to race, adrenaline takes over and easing into the throttle ain't gonna happen! Especially when my opponent is strapping lengths on me outta the hole. The eternal struggle in the hotrodder world is power versus traction. How much of one can you get before you need more of the other? To bad there wasn't some easy calculation to figure it out.
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