August 12, 200422 yr comment_16550 Hey all, NE1 up for some racing at willowbank this weekend (14th Aug ) I am racing my rolla again. Hopefully i wont blow anything up this week. Rolla is running better since head rebuild so hopefully will run a better time than 16.3 If u are gonna be there be ready to race. Report
August 12, 200422 yr Author comment_16554 Hey hope to see u there. Apparantly the pulsar club is gonna be there too so should be good racin. What car/engine do u have? Report
August 12, 200422 yr comment_16555 i've got a '68 ke15 with healthy 4k. see what a bit of carbed pushrod technology can do. my mate should be taking out his monster port RX3. he wants to get it sorted before jamboree. Report
August 14, 200422 yr comment_16734 went out and had a run tonight. best was a 17.209 @ 75.74 MPH. guess it's not to bad for a 3 year old $350 4k, that's had a lot of hard work. also that was full street trim, ie tools, spare etc. probably could have stripped 30 odd kg out of it. was the first time i have ever had a go at the drags. on my first run i was beside this spastic big block cheved monaro. i couldn't even hear my car with this thing idling beside me. was a pretty wild first up intro to drag racing. needless to say he disappeared off into the distance. i need way more power. the only thing i beat all night was a suzuki swift which i wasted by 2 secs. it is fun doing burnouts in front of a crowd. the funniest run was the last i did. was beside this charger, and we both got pretty even reaction times, him a little quicker. i beat him through first and part way through second. he obviously pushed his car a little hard to soon, trying to get back in front, as he started blowing masses of smoke. he pulled away in the topend to beat me by nearly 2 secs, but geez, i've never seen so much smoke in my life. on the return road his car just stopped, he blew it up. it was a mega oil down, so racing had to stop. haha, he may have won the race, but i drive home. i got like 10 runs in from 4.30 - 8.00 when the charger did the oil down. thought i'd just call it quits as i couldn't be bothered waiting at least 1/2 hour for them to clean the track. was a pretty fun night. have a baseline now. Report
August 15, 200422 yr comment_16769 yea, i think with the carb a bit better setup there is more to be had. i just recently increased the secondary venturi from a 25 to a 27, and i think it was a step backwards. the car doesn't pull as hard in the upper rev region like it did, which really hurt it in the second half of the track. i was pulling 10.8 sec for the 1/8 mile, which should equate to around a mid 16 for the full 1/4. best 60 ft was 2.38 sec, which is quicker than 2 mid 16s cars i ran. need to get my O2 sensor setup so i can monitor mixtures and see where i'm going wrong. didn't get my first timeslip it got blown away. was mega windy, having a headwind probably didn't help anyones times. times went, from 2nd run: 17.63 17.52 17.60 18.23 17.35 17.38 17.26 17.21 17.28 fairly consistant. found reducing timing to 8 degs, made it a little quicker, which is what the last 5 runs were set at. i'll have a bit of a play around with things and try to get back out there again soon. Report
August 16, 200422 yr Author comment_16824 Good to see you there felix. My best was a 16.3 again but consistently ran 16.8. The pics are funnmy cause there is more smoke coming from the exhaust than the wheels. Report
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