Went to Bandimere with the RMCGP guys last night. First two runs were horrible (16.1 and 15.9). Won't make excuses but my wastegate was opening and only giving me 5-6 PSI. I went to the Jet Car pits and borrowed some safety wire...some will know what I did and hopefully others will not try it especially at sea-level!
Got to the line for my 3rd run and forgot to turn on the datalogger and I could not see how the motor liked my safety wire. For severe fear of slamming into fuel cut I soft pedaled all the way down the track...between 1/2 and 3/4 throttle trying to ease into more but not being able to see what the motor was doing or the timing and fuel I just played nice with her.
Had my logger setup...record file created and third in line to go for a fourth run. All of a sudden I hear someone say...OH SHIT! As he said it I felt it to....RAIN! :icon_evil: They made an announcement that they were going to delay for 15 minutes but as you looked up the hill you could see much more rain coming. So the night was shut down.
So my time will be seen in the video...and that is a late model GTP from our group in the video against me.
Next week will be interesting to see how she does with the safety wire and some tuning in fuel and timing! :icon_twisted:
http://www.tgpforums.com/tgp/images/downloads/race4.avi (RIGHT CLICK SAVE AS)
And for those of you who do not know...Bandimere is 5860 feet above sea-level.
Awe :( I was hoping to see some good times. "Safety wire" haha, thats great.... I know all about that one.....
Why didn't you just pull the vacuum line off the wastegate? :icon_confused:
Quote from: z284pwr on May 18, 2006, 11:14:02 AM
Awe :( I was hoping to see some good times.
Well if you use the NHRA correction for high altitude turbo calculations. I am a 14.458. Considering I did not get a run at full throttle I think I did pretty good. :dunno:
Quote from: z284pwr on May 18, 2006, 11:14:02 AM
"Safety wire" haha, thats great.... I know all about that one.....
Why didn't you just pull the vacuum line off the wastegate? :icon_confused:
If you are asking that question then you do not know what the saftey wire was for! ;) :icon_mrgreen:
DON'T TELL THEM JUD!! ;) :laugh:
dang i can't view .avi for some reason. what did you trap?
i'm going to the Douglas drag strip on June 10th with sl3196. i'm not expecting to do very good - crappy 225s, one of my rear GR2 struts is totally blown out (oil all over it). all i really want is to trap over 90mph. even a 90.00mph trap would be fine with me. my ET will probably be high 15s at 4900ft. if i blow the engine i have a good LG5 sitting in the garage so i plan on flogging it :icon_mrgreen:
92 MPH trap speed.
I am going to go back next week weather permitting. Did some timing and fuel adjustments tonight and I am lighting the tires into 2rd and chirping into again! The tires on the car are gummy sticky so I know some fun will be there next week. ;)
Not bad at all for that altitude. :icon_mrgreen: Haven't you ran slightly quicker than that at Bandimere before Kenny(I seem to remember you posting about a 15.2 on the W-body board last year I think)?
Quote from: TurboSedan on May 18, 2006, 02:54:05 PM
dang i can't view .avi for some reason. what did you trap?
i'm going to the Douglas drag strip on June 10th with sl3196. i'm not expecting to do very good - crappy 225s, one of my rear GR2 struts is totally blown out (oil all over it). all i really want is to trap over 90mph. even a 90.00mph trap would be fine with me. my ET will probably be high 15s at 4900ft. if i blow the engine i have a good LG5 sitting in the garage so i plan on flogging it :icon_mrgreen:
Josh, you should trap 93ish at 4900ft easy, you'll probably hit low low 15's for sure, and could potentially squeeze out a high 14 second pass.
Yeah a 15.2 last year. Surprised the shit out of me with the temps that were happening that day. If I remember right it was a 90* day and 110+* on the track.
I know now that my wastegate diaphram is weak and not holding the backpressure at bay so I need to order an adjustable wastegate actuator for it.
I might go to Pueblo tonight just to make a run or two to see if I can tune a little more ot run at Bandi again.
Went to Pueblo last night. SHITTY ASSED TRACK! No traction 1st or 2nd...roasted the tires in 3rd on one pass.
