Spanked a Viper on the way home from the track!

[exgmguy]

I went to the strip to get in a last blast of the year, and also to test out the new Holley intake and electric water pump drive. The track was so busy that I only made 2 passes, one on motor and one on the hose.

First pass I air the ET's down to 13 psi, and do a short 2nd gear burnout. I hold the R's at 4000 and dump the clutch. I get a stumble, and then a dead hook and i'm off.

60 feet went by in 1.74 seconds, I shift cleanly @ 5800 RPM and run 12.34 @ 112.66!!! SWEET! A NEW BEST!!

Now time for the nitrous pass. I launch again at 4000 RPM and get the same freakin' stumble. I 60 foot 1.72 seconds, and run another personal best of 11.34 @ 125.06!!!

I can only attribute the stumble to a bad O2 sensor. It is jerking alot at freeway speed and my Autometer A/F gauge is sitting still. No movement. I don't think a bad O2 will cost me power though. I do think I should have had better short times though.

Now on the way home I am cruising on the freeway and a GTS Viper merges a couple hundred feet ahead. I fly up next to him to see a grin on his face and his wife getting all excited and cheering. We both tease each other with a courtesy throttle mash and then slow to the meat of my 3rd gear.

I let him take the jump and then I floor it, and proceed to hand him his a$$. By the top of 3rd he was already somewhere by my rear bumper. By the top of 4th I can see him in my rearview mirror! WOOHOO!!!

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1988 Mustang GT
11.8 @ 123 (7/14/01)
11.5 @ 120 (9/14/01)
1992 BadAzz Wrangler
1993 Explorer

See my car at: www.mustangworks.com/cgi-bin/moi-display.cgi?179