Sorry I lagged on posting my times. To tell you the truth I wasn't all that thrilled about them because I didn't end up beating my previous best of 13.2 @ 102mph, like I was hoping to do. It was really cold on 02/26 so I was hoping that would have helped my time out. But it had been raining most of that week, and there was rain clouds looming overhead all night. Luckily it never rained, but there was moisture in the air which aparently didn't help any. The best time I could muster was 13.38 @99.8mph. Keep in mind that this track is at 2700' above sea level. So the correction is just under a half a second. It works out to around .48 & some change, accoreding to their website. Out of all the cars that came with us, everyone was running about 1-2 tenths slower than their previous best & around 2-3mph slower. So I'm thinking that the air quality was the culprit of everyone's slower times. I did however pull off a new best 60ft. time on motor. I've pulled a 1.70 on the juice before...but on the 13.38 run I turned a 1.71 60ft. time. And that was with hardly any water in the burnout box. Lazy track officials & it was getting late.
So at least something good came out of the night. I was hoping for a better 1/4 mile time, because I had lightened up my car some since the last time I was at the track. I removed the a/c & put the shorter belt on, took out a bunch of insulation behind the rear panels of the interior, & removed that hunk of metal on the rearend, along with tons of wiring from when I used to have a system in there. All that totaled to almost 100lbs. of weight I removed. As for the nitrous...it was working but the times were horrible because of the cold weather which killed my bottle pressure. I only did two runs on the nitrous. All I could pull was a 13.2 @ 106mph, but with a horrid 2.4 60ft. time. My bottle psi. had to be down in the 700psi. range. I need to invest in a nitrous pressure gauge. I used to have one but must have lost it when I moved. We are going again on 04/11 and hopefully their will be some dryer air for my motor to suck that night & my weight reduction might show up then. The '68 Camaro that came with us had a previous best of 13.0 on drag radials at LACR, so I figured we were going to be a good race...but I thought he might take me. He's got a built 327 with an Edelbrock setup similar to mine...alum. heads w/ 2.02/1.60 valves, intake, lopey cam, 650 carb., 3500 stall w/ 3.73s out back. Well his best time on 02/26 was only a 13.7 @ 97mph. So I was glad to beat him, especially since on his last dyno pull he claims that his motor was putting out just over 400hp.! I guess I have him in the weight department though.
So if anyone thinks they can make it out there next month...we are going again on 04/11, which is a Friday. Sorry for the long post. I like to babble...
