Any of you were out there tonight may have seen me (the maroon stang overheating and getting jumpstarts in the staging lanes). Man what a crappy night.
My first run, I spun the tires bad, was pinging like crazy, and didn't quite shift right, and ran a 15.1 (which incidentally is the best time in this car). So I get kind of excited. I figure I'll let some air out of the tires (they were at 40psi) and back off the timing, and have a decent run.
Oh not at all. My car overheated in the staging lane. So, to keep it cool, I ran my (new) electric fan that I'm regretting. Well, that cooled it down, then started to draw the battery and killed the car. I got a jump start and by the time I got up there, the motor was cool, and the battery was still low but workable. I took the timing back and ran it.
I launched great, took off and it was ping city. I backed off it at the end of the track. ET: 16.5
That wasnt the worst. I overheated again in the staging lane, and put a timing gun on the car. It sometimes idles up and down, between 800 and 1200 RPM. Well, today I found out when it does that, it takes my timing up 4 degrees. So, my timing was set at 12, but fluctuating up to 16 (hence the pinging). I took the timing back down to 10, figuring the worst it would go is 14 degrees.
I ran it a third time and I killed it half track. It started pinging hard, so I let off it, then the temp shot thru the roof, so I killed it and coasted the rest of the way. I ended up running a 20.78. Thats gotta be the lowest time on stangnet!
All in all, a crappy day, and I wont be going out saturday. But, it was still fun, believe it or not. Back to the drawing board for sure!
My first run, I spun the tires bad, was pinging like crazy, and didn't quite shift right, and ran a 15.1 (which incidentally is the best time in this car). So I get kind of excited. I figure I'll let some air out of the tires (they were at 40psi) and back off the timing, and have a decent run.
Oh not at all. My car overheated in the staging lane. So, to keep it cool, I ran my (new) electric fan that I'm regretting. Well, that cooled it down, then started to draw the battery and killed the car. I got a jump start and by the time I got up there, the motor was cool, and the battery was still low but workable. I took the timing back and ran it.
I launched great, took off and it was ping city. I backed off it at the end of the track. ET: 16.5
That wasnt the worst. I overheated again in the staging lane, and put a timing gun on the car. It sometimes idles up and down, between 800 and 1200 RPM. Well, today I found out when it does that, it takes my timing up 4 degrees. So, my timing was set at 12, but fluctuating up to 16 (hence the pinging). I took the timing back down to 10, figuring the worst it would go is 14 degrees.
I ran it a third time and I killed it half track. It started pinging hard, so I let off it, then the temp shot thru the roof, so I killed it and coasted the rest of the way. I ended up running a 20.78. Thats gotta be the lowest time on stangnet!
All in all, a crappy day, and I wont be going out saturday. But, it was still fun, believe it or not. Back to the drawing board for sure!
It has a fuel pressure regulator, right? It would be a good idea to make sure the fuel isnt the problem before playing with the timing. Set it to 10 degrees and get the fuel sorted out first, then throw timing at it.
Thats funny. Today I was in Schucks picking up some stuff, and the guy at the parts counter I chat with from time to time started pitching one of those. It was the "tornado" or something like that. A little peice of tin made into a turbine of some sort. He was like "yeah man this will probably shave a couple tenths off your time". Saying the crap about air molecules breaking apart. 
