My Father's Oldsmobile
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Hahaha! Nice pull! Actually the yellow "high beams" are CATZ by FET 5" standard round fog lights on their own relay and switch. They're ridiculous.
Went to the track tonight. Boy, that was miserable. 90 plus Farenhites before the sun went down. My coworker was there with his tube chassis potato chip trying to figure out how to get something out of the new $15k heads and intake he just put on this year. His weather station said the DA was 3400' in the sun, and when it dropped to 80⁰, it was still 2700.
I figured out that I am easily frazzled right up to stage lights. I didn't even get the ticket for the first run when I stalled it on the line lock, then proceeded to leave at 3000 on the 2 step and do a John Force style 2 gear burnout on the starting line only to have trouble getting into 3rd. I decided to take baby steps on the next run and forget about the 2 step for a while. Just get the burnout down. Somewhere in the middle, I decided to check a plug to get the village elders opinions. That resulted in the contact pulling out of the plug boot.
Good news is: the plugs are perfect to experienced racers.
Now, if I could roll all the best numbers into 1 single run, I might be doing something
.0911 light
1.8484 60 personal best went with above RT
7.8822 1/8
12.23 1/4
113.64 MPH
I figured out that I am easily frazzled right up to stage lights. I didn't even get the ticket for the first run when I stalled it on the line lock, then proceeded to leave at 3000 on the 2 step and do a John Force style 2 gear burnout on the starting line only to have trouble getting into 3rd. I decided to take baby steps on the next run and forget about the 2 step for a while. Just get the burnout down. Somewhere in the middle, I decided to check a plug to get the village elders opinions. That resulted in the contact pulling out of the plug boot.
Good news is: the plugs are perfect to experienced racers.
Now, if I could roll all the best numbers into 1 single run, I might be doing something
.0911 light
1.8484 60 personal best went with above RT
7.8822 1/8
12.23 1/4
113.64 MPH
It may not be a fast race car, but I bet it is one fun street car! Are you going to take it all apart and put it on blocks now? I hear that is the thing to do in Iowa.
It's hard to be consistent with a manual shift street car. Usually one misses 3rd gear. Back in the day, I loved "power" shifting my cars. That was when I would jack up the car high, wrestle the Muncie onto my chest while laying on a creeper, roll under then bench press the trans up and into the bellhousing. I'm a "fog" light fan. I had set of old school ones in a former race car. I went to my first test and tune this past Wednesday. Thompson Raceway, it was packed. Here's a picture of the "social distancing."
The group "social distancing" in the pickup were hitting the beer pretty good. No PPE on then and they probably didn't use any later that night. 🙂•》
Hell no, Jim! It's obvious that I need to work on my short game. I need a strategy or routine, which I don't have at the moment. I still let the prerace jitters get to me, and the tree erases any and all memory of the last launch. I want it to be easy: side step the clutch, hammer down, and shift. Well, that's not going to happen without a frame swap and rear suspension work. So, I need to learn how to work what I have for now. That entails duplicating the burnout every time (i didn't have enough brake pressure a few times and it pushed), controlling the clutch release to a good 60, then duplicating that. More seat time required.....
I'm also missing 2-3mph. My racer buddy says it's because I hooked up. He says you'll get a falsely inflated mph if you're spinning. He's been racing for 50 yrs, so I guess he's right? Or, was it the shifty air, or the 2 degrees of timing I pulled?
I'm also missing 2-3mph. My racer buddy says it's because I hooked up. He says you'll get a falsely inflated mph if you're spinning. He's been racing for 50 yrs, so I guess he's right? Or, was it the shifty air, or the 2 degrees of timing I pulled?
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