Weekend drag racing results

[teamrope]

The local car club challenge had back to back (Friday night at Pacific Raceways and Saturday at Bremerton Raceway)

Friday night the temps were in the high 80's, the DA was over 2000 ft.

The car was running a lot slower than usual, and my 60' times were abysmal. (2.19 to 2.40). I have the Nitto 555 Drag radials with 50 plus runs plus what JD ran when he had them. I had the tire pressure at 18 lbs. My best time was a 13.5, my worst was a 14.77. On the plus side, I made it all the way to the semi finals before I beat myself my taking off in second and not catching it until the car wouldn't shift at 6200 rpms, and bumped it into neutral somehow, and missed my dial by over a second.

My RT's were stellar with a combined average of .041 on 4 runs, with the best being a .003!

Saturday I bumped the tire pressure up to 28 lbs after my first practice run and my 60' times came back down to 2.0 - 2.1. and my time came down to a 13.22 with the temp at 75 and the DA at 2270. The temps started at 71 and rose to 87, I don't know what the RH was but the DA started at 2018 and rose to 3021

The tree at Bremerton seems to react a lot different than Pacific raceways for some reason.In practice my RT's were all over the place. In the 1st round My RT was a .086 to the competition's .072 and missed my dial by .03.

Oh well, next points race in the car club challenge is the 10th of August at Pacific Raceways. I hope I can get off from work in time to make it.

[merc]

Rope, what were the temps and average time between runs. Your reaction times were great. I hate when you bet yourself.

[teamrope]

Rope, what were the temps and average time between runs. Your reaction times were great. I hate when you bet yourself.

To add insult to injury I cut a .061 light to his .358!

I didn't keep track of the temps from run to run, but they started at like 88 and dropped to 85 on my last run.

1st run was at 7:25, 60' of 2.195, ET of 13.684
2nd run was at 8:33, 60' of 2.245, ET of 13.770
3rd run was at 9:12, 60' of 2.245, ET of 13.806
4th run was at 9:45, 60' of 2.418, ET of 14.770

Run #1 was the .003 light, which gave me a buy for round 2.
Run #3 I was up against WS6 Firebird that normally runs in the high 10 to low 11 time frame, but he was running lean, set his dial in at 13, shot off the line quick thinking he would be able to play the fender game, saw it wouldn't work and backed out of it, so I backed out of it at about the 1000 ft mark. :insert evil grin smilie here:
Run # 3 is the run I popped it into neutral on. :bigcry:

Overall I'm disappointed with the 60' times as much as anything else. I don't know if the Nitto's are wore past the good compound or what, but somethings got to give.

[lastdaze04]

You will have to excuse me, I'm blind in one eye and can't see out of the other, I missed your speed as you went thru the traps. What was your speed as you went thru your runs?
Thanks
Rick:burn:

[HwyCruiser]

BJ, did you get that PI torque converter installed yet? Which tune were your running?

[teamrope]

Have not installed the TC yet. Waiting tilt I get a trans cooler. I swapped back to the pre-dyno tune. Once I got the boost leak fixed it was running way to lean. Lean enough to get pre-detonation on 94 octane.

I also finally got the Auto meter ultra lite wideband A/F gauge, just need to get another pod to mount it in. Also got my fire jacket.

The speeds were 103.2 on the 1st run, 103.7 on the second, 97 on the 3rd (remember I backed out of it at the 1000' mark) and 97 on the run I slipped into neutral.

For your Viewing pleasure:

http://home.comcast.net/~teamrope/pics/burnout1.jpg

http://home.comcast.net/~teamrope/pics/burnout2.jpg

Also a bonus for those who watched Pinks Seattle, the car that lost to the Canadian. He was running at Bremerton Saturday:

http://home.comcast.net/~teamrope/pics/pinkscar.jpg

[merc]

Cool pictures:banana2:

[teamrope]

Thanks, The second burnout pic would have made a cool wall paper if the track official and the 50 gallon drum weren't in the fore ground.

[fastcar]

A really great story, super pics, too.

The 60' times are a bummer. These cars can't seem to cut good 60' times, even with horsepower (which yours obviously has). With your kind of power, I'd expect more like 1.80s.

I don't know if the rearend geometry lends itself to good weight transfer. I haven't studied it, but the 'instant center' may not be too far forward, as it ought to be, for good chassis reaction. It should be easy to fix, with proper pinion angle, and the right length upper and lower control arms.

I had a similar problem with a 1970 Torino with a 500 HP 460 5-speed combination. It weighed close to one of these cars. It was HEAVY. It would run 116 in the traps, but with a 1.90 60' time. The rear end would jump up rather than the front end on launch. It was pretty bad. There was little I could do, with it being leaf spring. The southside machine bars did nothing to help. Their point of contact on the leaf spring became the instant center, which was way too far back...

fastcar :burnout:

[RCSignals]

Thanks, The second burnout pic would have made a cool wall paper if the track official and the 50 gallon drum weren't in the fore ground.

Someone good at Photoshop should be able to take care of that

[teamrope]

A really great story, super pics, too.

The 60' times are a bummer. These cars can't seem to cut good 60' times, even with horsepower (which yours obviously has). With your kind of power, I'd expect more like 1.80s.

I don't know if the rearend geometry lends itself to good weight transfer. I haven't studied it, but the 'instant center' may not be too far forward, as it ought to be, for good chassis reaction. It should be easy to fix, with proper pinion angle, and the right length upper and lower control arms.

I had a similar problem with a 1970 Torino with a 500 HP 460 5-speed combination. It weighed close to one of these cars. It was HEAVY. It would run 116 in the traps, but with a 1.90 60' time. The rear end would jump up rather than the front end on launch. It was pretty bad. There was little I could do, with it being leaf spring. The southside machine bars did nothing to help. Their point of contact on the leaf spring became the instant center, which was way too far back...

fastcar :burnout:

HWYCRUZER got 1.8 60'times on these tires, (And a 3k stall torque converter) and I was getting consistent 2.0's and a 1.99 last fall, I'm beginning to wonder if they are past the sticky stuff in the center.