Went to the track. The goal today was to go fast, and not break any parts. I wanted to run it hard at least one time on the motor and once on the NOS before I got kicked out (no roll cage) when I pulled into tech the guy said "Hey didn't you go 11's last time you where here. I said "Who me" Tech guys says if you go 11's you are out of here.
That sorta threw my plan into a quandry. I decided to tune the NOS to about 580-590 rwhp and see what I could do.

1st run, had problem activating the NOS shifting into 2nd so I got out of it and coasted.

2nd run same thing. The reason I was having problems activation the NOS is because the activator is on the shifter and I (for some reason) was having problems getting it right. Never had the problem before.

3rd run I decided to activate the NOS before I launched and short shift into 2nd and let it pull. I launched it with a terrible 1.98 60' (very slippery today) and when I short shifted and mashed the throttle (NOS set on W.O.T switch) it started to pull like crazy, WWWEEHHHUUUU, I am on a good run, shift into 3rd, hit 4th, and I miss 5th. OH NO I HAVE NEVER MISSED A SHIFT IN THIS CAR EVER. The best run it has ever made and I screw it up. Coasted through to a 11.53 at 110. I was at 101.2 at the 1/8th. Judging from the previous runs it would have gone 130-132 mph if I had not missed the shift, maybe in the high 11.20's or low 30's. DARN

4th run. Tried the same technique and when I hit the button it did not pull very hard at all, the guy next to me left on me bad over .5 advantage at the light ( I know my lights suck, work on that later, trying to go fast now) I knew his car went around 112 mph so when I started to reel him in I noticed I was catching him but not like I should be blowing by him, ended up catching and just nipping him at the light, by .104. Ran it out the back end and it went 11.54 at 122. The car will go 125 on the motor so I knew something was wrong, checked the bottle and it was near emtpy. I was injecting raw fuel into the fogger (had to seriously kill the A/F ratio)

Learned a lot today, went pretty well only the cars 3rd time to a 1/4 track. I tried to make another run and the tech guy kicked me off the track "Don't come back till you got a cage in that thing"

I will be kicking my self for a while over that missed shift, I am not really trying to ET the car too much, tuning more for MPH at this point. When I get a stronger tranny (decided on a 4 spd Jeffco) and beefed up rear end I will try to get it to ET better.

 

Good runs and they will get better. You Need a ROLLCAGE! :p: :p: :thumbs: :iagree: :lolg: :lolg: :lolg:

 

Congrats on the Improvements !!! Sounds great !!

Was this Saturday at Carlsbad ? If yes, you might want to scrap Saturdays and come out for the once a month Sunday Outlaw race series instead, the track is much stickier for this event and you can hook-up and run some pretty decent times in the morning... by afternoon, the track usually goes away, but you had all morning to make an et work for you.

They had one today, I think the next one is a month from today, but not sure.

later
Beach

 

Yes this was Saturday at Carlsbad, I will keep the outlaw deal in mind. I would like to be able to get a good 60'.