Nate Crisman
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- Nov 26, 2008
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Blairstown,
New_Jersey
Nate Crisman ran an auto car.
60' to 1/8mi is awesome. Mph sucks a hard one!
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Nate Crisman ran an auto car.
60' to 1/8mi is awesome. Mph sucks a hard one!
And I still say that you would have been faster with a 5sp!
Automatics eat up some power, but do give you some advantages. Unfortunately, 14b does not give any power to spare!
Nate,
What you are talking about is plane, dumb luck! Dealing with "parted out" components, you never know what you are going to need! You can go through 10 trannies and not find a good one. Where as, your next ONE could be IT!
What is nice about racing 14b cars is that you do not need super duty tranny components (aside from fixing center diff). But you DO need something that shifts FAST and once you find it, it should last a while, because of relatively low torque and RPMs.
This "LUCK" also applies to the automatic trannies! There are bad shifting automatic transmission, as well . Bruce ran into a his share of those...
And just to be clear, Nate's 11.3 was very impressive! I just think it could have been 11.0-11.1 on a good shifting manual tranny!
Such a slow time of year! It also seems we've lost a good portion of the "group" to larger turbos and/or other interests.
I'll be starting to buy parts here shortly but most of them will be safety things like my 5 point harness, fire jacket, and driveshaft loop. I already picked up a scattershield and although I'm miffed about adding 8 lbs to the car it'll be worth it to pass tech and have the peace of mind. I have to replace the jmfab aluminum bumper I borrowed, might just fab something out of aluminum if I can find somebody to weld for me. Other purchases will include a staging brake setup and bushing kit for the front end components. I've kept myself for budgeting for any other parts knowing how much is going to get eaten up in doing all my chassis clean-up work.
I pulled the rear hatch that came with the white car off today. I want to see if I can clean up and re-use the lexan in my carbon fiber hatch. I need to counteract some of this safety weight!
I saw the car. And I still think its badass that you got another dsm. This mean you plan on more frequent visits here to the forums?Shane! I loved the top ten with photos. Nice work. Good luck guys!
And Phil! Nice of you to mention me. Of course you inspired me! So did Leon!
Hey, I bought a new car last week...
Shane! I loved the top ten with photos. Nice work. Good luck guys!
And Phil! Nice of you to mention me. Of course you inspired me! So did Leon!
Hey, I bought a new car last week...
I have been watching this thread since the beginning as we have been chasing a 14b record of our own. It supposedly stands 12.97 here in colorado. The best we have been able to muster to date was 13.7@99. We cameout last year 200lbs lighter with more tuning but it appears our turbo has issues. It has a good size boost leak past the shaft seal into the crankcase. So much it won't hold any air on a boost leak test. We verified it by bench testing just the turbo moving the exhaust wheel back and forth. Our time dropped to 14.0@94 last year. The driving improved, but we were down on power.
We are coming out 50lbs lighter this year and with as fresh a 14b as we can. We will finally have an alignment and good tires(slicks). I have my doubts to the validity of the record though as it was a full weight AFC car. This car of ours has all the fancy tricks and weighs 2590lbs without driver. If we can't do it with a good turbo, there was no way his pass can be taken as a serious, valid pass.
So hi from the shadows.
Shane! I loved the top ten with photos. Nice work. Good luck guys!
And Phil! Nice of you to mention me. Of course you inspired me! So did Leon!
Hey, I bought a new car last week...
I have shared some info over there. Racing at 5800ft with a DA regularly ranging from 8000-9000ft or more makes things tough. The rest of the country does not understand what it does to us.
I'd definitely open it up, make it match up to your manifold porting if that's already done.
Got a lot of my parts in this week. The 1 gallon fuel cell, external pump, filter, fittings/lines, AFPR, front subframe and control arm bushings, fire jacket, 5 point harness, and a driveshaft loop. Still waiting on the fuel rail fittings and "kit" stuff from STM for the afpr. Going to try selling a few things so I can order up the staging brake stuff soon too. Now I just need the snow to melt away.
Finally getting all the good stuff you need.
You end up getting an FP mani?
I've got a 14b on the way finally. I should it have it bolted on for some transbrake testing in a couple weeks. I don't think it will break any records with my current converter, but it will give me something to arse around with in April while I wait for the traction to show up.