140.3 & 141.5 @ SCSN means...

We just might have the 26x8.5 MPH record in the books, backed up and sewed up tight. What are they going to do when we turn up the power? Thanks Chassisworks, Procharger and Dad's!

More to come...

SCSN Outlaw 8.5... the good, the bad,the ugly!

Our SCSN experience started on Tuesday night with an 11 hour tow down to Vegas and right into test and tune. Our first hit off the trailer was a very soft leave but netted our best short time on the tiny 26x8.5 ever, a 1.37, sweet! Next pass, a 1.36, even better! But... the MPH was way way off. We broke the blower and we broke it bad.

With no options and no idea what to do, we took it to the internet. Within 20 minutes the phone was ringing and we had a new blower en route from New Mexixo from 275 racer Frank Valera by way of Joel Orme. 20 MINUTES!!! These two really stepped up in a big way and by Saturday morning we were back up and ready for battle.

On Saturday we had our first hit and it quickly became apparent that the MPH was still WAY off, 5.55 @ 129. A little panic, a bit of thinking and then a phone call to none other than Steve Morris from Steve Morris Engines. Steve asked a few question, pondered a bit and then gave us some advice that eventually ended up netting us 11 MPH!!! We were hands down, the fastest in the class.

While MPH helps, it doesn't win races. We were able to slip by round one with a horrible 60' that was made up on the back end allowing us to slip by for a narrow win. Coming back to the pits we knew there was something awry in the bottom tune but with no time to analyze and a final call to the lanes on the PA, we simply tossed some numbers at the tune and prayed. Unfortunately we didn't pray hard enough as the car failed to come up on the transbrake, fell out of the beams, almost shut off and then work up some time later to a 2.7 60' and a busted weekend.

We had a great time, horrible luck... great luck and learned a TON at this race. Y'all better look out come next season.

Thanks again to:

Eric Kvilhaug

Kevin Keller

Frank Valera

Joel Orme

Steve Morris

Dave W.

UPDATE

Looking at logs and figured out part of what happened.  Last couple passes, I changed the MSD file to have a -12 degree gradual timing ramp over a couple secs. Problem is... I was in such a rush, I forgot to put the first 0.0 dot in at -0 degrees and the second at 0.01 with -12, instead I just put the first dot in at 0.01 for -12. 

This means, we were trying to come up on the brake with 12 degrees out! I remembered the first -0 dot in the first few files... just forgot it in the elims where it counted. That said, the launch tune is still way off, but at least we were pulling 1.3x 60's with it that way.


The Good

We set high MPH for the meet and bested our 26x8.5 short time by almost a tenth.

The Bad

Something about me and blowers is like oil and water. We had to travel through all of Las Vegas to get the necessary components to mate Frank's blower to our existing system.

The Ugly

It just hurts to watch. My goal is to get this BS3 dialed or bail on it and get a Holley... I'm just not quite sure yet.