That's ridiculous. Its always something. At least you can get 3 runs. Hopefully pull some good times.

 

picked up some new street wheels...

 

Looks sick!! Like its ready for the Texas mile.

 

went to the track today. decent weather with a little head wind. had high hopes for an 8 sec pass.

Track prep was terrible all day. started off and couldn't hook up at all. loosened up the front all the way an tightened the rears down a little and got it to 60 Ok but would spin about 100ft out as soon as some boost came in. Ended the day with a best pass of:

1.48 60'
5.864@123.87
9.046@153.53

Still got out of it a little at the begining of this pass but ran it all the way out. This was all on PUMP GAS 93 and around 13.5psi of boost. Need to put a stiffer spring in the gate to get any more boost out of it. Ran 5 passes between 153/154 MPH. Guess I'll have to wait till next time for an 8

TrickrTreat came up too and ran a couple 9 second passes as well.






http://youtu.be/WyEV0o6mkDM

 

great stuff 9.0 at only 13.5 psi!!!an easy 8 is there for the taking!!!!fark me makes me want my same turbo setup back from the workshop even more!!!! i,m sure you will keep us updated what happens next time on hopefully a better prepped track !!! cheers

 

Keep it up you'll get there. I'm planning on going Sept 1st to blow something up, either trans or rear.

 

Thanks, its getting close now.


Nice! I probably wont be going up till the end of sept./begining of october but keep me posted on how you do.

 

Almost there. Just a little bit more.

 

Nice runs LS1Curt! Sucks to see that you didn't get the 8 finally, but it is definitely there! Car looks awesome!

I think I already asked this, but are those 325/50/15 MT DR's?

 

It appears the car really liked the new exhaust and intake setup! Thats hauling *** on your current boost level.

 

Really impressive run considering the 60' time. If you get a well prepped track and a 1.3x short time, 8's will be a piece of cake. Thing is running awesome on just 13.5#!!! Can't wait to see what it does at a higher boost level, keep us posted. Congrats!

 

Thanks. Yes they are.

Thanks

Thanks, I was very happy with it considering the conditions. Will do.

 

Do you know what the car weighs with the new exhaust and cage and stuff. I am headed to the track tomorrow to tune and make some 14psi passes. on my S88 385 combo

 

The car weighs 3500 with me in it. Good luck tomorrow

 

I was expecting weight to go up after the 10pt install. How did you manage to pull that one off?

Can't help but love faster ET's with less boost. That exhaust and converter brought out the beast.

Looking forward to setp-oct 8's.

 

Hey, let me be the first to congratulate you on that >8.99 pass.... It's only a matter of time!

Quick ??

Not sure if you mentioned it but what converter do you have in there now? Same 9.5" Restalled? I ask because my project (if you can call it that... more like a neverending story with atreu on that silly dragon laughing and pointing at me. )

..anyways, I currently have a restalled (3200rpm) SS converter from Yank. Originally it was a SS3600.

Also, are all these runs on straight pump?

Thanks.

 

Thanks. The 9.5" was maxxed out so I ended up switching to a 10.5" py3400 converter from Yank. Yeah straight 93.

 

Interesting. So its recommendable to move up to a 10.5" with these power levels?

 

Update:

Over the winter we decided to pull the motor out and replace the headgaskets and check the bearings. The oil pan hasn't been off since the motor was built 3+ years ago. The old headgaskets looked perfect and the rod/main bearings all looked fine as well. Looked like the main caps were walking a little but the bearings still looked good.

Also decided to redo the hotpipes. This time around I welded v-bands to the manifolds and built the hotpipes out of 2" 304 stainless per Phil's recomendation. Car spools much faster with the smaller pipes. I will be measuring backpressure soon as well.

 

did you ever measure bp with the 2.5 hot side?