Racing this weekend

[Budnicks]

Report from Sat and Sunday Nov 17 & 18.
PB 60' of 1.398 and PB of 660 (1/8 mile) of 6.420 BUT headwind slowed my MPH down to 129.93 MPH.
I did have one run of 131.24 MPH but the incremental ET's were not my PB.
Car ran strong but....I did NOT get a 10.099 time slip. Best ET was only 10.172 which was slower than my PB of 10.158.
The adjusted altitude was in the 1800 and 1900' range, not down in the 500-750' range I had hoped for.
HERE ARE A COUPLE PICTURES THAT THE TRACK PHOTOGRAPHER TOOK at this race.
This picture was taken on my Qualifying Run for the D/GAS class which is heads up index racing with 10.60 Index. I put my restrictor plate in to slow it down to 10.60 for this class.
PS: In the last picture you can check out the crazy POSITIVE CAMBER on the front tires when the car is at maximum height on the launch. Never knew it actually looked like this.....or...maybe it was an optical illusion from the photographer's lens on the camera...??

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so does that mean the price goes down
by $500 now, more wear & tear, more passes etc.

sorry had to do it

sounds like it was a fun time too

 

[bobtile]

so does that mean the price goes down
by $500 now, more wear & tear, more passes etc.

sorry had to do it

sounds like it was a fun time too

 

[Mike Gaines]

Usually when you take a picture of a picture, it distorts like that.

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That explains it....thanks.

 

[Mike Gaines]

I now think I know why the car didn't go faster last weekend.
The car ran consistent 10.15 to 10.17 last month when adjusted altitude was 2700 feet.
Air was 1800 feet, or so, last weekend and it just didn't hit me that I should have richened the jets in my Dominator from 93/93 (where I had them for 2700 to 3000 feet of air) to 95/95 or 96/96 to take advantage of the thick air.
I think it would have picked up enough to maybe get my 10.099 time slip.
plus, car should have gone 132+ with that good air...but it just ran out of fuel and only went 131.24.....too lean for the air...not enuf to hurt anything but enuf to NOT get full potential.

 

[bearman]

no problem next time it will happen

 

[66Satellite47]

Mike, jet changes are an odd thing. Sometimes a change you can really see, some times not. In my bracket racing days I eventually got to the point of not re-jetting. The car would run the number, good for me. Only time in my last 5 years I changed jets was at Byron when the temp was 50* or less, went up a few numbers. Not really sure the car cared that much. BTW your car goes like hell!!

 

[bobtile]

Mike, jet changes are an odd thing. Sometimes a change you can really see, some times not. In my bracket racing days I eventually got to the point of not re-jetting. The car would run the number, good for me. Only time in my last 5 years I changed jets was at Byron when the temp was 50* or less, went up a few numbers. Not really sure the car cared that much. BTW your car goes like hell!!

Air was similar on these two passes.
About a 500ft. Elevation difference between tracks.
Jetting was the only difference.

 

[Mike Gaines]

If you look close enuf you can see that the left front tire is about 1 1/2" off the ground in this picture...and this is way out from the start line launch, it is a screen capture print from the video of that run. It is on the shift from 1st to 2nd gear....and looking at the rear tire you can see it is still kinda wrapped up and hooking hard...and this is quite a ways off the start line.
Really surprised it got that tire off the ground shifting from 1st to 2nd gear.

 

[Budnicks]

cool shot of 'the tire' coming up

body looks to be pretty flat
hard to tell in that photo thou...

is it both tires, still up 60-100 ft out (?)
where is your 1-2 shift taking place ?
or just 'torqued over' to one side ?
or bouncing & pulling it back up again ?
(but not likely), I'm just curious

 

[Mike Gaines]

cool shot of 'the tire' coming up

body looks to be pretty flat
hard to tell in that photo thou...

is it both tires, still up 60-100 ft out (?)
where is your 1-2 shift taking place ?
or just 'torqued over' to one side ?
or bouncing & pulling it back up again ?
(but not likely), I'm just curious

I played the full video of that run. The car pulled both front wheels about 24" up, as usual, out about 20 feet. Then the car came down back onto the track... I made the 1-2 shift at 6400RPM. Both front tires were on the ground in the video for several feet before that shift, then, when I shifted it pulled the left front tire up about 1 1/2". In the video I could not see if the right front tire came up...I doubt it.