10.74@144 in the 1/4th Friday, 6.85@114 in the 1/8th Sunday.

[ForceFedRed]

After 3 years of not racing I made it up to Beaver Springs in central PA Friday night. I learned that I need a lot of practice getting the car off of the line, and some safety equipment.

Setup is:

96 GSX.

Pictures.

2.0 bored .020" with Ross pistons and Groden rods.
FRH race head, Supertech dual springs, 1mm valves, Crower 414 cams.
FRH intake manifold with Q45 throttlebody.
1600cc injectors.
A pair of 255hp's intank, and a 342 inline for fuel pumps.
Ongreen Performance exhaust manfiold
GT4202R turbo, 1.01AR turbine housing.
PTT twin disc.
Shep Dogbox.
4" exhaust.
MAF-T.
DSMLink.
E85 for fuel.

Sumitomo Z rated all season radials, as this car sees a good amount of street driving.

I built this car myself, other than the head, machine work on the block, and a few aluminum welds. I even assembled the dogbox myself. It's been quite a learning experience.

The car did 615HP on a 2WD 248C, 28psi and 13* of timing. Currently boost is fighting me and it builds 30psi, then tapers up to 34psi and holds from 7000rpm on, I also upped the timing to about 19* total.

I kept claiming the car would do 135-138MPH. It was cool to meet my expectations and surpass them. This is the first time that has happened at the track for me, ever.

On to the numbers.

First pass.

60ft 2.441
1/8th [email protected]
1/4th [email protected]

Second pass. For some reason, I my train of thought completely derailed and spilled 10,000 gallons of toxic material into a local stream. I banged the rev limiter for a good .5sec in 3rd gear, that's why the 1/4th MPH is down a bit.

60ft 2.174
1/8th [email protected]
1/4th [email protected]

Time runs were over and it was time for elimination. Since I'm never competative in bracket racing, I decided to go for broke and dialed a 10.95.

I got laughed at by people at the track, a lot.

Last pass felt good but slower than my second pass. Not to be mistaken for anything other than a DSM, it threw the water pump belt at some point going down the track.

After getting very nervious about my stock brakes slowing me down by the end of the shutdown lane, I pulled off and investigated, the belt was hanging from the water pump pulley.

A track official came down to see if everything was alright. He asked if I knew what I ran. Of course I didn't, he told me and I almost soiled myself.

60ft 2.021
1/8th [email protected]
1/4th [email protected]

I'm pretty happy considering my best pass before last night was in 2004 and 11.9@122. I think I'm just scratching the surface of what the car is capable of, now I need practice to get the ET to agree with the MPH.

I suppose it's time to install a cage, do something with the brakes, and consider a chute.

 

[ForceFedRed]

I made it to South Mountain, the local 1/8th mile backwoods redneck track Sunday.

Results are as follows.

First pass.

60ft 2.00
1/8th [email protected]

Second pass.

60ft 2.02
1/8th [email protected]

They told me (even wrote it on my timeslip) I needed a fire retardant jacket if I wanted to run another pass. It was cool, I had people flagging me down offering jackets, they wanted to see me keep running.

Third pass.

60ft 1.72 <--- FINALLY getting there.
1/8th [email protected] (now add the 36mph I was picking up in the second half of the 1/4th and theres some MPH for you)

The announcer thought the timing system was broken, they had never seen such a car run before. Her exact comment was, "Holy crap, that thing is FAST."

That was the last time run, there wasn't a non full race car there that ran that high of MPH. The crew across the way started bitching that I didn't have a cage. I understand the need for safety equipment, however, I wasn't in their class and I am not competitave in bracket racing. I was there to have fun and practice launching and such. It is the last practice I'll get for a while as I'm leaving for another stint with the Army. Rumor from the other racers stated that they were pissed that my street car was running the same MPH as them with 4cyls, on all season radials, through full exhaust, on $2.40 a gallon fuel. I suppose I would be bitter too.