Best of six runs was a 15.1 at 94 MPH...best 60' was a 2.567! :icon_rolleyes:
I am done with the track and that car till I get some money put into it. I think she is taped out. Injectors are flowing great, turbo is maxed out for boost, no KR hardly.
If I went to Banidmere for some traction she will be in the high 14's which translates to high 13's at sea-level. Good enough for a stock configured TGP. :icon_cool:
Quote from: TGPilot on May 20, 2006, 11:29:01 AM
Went to Pueblo last night. SHITTY ASSED TRACK! No traction 1st or 2nd...roasted the tires in 3rd on one pass.
Best of six runs was a 15.1 at 94 MPH...best 60' was a 2.567! :icon_rolleyes:
I am done with the track and that car till I get some money put into it. I think she is taped out. Injectors are flowing great, turbo is maxed out for boost, no KR hardly.
If I went to Banidmere for some traction she will be in the high 14's which translates to high 13's at sea-level. Good enough for a stock configured TGP. :icon_cool:
Yes, for a shitty track, excellent times :) very nicely done. a 2.56 60ft is probably about what my car would be running with no low-end torque, yikes, that must have been super ugly, did you not try starting in 2nd or anything? Or afraid of burning the clutch?
Do you have any plans to upgrade the car or is it pretty much going to stay like this and go get a "play" car?
Quote from: z284pwr on May 20, 2006, 08:11:24 PM
Do you have any plans to upgrade the car or is it pretty much going to stay like this and go get a "play" car?
:laugh: Upgrades?...yes most certainly! ;) Right now the runs are...this is what you can do with a TGP from the factory with the proper tuning. I will be in the 12's by the end of summer if it means I have to put two LG5's motors in it! :icon_twisted:
Quote from: TGPilot on May 18, 2006, 01:18:19 PM
Quote from: z284pwr on May 18, 2006, 11:14:02 AM
Awe :( I was hoping to see some good times.
Well if you use the NHRA correction for high altitude turbo calculations. I am a 14.458. Considering I did not get a run at full throttle I think I did pretty good. :dunno:
Quote from: z284pwr on May 18, 2006, 11:14:02 AM
"Safety wire" haha, thats great.... I know all about that one.....
Why didn't you just pull the vacuum line off the wastegate? :icon_confused:
If you are asking that question then you do not know what the saftey wire was for! ;) :icon_mrgreen:
DON'T TELL THEM JUD!! ;) :laugh:
Ok Kenny I won't. I also don't want the responsibility although I have stated what hapens without the wire before. :icon_rolleyes:
Keep on trucking, you guys are going to make me go down the 1/4 a few more times. :icon_lol:
Jud
:laugh: Ask me no questions...I tell you no lies! :laugh:
Have you been in hibernation? Where have you been old timer?
The shop is opening pretty soon and I might just do some work on the TGP to get some exposure at the track. Would love to hear, "You made a 3600 pound car go how fast?...I need to visit your shop to see how fast you can make my car go!" ;) :laugh:
Quote from: TGPilot on July 23, 2006, 01:40:10 PM
:laugh: Ask me no questions...I tell you no lies! :laugh:
Have you been in hibernation? Where have you been old timer?
The shop is opening pretty soon and I might just do some work on the TGP to get some exposure at the track. Would love to hear, "You made a 3600 pound car go how fast?...I need to visit your shop to see how fast you can make my car go!" ;) :laugh:
No hibernation, more like morning. My youngest grandson (20) was killed cliff diving on the Umpaw river in or near Sutherlan Oregon just before 4th of July weekend. So we had to put together a rush trip there for the funeral and support of my kids. Took two days on the net just to get a flight and we paid through the noes do to short notice.
We flew into Eugene OR and couldn't rent a car cause the airport closes around 8. Shuttled to our hotel for the night and back to the air port to get a car.
After the funeral we visited for a couple days which I think was good for everybody.
Back to the airport for a flight out a 8. Plane was delayed so we spent most of the night in the airport. This trip traveling was like a night mare.
