what kind of quarter mile time can you expect from a bone stock mav?

Just reading that gave me the chills...

 

You actually do that??!...

 

Shame on me for exhuming a 7 year old thread, but I used to bracket race my 72 Grabber 200 I6 with a 3 speed floor shift manual. My best time, bone stock (air cleaner off) was 18.15 seconds in the quarter mile.

It always was a crowd pleaser in that it gave everyone a break to hit either the restroom or the concession stand.

 

my Daewoo Lanos sport is faster than a six cylinder Maverick

 

yeah buts its a daewoo so even if it wins, it loses.

 

Don't be mean

 

My grabber burned out pass tire and would bake them easily. And continue to smoke them as I drove off, and around a corner.

250 I6, with C4 on the floor. All in Drive. Power brake

 

Stock before the teardown my 250 would sit there and roast the driver side tire, course that tire didnt have brakes

 

I remember someone telling me the carrier could be installed either way, they just mostly spin the passenger tire because right hand turns are more common in the US.

Probably someone pulling my leg though.

My old 200 6 would do a downhill quarter in 15 seconds and could not get above 95 mph. It just ran out of gears. For some reason they put a perfectly straight half mile 2 lanes in both ways road, with red lights at both ends... and though we wouldn't drag race up and down it because it was on a hill...

 

My best top speed with the old 200 I6 was 115 MPH on level road. took me several miles to get there.

To think I was stupid enough to do that on stock bias ply tires.

 

Yep...someone pulling your leg. If you went to grandma's house and turn right 10 times, you will turn left 10 time on the way back home

 

No I wont, I'll make 2 rights and be back at grandma's house after completing the 3rd circle. Try not to pick such a spatially stupid example.

It's a well known fact that left-hand(right side of road) driving leads to more right turns, as left turns are across traffic. Hence why the VAST majority of exits are right side of the road exits as well. It makes far more sense to have the drive wheel be on the right side of the car, opposite the driver for various geometric and friction vs. acceleration reasons.

 

Care to explain this? I was under the impression that all that is silly and its more to do with which direction the driveshaft is spinning haha

 

Actually, it's because of the rotation of the tire. The right hand tire in spin out pulls the car to the right. The left hand tire in spin out pulls the car to the left. These are uh... assuming perfect imperfect conditions. It's basically safety reasons. All of the reasons to have the drive tire be on the left hand side (behind the driver) are for high performance application reasons, where you want the drive tire to be the inside tire as little as possible. On the street for everyday driving, you want the car to be the safest, and having it naturally bias away from oncoming traffic with a rightward pull does that.

So yea, for example:

I had just bought my Comet GT, and it was the first really BIG rain of the year. I still wasn't used to the car, and didn't realize the rear tires were as bad as they were. I took a left hand turn, and as soon as the rear wheels hit the paint stripe I lost ALL traction in the rear end. Because the right hand rear tire was the drive wheel I did a perfect 180 in the intersection and was able to regain control and continue driving now facing in the opposite direction I had intended to. If my drive wheel had been the left hand wheel, I would have spun into oncoming traffic on the right, and been potentially broadsided directly in the drivers door.


This is why the passenger side wheel is typically the drive wheel if the rear end is open carrier. In a right hand turn spin out... well my buddy did crack an axle spinning out on a wet rail-road track once making a right hand turn. Because his rear end hopped up onto the curb. He did scare the crap out of some people waiting for the bus. If, he'd had a left drive tire, he'd have gone into the lane of traffic on the other side probably and had to pay for someone elses car to get fixed too.

 

Fair enough, I've taken more than my fair share of classes on this sort of stuff butI think that rthomas was trying to convey that if you follow the same route to and from a place youll turn right as many times as left.

As an aside, my kinematics and dynamics prof mentioned in one of our labs (when we were stress testing hollow tubes to simulate driveshafts) that the choice for left and right drive was mostly since if you have a shaft turning clockwise when viewed from the rear, then a ring gear on the left meshing (drivers) will turn backwards while a ring gear on the passengers will turn forwards. It was this that led me to believe that it would be based on that.