| Alfred@TTech |
Jul 16, 2006 12:14 PM |
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 :crap:. 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 :updown: ).
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
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