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Update January 1, 2007
On November 21st I drove the car to Blue Moon Auotomotive to make some baseline pulls on their DynoJet chassis dyno. My friend Will shot the vid. We made three pulls, changing the jets in the carb on the second pull, then spraying with 73 jets in the plate. I had set the tuneup safe for this pull and it showed in the results, but it's all about learning what the car likes, I learned from the experience, and it showed in the results at the track on the Dec. 9th. Dead Hookers II event. HERE is a video of the 10.23 nitrous pass I made. Did I say "maybe" run tens in the winter N/A ?? How about 10.66 @ 125 MPH. Yeah that's the ticket. Ran a 10.08 @ 130 on the bottle too. All that hard work is finally starting to pay off. I am going again on February 2nd to Need2Speed.com's Dead Hookers III event. The goal for this event is to tune the suspension and make a clean 9 second pass. Thanks to Don Bitler and his family for the ride and help, having a crew is so much easier than doing everything by yourself.
On Aug. 12th need2speed.com hosted an event at BMP ,
I have been out two more times to Sunshine, was having a high RPM miss, which I traced to bad spark plugs. I didn't think they looked that bad really, but I guess they were shot. It's all good now. On Dec. 8th I got two good runs trying to trace the miss, and the best was a 7.19 @ 97, the other was a 7.25 @ 97 with the slower ET cause by slower 60'. Nitrous did not work so I went again on the 15th after more changes to the N20 tuneup and a little testing down the street. It works now. Spraying a 175 HP shot car ran a 6.58 @ 103 with a 1.458 60'. Next pass had a 1.460 60' but car got crocked and moved towards wall and had to lift. Last pass was a 6.70 @ 103 with 1.56 60' and sliding around some. So far so good, well... except for excessive twist, but it's an "A" body thing. LOL I'll be getting an air bag for the pass. side to keep the fender off the tire until I get the anti roll bar installed. Hopefully that will calm it down some. I got video of all the runs and the launch pic below is from the tv screen until I can get the VHS transferred.
Update Oct. 25,2004 Had my lung transplant May 3rd, feeling good. Been out twice in past two months. Ran a best of 7.21 @ 97 at Sunshine Dragstrip (1/8 mi.) 11.52 @ 116 at Bradenton on motor. Pics of time slips below. Updates to car are NOS Pro two stage plate, fuel system routing, Morrison "No-Hop" bars, adjustable upper control arms, X Brace, and exhaust. Click thumbnails below to enlarge. Next time out I will be testing the N20 and a Holley HP 1000 (pictured).
Here's my Chevelle, this taken in August of 2000 just after the new 468 was installed
The car has a TH 400 with reverse pattern Turbo Action valve body, and Ameritorque converter. The rear has a 4:10 Richmond gear with Moser spool and axles. I also had Buick ends installed, so I would not have to fool with those damn c-clip eliminators. I have been out twice with the new motor, the first time out went badly as I had ignition
problems which were traced to a bad MSD chip. There were no problems the second time out, with several passes in
the low 7.30's, and a best run of 7.23 @ 94 mph (with borrowed Holley HP series by McLendon
Racing, 1000+cfm). So far so good. The goal is to get in the 10's on hp and spray 300
to perhaps as much as 400 hp N20, depending on how the engine responds to it. I'll be updating when there is news
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