Finally got my first 10 :D:D
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From: Norn Iron
Finally got my first 10 :D:D It was a long weekend, with a 750 mile round trip to the track at Santa Pod raceway in England.
With the recently fitted Snow kit, and a leaking BOV sorted since the alst time I ran, which was 11.05 @ 138.66mph, the car was performing much better.
Still using the same Nitto 245/50x16 tyres, so times should improve further when I start using the MT DR's I just got today. well...assuming the T56 holds up.
Stats updated in Booted list below.
https://ls1tech.com/forums/showthrea...23#post5110323
http://media.putfile.com/stevieturbo...ta-Pod-July-06
http://media.putfile.com/stevieturbo...ta-pod-july-06
I'm well pleased....
Only bad thing about the weekend, was on my 4th run I shredded the blower belt, which took out some wiring, which was a close call, as part of it melted.. Managed to sort a repair, so we could drive home again though.
Wont be out again until the end of July, although it isnt a fully fledged dragstrip, but its a decent surface.
Doing 1/4 mile and standing mile passes at it.
With the recently fitted Snow kit, and a leaking BOV sorted since the alst time I ran, which was 11.05 @ 138.66mph, the car was performing much better.
Still using the same Nitto 245/50x16 tyres, so times should improve further when I start using the MT DR's I just got today. well...assuming the T56 holds up.
Stats updated in Booted list below.
https://ls1tech.com/forums/showthrea...23#post5110323
http://media.putfile.com/stevieturbo...ta-Pod-July-06
http://media.putfile.com/stevieturbo...ta-pod-july-06
I'm well pleased....
Only bad thing about the weekend, was on my 4th run I shredded the blower belt, which took out some wiring, which was a close call, as part of it melted.. Managed to sort a repair, so we could drive home again though.
Wont be out again until the end of July, although it isnt a fully fledged dragstrip, but its a decent surface.
Doing 1/4 mile and standing mile passes at it.
Last edited by stevieturbo; Jul 3, 2006 at 01:14 PM.
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Actually difficult to say.
When I last raced, the vac pipe to one of my BOV's had came off, unkown to me, and boost was backing off a little apparently from 6000rpm, which really hurt trap speeds.
it was also a scorching hot day, with intake temps soaring, ambient around 83-90 degF which is unusually hot..
The highest intake temp I recorded that day, was around 175 degF !!!!
This weekend was almost as warm, as soon as the run started, and meth was being injected, recorded intake temps dropped, usually to around ambient again, circa 86degF
When I fitted the meth, I roughly added around 4 degrees of timing whilst on boost, and just set the wideband to target 11.5 AFR.
So in respect of the intake temps, the methanol worked superbly.
As for how much extra power is down to repairing the BOV pipe ( more boost ), or the meth+timing, I cant say.
Last time I was making 15psi at 6000rpm, tailing off thereafter, crossing the line around 6600rpm and 138 mph..
Yesterday I was seeing about 20psi approaching 7000rpm crossing the line.
@ KAOS. Its a 1980 Ford Granada MK2. Nothing like the US car with the same name.
When I last raced, the vac pipe to one of my BOV's had came off, unkown to me, and boost was backing off a little apparently from 6000rpm, which really hurt trap speeds.
it was also a scorching hot day, with intake temps soaring, ambient around 83-90 degF which is unusually hot..
The highest intake temp I recorded that day, was around 175 degF !!!!
This weekend was almost as warm, as soon as the run started, and meth was being injected, recorded intake temps dropped, usually to around ambient again, circa 86degF
When I fitted the meth, I roughly added around 4 degrees of timing whilst on boost, and just set the wideband to target 11.5 AFR.
So in respect of the intake temps, the methanol worked superbly.
As for how much extra power is down to repairing the BOV pipe ( more boost ), or the meth+timing, I cant say.
Last time I was making 15psi at 6000rpm, tailing off thereafter, crossing the line around 6600rpm and 138 mph..
Yesterday I was seeing about 20psi approaching 7000rpm crossing the line.
@ KAOS. Its a 1980 Ford Granada MK2. Nothing like the US car with the same name.
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From: Norn Iron
Originally Posted by lcvette
freaking awesome man.. what engine management system are you using? very curious!
thanks man,
Chris
thanks man,
Chris
Its made by a UK company. I carried it over from my previous Rover V8 Twin turbo, and it was easier to retain it to run the LS1, than to start wiring another ecu into the car.
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This maybe a dumb question, but why are they uisng MPH at the Santa Pod Raceway in England?
And why in post #6 are you using F instead of C?
Just curious, really off topic I know, but I might be moving to England after I graduate.
And why in post #6 are you using F instead of C?
Just curious, really off topic I know, but I might be moving to England after I graduate.
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In the UK, we still use MPH on all road signs etc, and hence the few dragstrips we have, do too.
Within mainland Europe, they are mostly metric, and would use KPH. Although Southern Ireland also recently changed to Metric road signs.
Bit daft now if we drive North/South, as on the same land mass, we now have 2 distinct speed markings.
North is part of the UK and use MPH, and Southern Ireland use KPH and kilometers for distance.
I posted temps in degF, as this is a US based forum, and I thought only right to do so.
Within mainland Europe, they are mostly metric, and would use KPH. Although Southern Ireland also recently changed to Metric road signs.
Bit daft now if we drive North/South, as on the same land mass, we now have 2 distinct speed markings.
North is part of the UK and use MPH, and Southern Ireland use KPH and kilometers for distance.
I posted temps in degF, as this is a US based forum, and I thought only right to do so.
Originally Posted by KAOS
nice. what kind of car is that. congrats and with that kind of mph 9s are soon