bastarddsm
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- Aug 26, 2003
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Mendota,
Illinois
Not sure if many have seen, tried to take my talon out on drag week. I've had a hell of a summer trying to get the thing to make power. Ended up building a new engine, and swapping back to a stock computer and he351 just days before the shootout. I also put in a liberty face-plated gear set. At the shootout I ran some good mph, but couldn't quite get the ET down. Ended up running a 10.87@138 in Ohio. My turbo was smoking so I sent the rotating assembly off to jusmx131 to get it balanced, and put it all back together with a fresh set of bearings and seals, just in time for drag week. I've also been struggling with traction for some time, I'm not sure what cured it, but the car has been tearing up the 60' pretty solid recently. Probably the good track prep on drag week.
Anyway my car is only good for 10.0@135 according to NHRA, so I was playing the breaking game to stay under 135mph. First pass at Cordova 11.0@111, probably good enough got the quick32 in the street machine eliminator class I was running. So I swap on the street tires, and drive an extra 200mi to pick my little bro up from college so he can play hooky and come to gateway with me. Along the route we stop about 3 time to help downed competitors. I had a small trailer with a truck toolbox on it, and my slicks and some fuel cans. Anyway I had a much needed welder on one of the stops. We end up getting to our lodging about 1.5hrs from gateway at 3am . Tuesday I get to gateway and try to run it out a little farther, bogged the launch and still hit a 11.0@123. I hear a rumor they will let you go better than 135, as long as it's a 10.0 or slower, so I make another pass, and try and run it out. I end up having a massive engine failure, and windowed a block. The engine only had about 10 passes on it, looks like a mechanical failure, but still not sure. Wasn't the tune for sure, it was pretty soft on timing, plenty of fuel, no knock and no signs of damage to the felpro composite head gasket. Anyway it ran a 10.76@126 on what looked to be a 10.50@140 pass.
Anyway I figure I'm done, and send for a trailer. Couldn't get a ride to my house which was on the route from gateway to Byron. Through lots of f***ery, I get everything home at about 1am, I'm beat, and goto bed. 9am Wednesday I get up and get to work, motor was out and all apart by 4pm, I get cleaned up and take the woman out for dinner. Meanwhile my little bro is on the way to help put my old motor back together. So we thrash, about 4am I have a shortblock assembled and ready to go. Take a nap till 10am, and back to thrashing. midnight it's in an running. I take a quick drive to check it over, make a quick 3rd gear pull to check that it's kinda right, and load it on the trailer. There was a stick shift shootout Friday night of drag week, so I really wanted to get in that. First round I get paired with a newer Camero with a genv lt4 in it. Supercharged thing, I expected it to be bad ass. I chopped the tree down and never looked back. Car ran a 10.75@137. Next round I'm paired with a coyote swapped Capri with a t56, and this thing is baaaad to the bone. running 9.2@150 all night. I tried, and the car just quit - shot ducks as soon as it was in boost. Low battery voltage, in my fatigue I left the nut on the alternator loose. I was bummed, but it was good to go a round, and damn near a pb, on a used up junk short block.
Saturday I fix it, and drag my feet about the trek to IFO in STL. Not sure I even want to go I head anyway, with the possibility of rain. I miss q1, and just make a time run. This time I decide I'm really gonna bang gears. I nail every shift, and end up with a 1.591 60', 6.38@114-1/8, and 9.80@144 - 1/4. I was soo pumped I couldn't hardley breath. I've been stuck at 10.70's for like 3 years, and to get such a large new pb on a junk ass motor with my old setup that I though was tapped out. Such a great feeling. I ended up qualifying #3 behind a pair of very fast evo's. It was really quick field today. First round of eliminations I missed 3rd gear and broke a shift rail. Going to try and get it fixed for Street Car Takeover next weekend.
Quick rundown of the setup.
-5 season old .020 over 2L JE 8.5:1, Turbo Tuff rods, stock crank, used acl bearings out of my
blown-up motor, old old standard ARP head studs, $38 felpro composite gasket.
-Holset HE351 non vgt, on a godspeed t3 manifold, using the holset internal wastegate.
- New JMF Race intake, dual rails, 1200's and 750's, 2x stock n/t FPR, all stock fuel lines/filter,
- 2x walbro 255 externals
- Large garret core fmic I built.
- Hacked 1g eprom, custom code I wrote, moates ostrich
- home built trans with a home built 4 spider center diff, liberty faceplated gears
- Stock axles tcase and driveshaft
- Big giant ass outlander heavy brakes
- home build coilovers, custom valving, ect...
