Blackrock Motorsports hosted their monthly-ish street drag event at the old airstrip in St George, Utah this past Saturday April 27th, 2014. It was lightly raining off and on all day so the concrete airstrip/track was not prepped, timing lights were down, and it was squirrely at times for the 2wd trucks.
It was tons of fun with good old arm drop drag racing, run what you brung and lift when you feel un-safe.... or never!!! :lolly:
A local new shop, Scott Diesel was there running their Dmax powered 11.90 Super Diesel Truck. It was the fastest vehicle there most of the day due to 4x4 launches and good hooking street tires.
Then Todd W. showed up with his purpose-built Super Street 4x4 Truck with a completely new pump setup. The maiden test hit went straight and true and not too smokey for a big modern 13mm pump built by one of the top pump shops in the country.
No timing system so who knows how quickly anyone was running, I'd guess the white Dmax was close to an 11.90 pass...
Here's the Junker Sporting some borrowed 32x14 Drag Slicks, it didn't matter, traction was non existent for my 2wd beast with street tires, regular 29.5x11.5 slicks, or the borrowed slicks, although the borrowed tires did hook the best by far.
Even got to pedal my way down the track running this Camaro SS RS, high 13 to low 14 second car in those conditions if I had to guess.
Smith Diesel from Cedar City Utah brought out a couple of their daily driver Ford Powerstroke shop trucks, amazing how much of an advantage 4x4 is off the line in less than ideal traction conditions.
And finally, here's a nice "silent film" with more of the racing action. Of course Todd and I had to line up at least once and he spanked my slow 2wd.
It was tons of fun with good old arm drop drag racing, run what you brung and lift when you feel un-safe.... or never!!! :lolly:
A local new shop, Scott Diesel was there running their Dmax powered 11.90 Super Diesel Truck. It was the fastest vehicle there most of the day due to 4x4 launches and good hooking street tires.
Then Todd W. showed up with his purpose-built Super Street 4x4 Truck with a completely new pump setup. The maiden test hit went straight and true and not too smokey for a big modern 13mm pump built by one of the top pump shops in the country.
No timing system so who knows how quickly anyone was running, I'd guess the white Dmax was close to an 11.90 pass...
Here's the Junker Sporting some borrowed 32x14 Drag Slicks, it didn't matter, traction was non existent for my 2wd beast with street tires, regular 29.5x11.5 slicks, or the borrowed slicks, although the borrowed tires did hook the best by far.
Even got to pedal my way down the track running this Camaro SS RS, high 13 to low 14 second car in those conditions if I had to guess.
Smith Diesel from Cedar City Utah brought out a couple of their daily driver Ford Powerstroke shop trucks, amazing how much of an advantage 4x4 is off the line in less than ideal traction conditions.
And finally, here's a nice "silent film" with more of the racing action. Of course Todd and I had to line up at least once and he spanked my slow 2wd.
