freeagent999 (August 17, 2008 at 1:05 pm)

no chuts big daddy

EightYourVtec (August 2, 2008 at 9:34 pm)

I remember hearing about this from my neighbor who is good friends with Carl. Baker lives just down the road from me. Not too sure what hes doing now a days>?

johnschaser (July 29, 2008 at 6:46 pm)

you can see him start to bail from the tower

fueldragster (June 10, 2008 at 3:27 am)

I think because the IHRA pro stockers have 820 cubic inch engines which makes them a good 15 mph faster than the 500 cubic inch NHRA Pro Stocks

nitroholic2002 (May 28, 2008 at 6:27 pm)

Is it just me, Or do the IHRA prostockers wreck more violently than their NHRA Counterparts?

wawwwaaa (January 13, 2008 at 4:54 am)

i remember seeing this

cmccarthy (January 6, 2008 at 1:09 am)

A parachute is required by the NHRA and IHRA for any vehicle exceeding 150 miles per hour in the quarter mile.

salemcripple (January 6, 2008 at 12:48 am)

Are chutes required for pro street class? I'm a auto/performance tech by trade, and was thinking of takeing my chev all the way to that level. Never raced prostreet before, or with anything requireing chutes.

cmccarthy (January 6, 2008 at 12:14 am)

They have a "cannon" (for lack of a better term) arrangement that spits them out into the airstream behind the car, because when they are mounted under the spoiler they are essentially in still air. These "cannons" are either a coil spring or a compressed air ram, and they are what actually deploys the chute after the cable releases them. If these fail then the chute will either just tumble out of the mount and posssibly tangle in the wheelie bars or simply not deploy at all.

salemcripple (January 6, 2008 at 12:00 am)

I thought they were operated by a cable.