Re: Sometimes you win and sometimes you loose
Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2017 5:59 am
Update: I took the car to the track for an interesting day.
I'll spare you all of the "pre-race" issues that went on that day, but after my first burnout, the car died on me. I re-fired it three times and couldn't keep the car running so they pushed me out. I got it back to the pits and we started to look around for possibilities.
One thought was with my fuel line running close to the coil, that it might be arching, so we fixed that, but then it was noticed that all my air bleeds in the secondary were wet.
We go back up to the line and this time the car stayed running and I ran a 10.34 @ 134.77 MPH. My 60 was enough to make you vomit, so don't ask!
I shifted at 7200 RPM and crossed the line at the same RPM.
While stopping for my ticket, the car dies again. I get it running and back to the pits.
We pull the plugs and they we grayish in color and figured that they look this way due to a lot of idling.
Get the car back in line and I run out of gas while in the staging lanes.
We originally had 2.5 gallons in the cell and that was odd that I was out of gas so soon.
So I make another pass and I run a 10.36 @ 129.77 MPH and this time I lifted for some unknown reason! Again my 60's sucked.
I was too worried about keeping the car running to really concentrate on anything else.
This time the car dies again at the ticket booth and after three times, it re-fires and I get back and load the car up.
Again we noticed the carb was wet up top.
I get home and drain the fuel system and I used over 3.5 gallons of gas for two runs.
The motor ran great and pulled very hard (Thanks to Ray), so I have no worries about it being a motor issue, so I started to pull the carb apart and I did find some debris in the secondary fuel bowl, so the car b is going to get a cleaning to make sure everything is clean.
But for having issues, I'm happy with two 10.3's and a 134.77 MPH which is a personal best for me.
I'll spare you all of the "pre-race" issues that went on that day, but after my first burnout, the car died on me. I re-fired it three times and couldn't keep the car running so they pushed me out. I got it back to the pits and we started to look around for possibilities.
One thought was with my fuel line running close to the coil, that it might be arching, so we fixed that, but then it was noticed that all my air bleeds in the secondary were wet.
We go back up to the line and this time the car stayed running and I ran a 10.34 @ 134.77 MPH. My 60 was enough to make you vomit, so don't ask!
I shifted at 7200 RPM and crossed the line at the same RPM.
While stopping for my ticket, the car dies again. I get it running and back to the pits.
We pull the plugs and they we grayish in color and figured that they look this way due to a lot of idling.
Get the car back in line and I run out of gas while in the staging lanes.
We originally had 2.5 gallons in the cell and that was odd that I was out of gas so soon.
So I make another pass and I run a 10.36 @ 129.77 MPH and this time I lifted for some unknown reason! Again my 60's sucked.
I was too worried about keeping the car running to really concentrate on anything else.
This time the car dies again at the ticket booth and after three times, it re-fires and I get back and load the car up.
Again we noticed the carb was wet up top.
I get home and drain the fuel system and I used over 3.5 gallons of gas for two runs.
The motor ran great and pulled very hard (Thanks to Ray), so I have no worries about it being a motor issue, so I started to pull the carb apart and I did find some debris in the secondary fuel bowl, so the car b is going to get a cleaning to make sure everything is clean.
But for having issues, I'm happy with two 10.3's and a 134.77 MPH which is a personal best for me.