- ACT2900/4puck/streetlite
- 26x9.5x16 qtp
- E85
- NGK Plugs, Taylor wires, stock coils.
I do not use launch control, I leave by ear off a free rev. Car was on about 37-38psi, and weighs about 3300lbs. This is probably the fastest pass ever recorded on a HE351, and not far from the quickest/fastest HX40's.
Anyway my car is only good for 10.0@135 according to NHRA, so I was playing the breaking game to stay under 135mph. First pass at Cordova 11.0@111, probably good enough got the quick32 in the street machine eliminator class I was running. So I swap on the street tires, and drive an extra 200mi to pick my little bro up from college so he can play hooky and come to gateway with me. Along the route we stop about 3 time to help downed competitors. I had a small trailer with a truck toolbox on it, and my slicks and some fuel cans. Anyway I had a much needed welder on one of the stops. We end up getting to our lodging about 1.5hrs from gateway at 3am . Tuesday I get to gateway and try to run it out a little farther, bogged the launch and still hit a 11.0@123. I hear a rumor they will let you go better than 135, as long as it's a 10.0 or slower, so I make another pass, and try and run it out. I end up having a massive engine failure, and windowed a block. The engine only had about 10 passes on it, looks like a mechanical failure, but still not sure. Wasn't the tune for sure, it was pretty soft on timing, plenty of fuel, no knock and no signs of damage to the felpro composite head gasket. Anyway it ran a 10.76@126 on what looked to be a 10.50@140 pass.
Anyway I figure I'm done, and send for a trailer. Couldn't get a ride to my house which was on the route from gateway to Byron. Through lots of f***ery, I get everything home at about 1am, I'm beat, and goto bed. 9am Wednesday I get up and get to work, motor was out and all apart by 4pm, I get cleaned up and take the woman out for dinner. Meanwhile my little bro is on the way to help put my old motor back together. So we thrash, about 4am I have a shortblock assembled and ready to go. Take a nap till 10am, and back to thrashing. midnight it's in an running. I take a quick drive to check it over, make a quick 3rd gear pull to check that it's kinda right, and load it on the trailer. There was a stick shift shootout Friday night of drag week, so I really wanted to get in that. First round I get paired with a newer Camero with a genv lt4 in it. Supercharged thing, I expected it to be bad ass. I chopped the tree down and never looked back. Car ran a 10.75@137. Next round I'm paired with a coyote swapped Capri with a t56, and this thing is baaaad to the bone. running 9.2@150 all night. I tried, and the car just quit - shot ducks as soon as it was in boost. Low battery voltage, in my fatigue I left the nut on the alternator loose. I was bummed, but it was good to go a round, and damn near a pb, on a used up junk short block.
Saturday I fix it, and drag my feet about the trek to IFO in STL. Not sure I even want to go I head anyway, with the possibility of rain. I miss q1, and just make a time run. This time I decide I'm really gonna bang gears. I nail every shift, and end up with a 1.591 60', 6.38@114-1/8, and 9.80@144 - 1/4. I was soo pumped I couldn't hardley breath. I've been stuck at 10.70's for like 3 years, and to get such a large new pb on a junk ass motor with my old setup that I though was tapped out. Such a great feeling. I ended up qualifying #3 behind a pair of very fast evo's. It was really quick field today. First round of eliminations I missed 3rd gear and broke a shift rail. Going to try and get it fixed for Street Car Takeover next weekend.
Quick rundown of the setup.
-5 season old .020 over 2L JE 8.5:1, Turbo Tuff rods, stock crank, used acl bearings out of my
blown-up motor, old old standard ARP head studs, $38 felpro composite gasket.
-Holset HE351 non vgt, on a godspeed t3 manifold, using the holset internal wastegate.
- New JMF Race intake, dual rails, 1200's and 750's, 2x stock n/t FPR, all stock fuel lines/filter,
- 2x walbro 255 externals
- Large garret core fmic I built.
- Hacked 1g eprom, custom code I wrote, moates ostrich
- home built trans with a home built 4 spider center diff, liberty faceplated gears
- Stock axles tcase and driveshaft
- Big giant ass outlander heavy brakes
- home build coilovers, custom valving, ect...
- ACT2900/4puck/streetlite
- 26x9.5x16 qtp
- E85
- NGK Plugs, Taylor wires, stock coils.
I do not use launch control, I leave by ear off a free rev. Car was on about 37-38psi, and weighs about 3300lbs. This is probably the fastest pass ever recorded on a HE351, and not far from the quickest/fastest HX40's.
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