Well with the addition of wheelie bars and some adjustments to the travel limiters we think we have a handle on getting the car to leave without getting crazy off the line... In case you dont' remember i seriously damaged my car when it went up on the bumper in a heads up race for 1200 dollars cash. bent the steering rack, fucked up alignment, dinged up the collectors, etc.... got all that fixed and had my crew transport the car out...

My crew took the car to Sac for some shakedown passes and I let my crew chief drive the car since i coudln't be there due to military commitments... He did a great job driving it in my absence and he's the only one i trust...

They had a battery issue early on that i've been messing with for months. I think I killed a cell in the battery and it wouldn't hold a charge for anything causing the Digital 7 to go haywire and start missing and dropping cylinders.... So they brought a brand new optima along swapped it over at the track and BAM it was like a new car... My tuner tuned on the car to get it to idle and start easier and cleaned up some IAC issues the car was having with the throttle follower when the throttle blades would slam shut.... After 30 minutes he fixed all those up and the car was ready to go.... ALL the passes were made with just the 150 shot jets in the plate since we really wanted to get the car to leave the line like we knew it was capable of....

They made 1 motor pass and went 10.9@128mph leaving VERY easy.... Followed by a nitrous pass where the car went very lean for a second in high gear causing Charlie to lift.... It seemed that the car got low on gas and the pump caught air for a second. AFR got to 14.1:1 for like a tenth of a second before he shut it down... car went 10.3@104... 6.22@113 in the 1/8....

Second pass they put more fuel in the tank and made it out again.... car left super strong touched the wheelie bars, came down and bounced a bit and pulled the wheels up again.... It hit the bars a bit hard causing the bounce but the car responded with a 1.44 60' time and 9.74@143.6mph!!! ON only the 150 hit!!!!!

THey made a back to back pass which is here where the car went even quicker... 1.42 60' time, 9.72@143.5mph.... This time they left the limiters where they were and put another inch of height on the wheelie bars... Car leaves the line with the wheels about 4 inches up for a second and comes right back down and goes like a bat outta hell....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHHrjN_C2yM

Our next plan now that the car is launching right is to put more gas to it out of the hole along the lines of a 225 shot possibly. Or keep the 150 shot and progress it up to 350 or 375 pretty quickly to get it in the mid 1.3's.... we feel with a mid 1.3 and 350-375 hp worth of gas that we can get that elusive 8 second pass....

 

It's about time you put some wheelie bars on that thing!!!

Looking awesome man, keep up the good work

 

I wish I had problems like that!!! Are we going to see you at the shootout?

 

I wish I had this issue hahahahah LOOKING GOOD SON

 

That is definetly much better than last time. You also went from the best quality video I've ever seen to a video of a TV recording.

 

looks great man! looks like its leaving perfect. but i agree not so good vid lol. time to upthe juice and break some records!

 

my boy couldn't get his camera to download right so he recorded it off the tV... LOL.....

yeah it's leaving good now..... thank god..... I'm not around yet to take the car to the shootout.... so once again even though the car is running great i can't do it cause of military commitments.... this afghanistan buildup has us loadmasters really busy...

 

that stinks u cant make it. but ya gotta do what ya gotta do stay safe at work!

 

nice runs!!! GL hitting 8's

 

I was also going to say i wish i had a problem like that, wheels coming off the ground is a nice problem to have......safley of course

 

yeah i had the problem BAD..... look up some of my vids in my signature and you can see how bad it got at times..... did quite a bit of damage to the car last time i ran it.... wheels off the ground was the least of my problems..... bumper on the ground was more of a problem....

 

Are you eventually going to take the bars back off once you get it figured out?