67Satty
Well-Known Member
Due to selling and then buying an "as-is" house (bank short sale) I've been really busy for the last year and haven't had my Satellite to the track in a year. All of my spare time and money has been invested in making this new place livable for my family. But it's worth because now I have a three car garage and over an acre of land so plenty of room to work on my Satellite!
I'm going to try a few minor tweaks to the Satellite:
20W-50 oil instead of 10W-30 (an engine builder I trust said his engines with hydraulic lifters always make more power on the dyno with heavier 20W-50 oil).
Competition Engineering rear drag shocks set on stiffest extension. After switching from bias ply D.O.T. slicks to drag radials my car started doing something it had never done before, it would hook initially and then start spinning 40 feet or so out. When I took my old Monroematic truck shocks off they seemed more like 90/10 shocks. They would compress really hard and extend so easily it was ridiculous.
Took off adjustable pinion snubber.
San Diego County people: come on out if you can and bring your car! The track's motto is "if you cna drive it, you can race it".
I'm going to try a few minor tweaks to the Satellite:
20W-50 oil instead of 10W-30 (an engine builder I trust said his engines with hydraulic lifters always make more power on the dyno with heavier 20W-50 oil).
Competition Engineering rear drag shocks set on stiffest extension. After switching from bias ply D.O.T. slicks to drag radials my car started doing something it had never done before, it would hook initially and then start spinning 40 feet or so out. When I took my old Monroematic truck shocks off they seemed more like 90/10 shocks. They would compress really hard and extend so easily it was ridiculous.
Took off adjustable pinion snubber.
San Diego County people: come on out if you can and bring your car! The track's motto is "if you cna drive it, you can race it".
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