So, last night, the engine only had 1 cylinder head on it. Tonight, it's almost ready for Fire in the Hole.

One of our neighbors has been in China for 5 weeks, and got back on thursday. So yesterday he came over to see how the car was, and jusst saw the block on the stand (it didn't have the head on it yet). He said that hopefully we'd have it together by next week.

He came over again tonight, everything was hooked up and put in. He goes "Where did all the [low wage workers] go? There's no way you two did all that in one day!"

So now, 3 of our 4 neighbors are actually hoping that they wake up to the sound of a racecar. We are lucky that all our neighbors are car people!

 

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Went to Crandall last night. Car is deadly consistent. However, we found out that #7 has been weak. We changed plugs and oil yesterday before we left, and the #7 plug had no sign of life. After the plug change, #7 was marginal at best.

Either kennedale's clocks are fast, or Crandall's are slow. We ran 5.95, 5.96, 5.95, 5.93 at kennedale, and at Crandall in very similar air conditions, ran 6.00, 6.02, 6.02, 6.00, 6.02.

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Day 1 (Friday):

After making a slew of suspension adjustments this week, we're running all 3 nights this weekend. Tonight was a test for the suspension changes, tomorrow is a bracket race, and sunday is a pink-style all out race.

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Day 2 (Saturday):

We learned alot today. We learned that CoG matters, Air pressures are giant variables, trans-brakes can slip, and that greasy tracks SUCK.

This morning, we went down another 3/4" on the shock mounts.

Pass 1: The track temps was 125 degrees. It blew the tires off. In the slo-mo, the tire wads up in the first half rotation, then spins completely around for a full rotation, before hooking back up. It ran a 5.961 at 114 and change.

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Pass 2: The actual track temp under my feet was 133 degrees. Not sure where the 119 registered from. Ran a 5.963 at 115 and pennies. Didn't spin the tires as hard, although rotations 2 and 3 are slipping a little. It was hooked up at the top end though, first pass at 115.

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Pass 3: Put simply, dad was trying to go in really shallow, and he actually was too shallow. The car rolled backwards when it went on the transbrake. He couldn't re-stage because the transbrake was still locked out when it quit rocking. They timed him out, so it was a wasted run. No clocks for our lane, and the other guy was a second and a quarter off his dial.

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Pass 4: This was first round of bracket eliminations. We didn't know they used a "cross-talk" tree. Since dad's used to leaving on the top amber, the long first bulb messed up the delay box, and he went 0.357 second red. But, the other guy was leaving first, and he went .006 red. So the "First is worst" rule applied, and we moved onto the second round. The tire wadded up for the first 1/4 of a turn, but then the following 1.75 turns, it simply blew the tires off. Ran a 6.001 at 114 and change.

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Between our first and second rounds, one of the super-pro cars (in their second round) threw a rod. So we had a good 45 minute downtime while they cleaned up oil from the 330 to the turnoff, and all the way back on the return road. This allowed the track to gain shade, and the track temp dropped from the 120's and 130's down to 96.

Pass 5: With the changed conditions, we had no idea what to pick for our dial-in. We'd ran 94's and 95's at night, but because we had been spinning the tires all day, we chose to dial at a 96, and go down to 8.3 psi (normally 8.5). The good news: the dropped PSI and better conditions made us go faster, and we didn't spin the tires. Bad news: We broke out by a full .01 of a second, with dad DUMPING at the speed trap. It would have easily been a 92 or 93 had he stayed in it. Result was a 5.951 at 110 and change. In the slo-mo, you can see that it briefly slapped the wheelie bars (which are at 8.25" at rest, but point down under launch), spun the tires at the first full rotation, carried the front tires about 10-15 feet, and actually left on the bottom amber. It was recorded as a .017 light.

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Day 3 (Sunday):

It'd 1AM after a triple header. Anyone expecting a race report, is crazy.

We made it to the semi finals (All Out 4). 2 Time Trials, 2 Qualifying runs, then 3 rounds of racing.

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what would that be? low 9s?

 

5.95 1/8 ~ 8.50 1/4 or so. Super Comp, basically.

 

Hard to go rounds when you can't start the car...



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So, we had to replace the flywheel and starter after a *minor* calamity occured in the bellhousing last weekend, and also put our third torque converter in.

I think we're getting closer to where we want to be...

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Just put a new toy on the car: http://www.gcdataconcepts.com/x6-2.html

Really not a bad deal for $129. It's all self contained, plugs in like a flash drive (they even supply a 1 meter USB cable), has the graphing utility on the storage chip (so any computer can read it), just really well thought out. All I had to do was solder on the leads for my external switch....that was the fun part, especially with such a wore out soldering iron, it doesn't even have a tip left. But I did get it done.

The orange LED's are the "power on" indicators. I'm going to add a relay to turn off the dash one though, so that it turns off if the ignition is on (rear will be always-on).

 

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