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stracer859 · #1 Post by **stracer859** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 9:11 pm

thanks once again for the help on the phone the other night, we got it all took care of. drives very good. just a lil dissappointed in the performance of the car. car didnt pick up but 2 hundreths. gotta figure out whats wrong, something has to be wrong

stracer859 · #2 Post by **stracer859** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 10:36 pm

why would my car not pick up no ET. i went from a stock th350 with a 2500 converter to a coan th350with a brake and a neal chance bolt together, stock driveshaft to a MMC shaft, stock 8.5 10 bolt rearend with 4.56 gears and a mini spool with drum brakes to a 12 bolt, 33 spline moser axles, full spool, 4.10 pro gear, wilwood disks. slapper bars to cal tracs, stock steering to a rack and pinion, drums on the fronts to aerospace disks, went to fiberglass bumpers over stock, fiberglass hood over a stock. better carb. alot of stuff and i didnt pick up nothin but a couple hundreths, the weight alone should have been worth that. im so confused any help anyone ?? john u have any advice ??

#3 Post by **John_Heard** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 9:17 am

That's a lot of change all at once. It certainly appears that you took quite a bit of weight out, not sure how much overall. However you also changed gear and converter at the same time. You did see a .20 decrease in ET but I'm sure you expected more after all that work. Perhaps the car doesn't like the taller gear or something.

What motor setup are you running? Have you figured up how much lighter the car is now? At least it didn't slow down!

I also saw new carb.. May have some tuning to do with this complete change in setup. Not to mention weather, it might be more ET savings on a better weather day, not sure what you're comparing on the runs.

stracer859 · #4 Post by **stracer859** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 6:43 pm

that was a .02 increase, i wish it was .20, id been somewhat happy with that. i pulled the plugs last nite and they looked decent even with some idle time on em. i never knew what the car weighed before but i wanna weigh it and see what it does weigh

stracer859 · #5 Post by **stracer859** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 6:44 pm

what do you want to know about the motor setup???

stracer859 · #6 Post by **stracer859** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 9:28 pm

small block. 350 .30 over heads are sportsman 2s cast iron, cam is a solid roller, 264\272 @ 050, 638\638 106 ls, 10.50 :1, converter goes 5100 on the transbrake. naw it aint spinnin, dont know the car weight, mph is off a lil

#7 Post by **John_Heard** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 8:51 am

"mph is off a lil"

It doesn't sound like it likes the new gear or converter if the MPH fell off. The weight reduction alone should have reduced the ET but MPH may have been about the same. One or more of the changes is canceling out the benefits of the lighter weight it sounds like. I would guess gear or converter, or weather.

Get your time slips out and let's look at the incremental #'s. Also what was the difference in the weather between the runs?

stracer859 · #8 Post by **stracer859** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 4:38 pm

wonder if i stick a 4.88 in it what would happen hehehe

stracer859 · #9 Post by **stracer859** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 10:16 pm

well im gonna try to hit the track again saturday. ive changed a couple lil things and im gonna see what that does, if all else fails im gonna spray it

#10 Post by **John_Heard** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 6:22 am

Good luck!

stracer859 · #11 Post by **stracer859** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 10:41 pm

im still thinkin bout the gear change if nothin works this weekend

stracer859 · #12 Post by **stracer859** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 2:00 am

well i had a shock issue, fixed that and the car picked up to a 7.27 @ 94.8 mph. still think i can get a lil more out of it on motor. all in all was a good weekend.

#13 Post by **John_Heard** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 7:26 am

That's good that you found what was acting up. Is the 7.27 more along the lines of what you were expecting?

stracer859 · #14 Post by **stracer859** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 2:14 pm

yeah it is, i was so happy. but i do think there is somemore left in it

stracer859 · #15 Post by **stracer859** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 11:50 pm

well after some time off from fooling with the car. i went to the track last friday night(cool weather) car picked up some more 7.16@ 96 mph. still havent sprayed it yet. need tires before i do all that. thinkin bout gettin the new m/t drag radials. ive heard good things about them

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