Foxtoberfest 2023

On Thursday, we went to the Mooresville Dragway, an 1/8 mi track. I got 3 runs in with Black Jack, which makes the first time I've run on a drag strip since I purchased the car back last summer for $3.8k.

The first time I owned it back in 2014-2017, earlier in this thread, it went a best of 12.63@108, but I was pulling out all the stops: iced intake, UD pullies (now stock), removed fan if not the belt. It still had the T5 with 3.35 1st gear (now a 2.66), the stock bellhousing & light T5 (now a heavier QuickTime Bellhousing & T56), lower mass stock brakes (now Cobras) and ponies (now 17" SVEs), front stock springs with rear B-springs so they were taller with backwards rake that helped put weight on the back tires (now B-springs all-around), 1/4 tank (now 3/4), no gear in the car (now I prolly had 50-70 lbs left to pull out), no Kil-mat yet (now prolly 80 lbs of it), and probably more I'm not thinking of. The temps were reasonably warm, this time, too.

The only advantage this time is that I am on 275 Nitto 555RII Drag Radials, which I can do because I don'thave a T5 to blow up on sticky tires. I dropped em to 16 psi, did a nice smokey burnout and let it eat! The track was sticky and I started off bogging. By my 3rd pass, I was launching at 6k RPM and still hooking pretty solid when slipping the clutch.

I ran a best of 8.36@83.8mph. I'm more familiar with 1/4 mi numbers and that converts to something like a 12.89-13.05 @ 104-105.6, which is what I was hoping for/ expecting. I know I could pull at least .2-.3 better and a couple mph with the right air & prep. So, that's a good baseline before the nitrous.

It helps that the guys I lined up with in the other lane were also running GT40 combos and fortunately I got the better of them. It was a fun time.

Here're slips and a vid of my first run, a very close race with a cool guy named Jason in an GT40 AOD car. He wanted another chance, so he followed me back to the staging lanes as I hot-lapped to run me again on my 2nd pass:

My best friend's kid, Cameron, made this vid in Black Jack at around 7:50 and again at about 9:50. I don't think they got me on any of my passes:


The following shaky footage caught my first run at around 3:55

Grover's been in a few vids, but nothing with substantial attention to this point. I still expect a couple of interviews to be posted and some night shots by the youtube 'influencers'.

Here's a pic or two from the first day that I took myself:





For a 75k mile car, the paint's still lookin' ok.

Here's a car with the new RideTech SLA suspension installed:




Couple other nice shots:





War Admiral & the 4-eye side-exhaust car from the brewery are pretty tough to beat. Love those cars! Was cool to see 'em in person!