I guess I'm making my intro here. So hi everybody. I joined this forum particularly to post in this drag race sub forum. There aren't enough guys that race their hot rods. Don't know why. I grew up thinking that every hot rod was a drag car... But I'm only 33 so what do I know?? I don't generally fit in with this car anyway. Even though I built the whole damn thing myself (story for another day) I can't tell you how many times I've been asked if it was my dads car. And at the drag strip... forget it. Every guy my age either has a ricer or a fox body. lame.
Anyway my coupe runs a 400" poncho through a th400 trans to open 2.79 gears. LOL I've run a best of 12.78 @ 109. I'm making a couple changes this winter that should put me pretty easily in the 12.4 range still on street tires. Heck the car only weighs 2700lbs with me in it. So as I inch close to 11's I've started thinking about a roll bar. Does anyone on here have an NHRA legal roll bar in a similar car? I've been pulling my hair out trying to figure out how to jam one in there. This is an unchopped, unchanneled car. The main issue as I see it, are those rear bars. They need to be within 5" of the top of the of main hoop. They can't be angled more than 30* and they can can only have one 30* bend. Correct? How on earth can I get something like that in to a car shaped like a phone booth?? LOL Thanks guys. Here's my heap.... hammer.jpgdrags1.jpga1.jpg13.1.jpg