Friday and Saturday turned out to be pretty decent at Empire Dragway. Shane had Sabres tickets so I ended up going on Friday night without him to get a couple shakedown runs with the Booger. Chad (untamed50) helped me get the car down down the track as well as video tape the runs. It was getting late when we finally put the spray to it. The 1st pass I didn't have the pedal down all the way and wasn't on the WOT switch till the 100' mark or better. The car went 10.1 @ 147 mph with a 200 shot in the plate. I made a small switch adjustment and went back out. The car spun real bad as the track temp dropped to nothing. 60' was a tenth slower than normal at 1.37 and the car hopped on the tight suspension as it was trying to grip the track. I tightened the suspension because Jason Winchester alomost ripped his bumper off a few hours before leaving a white paint streak on the track. Anyways the car laid down a 9.12 @ 149.65 through the progressive controller.
Saturday Shane came with his car and the track was crazy sticky.
We decided to run the Calypso 1st but of course BOTH timing light I had with me were not working so I had to guess at his timing. 1st pass was 12.38 @ 107, pulled some timimg and went 12.22 @ 108, then 12.19 @ 108.6.
After we got the timig where we wanted it Shane changed out the plugs and I put a 46 nitrous jet in it (about 75 to 80 RWHP). The car chattered the tires out of the hole but surprisingly picked up 1.12 seconds and 12 mph to run a 11.07 @ 120mph. The 60 ft's leave a lot to be desired and the driveshaft was hitting the safety loop and tore it up pretty good. So really I just need to fix that and we can work on the weight transfer.
The Booger had the opposite result. I made a timimg change on the car and in the process of testing the nitrous system, being without my timing light I didn't test my timing being pulled by the MSD which I always do. Well, 2/3's down the track I heard a stumble and quickly lifted. I pulled the plugs at the end of the track and all the electrodes were now stubs LOL. No engine damage but lesson learned. We put that car away and started working on Shane's. We will be back out testing soon and overall was a good weekend.
Here are 2 short videos.
Saturday Shane came with his car and the track was crazy sticky.
We decided to run the Calypso 1st but of course BOTH timing light I had with me were not working so I had to guess at his timing. 1st pass was 12.38 @ 107, pulled some timimg and went 12.22 @ 108, then 12.19 @ 108.6.
After we got the timig where we wanted it Shane changed out the plugs and I put a 46 nitrous jet in it (about 75 to 80 RWHP). The car chattered the tires out of the hole but surprisingly picked up 1.12 seconds and 12 mph to run a 11.07 @ 120mph. The 60 ft's leave a lot to be desired and the driveshaft was hitting the safety loop and tore it up pretty good. So really I just need to fix that and we can work on the weight transfer.
The Booger had the opposite result. I made a timimg change on the car and in the process of testing the nitrous system, being without my timing light I didn't test my timing being pulled by the MSD which I always do. Well, 2/3's down the track I heard a stumble and quickly lifted. I pulled the plugs at the end of the track and all the electrodes were now stubs LOL. No engine damage but lesson learned. We put that car away and started working on Shane's. We will be back out testing soon and overall was a good weekend.
Here are 2 short videos.
