On Friday 8/7/20 My son and I drove to New England Dragway to do a full send with the car. I didn’t realize or check to see what if any events were being held other than the fact that it was Street Night. The night before I changed the oil with Royal Purple HPS and motorcraft filter, added some Redline water wetter to my new radiator fluid, packed tools in case I blew a cloupler on the IC, everything I would need to jack the car up, take a wheel off, really any oh shit moments I tried to bring something I could use to get myself back up and running. Brought my computer to view data logs, a few gallons of 110, my empty 5 gal pale of M1 to refill at the track, tire pressure gauge with air release to quickly drop tire pressure, 4K camcorder and Dragy. I ran the car empty and filled back up with 110.
It was packed, there was a huge line of cars well before you get close to pay to get in....then I checked...oh 603 Diesel Night....great! Track tech took forever....didn’t get much time for a cool down from my 3 hour drive. Put 3 bags of ice on it and walked to the fuel shack to fill up my M1 pale that was literally empty and I needed to add some to my car before making my first pass. So much cheaper there. At home I pay 79.99 for 5 gal of M1, at the track I paid $30 to fill it so no brainer right there. Dropped my tire pressure to 28 in the front and headed to get in line. My son and my cousin who lives 30 min from the track took my camcorder to film me. I waited maybe 20 min in line to take my first pass....not bad. But I anticipated longer so I was trying to get my computer situated....and this was a full dick pass, no other seats but my Kirky Driver seat, all door panels off except the driver side and door speakers in the back doors removed. Definitely the lightest my car has even been, although I didn’t bother weighing it I was unsure of being able to go. So first pass I was unable to get the log because I turned my car off and when I needed to go I couldn’t reach the buttons on the computer sitting on the passenger floor as the device had lost its connection from turning the car off. Then I shallow staged on accident, thought to put it in reverse but he dropped the tree so I started late. Ran an 11.75 on Dragy which actually was 1.5 tenths too fast...that was the most Dragy has ever been off for me...it was actually an 11.90 run and of course I wasn’t too happy with that time. I should be able to get into the 1.6 60 ft with my Drag tires as my best with street tires is a 1.72...but no I went 2.0 for a 60ft....like wtf? I had a 15 shot pre IC and 35 shot pre TB...the car felt like it stopped pulling right at the end of that run...which I’ve felt before with nitrous...never felt that ever when I’m not using nitrous....so I got mad bc I ran 11.89 last year full interior and no nitrous .....so I hot lap it and go back....I also was funneled into the left lane...at this track I’ve never got a good time in the left lane ever....my buddy who goes there all the time told me a couple years ago...you want the right lane, they use it for private rentals and it always has better prep. So right there I wasn’t happy about having to be in the left lane. So second time around I purposely went in the right lane....well aren’t they only running left now....and I literally let my car idle for 15 min...IAT2 wouldn’t get above 147 but I figured that was trash too. And this isn’t the first time I got ****** off and went back and ran faster....not sure how that works haha
I hit a better 60 ft a 1.79....I didn’t touch nitrous until 3rd gear and this time it didn’t stop pulling and ran 11.67. Again not happy about that....considering I ran 11.69 with a 1.86 60 ft last year in August also with full interior on street tires with a 35 shot....so what is going on?
