You never see the really fast cars pull big *** wheelies on purpose !
It's not about trying to empress the crowd or select few,
it's about making the car fast & work for what it's intended to do...
Or in bracket racing run your index/#'s consistently...
I may suit your purpose, doesn't mean it's necessarily, "what should be done"...
I know I've covered this before too;
anyway lets beat that dead horse again
For those that care or want to know the reality, facts & truth...
Many people who actually know how to set up suspensions & tune,
not just checkbook set ups, phone-call tune-ups, will merely use the big wheelies,
just to get better "reaction times, by pulling the wheels up out of the beams",
a bit less chances of red lighting that way...
Especially for someone or a car not very good at getting off the line fast...
Or even maybe because of rules for no electronics etc.
Instead, like most all of the really fast cars, the real high HP cars,
that try to use the power/suspension most effectively/efficiently,
many/most always wants it to be moving forward quickly, not upwards,
not wanting to waste energy, ET/time or even risk blowing off the tires,
because of hitting the wheelie bars hard, with the wheels way up,
needlessly upsetting/shocking the suspension or damaging ****,
slamming back down or up needlessly, from showing off or an unwanted mistake from,
doing some big *** 2'-3' wheelies...
Any of the real fast & knowledgeable capable, let alone competitive racers,
especially real S/S classes & professional racers, even most bracket racers...
Would know big *** wheel stands, can be done even by 12 second cars,
it's not all that impressive, in fact many time it's slowing the car down,
if it's bar angles & shock settings & front suspension drop
& set up to do it, mainly it's just a lower bar angle & traction deal...
It doesn't take 1000hp or 600+ ci to do big *** wheelies...
Maybe to keep it up on the bars/on the back tires thru a couple gears, it would !!
But not just "jerking them up" on the starting line out of the staging beams !!
But most real capable, actual competitive or knowledgeable &
truly fast racers, don't want to do big wheelies, rarely if ever !!
The "real S/S guys" do it sometime, to not red light {like I said above}
or to not go too fast & wreak havoc or some resetting on the class index,
that'd take away their cushions, ability to bail/drop the nose/dump or
get on the brakes & those that actually win rounds races consistently...
They are also always more efficient, they make big power, are faster,
they are quicker & a with whole lot less CI's, usually all iron blocks/engines etc.,
to achieve their fast ET #'s & MPH too...
The wheelie bars are part of the suspension package,
also to help to control wheel speed & not just for stopping
the car from hitting the bumpers, a bit less or higher bar angle,
some center of gravity change or ballast movements & shock change,
would tame them wheelies down & probably make your 60ft &
even probably Full track ET better "slightly"...
Most of the big wheelies stuff, is mainly the bracket racers mentality,
or maybe they think it impresses the crowd...
Possibly the unknowledgeable ones in the crowds, it may very well do that...
