LT1Formula007

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Lmao
Yep Jeff is correct. It's not enough. Not much of an update yet. I have a few things to fix cosmetic wise and then I'll update as I do more upgrades or get more track time in. I will have alot of videos coming soon. :-)

LT1Formula007

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Should have some new pics, vids, and hopefully track times coming soon. Been working very hard lately to get everything figured out with the car as well as some appearance mods. Stay tuned.

Mr Phil

so i couldnt help but notice u never kept that hood u bought... it looks like it went on your gf car? was that for wing resistance problems?

Jadedbird

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you better be at one of these cruises i keep hearing about up in indy. i wanna see this bird did those racestars fit or did you have to grind the calipers?

LT1Formula007

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I did actually end up keeping the hood. Just got it installed and painted last month. Along with some more Racestar wheels. This time I went with the Racestar Darkstars bc the polished wheels were too hard to keep clean. And the wheels bolted right on with Zero fitment issues.

I had made some passes in the car last year and with all of the transmission issues and tuning issues I was not very pleased....

I since then have had the car retuned by James Short at ShorTuning and it was the first WOT blast on the dyno that discovered the engine was making too much power for the converter and was blowing thru it.

James made a couple of test passes at the track to datalog it, and found it was seeing as much as 20% converter slippage. with the converter slippage it still managed to put down 472 rwhp and 500 ft lbs trq thru his dyno. he said his dyno reads about 10% lower than a Dyno Jet. I think his is a Dyno Dynamics!!!
Anyways, the car ran a 10.44 @126 1.36 60' and backed it up with a 10.46 @ 127 1.38 60'
Not to mention the car runs a lot better around town than with the previous tune. I immediately pulled the transmission when I picked the car up I had it inspected at RPM and had them order me a new converter that was spec'd out for my setup.
I installed the new converter and trans Thursday Night and took it to Muncie Dragway on Friday night to make some test passes with it.
The track wasn't hooking well at all. But I got some decent runs in.

1st pass was...
10.50 @ 129.9 mph 1.45 60'

2nd pass was...
10.87 @ 129.8 mph 1.66 60'

3rd pass was...
10.62 @ 130.35 mph 1.61 60'

And on my last pass I decided to enter the Fastest Street Car Challenge and I was the last person in Line to make a pass....

I left off idle and just matted the gas and the car ran a...

10.48 @ 129 1.46 60' and I pulled around to the trailer only to hear my Car Number being called over the PA System to come and grab the $100.00 I won for Fastest Street Car for that night. I beat the guy who had ran in front of me by .03 of a second. lol
I had NO CLUE what any of the other cars had ran.... I was just having fun. lol

LT1Formula007

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Here was a Video from last years Track Day in case anyone missed it....

LT1Formula007

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Here is a pass from inside the car while James Short was data logging it.
It pulls the front wheels about a foot to a foot and a half depending on the launch. And it carries them til the 2nd gear shift.

LT1Formula007

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And not to mention what better way to monitor my progress since I don't post up as much as I use too...

James

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exodus_gs1

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Sweet, sweet numbers and pics... And videos Lol. Gets a fire under my *** tho, ready to make some head way on mine. Good work

James@ShorTuning

I'm glad it's running well for you. Do you recall what it's going through the traps at now rpm wise? I'd like to dyno it again sometime with the new converter but I know you are a good haul away haha. Might need to tweak the tune some since its loading the engine a lot harder at lower rpm. Before any WOT anywhere would go straight to 6000rpm now you say it's flashing to mid 3000 rpm so it's a lot tighter!

Thanks for the opportunity to work on your car! It's a nice one!

LT1Formula007

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Thank You Exodus.... And hell yeah man, Get it done. lol

And James, Thank You so much for all of your help with the car. I really appreciate it. The car is driving 100% better than it was before. Driveability is BAR NONE, It's night and day difference now. I appreciate you taking the time to mess with it.

And as for the rpm going thru the traps, I'm not even sure to be honest. I was paying so much attention to everything else going on I didn't even think to look. lol
It still had some rpm left though for sure.... And I would love to drop it back off and let you play with it some more here soon. I have alot going on though in the next few weeks so IDK how soon I could get it back to you. I'll give you a call tomorrow if you will be around and we can schedule a day to drop it back off.
Even let you take it back to the track if you want.

Thanks Man.

-James