Home a week or tow and off to Chicago on business and pleasure. This was an enjoyable trip. Wife did her business for two days and I joined her for the third day and toured a rect and sq tube manufacture. Never had seen them make tube before. I went to the Volvo car museum. they had about 300 muscle cars which I really enjoyed looking at. I think the people there wanted me to go because I kept asking them to raise the hoods on the ones that were closed that I was interested in.
Good trip, Chicago was a neat clean town. Kind of refreshing after some parts of Houston downtown.
Glad your shop is comming to gether, good luck with it. :thumb: When do you start booking business?
The TGP has been 13.52 1/4 and 8.32 i think 1/8 at different tracks. 3606#
The TA has been 13.52 1/4 and 8.22 1/8 at different tracks. 3760#. Any faster than 8.00 Ihave to install a rollbar, so 80's is the limit at the 1/8 mile track.
Well have to get the TA finished ( new cooling system and serpentine belt set up) for Friday. It's been down for a month. Friends comming from San Antonio with a blown 483 BBC in a 90 Camaro convert to run the 1/8. Should be a fun night. :icon_biggrin:
Jud
Oh crap Jud! Sorry to hear that! :icon_redface: Losing a loved one is always tough.
The shop should be booking business no later than Sept 1 2006. At this point I may have the dyno here by the middle of August and if the landlord lets me move in sooner it might be the middle of August. I have a bundle of money burning a hole in my pocket and dreams to fullfill! ;)
I spoke with a neighbor the other night who has a late model M3 BMW that he wants to turbo-charge. He says he will be my first customer high paying customer and all I could do is think...I have eard thata before. We will see. Would love to build the fastest BMW on the US continent...hell the fastest anything on the continent! ;) :laugh:
OMG that sucks. :icon_sad: the umpqua is a beautiful yet deadly river. I almost drowned myself there too. every summer so many lives are lost in Oregon rivers. trained athletes, college athletes, loved ones that are too young to die. It sucks. I was river boarding on the umpqua with some friends and went down this volcanic rock chute. saw white bubbly water for like a minute and that was it. couldnt slow down for shit then it spit me out to the side completely exhausted. the current was really fast where we were, but it widens and narrows. none of my friends even saw me go. I walked like a 1/4 mile back to where they were lucky to be alive. Its so hard to judge the danger of it until you are already in trouble.
Sorry to hear that Jud....
my deepest sympathy to you and your family. :icon_frown:
Quote from: GangstGP on July 24, 2006, 06:26:13 PM
OMG that sucks. :icon_sad: the umpqua is a beautiful yet deadly river. I almost drowned myself there too. every summer so many lives are lost in Oregon rivers. trained athletes, college athletes, loved ones that are too young to die. It sucks. I was river boarding on the umpqua with some friends and went down this volcanic rock chute. saw white bubbly water for like a minute and that was it. couldnt slow down for shit then it spit me out to the side completely exhausted. the current was really fast where we were, but it widens and narrows. none of my friends even saw me go. I walked like a 1/4 mile back to where they were lucky to be alive. Its so hard to judge the danger of it until you are already in trouble.
Thanks for the correct spelling (Umpqua) and the sympathy. Biggest blow I have had maby ever. Dad died last year at 86 and it wasen't as bad as this. I knew he was going. Mother passed about 20 years ago from cancer and I just prayed she would go in her sleep. She did.
Yea my theree grand sons have been off this cliff a hundred times. Don't know what the hell happened. My daughter said the river was low at the time. I guess he just miss judged.
Let thAT be a warning to all who attempt this kind of stuff. Iv'e done it and I imagine most of you young guys have. BE CAREFULL PLEASE.
Sorry this thread got off track Kenny. Didn't plan it.
Jud
Quote from: sleeperred90tgp on July 24, 2006, 08:31:46 PM
Sorry this thread got off track Kenny. Didn't plan it.
Jud
From a member of your stature and the reasoning I have no concern! I am truly sorry for your family and all involved! It is a terrible loss for you and the feelings of the mebers on here are heartfelt I am sure! We have all experienced losses in our lives and it hurts.
NO WORRIES MY FRIEND!! ;)
My prayers are with your family Jud. Sorry to hear that.
You guys are going to make it hard for anyone to catch up.