NAZ
09-07-2018, 06:52 PM
Well Divergent took her first run on the highway today and is going to be on display at a local car show tomorrow. Not quite complete yet (are they ever really done?) but ready to start the test & adjust process. I believe this is the first NHRA 8.5-sec certified FFR car or truck `to be completed (there is another one being built).
She’s powered by the iconic SBC that displaces 385 cubic inches and couples 550 naturally aspirated horsepower through a 9” 4,500 RPM stall convertor to a drag race prepared manual two-speed trans based on the old Powerglide. She’s loud and in your face and barely street legal. When the trans brake releases it’s like being launched off a carrier. She’s all business where form follows function. A modern tribute to the 50’s & early 60’s when these cars were popular and ruled the streets.
Everything from the firewall rearward is custom fabrication with a custom offset parallel four-link suspension set-up for drag racing. But she’s designed to do more than just straight-line acceleration. The watts link, large brakes, and modular chassis can be set-up for autocross in a matter of a few hours. Change the wrinkle wall drag slicks to sticky track tires and she could weave through the cones with the best of them.
On paper she has the potential to run in the nines on the ¼-mile and mid nines with a 100-shot of nitrous. But theory doesn’t always pan out so we’ll see once she’s ready for the track perhaps later this month.
If you’re interested in what it took to build a street legal NHRA Super Pro drag car follow the link below.
https://thefactoryfiveforum.com/album.php?albumid=1042 (https://thefactoryfiveforum.com/album.php?albumid=1042)
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She’s powered by the iconic SBC that displaces 385 cubic inches and couples 550 naturally aspirated horsepower through a 9” 4,500 RPM stall convertor to a drag race prepared manual two-speed trans based on the old Powerglide. She’s loud and in your face and barely street legal. When the trans brake releases it’s like being launched off a carrier. She’s all business where form follows function. A modern tribute to the 50’s & early 60’s when these cars were popular and ruled the streets.
Everything from the firewall rearward is custom fabrication with a custom offset parallel four-link suspension set-up for drag racing. But she’s designed to do more than just straight-line acceleration. The watts link, large brakes, and modular chassis can be set-up for autocross in a matter of a few hours. Change the wrinkle wall drag slicks to sticky track tires and she could weave through the cones with the best of them.
On paper she has the potential to run in the nines on the ¼-mile and mid nines with a 100-shot of nitrous. But theory doesn’t always pan out so we’ll see once she’s ready for the track perhaps later this month.
If you’re interested in what it took to build a street legal NHRA Super Pro drag car follow the link below.
https://thefactoryfiveforum.com/album.php?albumid=1042 (https://thefactoryfiveforum.com/album.php?albumid=1042)
9282892829