Kevin Jewer
DSM Wiseman
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- Jul 25, 2002
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LaRue,
Ohio
I don't think I've even posted about this car yet. This is Buschurs original RWD 1g, which ended up in my hands after going through a few owners. After 10 months of owning this car, replacing or rebuilding everything in it right down to the engine harness, dynoing several times, etc, I finally got it to the track for a track rental on Wednesday. All of the hard work payed off, the car didn't have a single issue all day.
Spent the track rental making some partial passes to make sure it went straight, had brakes, etc, and to get used to the way the car "felt," burnouts, using the transbrake, etc. Made 5 passes ending up around 12.9 at 135. There is a video of the third pass here. I was acutally getting harassed about the holes in my pants, not the burnout. I knew I wasn't going to launch, just wanted enough heat in the tires to make sure it stuck the 1-2 shift. You can see it finally start to build some steam just before mid track and then it puts on ~40 mph on the back end.
I decided to stay for street night to try some runs with a launch. I set up the 40 dry shot and get the AEM adding the fuel for it, and did some tuning on the transbrake. AFRs are in line, and it's making some boost. I predicted a few weeks back that if it launched with any boost at all it would run a low 10. I launched with only 45-4800 rpm and ~10 psi, and it felt like a much better run. It was a bit of work to get it down the track, the 1-2 shift was brutal, and the top end was just scary, so I knew it was going to be a good run. When I got the slip though, I had to read it 3 or 4 times before I believed what I was seeing. 9.8 at 145 on a 1.49, 118 in the eighth. I just about shit myself. A cart load of officials were waiting for me in the pits to tell me it was time to get my license. I made 3 of the 5 runs before traction went away as it got dark/cold. The last one was scary pedaling it to about 110 in the eighth before shutting it down. Two full passes left and I've got my class D license. I've still never run a 10 second pass.
3 days later and I'm still stoked about this. I couldn't have asked for a better day. I'm still launching 3k rpm below peak torque, so there is a lot of ET to be gained even at the same 29 psi. I've dyno tuned it up to 39-40 (another 120+ mustang whp), which is just an awesome amount of potential still on the table. Can't wait to run it again at the end of the week.
Spent the track rental making some partial passes to make sure it went straight, had brakes, etc, and to get used to the way the car "felt," burnouts, using the transbrake, etc. Made 5 passes ending up around 12.9 at 135. There is a video of the third pass here. I was acutally getting harassed about the holes in my pants, not the burnout. I knew I wasn't going to launch, just wanted enough heat in the tires to make sure it stuck the 1-2 shift. You can see it finally start to build some steam just before mid track and then it puts on ~40 mph on the back end.
I decided to stay for street night to try some runs with a launch. I set up the 40 dry shot and get the AEM adding the fuel for it, and did some tuning on the transbrake. AFRs are in line, and it's making some boost. I predicted a few weeks back that if it launched with any boost at all it would run a low 10. I launched with only 45-4800 rpm and ~10 psi, and it felt like a much better run. It was a bit of work to get it down the track, the 1-2 shift was brutal, and the top end was just scary, so I knew it was going to be a good run. When I got the slip though, I had to read it 3 or 4 times before I believed what I was seeing. 9.8 at 145 on a 1.49, 118 in the eighth. I just about shit myself. A cart load of officials were waiting for me in the pits to tell me it was time to get my license. I made 3 of the 5 runs before traction went away as it got dark/cold. The last one was scary pedaling it to about 110 in the eighth before shutting it down. Two full passes left and I've got my class D license. I've still never run a 10 second pass.
3 days later and I'm still stoked about this. I couldn't have asked for a better day. I'm still launching 3k rpm below peak torque, so there is a lot of ET to be gained even at the same 29 psi. I've dyno tuned it up to 39-40 (another 120+ mustang whp), which is just an awesome amount of potential still on the table. Can't wait to run it again at the end of the week.