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Couple other photos from that weekend and the rebuild.

Plan is to test next Saturday with Pro-Mods, Aug 17th @mike honcho

Don't ask how much money has been spent. We fell from #1 to #4 in points, and have Memphis at the beginning of Sept. Pretty much have to win that race and Tulsa in October to get the championship.

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Holy crap, that blower is HUGE! :)

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Originally Posted by HeyYou (Post 3449130)

Holy crap, that blower is HUGE! :)

You should see how we lift it on the engine. It's 90 pounds by itself and awkward to lift. We actually made a handle to go on the back of it; the belt guard makes a front handle...ish. It's a 14-71 rotor-length high helix but the case length is same as an 18-71 to squish that much more air on top of the rotor.

I haven't updated in a while...

Ran into some issues on my engine in regards to pushrod length and clearancing, so no real news there yet.

Went to Memphis last weekend....

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Well, it's not fixed to our liking, but it went down the track.

Round trip from Home to Memphis and back is 1,040 miles.

First run was a shutoff, Q2 was a 3.94, Q3 was a 3.94, and Q4 was a 3.98. Round 1 was a funky pairing and neither driver crossed the finish line under power (it's a bracket racing thing) and we got the shorter end of the short stick. It was on a 4.00 run, maybe 3.99. Pole was a 3.77, we ended up #9. 20 took time and 2 broke.

The track wasn't fantastic, the air wasn't great, and we were trying to make sure parts survived.

Check out the #2 exhaust pipe at the launch on Q4 onboard. It didn't pop up on the data logger, but that's why I run an onboard camera...just wish I could see both banks at once.

EDIT: It did it in Q3 too. That explains something that I DID see on the datalogger.....

http://youtube.com/watch?v=vuQ_pj4UrOWo

I'm tired. My body hurts. I want sleep.

We went back up to Tulsa for the Fall ThrowDown. We won the Spring Throwdown.

It was ridiculously cold Friday night. 55 degree ambient and falling, 65 degree track and falling. The track didn't have much rubber on it, and the glue wasn't sticking due to temperature.

Saturday morning the engine barely turned over, but we didn't have time to fix it since they quick-called us (lack of communication from track to racers) before we had even warmed up. Several racers didn't make it to Q2, we were last car around the corner for the session.

After we got back, we put a heater on the battery thinking maybe it went dead from the 38 degree overnight temperature. It was better for the warmup before Q3, but at the ready line, it barely turned over just enough to catch off the gasoline primer.

We got back and swapped out starters after Q3 hoping that was it, we carry a spare starter but not a spare battery (they tend to go dead in the trailer anyways). Luckily it was.

Came back from E1 and looked at the data and saw a large 'flare' in the RPM curve at the shift. It's the result of an extended neutral between low and high gear. Basically, it means the direct clutch is not engaging properly after the low band releases. We weren't sure how much ET we would lose from it, but we knew from Topeka last year that it wasn't going to last long before it torched the clutch pack.

So we dialed a little safe for E2, and took out the #2 guy in points to effectively freeze the standings. #1 guy went out round 1, we took out #2 guy, and we were #3 and mathematically ineligible to catch #2.

Round 3, we had the #16 qualifier with a full second handicap. He didn't leave us much of a window to get in, and we didn't give ourselves enough padding on the dial for the transmission to do us any favors.

Scott Palmer brought all 3 of his cars- Top Fuel Dragster, StudeZilla (Nitro ProMod), and the Nitro Chevelle (Nitro ProMod) driven by JR Sandlian. Neither NPM got more than a few feet, the TFD went 4.07 dropping cylinders and pushing the head gaskets out.

With the dragster season over, hopefully we can have the truck engine done by Christmas.

Took the pushrods over to Reher-Morrison

They measure the stock pushrod as right at 6.900 and my checker pushrod as 6.885. So we ordered 6.875 Manley's. Should have them by the end of the week. Need to do a touch more grinding on one head for PR clearance, and do the entire second head.

No progress on my engine, but....

Put it in 1080P full screen and turn the sound up.