streetknight2
07-30-2012, 07:47 AM
Well I knew the first outing would be a lot of work but man did things go backwards.
To start off with the secondaries were sticking in my new carb. So, had to borrow one, all I could find was a 1050 BG carb from a buddy. Put it on at the house and we figured we'd definitely have to rejet it. I have a stock cube 6.0 and the carb came off my buddies 540. So we got a bunch of stuff, threw in the truck and drove the 70 miles to the track.
My buddy hooks a vacuum gauge to the carb and tweaks the idle/air and gets it running smooth. I get strapped in and pull up to make my first pass. Launch the car and it seemed like it hooked for a second and then right on the limiter, I stick it 2nd, still on limiter so I lift off. Look in my mirror and white smoke every where. I move over to the edge of track, notice oil pressure is fine, so I limp it back to the trailer. After talking with everyone we assumed it was just tire smoke and since the 26" DR's I had on the car were worn out, we put a set of 28's I had on it.
Pulled a plug and to our surprise it looked lean. We decide to jet up the 1050. Pulled the bowl off and of course the gasket tore, went to the box to get the extras we brought to find we didn't bring them. Un hooked truck from trailer, drive 12-15 miles to find some, get back and replace them.
Pull into burn out box, do burn out, pull to stage, starter tells me to kill the car. Puddle of fluid under car. Get it back to the trailer and find I forgot to put a freeze plug where the speedometer goes. It was blowing fluid out of it. All over the bottom side of the car. Now I think it was doing it first pass too, and probably got under the tires.
Back to the drawing board lol. Just glad we didn't hit the wall.
To start off with the secondaries were sticking in my new carb. So, had to borrow one, all I could find was a 1050 BG carb from a buddy. Put it on at the house and we figured we'd definitely have to rejet it. I have a stock cube 6.0 and the carb came off my buddies 540. So we got a bunch of stuff, threw in the truck and drove the 70 miles to the track.
My buddy hooks a vacuum gauge to the carb and tweaks the idle/air and gets it running smooth. I get strapped in and pull up to make my first pass. Launch the car and it seemed like it hooked for a second and then right on the limiter, I stick it 2nd, still on limiter so I lift off. Look in my mirror and white smoke every where. I move over to the edge of track, notice oil pressure is fine, so I limp it back to the trailer. After talking with everyone we assumed it was just tire smoke and since the 26" DR's I had on the car were worn out, we put a set of 28's I had on it.
Pulled a plug and to our surprise it looked lean. We decide to jet up the 1050. Pulled the bowl off and of course the gasket tore, went to the box to get the extras we brought to find we didn't bring them. Un hooked truck from trailer, drive 12-15 miles to find some, get back and replace them.
Pull into burn out box, do burn out, pull to stage, starter tells me to kill the car. Puddle of fluid under car. Get it back to the trailer and find I forgot to put a freeze plug where the speedometer goes. It was blowing fluid out of it. All over the bottom side of the car. Now I think it was doing it first pass too, and probably got under the tires.
Back to the drawing board lol. Just glad we didn't hit the wall.