Need Some Feedback on Line Lock/Roll or Stage Control

[Dknapp10]

Hi! I have been looking into putting a line lock on my Cutlass but I don't know much about them nor do I have any experience with one. I race at a couple of local tracks and now the times for each of the classes have changed (this is bracket racing) and I now have to run the pro class with cars that are running transbrakes I'm running a street car with a very very strong 700r with a 2500 stall. If I were to run a line lock on only the front wheels would it hold up to 2500rpm"s? If you have any videos pertaining to this it would help out a lot! Thanks!

 

[Yav8]

The only thing I use the line lock for is the burn out. I don't think it would hold at the RPMs your looking at. My experance is it would push the front tires through the beams with sticky tires.

 

[lilbowtie]

I'm going to say no. Sounds like you want to use a line lock in place of a trans brake. You are foot braking and there wouldn't be any advantage to the line-lock other than your burn out as Yav8 said. If you have the HP you won't be able to hold the car now let alone just using the front brakes.

 

[Dknapp10]

Yeah I pretty much just want to use the line lock as a transbrake, the reputable transbrake people that I have talked to don't advise me putting one in with a 700r. If I choose to go this rout I would probably run a 2 step limiter at 2000 or 2500 I don't know how the front brakes would hold up to that though by themselves. I could put a rear disk conversion on and lock all 4 without getting to costly but I don't want to do it if I don't have to. Let's I try the front brakes out and they don't hold up at 2000 or 2500 could I by just the fitting for all 4 brakes or would I need the buy the whole thing?

 

[lilbowtie]

I like to see guys thinking outside the box and trying things. Can you foot brake your car to 2500 now with out pushing?

 

[Dknapp10]

I have yet to try it honestly I usually just stall at 2000 to make sure I don't break passed 2500 and it's not uncommon for a stall converter to be a couple hundred rpm's shy of what they are supposed to be.

 

[lilbowtie]

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[jociha]

you could just run a rev limiter and set it at the highest rpm it will hold, I drove a GTO with a 4000 stall converter but ran the rev limiter at 2000 rpm with front only line lock. Letting the motor free rev from 2000 to 4000 before hooking was one fun ride with the front wheels a foot off the ground.

 

[Chris Van]

I tried running 2 line locks years ago as a "poor man's" trans brake. But it wouldn't hold. It would try to hold but at anything very much above idle it would creep a little. However, this was back in the early 90's. I gave in and put a powerglide with a brake in and never looked back.

 

[Dknapp10]

I'm not exactly an artist but I heard about a someone who had tried this out, would something like this make sense to work? I highlighted the wires for less confusion.