Re: Budget Cutlass Build Thread
Recently we were busting butt to get the car ready for the Hot Rod Power Tour in Charlotte. We got a custom drive shaft loop made, and also wired up the neutral safety switch.
A friend of ours also has an Innovative Motorsports air fuel guage that will log and record data while you are driving. You then can upload the data to a laptop to see how close your carb tuning is. Air fuels for this motor were pretty much spot on across the board. Other then a little burble that we think a new secondary spring Will clear up.
So once that was all done, it was time to head to Zmax for the 2014 Hot Rod Power Tour, I was planning to drag race the car. Once we got there I saw that they had a dyno and decided what the heck. Here's the dyno sheet. Pretty respectible 303 RWHP and 324 TQ. The dyno pull was made in second gear becuase 3rd would have been a long pull will a 2.56 gear.
I was expecting a little bit more, but hey it sounded downright nasty.
After that I made my first 3 passes ever. The times aren't even worth mentioning. I was trying to figure out how to get out of the hole, and every time you shifted into second it broke traction so I couldn't really get a full pass in. Oh well, live and learn. I'm looking foward to getting a posi rear and maybe some slicks. My reaction times were around .19x and my 60 foots improved each pass. I had a good time and was humbled by drag racing. I got the bug now. After a day of beating an driving 4 hours each way the Transmisson has decided it's had enough. 2-4 band is slipping pretty bad, so I'm accumulating the parts now.
(Photo borrowed from member (oldschool.)
Recently we were busting butt to get the car ready for the Hot Rod Power Tour in Charlotte. We got a custom drive shaft loop made, and also wired up the neutral safety switch.
A friend of ours also has an Innovative Motorsports air fuel guage that will log and record data while you are driving. You then can upload the data to a laptop to see how close your carb tuning is. Air fuels for this motor were pretty much spot on across the board. Other then a little burble that we think a new secondary spring Will clear up.
So once that was all done, it was time to head to Zmax for the 2014 Hot Rod Power Tour, I was planning to drag race the car. Once we got there I saw that they had a dyno and decided what the heck. Here's the dyno sheet. Pretty respectible 303 RWHP and 324 TQ. The dyno pull was made in second gear becuase 3rd would have been a long pull will a 2.56 gear.
I was expecting a little bit more, but hey it sounded downright nasty.
After that I made my first 3 passes ever. The times aren't even worth mentioning. I was trying to figure out how to get out of the hole, and every time you shifted into second it broke traction so I couldn't really get a full pass in. Oh well, live and learn. I'm looking foward to getting a posi rear and maybe some slicks. My reaction times were around .19x and my 60 foots improved each pass. I had a good time and was humbled by drag racing. I got the bug now. After a day of beating an driving 4 hours each way the Transmisson has decided it's had enough. 2-4 band is slipping pretty bad, so I'm accumulating the parts now.
(Photo borrowed from member (oldschool.)
:lol: 8)
