**New best, but also my LAST passes in this car. Good read!**
05-20-2008, 10:14 PM
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**New best, but also my LAST passes in this car. Good read!** I figured I would tell the whole story. I have had the car up for sale for a few weeks, but nothing but tire kickers and hopeless dreamers. I finally have a buyer and I should see the deposit tomorrow. I can't pass up the deal, so away she goes. I am selling it because I am getting married and moving out of state, so it had to go sooner or later anyway. Before I hand over the keys, I wanted to make one last trip to the track to see if I could get a better pass than the 10.83 @ 121.98 that I was stuck with the last time out in +2900DA. There were cloudy skies and a 50% chance of rain, but I said f#%k it, why not try and make some passes. I only live a mile from the track, and I could always get a rain date ticket. I changed out the jet to a .062 and splashed 5 gallons of 100 in it, bring the gas guage up to 1/2 tank. Not ideal, but I wanted the safety of the 100 in there just incase. I get to the track, go through an intense tech inspection, but they don't even notice the nitrous bottle hidden in the back. 
I tell them it runs 11.80s and they send me on my way saying not to go faster than 11.50 or I get the boot. I lower the drag radials to 15psi, set the shocks on 0, pull the air filter, and turn on the bottle. I throw it on the scale, and it is 3050lbs. Again, that is with a half tank of gas, full 10lb bottle of nitrous, and my 175 lb *** in the driver's seat.
Here is the results:
First pass, 800 psi in the bottle. Launch the car at 2500, and it goes 10.695 @ 124.61 with a 1.43 60ft. Not bad for the lack of bottle pressure. I call Bill (ONEBADWS6) and have him check the DA. 62* temp, 38* dew point, 29.13 baro, and the track altitude is 700-ish. That comes out to 2074. Not the greatest, but better than the last time out with 85* weather and 2900+ DA. I take the bottle out and heat it up with the help of my buddy's generator. It gets up to 1500, so I throw it in and head for the lanes. Just then, it starts raining. After some drops, it stops, then starts again, then stops again. By this time the bottle drops back down to 850psi, but I make a pass anyway. Thanks to the ******* in the Talon in front of me spitting water on the track and the lovely crew of Route 66 not cleaning it up, I launch and the car spins and heads for the center stripe. I stay in it because I am a badass like that, and pull a 10.93 @ 124.87 with a 1.67 60ft. Pissed off I head right back to the lanes. I wait for about 45 minutes due to oil downs and ******** breaking (BadBoo79...Sorry dude; Jegster torque arm FTL
), and then finally get to make another pass. Bottle pressure was at 850 still, but if I had heated it up again in the pits, it would have gone back down anyway due to the large wait times in the lanes. It launches hard, and feels real good. It should, because it goes 10.63 @ 124.73 with a 1.41 60ft. As I turn onto the return road, I get bombarded by the tech officials. The one says, "I have good news and bad news. Good news is, you went 10.63. Bad news is, you don't have a roll bar nor a SFI jacket, so you can't run anymore." My reply, "I have a SFI jacket, but it is being used as my bottle blanket at the moment. Don't worry, that was my last pass." So I drive past and head right back in the lanes...for spite! By this time the bottle was close to empy, at about 750psi, and the track was going away and the rain was coming back. I launch and it spins again. It only goes 10.90 @ 124.28 with a 1.58 60ft. Tech guys were pissed. Yelling and chasing after me. I just keep driving right out the gate and back home. Oh well, it's not like I am going back any time soon. They were just doing there job to keep ******** like me safe. No hard feelings.
The car should be gone in the next few weeks, but I will still stay on the site to give my technical help and give PRO STOCK JOHN a hard time about being old and slow. Take care everyone!
I tell them it runs 11.80s and they send me on my way saying not to go faster than 11.50 or I get the boot. I lower the drag radials to 15psi, set the shocks on 0, pull the air filter, and turn on the bottle. I throw it on the scale, and it is 3050lbs. Again, that is with a half tank of gas, full 10lb bottle of nitrous, and my 175 lb *** in the driver's seat.Here is the results:
First pass, 800 psi in the bottle. Launch the car at 2500, and it goes 10.695 @ 124.61 with a 1.43 60ft. Not bad for the lack of bottle pressure. I call Bill (ONEBADWS6) and have him check the DA. 62* temp, 38* dew point, 29.13 baro, and the track altitude is 700-ish. That comes out to 2074. Not the greatest, but better than the last time out with 85* weather and 2900+ DA. I take the bottle out and heat it up with the help of my buddy's generator. It gets up to 1500, so I throw it in and head for the lanes. Just then, it starts raining. After some drops, it stops, then starts again, then stops again. By this time the bottle drops back down to 850psi, but I make a pass anyway. Thanks to the ******* in the Talon in front of me spitting water on the track and the lovely crew of Route 66 not cleaning it up, I launch and the car spins and heads for the center stripe. I stay in it because I am a badass like that, and pull a 10.93 @ 124.87 with a 1.67 60ft. Pissed off I head right back to the lanes. I wait for about 45 minutes due to oil downs and ******** breaking (BadBoo79...Sorry dude; Jegster torque arm FTL
), and then finally get to make another pass. Bottle pressure was at 850 still, but if I had heated it up again in the pits, it would have gone back down anyway due to the large wait times in the lanes. It launches hard, and feels real good. It should, because it goes 10.63 @ 124.73 with a 1.41 60ft. As I turn onto the return road, I get bombarded by the tech officials. The one says, "I have good news and bad news. Good news is, you went 10.63. Bad news is, you don't have a roll bar nor a SFI jacket, so you can't run anymore." My reply, "I have a SFI jacket, but it is being used as my bottle blanket at the moment. Don't worry, that was my last pass." So I drive past and head right back in the lanes...for spite! By this time the bottle was close to empy, at about 750psi, and the track was going away and the rain was coming back. I launch and it spins again. It only goes 10.90 @ 124.28 with a 1.58 60ft. Tech guys were pissed. Yelling and chasing after me. I just keep driving right out the gate and back home. Oh well, it's not like I am going back any time soon. They were just doing there job to keep ******** like me safe. No hard feelings.The car should be gone in the next few weeks, but I will still stay on the site to give my technical help and give PRO STOCK JOHN a hard time about being old and slow. Take care everyone!
She gets a ring, you sell your car, I don't like that deal 
05-21-2008, 07:17 AM
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now thats how you say " kiss my *** " in style !! 
congrats on the new best , matt . i know you hate to get rid of her ,but sometimes real life takes over and things changes . but hey ,you will be get back out there one day cause it's in yo' blood .....playa !!
congrats on the new best , matt . i know you hate to get rid of her ,but sometimes real life takes over and things changes . but hey ,you will be get back out there one day cause it's in yo' blood .....playa !! 
