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White90GT
07-31-2010, 12:12 AM
Well, I made 1 motor hit just to make sure it would go straight and it actually spun the tires a little. I had them set at 14 prior to burnout as one was hot and one was cooler, so I just wanted an easy pass anyways. Went a 6.72@106 with roughly 160 additional lbs in it over a normal motor pass and with only 32 degrees timing vs 36 I normally would run.

Prepped the car for the nitrous, dropped tire pressure to 12 lbs while they were warm after the first pass. Setup the nitrous and went and made a hit. The car pulled the front wheels and just kept on climbing. I am not sure how high it went until I see the video, but the front wheels were at least 3' off the ground and the guys behind me could see the hood over the roof LOL. I let off when I realized it was still climbing and as it was coming down, nailed the throttle again before it hit. It still slammed a little bit, and made a few sparks I guess from the headers hitting, but it was not a hard hit and I didn't even feel it. It bounced and went up another couple feet before I got out of it again. Basically an aborted pass as I nailed it a couple more times down track and just got squirrely. It went 1.48 sixty foot and Glassman Chad said that was on the back tires.

I tightened up the front struts from zero to 7, pulled out 4 more degrees of timing and went up for a pass, but my chicken a$$ was too scared and launched on motor hitting the juice after the sixty foot. Went like a 4.00 to the 330, but I started moving towards the left wall and got out of the groove a bit, so I lifted.

I'm going to move the weight from the trunk to the back seat tomorrow and if I have time, may make me some home made travel limiters.

I need to get me some real front runner tires as I don't remember them walking around like this with these radials up front.


So the rear suspension now seems to be working, but now I gotta figure out how to keep it from coming up more than a couple feet without wheelie bars.

gt350mustang
07-31-2010, 08:30 AM
If it hooks too well try more air pressure .

Saleen91
07-31-2010, 09:45 AM
If you don't have travel limiters on the front, make some and put them on there. I went from 3" of front travel to less than 1".

White90GT
07-31-2010, 10:42 AM
I've moved the weight up to the back seat and moved the nitrous bottle to the passenger seat. I gotta do some lawn work to make a few extra $$$ for my entry, if I have time afterwards, I'll find something to make some limiters.

gt350mustang
07-31-2010, 02:35 PM
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NiteRida
07-31-2010, 03:09 PM
that could have gotten nasty..... gives new meaning to "launch".

White90GT
08-01-2010, 12:40 AM
Yea, it was a little scary.

johns87stang
08-01-2010, 10:26 PM
Dam Carl that's freaking awesome ...can i ride shotgun next time...good job man....

Rusman
08-04-2010, 05:32 PM
Wow...sparks galore!

so_r_crazy
08-05-2010, 10:31 AM
Sounds like you could if you dont mind a nitrous bottle siting between you legs.

White90GT
08-05-2010, 11:51 AM
Sounds like you could if you dont mind a nitrous bottle siting between you legs.

Yep, no passenger seat, nitrous bottle is sitting there now.

White90GT
08-07-2010, 12:22 AM
Well it looks like Brent's carburetor just made too much power on nitrous. Broke the trans as soon as I hit second gear. I will pull tomorrow and call Art Carr for warranty.

Oh yeah I picked up 1.25 mph at the 1/8 to 108.35 and 2.5 in 1/4 to 135.5 mph with brent's carburetor over mine on motor. Spun the tires at the hit on both passes.

White90GT
08-19-2010, 02:52 PM
I went ahead and bought the DVD from Kevin, so he made me a short clip of just my car from that weekend.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFft7E-OMWg

Silversnake91
08-19-2010, 11:00 PM
That was every bit of 3', maybe more Carl. Looks like it's getting there. I saw your post on WSM and that is really cool what Art Carr did on the trans.

Mike