Milan Dragway August H-UP
The August race was not all fun and games...YES IT WAS but, the weather was pretty bad and the car slowed-down. I'm working on figuring out why currently. I did do a lot of mechanical since last month so, there might be something in that. I did some necessary detailing to the body and interior including installing the trans tunnel and dash pad (took some custom fab work). The alternator belt flipped on me and I found one machined mounting boss off-square which drew the pulley out of square when it was cranked-down. (fixed now but again machine work to fix) The intake and carbs came off to fix a leak and while it was off I swapped on some bigger squirters (which had machining burrs in the passages!!!) and 'nicer' accel pump arms. Also pulled some jet out because it was pretty rich last outing. I went into the MSD dig7 via lap-top and wrote a new program for spark and set the tbrake at 4700 (I think it's too low now) Lash was a few loose on two holes so, I'll see if it moved tonight. And since we got rained-out on Friday's test session I tucked the oil pan diaper up closer and that inspired me to make a chin belly-pan thinking it'd clean-up the aero. (It did divert some underhood air which caused the coolant temp to run higher but, I don't think it improved any performance from aero streamlining.)...it's all a work in progress. The best run was the first 8.66/155 and it slowed in rd 1 elims to 153. So, I'm pretty driven to find out why. Here are some pics. Team too was George Bednar, George Hite and Ryan Bednar L-2-R and I'm the monkey trying to stimulate the squirrel under the hoodscoop...
The August race was not all fun and games...YES IT WAS but, the weather was pretty bad and the car slowed-down. I'm working on figuring out why currently. I did do a lot of mechanical since last month so, there might be something in that. I did some necessary detailing to the body and interior including installing the trans tunnel and dash pad (took some custom fab work). The alternator belt flipped on me and I found one machined mounting boss off-square which drew the pulley out of square when it was cranked-down. (fixed now but again machine work to fix) The intake and carbs came off to fix a leak and while it was off I swapped on some bigger squirters (which had machining burrs in the passages!!!) and 'nicer' accel pump arms. Also pulled some jet out because it was pretty rich last outing. I went into the MSD dig7 via lap-top and wrote a new program for spark and set the tbrake at 4700 (I think it's too low now) Lash was a few loose on two holes so, I'll see if it moved tonight. And since we got rained-out on Friday's test session I tucked the oil pan diaper up closer and that inspired me to make a chin belly-pan thinking it'd clean-up the aero. (It did divert some underhood air which caused the coolant temp to run higher but, I don't think it improved any performance from aero streamlining.)...it's all a work in progress. The best run was the first 8.66/155 and it slowed in rd 1 elims to 153. So, I'm pretty driven to find out why. Here are some pics. Team too was George Bednar, George Hite and Ryan Bednar L-2-R and I'm the monkey trying to stimulate the squirrel under the hoodscoop...