team ab drag race and street builds

[dsmreck]

We usually end up by the a building in the parking lot. good place to fix broke dsm's. I'll text you when we get there

[dsmreck]

Well we went to Wednesday night drags last night and it was fun as shit. Met Aaron and saw him and Andre make an easy 20 passes between them. Unfortunately for Andre as soon as he started trying to make good passes to get the boot we lost the wideband. It stayed at 14.8 the entire time no matter what I did to the fuel, and also had cut out at 7k rpm that we thought could be spark blowout. Turns out we eventually figured out what was wrong after his last pass he came to the parking lot stressed out. You could hear the knock when he pulled up. Damn, strange thing is the closer he got the more it sounded like an exhaust leak. So we popped the hood and started it. Damn doesn't sound like knock at all more like bad tick from back of the motor and yup there's the problem, the heat barrier intake manifold gasket was melted by the number 4 cylinder letted egr out and air in. Wow what a relief. Hopefully nothing melted in and it will be a simple fix. Explains why we had horrible idle issues and the car just kept getting slower. Could that be why the wideband shit? Most likely. Absolutely no knock in any of the pulls with a best of 11.2@135 1.8 60ft. Not exactly what he was after but with a broken car it's not too bad. All in all we all had fun and it was very fun seeing those two line up against each other over and over. I have some pretty good vids I will post up later.

[Halon]

135 is a helluva trap for a car having problems.

[turbotalon1g]

Nice to meet you guys, the car looks clean.

I think we both learned what shakedown passes are yesterday, boy were they fun.
Good luck next time!

[carltalon]

135 is a helluva trap for a car having problems.

I agree that's a hell of a trap. Glad the problem was nothing major.

[Dark2g]

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It was a pretty good time, shaking some bugs out for sure. It almost seems the half radiator is not even functioning? It's not that bad but making multiple passes was requiring us to let the car cool down more then what I am used to for sure. Anyone have any thoughts as in if the 16an line is to much restriction for the system to flow at full rate or something?
Also anyone have anyone referral to a shop for welding a cage in my car? I can tig weld a little but am not gonna pretend I can do a cage and want to have it done right.

[dsmreck]

To add the 16an line is the black braided line, and it seems to be getting hot and crushing. HELP US

[dsmreck]

Lol

[dsmreck]

Ok it's been a while since I've contributed to the thread so the short and sweet of it is it seems like we will be bringing 4 dsm's to pg2 this year. Things could change obviously, but I think we have a good running car for just about each class. Should be a good time if all works out.

[turbotalon1g]

Very nice.