Holy c**p this is a good idea.
Heaven forbid I should learn something other than the little personality
quirks . . .
David in Durango
Saw a Mitsubishi econo box beat a twin turbo Viper at the Sandhill mile
bwahahahahaha
PS: Hats off to anyone who goes beyond the "neat chrome dipstick" or
"I'd go with the polished wheels . . "
Peace, love and brown rice . . .
-----Original Message-----
From: land-speed-bounces+davidadin=mercydurango.org@autox.team.net
[mailto:land-speed-bounces+davidadin=mercydurango.org@autox.team.net] On
Behalf Of Keith Turk
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2007 10:42 AM
To: land-speed@autox.team.net
Subject: [Land-speed] Speedweek tips and thoughts...
Tom, you bring up a good point... rather then let this thing turn into
a
mess... lets fix it.
Here's what I'd propose... each of us oughta take a minute and sort out
the
things we did right and wrong and post them.... by sharing our
experiences
maybe someone else won't make the same mistake in the future and we'll
all
benefit.
I for example didn't bring my trailer and thought I could load my pit
set up
in the truck... which we did for the most part... but what we didn't
bring was
enough tools... for example I didn't pack my jack and stands... and the
one's
David brought were somewhat marginal.... We ended up borrowing a ton
more
stuff then we should have... ( I always feel guilty when I borrow more
then I
loan )
What we did spot on was establish in advance the goal of swapping the
intake
on the salt... After David had done his dyno work on the Blower set
up... he
took the time to pull it off and stick on a dominator manifold set up
and tune
it on the dyno... so we had a great baseline for that combination to do
our
Nitrous runs that last couple of days. I'd sorted out the Manifold in
the hot
rod shop to accept our Nitrous set up and had evaluated all the plumbing
and
wiring requirements and had an established plan that actually worked
fairly
well.
The one thing we missed was the Progressive nitrous set up.... seems it
shut
off after 15 seconds and went into a reset mode... once again... while
testing this in the pits we found the problem ( good for us )... what we
couldn't do was fix it... so once again we ran with an all or nothing
situation and David had to actuate the Nitrous multiple times before he
could
get it totally hooked up and switched on... ( imagine fanning the
button
acting like a progressive controller while running deep into the 250's )
More to follow I'm sure as I remember the whole thing
Tell us what you did right and wrong...
Keith
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