sometimes you get times like that when everything is right,track conditions,engine temp is same at stage,same rpm launch,staged at the same place,love those slips,hope ya go a ton of rounds this year
Thanks,
hope you go a ton of rounds as well.
I'm lucky to have a very consistent race car. It's bailed the dummy that drives it out on many occasions during eliminations.
I used to race a b-body that was subject to change numbers on you at a really bad time. As a general rule, I could dial it down a number each round and do ok. However, it may decide half way through the race to speed up 2 or 3 numbers without any change in the density altitude at all.
I always felt like I HAD to kill the tree and give myself room to be on the brakes every round if I was going to have any chance to win a race.
I grew tired of it, and decided to build the dart with the object being to do or install anything that I thought would help a car be more consistent and repeatable.
It turned out to a great car on gas, but really got deadly when I went to e85. To start with, I had made up my mind that I was going to run methanol after I broke the engine in on gas. Just before ordering a methanol carb, my friend switched his back half 68 Camaro over to methanol. Granted he has a 468 cubic inch motor, but the first time I saw it on methanol, it knocked the absolute snot out of his 32x14in slicks and tried to rip the track up out of the ground. It dead hooked, and he picked up 6 hundreths in 60 ft just by switching over to methanol! Picked up almost 3 tenths in the 1/8th mile et.
I knew at that moment that I would be wasting my time going to methanol with a leaf spring car on a 9 inch tire. No way would that thing hook consistently making that much power on the bottom end.
So, I thought about giving e85 a shot since it is still alcohol and isn't effected as much by weather changes as gas. Figured I stood a better shot at hooking consistently on it.
It worked out well for me, and over the winter I did some work in the trunk and underneath to be able to mount weight in the rear of the car. 100 pounds in the trunk should help out during the hot summer race days.
