I popped a pair of deuces with my uncracked Eaton, upper pulley only serpent Sunday, in the cool dense fall air.
Two runs 11.21 and 11.26, but neither one was even close to perfect so how low will this freak of nature go?
Early sprinkles delayed the start and robbed everyone of one of their qual runs. On the first run of the overcast day, I was trying both to make a fast run and practice cutting a light, so of course I redlighted. The temp 60, RH 71%, 2mph headwind, 30.29 press which yielded a 554 ft density altitude (603 actual). I launched at 4500, maybe a little low, had too much air in the tire (13lbs), because I spun a bit, but that might have helped me get that 123+ top end?? WTF 123.5 is just sick!! I only got a 1.666 60 ft, so I really think there is something left there because on the second run I got my lowest 60ft ever, 1.600 (just missed 1.5xx) and fastest 1/8 at 100.21 but I feathered and played with the gas (no brake) at the 1000ft mark to keep my nose ahead on my 2nd run eliminator, but my .26 was on a .37 dial so I went too fast even though I got off the gas bigtime??
:damnit:
Bracket racing against the crusty veterans can be frustrating enough with a street car with a stick but it is especially worse when you don't know how fast your car will go and terminators are so very finicky when it comes to temp and air conditions, oh well, I just want to be in the game.
here is the tale of the tape:
click here to see both slips, too wide for thread
movies of the deuces in a couple days, I finally made a movie of my 3 11.3's from last Weds test-N-tune so I could upload that, which at the time were the three quickest and fastest runs I had under my belt up to that point!?
Man, gotta love that cool, dense fall air, because our terminators do!!!!
Two runs 11.21 and 11.26, but neither one was even close to perfect so how low will this freak of nature go?
Early sprinkles delayed the start and robbed everyone of one of their qual runs. On the first run of the overcast day, I was trying both to make a fast run and practice cutting a light, so of course I redlighted. The temp 60, RH 71%, 2mph headwind, 30.29 press which yielded a 554 ft density altitude (603 actual). I launched at 4500, maybe a little low, had too much air in the tire (13lbs), because I spun a bit, but that might have helped me get that 123+ top end?? WTF 123.5 is just sick!! I only got a 1.666 60 ft, so I really think there is something left there because on the second run I got my lowest 60ft ever, 1.600 (just missed 1.5xx) and fastest 1/8 at 100.21 but I feathered and played with the gas (no brake) at the 1000ft mark to keep my nose ahead on my 2nd run eliminator, but my .26 was on a .37 dial so I went too fast even though I got off the gas bigtime??
:damnit:
Bracket racing against the crusty veterans can be frustrating enough with a street car with a stick but it is especially worse when you don't know how fast your car will go and terminators are so very finicky when it comes to temp and air conditions, oh well, I just want to be in the game.
here is the tale of the tape:
click here to see both slips, too wide for thread
movies of the deuces in a couple days, I finally made a movie of my 3 11.3's from last Weds test-N-tune so I could upload that, which at the time were the three quickest and fastest runs I had under my belt up to that point!?
Man, gotta love that cool, dense fall air, because our terminators do!!!!