New Best 60' and MPH for old Car...
05-01-2011, 07:19 PM
#1
New Best 60' and MPH for old Car... The new owner called me today from Capitol Raceway looking for some suggestions on getting the car to hook on a less than perfectly prepped track. I had him drop the tire pressure 1 psi and loosen the rear shocks a couple of clicks. He texted back with a 1.48 60' and an 11.26 @ 121.22 mph. We finally got the car all worked out. He had a stall wall issue that I had never experienced before with the car. In chasing the problem he wound up hurting the trans, and went with an RPM level V and having the converter re-stalled to 4400. Precision Industries ended up sending him a brand new Vig4400 because my old one was so old that it couldn't be rebuilt! So for the cost of a freshening he got a brand new one!
Not too shabby for his first real outing with the car. The RPM level V trans is performing well and the converter is obviously working. Its nice to see that the mph wasn't adversely affected by the bigger stall, which is obviously working very well. And remember that the race weight is right around 3625-3650, and I have no idea what the DA was at the track today either. It's time to start dropping weight and see what happens. By the way, this is the 16th year of racing on the Lingenfelter short block and valve springs!
--Alan
Not too shabby for his first real outing with the car. The RPM level V trans is performing well and the converter is obviously working. Its nice to see that the mph wasn't adversely affected by the bigger stall, which is obviously working very well. And remember that the race weight is right around 3625-3650, and I have no idea what the DA was at the track today either. It's time to start dropping weight and see what happens. By the way, this is the 16th year of racing on the Lingenfelter short block and valve springs!
--Alan
05-02-2011, 02:53 PM
#4
Yep, the bottom end has never had even the slightest hiccup. It'd still be all original Lingenfelter if I hadn't wanted to go faster back in 2005 and used Joe Overton and Eric Bradby's services on the heads and a new cam. The motor has been an anvil and just keeps doing its thing! 54,XXX miles and countless 1/4 mile passes. I'd use them again in a heartbeat.
--Alan
--Alan
05-02-2011, 08:07 PM
#6
Yeah, the machine work, great parts, and extreme attention to detail is what sold me on Lingenfelter when John was alive. Not spinning it to the moon helps, too. This is why I'm quick to recommend folks spend their hard earned money once and do it right. Skimping never works out well. Think of how many motors most folks have gone through in 16 years of racing/street driving...LPE doesn't seem so expensive now, does it?
--Alan
--Alan
05-02-2011, 08:24 PM
#7
Reminds me of an old Car and Driver shootout. As I recall, Lingenfelter was pitted against a whole bunch of other big name tuner cars from Europe and the US. The author of the article noted that most of the tuners brought a full supply of spare parts, mechanics and tools. Lingenfelter brought a broom and only a broom with him. When asked, he told them it was to sweep the starting line clean so his car could get the best traction. The man was dead nuts confident that his car was going to run 100% no matter what.