Finally conquered the beast...
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Finally conquered the beast...
Without much fanfare, I finally broke the seal on that 11-second barrier. It has taken far too long (mostly due to living at altitude now, but hey), and it almost took a lot longer, but on the 2nd of two tries at Fontana today, I was able to sneak into the 11s despite poor driving due to rusty skeelz (that's my guess - been 2 years since I dragged last). The 60' was so-so, and the 1-2 was atrocious. I couldn't hear my revs due to how loud the 60s GTO was next to me, so I botched the 1-2 a bit (I shift based on feel/sound), but then I hunkered down and nailed the 2-3/3-4. You can see by the time splits how that was the case. I overcame the poor start with a blistering 2nd half.
60' - 1.76
330' - 4.997
1/8 - 7.709
MPH - 89.00 (laf, what?)
1000' - 10.010 (whoa, smokin by this point)
1/4 - 11.979 (barely)
MPH - 115.36 (my log says 120.4 and 7600rpm - didn't think the trap avg was normally that far from actual speed)
I consider 115mph traps to be 11.8 territory, so I will hopefully get to try again in 2 weeks when we're back for the El Toro ProSolo. El Toro is closer to Fontana, so it should be easier. It was a 220-mile round trip just to sit around for 4 hours and get 2 runs, but it paid off.
Logs show pretty low timing and right around 11.9-12.1 AFRs (gas corrected E-85) with no knock except on poor shifts, load max of 330, airflow max of 2050 or so, IDCs of 85-86%, and I had to turn off the Tephra NLTS - it just messes me up. Not sure if it's too slow for how I do it, or if I'm too slow for how it works, but I find that I do it much better on my own. Probably just need practice with it...
60' - 1.76
330' - 4.997
1/8 - 7.709
MPH - 89.00 (laf, what?)
1000' - 10.010 (whoa, smokin by this point)
1/4 - 11.979 (barely)
MPH - 115.36 (my log says 120.4 and 7600rpm - didn't think the trap avg was normally that far from actual speed)
I consider 115mph traps to be 11.8 territory, so I will hopefully get to try again in 2 weeks when we're back for the El Toro ProSolo. El Toro is closer to Fontana, so it should be easier. It was a 220-mile round trip just to sit around for 4 hours and get 2 runs, but it paid off.
Logs show pretty low timing and right around 11.9-12.1 AFRs (gas corrected E-85) with no knock except on poor shifts, load max of 330, airflow max of 2050 or so, IDCs of 85-86%, and I had to turn off the Tephra NLTS - it just messes me up. Not sure if it's too slow for how I do it, or if I'm too slow for how it works, but I find that I do it much better on my own. Probably just need practice with it...
Last edited by Warrtalon; Mar 21, 2008 at 02:50 PM.
Nice work on cutting the 11 second slip. How long did you wait in between runs? I think i waited nearly 4 hours in between my runs at fontana, and i wanted to murder someone, but i have no patience. Off topic, but how did the scca event go in San Diego?
Without much fanfare, I finally broke the seal on that 11-second barrier. It has taken far too long (mostly due to living at altitude now, but hey), and it almost took a lot longer, but on the 2nd of two tries at Fontana today, I was able to sneak into the 11s despite poor driving due to rusty skeelz (that's my guess - been 2 years since I dragged last). The 60' was so-so, and the 1-2 was atrocious. I couldn't hear my revs due to how loud the 60s GTO was next to me, so I botched the 1-2 a bit (I shift based on feel/sound), but then I hunkered down and nailed the 2-3/3-4. You can see by the time splits how that was the case. I overcame the poor start with a blistering 2nd half.
Timeslip will be scanned/posted after I get back home from this trip:
60' - 1.76
330' - 4.997
1/8 - 7.709
MPH - 89.00 (laf, what?)
1000' - 10.010 (whoa, smokin by this point)
1/4 - 11.979 (barely)
MPH - 115.36 (my log says 120.4 and 7600rpm - didn't think the trap avg was normally that far from actual speed)
I consider 115mph traps to be 11.8 territory, so I will hopefully get to try again in 2 weeks when we're back for the El Toro ProSolo. El Toro is closer to Fontana, so it should be easier. It was a 220-mile round trip just to sit around for 4 hours and get 2 runs, but it paid off.
Logs show pretty low timing and right around 11.9-12.1 AFRs (gas corrected E-85) with no knock except on poor shifts, load max of 330, airflow max of 2050 or so, IDCs of 85-86%, and I had to turn off the Tephra NLTS - it just messes me up. Not sure if it's too slow for how I do it, or if I'm too slow for how it works, but I find that I do it much better on my own. Probably just need practice with it...
Timeslip will be scanned/posted after I get back home from this trip:
60' - 1.76
330' - 4.997
1/8 - 7.709
MPH - 89.00 (laf, what?)
1000' - 10.010 (whoa, smokin by this point)
1/4 - 11.979 (barely)
MPH - 115.36 (my log says 120.4 and 7600rpm - didn't think the trap avg was normally that far from actual speed)
I consider 115mph traps to be 11.8 territory, so I will hopefully get to try again in 2 weeks when we're back for the El Toro ProSolo. El Toro is closer to Fontana, so it should be easier. It was a 220-mile round trip just to sit around for 4 hours and get 2 runs, but it paid off.
Logs show pretty low timing and right around 11.9-12.1 AFRs (gas corrected E-85) with no knock except on poor shifts, load max of 330, airflow max of 2050 or so, IDCs of 85-86%, and I had to turn off the Tephra NLTS - it just messes me up. Not sure if it's too slow for how I do it, or if I'm too slow for how it works, but I find that I do it much better on my own. Probably just need practice with it...
.You have work'd hard for it. Congrats
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1) Waited about 2 hours for each run with the 2nd coming 5 mins before close. Incidentally, they let the Super Pro cars run about 4 times each even though they all paid the same as us and took WAY LONGER per car than any of us. They all ran one at a time, and one even wrecked at 200+mph after the parachute deployed. Why we all had to sit in staging lanes while they got to show up whenever they wanted and run right away without waiting is beyond me, but whatever, at least I got 2 runs.
2) SCCA event begins tomorrow!
2) SCCA event begins tomorrow!
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1) Waited about 2 hours for each run with the 2nd coming 5 mins before close. Incidentally, they let the Super Pro cars run about 4 times each even though they all paid the same as us and took WAY LONGER per car than any of us. They all ran one at a time, and one even wrecked at 200+mph after the parachute deployed. Why we all had to sit in staging lanes while they got to show up whenever they wanted and run right away without waiting is beyond me, but whatever, at least I got 2 runs.
2) SCCA event begins tomorrow!
2) SCCA event begins tomorrow!
welcome to California Speedway. Now you know what we have to put up with when we race there. Congrats on the 11 second pass!!
