Glad to see a good number ready -to- go! A little bit away from track day with the old Dodge. Just dropped the 340 off at the machine shop. 6-8 weeks before it will be done. Oil on all eight plugs and it dropped 2-3 tenths from last season so time for an inspection and freshen up. :dollar::dollar::dollar::dollar::dollar:
Ready to go again only damage was a bent rocker shaft .New plugs ,valves adjusted .Might wait to go to US41 .I trust the track prep better there .
Thinking about going next Saturday to US41 .Weather looks good at this point 73 and sunny .Who else can make it .:3gears:
I'm going to try to hit Milan Dragway tomorrow for test & tune. Gates open at 4 pm and it is going to be a gorgeous day! Look me up if your there (I usually park on the road behind the grandstands).
Gorgeous day at Milan spent with m son home on leave from the Marines! Seemed like I took step back on ET/MPH, so will have to reload on efforts! 60 ft at 2.091 and 13.52 @ 104 MPH.
I dont know about your car, but my 65 is crazy weather dependent to run good numbers. I can run 2 different days back to back with no tuning changes and lose up to .5 ET just based on DA. Do some research on Weather Underground to see what the stats were on the days you ran the number you expected vs. yesterday, then adjust ET to see what s really happening. That said, my 71 doesn't care about DA at all.......
Good point Rhett! You can go to dragtimes.com to calculate the density altitude and relative density to correct your runs for local atmospheric conditions at virtually any racetrack. It has weather history, so you can compare past dates and actually correct your times (in Beta testing) to compare to standard conditions. Looks like the relative density as very close for my April run vs. last night. http://www.dragtimes.com/da-density-...calculator.php
The more I go to Milan, the more I'm disappointed by the crowd for Test & Tune. When I was growing up in Indy we had Test & Tune on Wednesday nights at the Home of the US Nationals. If you did a John Force burnout and drove past the tree, the starter told you to keep driving, as you weren't backing up! It is frustrating to watch these idiots (and their entourage) take 5 minutes to stage and then blow the tires off the car! I had 6 runs from 4 to 5 pm (with two pit adjustments in between) and only 2 runs between 5 & 7 pm once the John Force wanabees showed up!
That sounds typical for Milan. Waiting an hour in the staging lanes between runs is a test of your patience. I try not to go there often.
You're hanging your head with a 11.6X @120mph and using disclaimer of pro-touring setup? What the hell's wrong with 11.6X?? o No: Beautiful car BTW.
OMG you're not kidding. I went to LVD yesterday for a track rental and it was a sh1tshow. There's a whole tuner crowd that shows up that is a little short on track etiquette. I should be happy they exist, as there's probably not enough old white guys to keep the track doors open, and individually they're all very pleasant. But holy hell, none of your sh1t is fast enough that someone needs to back you into the groove, and even your best launch doesn't warrant a 30 person party at the burnout box . BTW, if your ride pops and farts like that all the way though the pass, you're probably gonna oil down the track and piss off about a couple hundred guys. Maybe concentrate on just getting it to run right! Self righteous rant over. That said, there was one dude with a early 70's Dodge/Mitsubishi Colt that was dialed in an running high 8's that caught my eye.....very impressive.
