Rock Falls April 9th (sunday)

[JET]

Yeah, it was a pretty crappy day. It was unbelievably packed. Pretty much a waste of time. I had issues with my boost controller on the dyno (Joe P) and it continued on my first run, then I replaced it with an Elite one. My next run it was missing over 6k. I found a spark plug wire had popped off part way. I ran a 12.4@99 (top end miss from overboosting) the next was 14.0@111 (miss from spark plug wire).

Went to get in line for the next run and the clutch wasn't quite right. Messed around with it for a bit and something was definately amiss. I decided to take off and by the time I got to the interstate I didn't really have a clutch left. The slave seems to be moving fine, I am hoping there are just some loose bolts on the flywheel or clutch again. I may have to use the red loc-tite on them, they had blue on this time. Either that or I fragged a disc on my twin disk.

I got to meet some guys though, so that was cool. I also got to see some guys I haven't seen in a while (Jim, Kevin, Kyle, etc.). I was surprised to see Cher, his ass was supposed to be in NC! I'll try to have it running again by the dyno fest.

[JET]

Was that the black 1g that was missing really bad in 3rd+ ?

[vassil]

The place was packed up with cars. I was could not hook up my first run and then I boged it a couple of times. I was hitting 2.0 60' times. Finally I launched it at 6200 rpms and gave it a lot of hell and I hit a 1.860 60'. The best run of the day was an 11.2@127.9 The turbo is still the same FP3052, the boost was spiking to 34psi and settling at 31psi. Still running the same 2.0 I had 3 years ago, but now with double springs, built tranny and a quartermaster twin-disk . Here is the time slip ... I was really excited that I hit 101.68 in the 1/8th mile :D

[sleepydsm]

I got to talk to Jet, (nice guy) and I saw quite a few DSMs. It had to laugh at the fact that pretty much the DSMs were the fastest cars at the track! That Buschur built Evo MR was very nice! And the guy with the 11.5 1G was really nice as well. Just as I was leaving, I saw that 1G blow up!

[vassil]

Here are a couple of videos of me running the 11.2

DIVX encoded (1MB)

http://www.hbci.com/~vassil/vassil-112-divx.avi

Regular Non-Divx (11.9MB)

http://www.hbci.com/~vassil/vassil112.avi

[EclipseGST]

Congrats on the time Vassil! Hopefully you will break into the 10s next time at the track!

[stikx]

I got there a little later in the day. I saw couple of fast dsms hitting 12s and the infamous black 1g that blew something, then later saw it trailered by a van (I was in the blue srt-4 that passed you 2 times lol) . It was a surprise to see a evo hitting 11s, a van running 16s, and the majority of the dsms making it out alive. Also, congrats to all who got a new personal best time.

[desolate]

Ok I was the black 1g awd 91 dsm. I was on 110 32-33psi unhooked wastegate because I'm letting the exhaust pressure control the boost. I know what I'm doing. It was an adjustable wastegate arm you can twist in & out. With the vaccum line hooked it sees 21psi. With it unhooked the car sees 30-33psi which is fine for my fuel system on 110 leaded race fuel. Stupid pos internal wastegates. Launching at 5500rpms antilag with 12-15 pounds of boost & NLTS. I'll try to explain what happened when it blew. The car was logged before I went to the track. 0 counts of knock at that boost level running richer than I've ran before on a street tune. Anyhow it came down to the third run of the day. Launch was good, 1st to 2nd was great. Third came and it kepted sputtering just like a misfire. I lefted it in WOT because the last run it ran exactly the same. Pop then kick in. It started to pop/misfire/spudder in 3rd very badly, like I fouled the plugs. I didn't even hit boost because it was misfiring so badly. The boost gauge was at 5psi when it blew. My theroy is the massive misfire somehow changed into massive detnation and it popped. That is the only way I can see how it happened. If I was in full boost when it happened it'd be a different story. In the previous run my car did the same thing but it caught back on and spooled up so that's why I left it in WOT. After 4 years of running on the same block/engine after 35,000 miles of hard beating it finnally let go. 1g rods/2g pistons combo I'm not sad. I'm still comtemplating but I believe I am going to get out of dsms though. I don't have the time or money to keep up with the power levels I want to push.

[sleepy2lazy]

Impressive time Vassil. congrats

[GVR-4579]

Ok so i finished my IC piping about 7:00 on saturday and headed straight out to EauClaire as we had a hotel room for the night. I didnt get a chance to test or adjust anything for my new setup so it ran 10 PSI to avoid any fuel cut, time for some more tuning i guess. ohh yea first i was spinning all four, and then when the track heated up i was boggin like mad but hey it was my first time. Heres the few pics i got off my camera as i was busy trying to figure out what the hell was going on.

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f6/G-VR4579/carstuff010.jpg
Thats me in my VR-4 yea i did make it out there.
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f6/G-VR4579/carstuff.jpg
Thats my best time slip, yea its slow i was stuck with only 10 PSI of boost
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f6/G-VR4579/carstuff015.jpg
Just a nice car i saw
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f6/G-VR4579/carstuff012.jpg
This sentra is my buddies.

Erik