New Best for Blue Flame
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El Presidente
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Back indeed... The car was on the DOT Hoosier track tires.
Runner up in bracket class.
Not bad for first time back to the track. Almost all 1.7x sixty foot times.
I am sure with a bit of tuning there is a lot more in it.
More later...
Back indeed... The car was on the DOT Hoosier track tires.
Runner up in bracket class.
Not bad for first time back to the track. Almost all 1.7x sixty foot times.
I am sure with a bit of tuning there is a lot more in it.
More later...
driller
El Presidente
Here'a a quick rundown of the day...
First run of the day, of the season, on the new motor...
Reaction - 0.7582 (rusty??)(0.500 tree)
60 ft - 1.8162
330 ft - 5.2889
594 ft - 7.6831
1/8 ET - 8.2222
1/8 MPH - 83.48
1/4 ET - 12.9750
1/4 MPH - 103.32
I was pretty pleased to see a 12 second ET and was somewhat surprised. I lined up again and ran a 13.0361 ET with a 101.04 mph trap speed with a 1.7881 sixty foot time.
I then decided to switch tunes to one with with different shift points and came up with a 13.0560 @ 101.16 with a 1.7838 sixty foot. Repeating the same tune I ran again and came up with a 13.0275 @ 100.59 with a sixty foot time of 1.7595 seconds.
Not wanting to abuse the new motor, I decided that was sufficient time trials and went to the pits. I decided to settle on a 12.95 dial in for the brackets to follow lunch.
So much time had passed by the time the brackets started, I was unsure of the dial-in since the weather had changed significantly and it was much warmer and less humid. Lined up against a 16.1 second opponent I made sure I held my stance at the tree and not become distracted and red-light. My reaction time was a .5683 vs. the opponent's 1.0545. We both ended up breaking out at the end but the first or worst rule put the win light in my lane with a 12.9122 on the 12.95 dial with a trap speed of only 100.93 (I had lifted the throttle at the end once I passed the opponent at the far end of the track). The sixty foot time on that run was a 1.7733.
On to the next round (barely).
Back in the staging lanes I change the dial to a flat 12.9 simply by erasing the 5 off the dial-in. It didn't take long to be called again and I was paired with a T-bird with a 13.8 dial-in meaning I would only have to wait 9 tenths of a second to launch. I staged shallow and launched hard.
I was beat at the tree with the T-bird's 0.6461 reaction time vs. my 0.6700. I ended up catching up to the T-bird quickly and put some distance between us before I hit the brakes at the finish. I was surprised when I saw the win light in the other lane! When I picked up the time slip, I saw I had run a 12.9083 at 102.08 mph. BUT when I scanned up back to the top of the slip I saw it listed my dial-in time as a 12.95!! Huh??
I had made sure the display board showed a 12.90 before I staged, so I was baffled why the timeslip showed a 12.95 dial. I decided to go to the staging lanes and find out what the heck had happened. I went straight to the track official in the lanes and explained my case while showing him my timeslip. He asked if I wanted to re-run and I told him no as the other guy thought he had a bonafide win but I just wanted to know what happened and more importantly to let the tower officials know they had a 12.90 show on the timing board but printed a 12.95 on the timeslip.
The staging lane official talked to the tower on the radio for a few seconds then explained to me that the tower had read TWO dial-in numbers, one a 12.9 and the other a 12.95 and they went with the 12.95! What had happened was earlier in the day, the staging lane official was checking everyone in the bracket lane had an ET selected as a dial-in. When he saw mine he deemed it was a bit unclear as I had the 12.95 on the front and side windows (but admittedly my marker didn't like the shiny clean windows with rain-x). So he used his marker to write the 12.95 on the back glass. In the battle, I had completely forgotten about the numbers on the back and inadvertently left the original dial-in as is.
A preponderance of coincidence had cost me the win.
All in all, it was a good day despite the miscue. I was pleased with the first outing on the new setup and left feeling I had a good foundation to build upon.
First run of the day, of the season, on the new motor...