The tech inspectors told me that I couldn't dial any faster than a 7.36 and if I went faster, I would not be able to race again.

I put 7.36 on the car. A few people asked how I planned to slow it down. My response, "I'm not going to."

Even the starting line track guy wanted me to make another full pass.

Since I aim to please, I let 'er rip the best I could.

Last pass
Dial 7.36
60ft 1.76
1/8th [email protected]

I really nailed the rev limiter in first gear, for way too long. Of course, I broke out and the car went right onto the trailer.

There were about 40 people lined up at the ticket booth, cheering and giving me thumbs up. One track worker even told me I was, "The baddest motherf'r here!" I must have had 100 people check out the car. It was really neat to be the center of attention. I had a great time.

JRM

 

[20psimitsu]

All I can say is BAD ASSSSSSS!!!!!!

 

[PSI2HI]

Traction your issue or just dont have a feel for the car yet? Nice mph though

 

[speedmaster747]

Any video?

 

[ForceFedRed]

Traction your issue or just dont have a feel for the car yet? Nice mph though

It spins a bit in 1st gear, not as much as I thought it would, but hooks up pretty good after that. I think it's a combination of both. I also think my learning curve is pretty good for 7 passes in 3 years, espeically on a setup like this.

Of course, I'm not launching *very* hard because of the street tires, I'm sure if I gave it to 'er like I was trying to launch on slicks and it would probably cause a tire burning frenzy.

Thanks for the compliment, the stinkin thing really does pull the MPH, I can't wait to turn it up, after I get the safety equipment and better rubber.

 

[turbosax2]

Amazing job!!

Nice to see someone local to me racing (I live in Mechanicsburg). Hopefully we'll get my brother's car out to the track next summer after a few more mods and a lot of tuning. Maybe we can meet up with you and you can show us the ropes because we've never raced before.

How did you like the two tracks? I'm about 1.5 hours from Beaver Springs and pretty close to South Mountain. Just want to hear what you have to say about them and if you have any advice for me.

 

[ForceFedRed]

You probably live less than 10 minutes from me.

Beaver Springs is known to be a bit of a slow track, though I can't say for sure because I've never had my car down another 1/4 mile track. I am usually .3-.5sec faster in the 1/8th mile at South Mountain, that seems to be pretty consistant over the years. Everyone I talked to at Beaver Springs was very friendly and quick to compliment. South Mountain had many more "import unaccepting" guys and some were very rude to me had a bad attitude towards me. South Mountain will enforce the rules if someone complains enough. It seems to be pretty much "anything goes" at Beaver Springs during the Friday Night Street Races.

 

[turbosax2]

So which track would be better to go to just to practice? We're interested in just getting in practice time and not at all concerned with competition.

 

[ForceFedRed]

Probably South Mountain since it's so close. You can do "time" runs and probably get at least 5 runs in for $25.

Once you get launcing the car down, the main difference between the 1/8th and the 1/4 is one shift, and slowing down.

 

[Auto RS T]

Nice work Red. I'm sure once you get used to the car and all your safety equipment in you will be FLYING!

Those stock brakes have to be scary at the big end...

 

[vaboys2ndgen]

yeah those brakes would worry me a bit also. very nice runs. congrats

 

[talont3t4]

Great runs. What tire combo are you running?

 

[ForceFedRed]

Sumitomo Z rated all season radials, as this car sees a good amount of street driving.

 

[DsmDave95]

beautiful setup, and those ars some great numbers there

 

[DiamondStarAwd]

Awesome. I would have laughed back at the track people when you went faster than you thought. Great times. Get some real tires on there

 

[Zex4g63]

So which track would be better to go to just to practice? We're interested in just getting in practice time and not at all concerned with competition.

You would be better to go to Beaver for a test n tune. It's $35 and you get as many passes as you want between 10-4. A few of us are going Sunday 9/30. Beaver is a little slower ET wise but mph is usually good.

 

[taylork057]

i am confused, is this car 2wd or 4wd?