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    Originally posted by Commanderwiggin
    If I was going to do 1/4mile stuff I would need a cage...a few years ago on a poor surface with a 8000' DA I did an 11.7@137MPH on a way slower setup and got booted. My friend who has a cage did a 10.5@142mph in 6000' DA on the same track a year later and my car was faster at that time. Recently I was testing traction control on the 1/8mile and nearly got booted on low boost with a [email protected] that's all the info I have on that lol. All launches are like 2sec 60' which is garbage...definitely not getting out of the hole and I run street tires so if I switched to a drag setup I would definitely break things.

    I have upgraded axles from driveshaftshop and that's it...I may get a taller rear end next race as I'm bouncing off the limiter in 5th when I cross the cones at .5mile mark @182mph (8500rpm redline and tall tires). I want to hit 185+ next event...switching to 6th drops my speed so I need to keep out of it.

    I also track this car frequently and it's completely daily driven with full interior...so there will be no cage or anything like that in it's future.
    Wow Thats awesome. That car really halls the mail.

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    Wow! Just saw this on MT!

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    I never had subframe issues but it was reinforced a long time ago at HPF when I had my initial setup installed. I usually control my launches very well and pre-load the drivetrain with my ebrake to go easy on things.

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    very cool way to go commander!
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