I logged last years 11.69 so I looked at the logs back and forth back and forth so this is what happened or at least is a big part of what happened. Last year I used a tune with 19 psi with spark capped to 18-20 and shifting at 6200 rpm. This year I’m using 20 psi with 15-16 spark and shifting at 5700. And why? Well again I’m worried about the stock motor and I want to try to use some caution.....but clearly I was faster last year and losing 5 degrees of spark and shifting early even with 1 more psi of boost didn’t help. I’m happy to be able to drive home and go back and try again but it’s frustrating. I want to play it safe but at the same time I want the 4 grand I spent to make a difference .....and there’s always the version of being frustrated with a running car vs being frustrated with a broken car....so there’s that. I’d be willing to bet if I ran last years tune and let the porting I had done and better fuel pressure the pumps and drag tires and a littler lighter make up the difference. So this is what you get to deal with when you got a stock motor....Always wondering is this is the end? Hahaha
https://youtu.be/Z7TC5QFlz0M
It was packed, there was a huge line of cars well before you get close to pay to get in....then I checked...oh 603 Diesel Night....great! Track tech took forever....didn’t get much time for a cool down from my 3 hour drive. Put 3 bags of ice on it and walked to the fuel shack to fill up my M1 pale that was literally empty and I needed to add some to my car before making my first pass. So much cheaper there. At home I pay 79.99 for 5 gal of M1, at the track I paid $30 to fill it so no brainer right there. Dropped my tire pressure to 28 in the front and headed to get in line. My son and my cousin who lives 30 min from the track took my camcorder to film me. I waited maybe 20 min in line to take my first pass....not bad. But I anticipated longer so I was trying to get my computer situated....and this was a full dick pass, no other seats but my Kirky Driver seat, all door panels off except the driver side and door speakers in the back doors removed. Definitely the lightest my car has even been, although I didn’t bother weighing it I was unsure of being able to go. So first pass I was unable to get the log because I turned my car off and when I needed to go I couldn’t reach the buttons on the computer sitting on the passenger floor as the device had lost its connection from turning the car off. Then I shallow staged on accident, thought to put it in reverse but he dropped the tree so I started late. Ran an 11.75 on Dragy which actually was 1.5 tenths too fast...that was the most Dragy has ever been off for me...it was actually an 11.90 run and of course I wasn’t too happy with that time. I should be able to get into the 1.6 60 ft with my Drag tires as my best with street tires is a 1.72...but no I went 2.0 for a 60ft....like wtf? I had a 15 shot pre IC and 35 shot pre TB...the car felt like it stopped pulling right at the end of that run...which I’ve felt before with nitrous...never felt that ever when I’m not using nitrous....so I got mad bc I ran 11.89 last year full interior and no nitrous .....so I hot lap it and go back....I also was funneled into the left lane...at this track I’ve never got a good time in the left lane ever....my buddy who goes there all the time told me a couple years ago...you want the right lane, they use it for private rentals and it always has better prep. So right there I wasn’t happy about having to be in the left lane. So second time around I purposely went in the right lane....well aren’t they only running left now....and I literally let my car idle for 15 min...IAT2 wouldn’t get above 147 but I figured that was trash too. And this isn’t the first time I got ****** off and went back and ran faster....not sure how that works haha
I hit a better 60 ft a 1.79....I didn’t touch nitrous until 3rd gear and this time it didn’t stop pulling and ran 11.67. Again not happy about that....considering I ran 11.69 with a 1.86 60 ft last year in August also with full interior on street tires with a 35 shot....so what is going on?
I logged last years 11.69 so I looked at the logs back and forth back and forth so this is what happened or at least is a big part of what happened. Last year I used a tune with 19 psi with spark capped to 18-20 and shifting at 6200 rpm. This year I’m using 20 psi with 15-16 spark and shifting at 5700. And why? Well again I’m worried about the stock motor and I want to try to use some caution.....but clearly I was faster last year and losing 5 degrees of spark and shifting early even with 1 more psi of boost didn’t help. I’m happy to be able to drive home and go back and try again but it’s frustrating. I want to play it safe but at the same time I want the 4 grand I spent to make a difference .....and there’s always the version of being frustrated with a running car vs being frustrated with a broken car....so there’s that. I’d be willing to bet if I ran last years tune and let the porting I had done and better fuel pressure the pumps and drag tires and a littler lighter make up the difference. So this is what you get to deal with when you got a stock motor....Always wondering is this is the end? Hahaha
https://youtu.be/Z7TC5QFlz0M
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