4fit?

Graham is about 30 minutes east of Greensboro. I'm only about 50 minutes from Danville. You chould come down to Piedmont Dragway outside of Greensboro sometime. I'll be there tonight.

86/02stang

where can I get directions. I need to make it to a drag strip. I havn't smelled burnt rubber in a while. How far is it from Greensboro.

4fit?

Yes, torque boxes can pose a problem. I've heard of them tearing with street tires, but it's not very common. On hard launches with sticky tires, you can definetely tear them up, especially with aggressive control arms such as Southsides or Megabytes. If your going to change control arms and have subframes welded in, might as well have the torque box reinforcements welded in at the same time.
86/02 stang, the torque boxes are located where the upper and lower control arms attach to the chassis. It is very weak and thin metal. The reinforcements redistribute some of the initial shock of hard launches over a much broader area instead of just on the thin metal.

86/02stang

ok. So cut to fit plate metal would be fine to reinforce them, since all they really need is thicker metal to transfer the torque through

4fit?

Kinda. The good kits are reinforced from teh top side too. Here is an example of a good kit. This one iss quite pricey. They can be had for much cheaper on eBay. http://www.uprproducts.com/shopping/shopexd.asp?id=243

4fit?

About 1 hour from Danville. Click here for directions
Also, check out www.PiedmontDragway.com

86/02stang

Sounds like a plan. My fiance doesn't get off work till 4:30 so it will be around 6:00 getting down there. Will the action going good by then?

88BlueGT

I would also recommend D&D for being on a budget. I am also looking for a suspension that will perform all around (twisties, street and strip). I already have my D&D K member, picking up MM Subframes and MM Panhard Bar on Sunday, and than Im going with D&D A Arms, D&D Front Coil Over, MM Control Arms, and not sure what stuts/shocks yet. Pretty sure Im going Koni's all the way around.

4fit?

6:00 is when it starts. Gates open at 5 and runs are 6-9. $10 a person to get in and $5 to run as much as you want. It's just a test-n-tune night, but there will be some damn quick cars there. I'm just going to fool around with launching on these damn tires and gears. [:@] I'm so used to street tires that I can't get the hang of these DRs. It will be my first trip to the track with them, so we'll see how it goes. If you decide to come, I'll be the one on the white coupe below. I should be there with a 2001 Cobra and a 2003 10th Anny Cobra, both silver. Might be a green 3000GT around us too.

4fit?

That's a very nice setup you have going there. The MM pieces kinda throw the budget thing out the window though.