331ci 9:1 compression AFR 185 comp headed dyno results inside!

Moneypit- Thanks man! I'm a bit OCD when it comes to putting my combo's together. I research the hell out of my decisions, consult those with more know-how than me, and take my time putting it all together to ensure I help the air flow remain as unrestricted as I can. I always hated seeing guys dump more and more money into their setups only to be disappointed with the money spent and the results they had. Many of these guys would have had different outcomes with their setups if they would have slowed down and maximized what they had before they added things like a power adder and such. I just never wanted to be that guy. I'd just end up frustrated and pissed off just like them and that would take the fun out of it. To me, maximizing a combo is the fun part; sure it also comes with frustrations as things don't always work out as planned. My goal is and always has been to trap 130mph in the 1/4 and call it quits. That is all I want. The turbo will blow this out of the water. I guess I built too good of an NA setup. LOL! I'm considering selling the turbo kit and just putting an S/T trim on the car pullied only enough to get me to my goal. Although a cam might only give me 20hp or so, I need it regardless and I'd hate to put it in with testing it to see what it was worth NA before putting the power adder on.

Kurt, you have a point, but I don't put many miles on this car anymore so I'm not worried about wearing anything out. I feel that putting the power adder on it before realizing its full NA potential is a bit of a waste though too, even though it wasn't designed as an NA combo.

DragRacer9506- I wouldn't be distraught yet. What does the car weigh? What is the track elevation and what was the weather like when you ran it? I assume by your username that you are not new to drag racing, but have you run the car a lot at the track to realize what it likes in terms of launch RPM, shift points etc? Is it geared correctly to maximize the combo? See, I ran at a low elevation track in good air, my car is geared perfectly for my combo as I cross a few hundred RPM over my peak HP RPM, and I have hundreds of passes down the track in this car. I've been racing it since '98 and it has evolved from a stock time of 15.2 at 90mph to its current 11.5 at 121. I can tell you what nearly every modification was worth in terms of trap speed and ET as I started racing this car to measure the gains of performance parts as at the time I got into this hobby there were no dyno's anywhere around me. It enabled me to become efficient at getting this car down the track. Your making nearly 1rwhp/ci which isn't bad at all. What were the incrementals of your 11.9 at 118? I'm willing to go out on a limb and say our runs to the 1/8th mile will be very close, my car however pulls like a freight train on the top end of the track. I pick up nearly 27mph from the 1/8th to the 1/4. It has always been a top end puller though, even when I had the 302 combo in it.