If you have same, could you please post photos of the inside of the car showing all the controls and the cabin from the side. I recently ran 207.43 MPH in 6.793 seconds in a Top Dragster and I am curious to contrast and compare the two vehicles. Also, how has the maintainence been on your car? Anything major break yet or pretty much bullet proof?
7.11 at 201mph, yikes!
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With my old engine/turbo setup which pretty much topped out at 7.50's@190mph, the setup was fairly bullet proof and I probably put around 80 passes on the car 1/8 and 1/4 combined with basic maintenance of oil, spark plugs, and trans fluid.
With the new setup, majority of the issues have been upgrading items that were insufficient for the power level I was trying to achieve. I've had to upgrade the intercooler, fuel system, and some chassis items to get the car to behave. That was a learning curve. In addition, I was having some challenges with ignition timing and cylinder differentials where I sacrificed 3-4 headgaskets before getting a handle on that side of tuning. Adding additional sensors and individual cylinder EGT's helped me find my way. I feel as though now I have a much better handle on the tuning and chassis where the setup should be fairly reliable where I'm hoping to make it 50 passes or so before having to tear anything down. Unfortunately I'll find out the hard way next year!
Here are some pics we have uploaded to the Drummond Race Cars Facebook page. The pictures in the beginning of the album are the recent ones and get older as you go further down in the album.
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.333919785040.197564.333891530040&type=1
Thank you. Very clean. Getting in and out of the cockpit would be a real PIA for me. Like it was getting in and out of the Supergas door car. But other than that, it looks great. You have produced a very special vehicle. Enjoy!
MoparBoyy
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thats just plain awesome.. and on drag radials?!? awesome.
Fatboy 18
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Do you still manage to get 12mpg around town and 21mpg on a run?
Do you still manage to get 12mpg around town and 21mpg on a run?
We measure fuel consumption in "Gallons per Mile" or "gpm."
ViperBing
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Congrats Sal on the awesome run! Your car is a sight to behold at the track.
mattdillon
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+1 AWESOME, I had chill bumps! I don't know about anybody else but I kept hitting replay. I called my son in here to watch it, then he called one of his friends in here to watch it, I tell ya' he done us Viper Guys PROUD! Bob, Thanks for Sharing. jmo
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We have done 2 and 3 speed transmissions behind the Viper engine. Our 1 mile car has a Powerglide with a Gear Vendors overdrive. Auto is the way to go for big hp at the drags.
AFL in NJ
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Wow, just WOW Sal, keep up the great work!
Regards,
Aaron
Regards,
Aaron
azvipermike
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Wow that is one sound Viper. The build is so clean and makes me want to mod my GTS in the worst way!
Nadine UK GTS
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Awesome! I was happy to run my modded GTS to over 200 mph in the standing mile, but to achieve that speed in a quarter mile is insane. Every congratulation to the driver and tuners of this Viper.
Viper4Christ
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Glad to see this made its way over here, with that said here's some pics for those too lazy to click his link. 
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Viper4Christ
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It certainly is a top notch engine bay, but considering humans designed and built it, I'd like to think God could do that much more. Better yet, you don't even need a car to travel or a boat since you can walk on water.
Anyways, no small feat here and Sal has worked hard over the years to get here, 6's are around the corner for sure.
Amen.
Anyways, no small feat here and Sal has worked hard over the years to get here, 6's are around the corner for sure.
Amen.
Johnbennett
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I get a daily update from Motor Authority. Posted today was an article about Late Model Racecraft claiming the fastest ZR1 - quarter mile in 9.68 sec, 147 mph. Pretty slow compared to the 7.11/201!!
http://www.motorauthority.com/news/...laims-worlds-fastest-corvette-zr1-title-video
http://www.motorauthority.com/news/...laims-worlds-fastest-corvette-zr1-title-video
