RockinRobin
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Great to see another A-Body at the track last night!
Turns out we have the same job in the same company at 2 different locations, and we both have red Dusters with a sharktooth grille!
Another Mopar at the track
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Great to see another A-Body at the track last night!
Turns out we have the same job in the same company at 2 different locations, and we both have red Dusters with a sharktooth grille!
j par
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So is that you or the other guy? I can't tell because both of you have the same color car with the same grill and the same job.
RockinRobin
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Good one! Biggest give away is his is street legal.
KnuckleDuster
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Too funny!
Horrible pic! Thanks Bob!
Hope your car ran better than mine. First run was the best of my night and it went downhill from there.
After starving on the top end the last two runs, I packed it up and went home.
RockinRobin
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You'll be in the 12's before long. Nice looking/sounding car!
I was experimenting with accelerator pump adjustment and burnout length. I thought I had the problem solved on the 4th pass when I did a real short burnout and it finally hooked right. I took 1 more pass to confirm that theory, and it spun again. :=(
I have the CalTracs in the lower hole plus I discovered a bent shock mount ear on the spring mounting plate. Also discovered that my shackles are probably binding like crazy, so I've got plenty of work to do before I get things right. It's a wonder I've ever won a round!
KnuckleDuster
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New best for me, working on 12's.
They gave my timeslip to the other guy!..and by the time I got to him he had wadded it up.
They gave my timeslip to the other guy!..and by the time I got to him he had wadded it up.
2.15 60's is hurting it badly. Get that down to a off the 1.90 and you'll chop roughly 0.5 off the ET.
looks like 105 and if it was cutting out that is a good omen for better et's
looks like 105 and if it was cutting out that is a good omen for better et's
KnuckleDuster
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It wasn't cutting out that run. Run#2 was a wash. 3 and 4 are shown here. It cut out at the very end of #3 and 3/4 of the way into #4. Sat in staging lanes running forever before run #4.
Now the fun starts with tuning and getting it to launch.
The 2.05 60' was looking on track to get a 12's timeslip.
I'd look at fuel supply if it's cutting out. It could be horribly rich (doubtful) or lean...
The 2.05 60' was looking on track to get a 12's timeslip.
I'd look at fuel supply if it's cutting out. It could be horribly rich (doubtful) or lean...
famous bob
mopar misfit
LOL
KnuckleDuster
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Hey Bob, how'd you do Saturday?
abodyjoe
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hopefully you both don't have black engine compartments too... boy that sticks out like a sore thumb.
KnuckleDuster
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hopefully you both don't have black engine compartments too... boy that sticks out like a sore thumb.
My car was black. Original paint.
After all these years, why rag on my car?
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RockinRobin
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You do know that this is the "racers" forum, right?hopefully you both don't have black engine compartments too... boy that sticks out like a sore thumb.
RockinRobin
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Stunk it up. All kinds of problems, starting with the fuel pressure regulator getting stuck wide open flooding out the carb.
I had changed jets, so when I turned on the pump and saw the fuel bowls overfill, I assumed the needles and seats were stuck. I should have looked at the fuel pressure gauge, it would have saved me lots of time. Lesson learned. At least it did it at the trailer. Whenever I remove fuel bowls I always run the pump with the motor off just to check for stuff like this!
Once I got that resolved the carb wasn't tuned for the 60 degree weather we had so I wasted the 1st time trial with the motor cutting out.
Then it rained and we had an 1 1/2 hour delay. 0 percent chance of rain. yeah, right.
2nd time trial I went red by quite a bit, so I hesitated at the light in round 1 and lost due to a lousy .08 light.
Making some suspension adjusments and will be at it again in a couple of weeks.
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