TooSlo86
Club Member
Finally got it together enough to take it out after a long winter of drivetrain changes. Really came down to crunch time Saturday but, even under the rushed circumstances and just hoping to be able to drive the car onto the trailer at the end of the day I didn't fair too bad for a shakedown weekend.
Mind you, this is not an aluminum headed built stroker motor so I'll be a bit slow for alot of you :huh: this poor thing is a j/y special I dropped in back in '06 from a 95k mile exploder. Didn't even pull the GT40P's off, just stuffed it full of my cam and springs!
Ran a bunch of 12.3x, 12.4x's at high 110's and 111's, even had a 111.59 mph pass. Just couldn't get the car to leave hard, either bogged or spun. Used to leave at 6k+ but I was doing good to get it to hook at 4k this time. Even on this 12.29 pass I put the car sideways to the tune of a crappy 1.75 60 ft. That's on top of the fact that my great running tune from last year wouldn't run for crap! The car was idling so damn rich it kept stalling trying to stage it but I only figured that out Saturday night and didn't have time to get the tune down. At least now the car leaves level instead of twisting! So, I've got a few bugs to work out still, I would say the car still has more to give if I could just get it to work. I think I had my passenger side shock and airbag too firm as in the videos it would hook then loose traction on the rebound. The gears put me through the traps at a perfect 6300 rpm. Twice I bounced off the rev limiter right through the stripe so I had to bump it up to 6400. The plus is that this was in street trim vs my prior best of 12.44 with open headers and no P/S, so I'm happy for now.
Mind you, this is not an aluminum headed built stroker motor so I'll be a bit slow for alot of you :huh: this poor thing is a j/y special I dropped in back in '06 from a 95k mile exploder. Didn't even pull the GT40P's off, just stuffed it full of my cam and springs!
Ran a bunch of 12.3x, 12.4x's at high 110's and 111's, even had a 111.59 mph pass. Just couldn't get the car to leave hard, either bogged or spun. Used to leave at 6k+ but I was doing good to get it to hook at 4k this time. Even on this 12.29 pass I put the car sideways to the tune of a crappy 1.75 60 ft. That's on top of the fact that my great running tune from last year wouldn't run for crap! The car was idling so damn rich it kept stalling trying to stage it but I only figured that out Saturday night and didn't have time to get the tune down. At least now the car leaves level instead of twisting! So, I've got a few bugs to work out still, I would say the car still has more to give if I could just get it to work. I think I had my passenger side shock and airbag too firm as in the videos it would hook then loose traction on the rebound. The gears put me through the traps at a perfect 6300 rpm. Twice I bounced off the rev limiter right through the stripe so I had to bump it up to 6400. The plus is that this was in street trim vs my prior best of 12.44 with open headers and no P/S, so I'm happy for now.
