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Old May 20, 2022 | 10:56 PM
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Cars been down for a few. what else new.. Anyway it feel great to be drive the vett again. Heres how my day went.






I love dressing up and terrorising people.

I looked back at my data and found i was about 50 to 75 hp low because i was at 146 oil temp i should of been 85 thats why i came up short.
. i don't care how many times its going to take i will beat that guys burn out. I can feel him laughing at me when he drives by my house. That will end tomorrow. Or god help me. grinder 111 u better run because im going to need to let out frustration if i blow my engine and cant beat this guy. So don't go far.
Its good possible the engines going to pop. Over 20k on the oil. The older the oil gets the higher oil psi is. Im at 123psi oil so that is some good protection. We'll see tomorrow. Problem not going to get **** for sleep. Look he already in head. He good.
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Good that you got the car back on the road and good luck keeping it that way.
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Good that you got the car back on the road and good luck keeping it that way.
I hope but one more time to try and beat that patch. I can't stop thinking about it. So weather broke and time. 50 50 if my engine don't blow ill expaim after if it's still alive.
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Update ,lost the war, checked my data and will never beat it . Lost by 2ft. Can't ever try again. 4 housewives were at my front door. They said don't say a word, we have u on camera next time we will call the police ,and walked away.. I've been terrorizing neighbor for yrs i knew this was coming. Just can't believe it took this long and by the way the burnouts started back in 1985 when i first modified my car. Then it spread like fire. Many people stop and do burnouts all the time. as u can c to this day.
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Must be nice having neighbors who won't call you in for that. LOL. I have to go down the street a ways.

Ok. I'm ignorant. What is the digital display reading ~1600 next to the methanol settings?
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Must be nice having neighbors who won't call you in for that. LOL. I have to go down the street a ways.

Ok. I'm ignorant. What is the digital display reading ~1600 next to the methanol settings?
Air fuel rational. 16 is lean as **** and 9 rich as shitaand flooding the pistons chamber
well here's an update. The pavement in front of my house is for some reason it gripper then this pavement where I can leave a patch as long as I want. I didn't even have half troddle. First one I was e Accelerating as I was patching out and when you heard the red line hitting that means my tires were not spinning anymore Just bouncing off the red line doing nothing the last patch I did there I was too foot short. So look at this one that I did on a different pavement

I wasn't even half Thorndale. Could have gone mile

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