another first timer on E85

well, got some more info to share on my bracket racing with e85.

carb still has a little stumble if I don't ease it to wide open throttle. without bashing too much, the carb builder was there and could have cared less. I get there early and go over to him. he says, "ok, what do you need? air bleeds or what ?" I said, " you tell me, thats what we came early for." anyway, I make a pass and I make sure to hit the throttle hard when I set the transbrake. it stumbles a little and then goes on the 2-step. car makes a good run and I go back to my pit. he never comes to the pit. go down for 1st round and he walks over and said, " I heard a little stumble, you just need a little more fine tuning because it ran great." great technical support!

anyway, 1st round I hit the throttle a little to fast and the car stumbles and cuts off as my tree is coming down. so I lose 1st round, but the starter was kind enough to reset the tree and let me make a pass to get a time slip. car goes a 6.822 with a very strong tail wind pushing it down the track. I go to the tower and buy back into the 2nd round.

2nd round the flag says no tail wind. I put a 6.83 dial on the car. I cut a .018 light to the other guys .024. I jam the brakes about 4ft from the finish line and go a 6.847 to win the round. after doing some math on the split times it looks like the car was going to go a high 6.83 to a low 6.84.

third round comes. the density altitude has dropped 400 ft. going by what the car did last week it showed that it would take a change of around 300 to 400 ft in da to make the car move 1 number. I decide to put a 6.83 on the car again. I sleep a little on the tree with a .050 light, but get away with it since the other guy goes red. I run it out and the car goes 6.841.

fourth round. the DA has dropped another 500 feet. guys are dialing their cars down 3 numbers because of it. I decide to put a 6.82 dial on the car, and almost went with a 6.81. Its dark now, and I adjust the front tire pressure and trans brake button to stay in the beams longer on the tree since I can see the light way better now and will react quicker. well, should have adjusted a little more. I go -.006 red with 10 cars left. I run the car out and it goes a 6.836. despite all of the dropp in DA the car really only moved about .005 to .007 over the last 3 runs. sixty foot times for the last 3 runs were 1.482, 1.481, 1.481.

I think I am about ready to say that e85 is the real deal for bracket racing. cheap and consistent.

gonna play with squirters and such until I get the stumble fixed so I can hit the throttle to the floor instead of having to ease it there when setting the transbrake.

the weather was almost a mirror image of what we raced in last week. if you recall I was running 6.87's last week. this week I was running about 3 to 4 hundreths faster. the only reason I have for it is that I took flyfish's advise and staged at 180 instead of 165 to 170. that was the only change, so it must have worked.