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I was eliminated one round before I was in the money
So I have been planning on attending this event for about 3weeks now and on thurs I started getting the car ready. Swapped out the stock cams for 264s and re-wired the meth injection as well as re-securing the leaking nozzles. Friday night got the car running and began tuning. After three hours of going up and down with knock counts I called it a night and went home. Saturday morning I made a quick pass on the street seeing a couple counts of knock and loaded the car on the trailer. When I arrived at Moroso I popped the hood and went over the car for the first time in the daylight since the methanol install. I immediately noticed a kink in the feed line that would be limiting flow to the nozzles so I resolved the kink and hoped the car wasnt going to run pig rich and pop now. First round of qualifying I went 12.0@122 a new best et and mph but shy of what I was expecting. Then next round of qualifying I went 11.7@122 with a 1.7 60'. Which of course is better but not good enough. Third and final round of qualifying I backed it up with another 11.7@122 with another 1.7 60'. So I packed up and drove the hour home to set the clock forward and get 6hrs sleep.
Sunday I headed out alot later than expected at 9:30 leaving me an hour to get to the track before eliminations. I ended up making it with about 10min to spare. First pass in elimination's I got a bye run and still went all out. The car didnt want to go in to second so I tried again and it went in, I ran it out to a 12.6@118. Good thing this was a bye run. Now Im getting worried that the tranny may not want to be beat on anymore and start locking me out of gear. So second round of eliminations Im up next to this big scary peurto rican rocket which ended up limping down the track and I won with an 11.9@121. Third round of eliminations I start to get excited knowing that If I win this I get paid. Im up next to a 20b 3 rotor from CFT, he broke out but got the win because they were giving a .5 cushion in this event. I went 11.89 to his 9.0, he won by a couple feet at the finish line. So i had to hold back the tears and load the car on the trailer.
So when I got home I decided to throw the drag radials on and make a pass only to see the wideband off the charts rich. The car was on 93octane all weekend with the meth injection and 25psi. im happy now because I know with leaning the car out and adding boost I should easily surpass 125mph traps. My mod list is all over the site so I will just state whats new. I installed 264's and am running two mcmaster M15 nozzles driven by a walbro 255lph pump for the meth injection.
The slicks are 24.5x8 MT ET DRAGS at 10psi. Heating the tires up off second gear two steps allowed me to hook every pass. Never once did any tire hint at losing traction. This is with a stock tranny and open diff
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