90_GSX_DSM
10+ Year Contributor
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- Nov 17, 2008
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Fleetwood,
Pennsylvania
After ditching my 16g setup last year for my HX-35 setup I though 11's were a lock first pass of the season. I was very wrong. My fastest pass with the car was a 12.3 with the 16g. I took the car to the track twice and could only net mid 12's. I new something wasn't right.
Right before the Shootout we discovered I had thrown a rocker possibly on my first start up of the car back in March. The lobe that rocker rode on had NO signs it was ever rode on besides the big old scratch from the rocker shooting off. I knew right away this is where all my power was being lost.
So I ordered 600$ worth of parts the week before the Shootout to attempt to get everything back together. I took the head off to lap the valve that had been closed all year just to make sure it was good. Got everything back together by the Tuesday before the Shootout but we just could get it to stay running and had no idea why. Ended up not taking my car to the Shootout because of it.
So we get back from the Shootout and I'm throwing all these part at it and nothing. So I'm going over all the connectors and
?! My damn map sensor was plugged in backwards. That was it my fuc$#%^ map sensor was plugged in backwards. So I took the car out and made some pulls and it felt so much better than before and it wasn't even recently tuned since I made some fuel changes. Runs very rich right now.
Everything on the logs looked good and all my buddies were headed over to our local track, Maple Grove for a Grudge night. I wanted to go and just watch but at the very last second decided "what the hell, I'll run."
Very first pass against my buddies fox body I run an 11.67 @ 120. I knew the run felt good but didn't know it was that good. When I got my timeslip I was literally screaming at the top of my lungs. My buddy was right behind me and said the guy giving out the slips was like, "Do you hear that guy?"
. I've been waiting almost 2 full years to best my 12.3 pass but could never do it until last night where I raped it.
Second pass I shifted into 2nd way to early and bogged to a 12.0 @ 117. Of course this was the only pass I have video of. Sorry for the video quality.
Fields GSX 12.0 HX-35 - YouTube
And on my 3rd and final pass I ran a 11.68 @ 118. Here is a pic of all 3 of my time slips.
This was only on 25 psi with 93 pump gas UNtuned. I want to get it retuned asap on 30-33 psi. My Holset is screaming at my for a rebuild so I will probably do that before anything right now. I'm also running out of injector with these PTE 1000's. I think I should get them flow tested because I shouldn't be maxing them out yet. I did buy them used. But all that aside I don't think I've EVER been happier. Nights like those is what makes all of the bullshit well worth it. Sorry for my novel, hope you enjoyed!
Right before the Shootout we discovered I had thrown a rocker possibly on my first start up of the car back in March. The lobe that rocker rode on had NO signs it was ever rode on besides the big old scratch from the rocker shooting off. I knew right away this is where all my power was being lost.
So I ordered 600$ worth of parts the week before the Shootout to attempt to get everything back together. I took the head off to lap the valve that had been closed all year just to make sure it was good. Got everything back together by the Tuesday before the Shootout but we just could get it to stay running and had no idea why. Ended up not taking my car to the Shootout because of it.
So we get back from the Shootout and I'm throwing all these part at it and nothing. So I'm going over all the connectors and
?! My damn map sensor was plugged in backwards. That was it my fuc$#%^ map sensor was plugged in backwards. So I took the car out and made some pulls and it felt so much better than before and it wasn't even recently tuned since I made some fuel changes. Runs very rich right now. Everything on the logs looked good and all my buddies were headed over to our local track, Maple Grove for a Grudge night. I wanted to go and just watch but at the very last second decided "what the hell, I'll run."
Very first pass against my buddies fox body I run an 11.67 @ 120. I knew the run felt good but didn't know it was that good. When I got my timeslip I was literally screaming at the top of my lungs. My buddy was right behind me and said the guy giving out the slips was like, "Do you hear that guy?"
. I've been waiting almost 2 full years to best my 12.3 pass but could never do it until last night where I raped it. Second pass I shifted into 2nd way to early and bogged to a 12.0 @ 117. Of course this was the only pass I have video of. Sorry for the video quality.
Fields GSX 12.0 HX-35 - YouTube
And on my 3rd and final pass I ran a 11.68 @ 118. Here is a pic of all 3 of my time slips.
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This was only on 25 psi with 93 pump gas UNtuned. I want to get it retuned asap on 30-33 psi. My Holset is screaming at my for a rebuild so I will probably do that before anything right now. I'm also running out of injector with these PTE 1000's. I think I should get them flow tested because I shouldn't be maxing them out yet. I did buy them used. But all that aside I don't think I've EVER been happier. Nights like those is what makes all of the bullshit well worth it. Sorry for my novel, hope you enjoyed!
The next open day i'd be able to go to is Nov 3rd at Maple Grove, so i'm planning on going there if Numidia is rained out. Either way, I need to change wastegate springs, as I was trying to get my tune finished up I realized I couldn't get my boost past 30#. I'm shooting for 35-37 pounds, so I'll swap in my 27lb springs and I should be set. Link is showing upwards of 640hp and 64/5 lb/min. I still have a little room to go on the timing, I'm at 19* now, and the AFR's will probably wind up in the 12.6-7 range once I get the boost figured out. It's still a handful even at 30 pounds, but I'm looking forward to seeing what the 6262 will do. Shoot me a text sometime!