Reaction - 0.7582 (rusty??)(0.500 tree)
60 ft - 1.8162
330 ft - 5.2889
594 ft - 7.6831
1/8 ET - 8.2222
1/8 MPH - 83.48
1/4 ET - 12.9750
1/4 MPH - 103.32
I was pretty pleased to see a 12 second ET and was somewhat surprised. I lined up again and ran a 13.0361 ET with a 101.04 mph trap speed with a 1.7881 sixty foot time.
I then decided to switch tunes to one with with different shift points and came up with a 13.0560 @ 101.16 with a 1.7838 sixty foot. Repeating the same tune I ran again and came up with a 13.0275 @ 100.59 with a sixty foot time of 1.7595 seconds.
Not wanting to abuse the new motor, I decided that was sufficient time trials and went to the pits. I decided to settle on a 12.95 dial in for the brackets to follow lunch.
So much time had passed by the time the brackets started, I was unsure of the dial-in since the weather had changed significantly and it was much warmer and less humid. Lined up against a 16.1 second opponent I made sure I held my stance at the tree and not become distracted and red-light. My reaction time was a .5683 vs. the opponent's 1.0545. We both ended up breaking out at the end but the first or worst rule put the win light in my lane with a 12.9122 on the 12.95 dial with a trap speed of only 100.93 (I had lifted the throttle at the end once I passed the opponent at the far end of the track). The sixty foot time on that run was a 1.7733.
On to the next round (barely).
Back in the staging lanes I change the dial to a flat 12.9 simply by erasing the 5 off the dial-in. It didn't take long to be called again and I was paired with a T-bird with a 13.8 dial-in meaning I would only have to wait 9 tenths of a second to launch. I staged shallow and launched hard.
I was beat at the tree with the T-bird's 0.6461 reaction time vs. my 0.6700. I ended up catching up to the T-bird quickly and put some distance between us before I hit the brakes at the finish. I was surprised when I saw the win light in the other lane! When I picked up the time slip, I saw I had run a 12.9083 at 102.08 mph. BUT when I scanned up back to the top of the slip I saw it listed my dial-in time as a 12.95!! Huh??
I had made sure the display board showed a 12.90 before I staged, so I was baffled why the timeslip showed a 12.95 dial. I decided to go to the staging lanes and find out what the heck had happened. I went straight to the track official in the lanes and explained my case while showing him my timeslip. He asked if I wanted to re-run and I told him no as the other guy thought he had a bonafide win but I just wanted to know what happened and more importantly to let the tower officials know they had a 12.90 show on the timing board but printed a 12.95 on the timeslip.
The staging lane official talked to the tower on the radio for a few seconds then explained to me that the tower had read TWO dial-in numbers, one a 12.9 and the other a 12.95 and they went with the 12.95! What had happened was earlier in the day, the staging lane official was checking everyone in the bracket lane had an ET selected as a dial-in. When he saw mine he deemed it was a bit unclear as I had the 12.95 on the front and side windows (but admittedly my marker didn't like the shiny clean windows with rain-x). So he used his marker to write the 12.95 on the back glass. In the battle, I had completely forgotten about the numbers on the back and inadvertently left the original dial-in as is.
A preponderance of coincidence had cost me the win.
All in all, it was a good day despite the miscue. I was pleased with the first outing on the new setup and left feeling I had a good foundation to build upon.
KStromberg
Vortech kicked in yo
Nice driller! 1.7s I can dream can't I?
I can dream can't I? 
driller
El Presidente
Not as funny as a couple others...Funny story too.
A couple of MN12 buddies were there as well and they were pitted against each other in a bracket race final. One was a 10 second T-Bird and the other a very quick 11 second SuperCoupe. The SuperCoupe knew he couldn't beat the T-Bird so decided to play some mind games. At about the 1000' mark, he lifted on the throttle. The T-Bird was coming fast and hard and about the time they were side by side (just before the finish line) he lifted as well. The SuperCoupe then matted the throttle again taking the T-Bird by surprise and crossed the line first. The T-Bird had lifted thinking if the SuperCoupe lifted they must be going to fast and risking a breakout. It was a hoot hearing them talking of it and watching it on video later that night in the parking lot.
Good times.