I don't use tubes either. Massive rotational wieght savings and Slow77 is right, if you pop the slick, the tube is coming with it.
For any of those interested I have a story about this. One of my good freinds has a 66' Nova II with a large motor in it. Its a tube frame car that weighs 3100lbs (all steel but hood, even the back bumper is steel). He brought it to the Orlando World Street Finals last year after putting only two passes on the car up here. He was running tubes. This old man next to him had a real rat of a car, but the thing was dialed in to the max and it was competitive. After my buddy made a couple of qualifying passes that were horrrible (1.5 60' range), he was having a fit with the car. The old man took one look at his wheels, told him to take the wheel tubes out and presto, his 60' came right back on par with everyone else's (low 1's). He didn't know the guy from a hole in the wall, but figured if the guy could make his rat that fast, he miust know a little something. [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif[/img] Sometimes its that simple.
BTW, he qualified 13th out of 32 cars (on only one stage of nitrous), from all over the country. Got put out in the first round when his converter balooned and bent his flywheel! Not to bad for a guy who had NEVER driven a car faster than 8.80's before and only had two passes on his new car! He's gone to a Lenco (with a Bruno) this year and an aluminum block as well! Hold on baby!
|