The Lil Bull goes 160!
I copied my post from moparts:
Went to Rockfalls WIS today to see what i could get out of the Dart. I made three runs, and unfortunately all three runs had an issue. The air was fair, at a DA of 2400 by my weather station.
First pass, a water temp fitting decided to leak, causing spin in the 60 ft. It has gone 1.224 two previous passes last year, and it slowed to 1.295 with spin. Still went 128.97 at 5.529 in the 1/8th, 8.642 at 156.94 in the 1/4.
The second pass it rolled out of the beams at idle, I hit it anyway and after about a one second delay got going and hit 160.23 mph! The 1/8th mph was off a bit at126.18 (2.9 mph!) but the 160.13 mph tells me this Bull will run sub 8.50s when i get it sorted out.
The third pass it launched well, but went left before the 60 ft clocks, slowing it at least .03 to a 1.254 . BUT,,,,IT CLOCKED 129.11 MPH. In the 1/8th! And that was with the car trying to pull to the left out of the grove the full length of the run. A little further out of the grove and i would have lifted.
And with that kinda hairy ride, i decided new rear tires are needed, so i chose not to run again . Alll in all, i managed to get more out of it, managed to learn how to get that new head/neck restraint, neck collar and helmet all on together. But it is a pain to deal with. But i came home with all the paint like it was, and no broken parts that i am aware of
So at 2905 lbs, and a 2400 density altitude, that motor is putting out pretty good. The second pass i upped the shift rpm to 7200, and i bet the graph will show 7450 and 7350 actual shifts. Considering max dyno hp was not till 7600 rpm, if i want to push it there should be more there.
I copied my post from moparts:
Went to Rockfalls WIS today to see what i could get out of the Dart. I made three runs, and unfortunately all three runs had an issue. The air was fair, at a DA of 2400 by my weather station.
First pass, a water temp fitting decided to leak, causing spin in the 60 ft. It has gone 1.224 two previous passes last year, and it slowed to 1.295 with spin. Still went 128.97 at 5.529 in the 1/8th, 8.642 at 156.94 in the 1/4.
The second pass it rolled out of the beams at idle, I hit it anyway and after about a one second delay got going and hit 160.23 mph! The 1/8th mph was off a bit at126.18 (2.9 mph!) but the 160.13 mph tells me this Bull will run sub 8.50s when i get it sorted out.
The third pass it launched well, but went left before the 60 ft clocks, slowing it at least .03 to a 1.254 . BUT,,,,IT CLOCKED 129.11 MPH. In the 1/8th! And that was with the car trying to pull to the left out of the grove the full length of the run. A little further out of the grove and i would have lifted.
And with that kinda hairy ride, i decided new rear tires are needed, so i chose not to run again . Alll in all, i managed to get more out of it, managed to learn how to get that new head/neck restraint, neck collar and helmet all on together. But it is a pain to deal with. But i came home with all the paint like it was, and no broken parts that i am aware of
So at 2905 lbs, and a 2400 density altitude, that motor is putting out pretty good. The second pass i upped the shift rpm to 7200, and i bet the graph will show 7450 and 7350 actual shifts. Considering max dyno hp was not till 7600 rpm, if i want to push it there should be more there.