Smogrunner's Super Stock Stroker Finally Hits the Track
Smogrunner's Super Stock Stroker Finally Hits the Track
Hello Everyone. Since Tuning Technologies has become a vendor here on EvoM, I thought I'd post an update on how Smogrunner's car did yesterday. We rebuilt his motor last year and have tuned it and installed all his upgrades. I know this sort of post would usually belong in the drag racing forum, but since Tom's car has an unusually large number of stock parts for his power level (580+whp/525+wtq on our Dynojet) it makes for some interesting analysis. His car raced yesterday slightly detuned at 570whp/504wtq.
At California Speedway yesterday, the weather was horrible: The local newspaper listed Fontana at 109 degrees and the track surface temp was off the charts. Evom member G20 was there and reported that track surface temps were listed at 148 degrees. Not sure where he saw that, but the heat was so intense that it was disorienting. People couldn't take it and were leaving early.
On his first pass, Smoggy ran an 11.1 at 124. This was his first time drag racing since March 2005. His 60ft was 1.71 on Falken Azeni RT-615s. I thought he did a real nice job considering that the last time he raced, it was with a car with 200 less whp, and 150 less wtq. On his next pass, his AMS lower IC pipe blew completely of the car and Tom ran it over
. This never happened on the dyno or on our test drives, so it was a bit of a surprise. Luckily, I have a complete AMS turbo kit on the shelf at the shop (10 miles away) so we got a replacement LICP and installed it and were ready to go out for a third run. Unfortunately it blew off the coupler again, but was not damaged. We decided to call it quits for the day and I was a little mad at myself for not upgrading the hardware before going out (brain fart 
).
Now for the interesting part: As most of you know, this car has no aftermarket EMS or piggyback system at all. I reflased the ECU using the ECUFlash system. The car is running a completely stock head with HKS 272s. Stock intake manifold, stock throttle body, stock MAF (with glue
),stock ignition, 880cc injectors, and an incredibly affordable and simple fuel system. We pulled the cone intake filter off after each run and the stock MAF screen held up ABSOLUTELY PERFECTLY. So, after 17 dyno pulls, a rough test drive, three launch-controled launches, and tons of hard shifts the MAF is fine!
We feel that in normal temperature conditions, with a little more practice behind the wheel, and a little more boost, this car is easily capable of a 10.7 at 130+mph, maybe better.
Once again, the story here isn't the 11.1 et, it is the unusually large number of stock systems (intake/maf, ignition, ECU, valvetrain/head) that makes this interesting. In our inflationary economy, the cost of going fast may have just gone WAY down!
Thanks for reading,
Alfred
At California Speedway yesterday, the weather was horrible: The local newspaper listed Fontana at 109 degrees and the track surface temp was off the charts. Evom member G20 was there and reported that track surface temps were listed at 148 degrees. Not sure where he saw that, but the heat was so intense that it was disorienting. People couldn't take it and were leaving early.
On his first pass, Smoggy ran an 11.1 at 124. This was his first time drag racing since March 2005. His 60ft was 1.71 on Falken Azeni RT-615s. I thought he did a real nice job considering that the last time he raced, it was with a car with 200 less whp, and 150 less wtq. On his next pass, his AMS lower IC pipe blew completely of the car and Tom ran it over
. This never happened on the dyno or on our test drives, so it was a bit of a surprise. Luckily, I have a complete AMS turbo kit on the shelf at the shop (10 miles away) so we got a replacement LICP and installed it and were ready to go out for a third run. Unfortunately it blew off the coupler again, but was not damaged. We decided to call it quits for the day and I was a little mad at myself for not upgrading the hardware before going out (brain fart ).Now for the interesting part: As most of you know, this car has no aftermarket EMS or piggyback system at all. I reflased the ECU using the ECUFlash system. The car is running a completely stock head with HKS 272s. Stock intake manifold, stock throttle body, stock MAF (with glue
),stock ignition, 880cc injectors, and an incredibly affordable and simple fuel system. We pulled the cone intake filter off after each run and the stock MAF screen held up ABSOLUTELY PERFECTLY. So, after 17 dyno pulls, a rough test drive, three launch-controled launches, and tons of hard shifts the MAF is fine!We feel that in normal temperature conditions, with a little more practice behind the wheel, and a little more boost, this car is easily capable of a 10.7 at 130+mph, maybe better.
Once again, the story here isn't the 11.1 et, it is the unusually large number of stock systems (intake/maf, ignition, ECU, valvetrain/head) that makes this interesting. In our inflationary economy, the cost of going fast may have just gone WAY down!
Thanks for reading,
Alfred
Last edited by Alfred@TTech; Jul 16, 2006 at 12:18 PM.
Congratulations that power lever is amazing for the stock parts used esp with stock ecu...(Is this a record?) The ECUflash program seems like it is deffinately a grat option for those evo owners taht want power but refuse to go stand-alone like myself. Cant wait to hear about the next track visit
Allright Tom 
. I was looking for a thread that would show your results. I figured that Fontana would be fricken hot, but you did well. Like Alfred says, you'll definitley run 10's very soon. Hey Alfred and Chris nice to see you guys have a place of your own here on Evom. I need to call you guys soon about putting in a new clutch. The Centerforce I had you guys put in never worked out for me, still kept getting locked out at high RPM. Anyway, congrats to you all. Joe.
. I was looking for a thread that would show your results. I figured that Fontana would be fricken hot, but you did well. Like Alfred says, you'll definitley run 10's very soon. Hey Alfred and Chris nice to see you guys have a place of your own here on Evom. I need to call you guys soon about putting in a new clutch. The Centerforce I had you guys put in never worked out for me, still kept getting locked out at high RPM. Anyway, congrats to you all. Joe.
Yes! Fontana official posted the temp on their black board right before the light as "148 degree track temp at 12:40 pm..." . Damm hot! That's why we got to run as many as we want before track was close because everyone else left. :-)
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This is the link to dyno graphs, run conditions and all mods. Thanx for the support.
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This is the link to dyno graphs, run conditions and all mods. Thanx for the support.
Alfred at TTech
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wat mods is he running, and welcome to the boards, seems like you guys do great work...
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Congrats to the boys at Tuning Tech and Tom. I was driving home from Sequoia national park and at the 215/15 interchange (10 miles from fontana) it said 93 that was at 10:00pm. Super hot temps suck!!! Pretty sweet to run 11.1 with the a/c on. LOL See ya guys soon.
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Come on Smoggy, come clean. We know you didn't really run that fast with the stock parts. "Experts" on EVOM say the stock MAF and ECU can't support that much whp. 
Congrats on the run! It'll be nice to see some 10s when the weather is more cooperative.
Congrats on the run! It'll be nice to see some 10s when the weather is more cooperative.