All Small Six Wheelies with a 200

This relates to all small sixes
For starters

Ported CI aluminum head.
Enough boost for 500 hp.
Performance C4 tranny with high stall speed converter.
9" rear with something around 4.10 gears.
Adjustable 4 link rear suspension.
Adjustable racing shocks
Battery and fuel cell in the trunk
 
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Power and weight off the front helps, but it is more of an enough gear ratio ''high number'', suspension, traction and the higher the weight is off the ground. That is why Pro stock is on the ground and street outlaws are up higher.
 
LOL, I seen most all of those specially built to do Wheelie's Cars and Trucks Run on the Southern Calif Drag Strips including the above Back Up Pick Up pictured, Little Red Wagon, Hemi Under Glass, etc! Yes it sure was a big deal in the late 1960's and into the 70's especially on the 4th of July with the 50 Funny Car match ups too. Nothing like seeing them do a 1/4 Mile Wheelie down the track and turning around and doing another Wheelie right back up to the starting line.
 
Apparently at one time some enterprising racers used to place Jacks on the chassis to lift the rear wheels & tires off the ground so they could get the wheels spinning and then drop it down again quickly, so much so that the NHRA had it written into the Rule Books as not being legal. Sure that it must of caused lots of Rear Axel Destruction too. The MoPar Supper Stockers used to set at the line revving up their engines in Neural and then dropping the Torque Flights into gear until they ruled no on that move too, later on they remove the Torque Convertors and converted them into Clutch Flights in some of the Mod type classes. Still a bit later they did the first Alerted Wheel Base Cars I think that was up to 2% and still be considered legal then in the mid 1960's they went all out with the Alerted Wheel Bases with lots of wheelies and that finally turned into the long nose all out Funny Cars.
 
Easy.
Remove the front shocks. Using the accelerator pedal get the vehicle bouncing in its natural frequency with intermittent application of the gas pedal. Have your buddy photograph it when the wheelie is at its apex.

This was done in the 1960s with a '55 Chevy convertible by a clown who I went to school with.
 
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