8's or Bust!

[OstarMotorsport]

Nice vid !

 

[danl]

I think the price of T25's just went up with the advent of that picture.

 

[okDSMchica]

Spent the last few days upgrading the brakes.

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[kidtsi]

brake booster removal?

 

[okcpopeman]

brake booster removal?

Its an entire new pedal setup from CNC Brakes

 

[J_HEATH]

Its an entire new pedal setup from CNC Brakes

Cool, could you possibly go into detail about it?

 

[okcpopeman]

Cool, could you possibly go into detail about it?

Sure, here it is on their site.

CNC, Inc. - Dual Cylinder Brake Pedal Assembly

 

[kidtsi]

Wow awesome man I had been folling this car since your run in San Antonio TX if I remember right you were on the finals with the pink auto 1g.

 

[okDSMchica]

Wow awesome man I had been folling this car since your run in San Antonio TX if I remember right you were on the finals with the pink auto 1g.

Yes that was 2 season ago I believe. Thank you for the support, If you havent already make sure you follow us on facebook.

Darren Thomas Racing | Facebook

 

[J_HEATH]

Sure, here it is on their site.

CNC, Inc. - Dual Cylinder Brake Pedal Assembly

Nice, so by the looks of it, this should give 50/50 on the brakes, or by the independent fluid containers 100% to the front and rear. Were you using a staging brake before? What are you running now? Last time i seen the car, couple years ago in Montgomery it was still rocking stock brake calipers.

 

[okDSMchica]

Nice, so by the looks of it, this should give 50/50 on the brakes, or by the independent fluid containers 100% to the front and rear. Were you using a staging brake before? What are you running now? Last time i seen the car, couple years ago in Montgomery it was still rocking stock brake calipers.

The last time he used a staging brake was when he was running stock brake calipers. Now he is running Brakeman calipers and stock Proportioning valve.

 

[J_HEATH]

The last time he used a staging brake was when he was running stock brake calipers. Now he is running Brakeman calipers and stock Proportioning valve.

Okay, reason I was asking is because I had recently purchased the CNC staging brake myself. Brakeman is deffinately the way to go Darren should have no problem holding the car back now at the line. Is he using a vaccum pump as well, or just the new pedal setup in conjunction with the brakeman brakes? Also do you recall how the staging brake was hooked up? I'm still debating on how to do mine, either splice it into the fronts or rears, or run it the simple way by running one line to the master cylinder and one to the proportioning valve and have it split with one rear caliper and one front caliper.

 

[diambo4life]

A few old pix I found.

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[okDSMchica]

Okay, reason I was asking is because I had recently purchased the CNC staging brake myself. Brakeman is deffinately the way to go Darren should have no problem holding the car back now at the line. Is he using a vaccum pump as well, or just the new pedal setup in conjunction with the brakeman brakes? Also do you recall how the staging brake was hooked up? I'm still debating on how to do mine, either splice it into the fronts or rears, or run it the simple way by running one line to the master cylinder and one to the proportioning valve and have it split with one rear caliper and one front caliper.

He's only running the new pedal set up. Do you have factory calipers or brakeman? He's asking because he said it is useless to hook the handbrake to factory rear calipers since they're horrible.

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Spent the whole weekend doing this. Getting prepared for Import Faceoff Tulsa OK

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At the dyno right now getting the Tune sorted out this is 5-29-12. I dated since the site will merge my posts

 

[J_HEATH]

He's only running the new pedal set up. Do you have factory calipers or brakeman? He's asking because he said it is useless to hook the handbrake to factory rear calipers since they're horrible.

Thanks for the reply,

I am currently using the factory brakes with upgraded pads, lines, and such. I removed the entire E-brake setup, and was planning on plumbing in the handbrake like so.

The CNC staging Brake has two ports on it, one going to the brake master cylinder, the other going to the porportioning valve. So I believe this way it will add pressure to one caliper on the rear and one on the front. Hoping this will help hold the car back while I build the stall up.

I had an issue when I went to the track the last time back in January that when I was getting up on the stall the rear wheels would start to spin. The fronts held fine on just the foot brake.

Thank you for the feedback and I'll PM you if I have any more questions so I don't whore up your thread.

Looking foward to seeing the car in action at the DSM shootout! Goodluck at IFO!

 

[cuzco]

The CNC staging Brake has two ports on it, one going to the brake master cylinder, the other going to the porportioning valve. So I believe this way it will add pressure to one caliper on the rear and one on the front. Hoping this will help hold the car back while I build the stall up.

This is how I hooked my CNC staging brake up. Held fine, but I'm not stalling a converter

 

[RoryBarron]

Did y'all make it out to IFO in Tulsa? How'd the runs go?

 

[okcpopeman]

New personal best ran today at the Norwalk IFO, 8.50@161. Im not there so Darren is keeping me updated but he said that it was spinning badly and had a poor 60' so there should be some more ET on the table. I will post again if it goes any faster!

 

[gabytech]

New personal best ran today at the Norwalk IFO, 8.50@161. Im not there so Darren is keeping me updated but he said that it was spinning badly and had a poor 60' so there should be some more ET on the table. I will post again if it goes any faster!

What did it dynoed last time, did they use nitrous only to launch, and what was the psi in the 8.50 pass? I need these info iff possible to add the respective info on the car on the list..

 

[okcpopeman]

What did it dynoed last time, did they use nitrous only to launch, and what was the psi in the 8.50 pass? I need these info iff possible to add the respective info on the car on the list..

Last time on the dyno with a GT4202 Journal Bearing it did 800whp@~37psi (any more boost and it would spin). On the 8.50 run he has a new BW S475 and was running 47psi. Nitrous was only used during the stall/2-step. Let me know if you need any more info.

 

[fun kart kid]

It wasn't at Norwalk it was at national trail raceway but it was Ifo. It was definitely sweet to see him do it first pass.

 

[11secDSM]

Still on the 1g trans? What converter? Congrats BTW!

 

[J_HEATH]

Congratulations on the new personal best!

8.5 is moving!

 

[Slow95gsx]

2g trans and PI converter

 

[11secDSM]

2g trans and PI converter

Thanks Aaron. I think i'm going to make that switch next winter.