mw66nova

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last few touches on today. Headed to the track in the morning to do some sunday tesing

mw66nova

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This was probably one of the best "first outings of the season" we have had in a long time. without breaking down play-by-play too much, here's a few details of the day. DA was 14-1600' all day.

Pass#1-#2 were complete garbage. the trans didn't want to go into 3rd. it wasn't a driver thing either as i was hitting the gate. it was like i was hitting a wall. we rebled the clutch hydraulics and it seemed to cure it.

Pass #3 was an easy pass to make sure things went ok. clicked off a soft 11.03 @ 127 (whoa mph, lol)

pass #4 i got to business. 10.81 @ 128.8 on a 1.53 sixty. i slipped the clutch this time instead of dumping and that really seemed to calm things down at the hit.

Pass #5 was the best of all time. everything lined up pretty good. here's the slip:



in case the link goes dead, here's the run down:
R/T: -.038
60': 1.498
330': 4.489
1/8: 6.925
MPH: 101.86
1000': 8.999
1/4: 10.743
MPH: 130.03

"Dat MPH Doe" whew it was a rocket ship on the big end.

Pass #6 was on a stroll. i missed 4th right before the 1/8 and coasted through at 6.90 @ 97 so i know it was on a mission. more seat time and better air will come soon. taking 5 months off between racing made me kinda forget how to drive, lol.

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STREETDEMON

awesome numbers, look like that driveway work paid off!

130+....epic. i'll be looking forward to numbers yet to come!

mw66nova

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I sent out an APB on borrowing a larger carb a couple weeks ago. Jason Smith from PA Racing stepped up and sent me this guy:



it is ~900 cfm. i pulled it apart to look at jets, powervalves, squirters, air bleeds, etc. i won't go into details about what's in it cause it's a custom carb for someone else. just doesn't seem right to divulge that info, but i needed it to see what the baseline was.

i will say, that it's calibrated much more conservatively than i figured. it also has some holes drilled in the butterflies, which really cleaned up the idle, but i think the holes are too big, or too many (1 in each butterfly) thus my idle won't go lower than 1500 now, lol. but it gives me some ideas for my new carb.

yesterday we were working on some other things around the house and had to take a load of yard waste to the dump. That reminded us that the county recycle center has a set of scales. off the trailer the cars came, i put the new carb on and made some adjustments, and off to the scales we went.




we were rewarded with some awesome numbers too. his car weighs 3220 with him in the car, that's ~2970 without him. he was running over a 1/2 tank of fuel and we still have one door to gut. pretty sure he could be at 3200 or less with just a few things here and there. if he went to real drag brakes, aluminum heads, tubular k-member, etc etc etc i could see it being sub 3000.

my car weighed in at 3260 with me in the car, which means it's ~2985 without me. i too was running over a 1/2 tank and i still need to gut both doors. me personally, i'm down 40lbs and have another ~50 i want to to lose. with drag brakes and an aluminum center section and a little bit more trimming here and there, another 100lbs out of the car should be possible as well.

the trip was about 10-15 miles round trip. both cars acted basically like any stock car would. chucky reported 200-210 coolant temps and never got over 3000 rpm, even when running 65-70. i thought that was great considering the car is running a 35gpm electric water pump. my car crept up to 195 when we were waiting in line at the scales, but was 175-180 cruising. i saw the oil temps rise on mine to 180ish, but nothing to be alarmed about. i LOVE cruising