VAN OF WAR..... 1/4 mile results

[318willrun]

AFTER 4 YEARS (just about exact) .......

Goal is to return this van to the track when it opens. Going to tune it some and see if it will go a little less slow. Number to beat is 15.86 in the 1/4 and 10.16 in the 1/8.

 

[318willrun]

AFTER 4 YEARS (just about exact) .......

Goal is to return this van to the track when it opens. Going to tune it some and see if it will go a little less slow. Number to beat is 15.86 in the 1/4 and 10.16 in the 1/8.

Exhaust with a bunch of leaks hurts the tune in my opinion, and makes it difficult to hear and my ears are a part of my tuning too. I replaced the "patchy" exhaust today. Got rid of all the leaks. Sounds good and I'm happy. Now I can continue to tune and see what we can find.

What we removed and what we installed if anyone is interested.......

 

[318willrun]

AFTER 4 YEARS (just about exact) .......

Goal is to return this van to the track when it opens. Going to tune it some and see if it will go a little less slow. Number to beat is 15.86 in the 1/4 and 10.16 in the 1/8.

On to the carb..... made good progress in the short window I had today.... Maybe I'll get to test drive it tomorrow

 

[318willrun]

On to the carb..... made good progress in the short window I had today.... Maybe I'll get to test drive it tomorrow

Wasn't Tuesday, but Thursday.... I was able to go out for a couple mile test run. I think I got the system in place that I want to work with... hopefully I am able to find a little. You gotta find a little more in a heavy vehicle just to find a little... LOL.

 

[318willrun]

AFTER 4 YEARS (just about exact) .......

Goal is to return this van to the track when it opens. Going to tune it some and see if it will go a little less slow. Number to beat is 15.86 in the 1/4 and 10.16 in the 1/8.

Wasn't Tuesday, but Thursday.... I was able to go out for a couple mile test run. I think I got the system in place that I want to work with... hopefully I am able to find a little. You gotta find a little more in a heavy vehicle just to find a little... LOL.

Here is this if anyone has any interest on where I went with the carb. From here we look to fine tune a little, by seat of the pants of course.

 

[318willrun]

Now I gotta figure out how I'm going to manage the timing. No window on the bell housing like some vans, and next to impossible to get a light on the marks. I'll figure it out...

Again, I just timed it by ear/feel and drove it like this all this while. And it ran good. But I'm hunting for a hundreth... LOL

 

[Ottmundr]

Now I gotta figure out how I'm going to manage the timing. No window on the bell housing like some vans, and next to impossible to get a light on the marks. I'll figure it out...

Again, I just timed it by ear/feel and drove it like this all this while. And it ran good. But I'm hunting for a hundreth... LOL

 

[RustyRatRod]

Exhaust with a bunch of leaks hurts the tune in my opinion, and makes it difficult to hear and my ears are a part of my tuning too. I replaced the "patchy" exhaust today. Got rid of all the leaks. Sounds good and I'm happy. Now I can continue to tune and see what we can find.

What we removed and what we installed if anyone is interested.......

You know how my friend Freddie and I got rid of all the leaks in Vixen's exhaust? He's got a smoke machine. He stuck the smoke tip in the tail pipe and you wouldn't believe how many leaks showed up.

 

[RustyRatRod]

Now I gotta figure out how I'm going to manage the timing. No window on the bell housing like some vans, and next to impossible to get a light on the marks. I'll figure it out...

Again, I just timed it by ear/feel and drove it like this all this while. And it ran good. But I'm hunting for a hundreth... LOL

You can drill a hole in the bellhousing and mark the converter for TDC. Then get a timing pointer and scale and rivet it on the bellhousing. You can make one if you have to.

 

[318willrun]

You know how my friend Freddie and I got rid of all the leaks in Vixen's exhaust? He's got a smoke machine. He stuck the smoke tip in the tail pipe and you wouldn't believe how many leaks showed up.

That's a great idea!

 

[RustyRatRod]

That's a great idea!

This is real similar to the one Freddie has. He uses baby oil in it. lol

Smoke Machine

 

[pauly]

I’ve always wondered where baby oil comes from!

 

[318willrun]

I’ve always wondered where baby oil comes from!

help me understand........ lol

 

[MOPARMAGA]

I’ve always wondered where baby oil comes from!

Puff Daddy's mansion

 

[318willrun]

We have established a baseline. Now, the tuning will begin. We've been running this for the years just off of what sounded good/seemed right by my ear/feel. And it has run well. Now that we know where we are, we'll try to see what we can find for improvements. The van was at 18* initial, and 36* total, all in by 3100. All of this was more/quicker than I would have guessed. But it's what it was.

 

[318willrun]

Think we got the timing set, ended up backing it off some. Now, on to the carb. 26th is coming fast, and I'm in a super busy time up till that date. I feel good, though, about where we are now. I feel (we all know how that goes..lol) that I could go less slow right now....

 

[318willrun]

We're ready. Now were just waiting for track time! Hopefully next Saturday. For those interested, here is the results, a look at the new spark plug, and now it's like a kid before Christmas, just wait... wait.. wait.. till I can stage !!!!

 

[318willrun]

Looks like we got cooperation with the weather for tomorrow. We'll be just a little late to the party because of obligations but hoping for some improvements tomorrow at the track!
This "tuning together" mini-series was fun!

 

[318willrun]

AFTER 4 YEARS (just about exact) .......

Goal is to return this van to the track when it opens. Going to tune it some and see if it will go a little less slow. Number to beat is 15.86 in the 1/4 and 10.16 in the 1/8.

Looks like we got cooperation with the weather for tomorrow. We'll be just a little late to the party because of obligations but hoping for some improvements tomorrow at the track!
This "tuning together" mini-series was fun!

This was a fun mini-series ... "Tuning Together". We had net gain! The Van of War is "Less Slow".... and that was the Goal !!
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This will conclude this experiment... on to the next project... Oh, video if anyone is interested....