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Old 04-17-2008 | 05:18 PM
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My day was not so hot. This was a first outing for me with a new tranny/clutch/shifter setup. Out of 8 passes, I was only able to get 3 clean runs in. And when I did get those runs in, my car was down 2-2.5lbs of boost and as such my ET and MPH were way off. I should have been 12.0'-12.1's but I could only get a 12.3 out of it. A far cry from my last time at the track with a PB of 11.8 @ 124. I have since found that my surge valve has failed and was not shutting all the way under boost. Looks like about $170 and I should be good to go.
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Old 04-18-2008 | 08:17 AM
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Originally Posted by blown03mach1
My day was not so hot. This was a first outing for me with a new tranny/clutch/shifter setup. Out of 8 passes, I was only able to get 3 clean runs in. And when I did get those runs in, my car was down 2-2.5lbs of boost and as such my ET and MPH were way off. I should have been 12.0'-12.1's but I could only get a 12.3 out of it. A far cry from my last time at the track with a PB of 11.8 @ 124. I have since found that my surge valve has failed and was not shutting all the way under boost. Looks like about $170 and I should be good to go.
You had the louvers on yours correct? Some of your runs looked a little squirrelly going down the track lol...car sounded mean as hell though!
Old 04-18-2008 | 02:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Shadytrixta1
You had the louvers on yours correct? Some of your runs looked a little squirrelly going down the track lol...car sounded mean as hell though!

Yeah that was me. All day my car never really felt connected to the track and the back seemed to wander. I think I had my tire pressure too low (13psi). Between that, missed shifts (new tranny and shifter I need to get used to), and a bad surge valve my day was ho hum. I drove it home so all cant be bad.

Thanks for the compliments on its sound!

BTW My fav was the Pinto wagon! That was just too much fun to see it run, and run, and run, and run, etc.....

Say, since you saw a couple of my runs, did you see any blue or black smoke from the exhaust? Its not that anything was wrong, I was just wondering.

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Old 04-18-2008 | 02:45 PM
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I saw no smoke that I remember.
Old 04-18-2008 | 02:53 PM
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Who's black WS6 was that? That thing looked like it was moving out in the pics!
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Originally Posted by Silver_Moss_S14
Who's black WS6 was that? That thing looked like it was moving out in the pics!

That his Havoc over on N2S and he was running 10.0's.
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