[SlowWhite]

Well to start things off I thought I blew my head gasket on the way up there when Carltalon and I were playing on the back roads on the way there. I was having some missfireing and some pretty bad counts of knock.

Cause when I was in the line to pay to get in. The lady noticed I was dumping coolant onto the ground. And sure enough my overflow tank was full and pushing a good amount on the ground.

So I just got a spectators pass and told her that I want to see what happens when I let the car cool down.

Long story short I do have some bubbling in my coolant, but all day, and the entire way home my temps never really got above 196. (most of the time it was at 179-183)

So who knows. But Mike ended up talking me into racing. Since after letting it idle for 5-10 minutes and then letting it cool down twice nothing was happening with the coolant so off I went.

I started off with the boost turned down to 18psi and I'm running 92 oct, and doing what I said I'd do just ease off the line and then get on it once the clutch was out and then easy shift. just to see what would happen with the coolant and temps after a run. (ie: didn't want to get kicked out or make a mess on the track, etc)

1st Run:
R/T - .068
60' - 2.718
330 - 6.561
1/8th - 9.408
mph89.87
1000 - 11.775
1/4 - 13.776
mph - 110.60mph

After checking the overfloor and the loggs the coolant level was the same, and my temps were still 189 at the end of the run. But I was having 3.2 counts of knock, and the car was missing pretty good going down the track.

So John L. - gave me a set of NGK's that looked like they had about 20 miles on them. So Next run. Basically everyone there was telling me to just stutterbox the launch, etc.

So when the time came I said what the hell.

2nd Run: Still 18psi - dumped the clutch (very minimal slippage if any), no knock from 1-3rd gear, but 4th I got 2.1 counts of knock and started missing again.

R/T - .560
60' - 1.821
330 - 5.214
1.8 - 7.930
mph - 94.17
1000 - 10.203
1/4 - 12.173
mph - 113.35


3rd Run: was going to turn the boost up but originally they said I couldn't get any more runs in till brackets. But another official walked over and said it was alright. But they were waiting for me up at the lights so I had no time to do anything. and this was basically a back to back run. with no cool down.

Stutter box launch - but slipped the clutch and got wheel spin through all of 1st this run had over 2 counts of knock in all of the gears.

R/T - .699
60' - 1.837
330 - 5.296
1/8 - 8.086
mph 92.09
1000 - 10.399
1/4 - 12.419
mph - 115.35


4th Run - was brackets - loaded my 403whp settings just to see if that was the issue and turned up the boost to 20psi But in a 12.0 dial in.

Announcer made fun of me while I was at the line. Long story short the guy next to me broke so I backed off the gas and went 14.4@66mph, R/T was .016 so almost perfect. and 60' was 1.849 so would have been a good run.



5th run after hearing what the announcer said - I had Joe put on my back window.

Daily Driven and running Pump Gas. Still had the 12.0 Dial in.

This run I'm suprised I didn't blow my motor. I had 6.7 counts of knock by the time I hit 4th gear. But I was watching the car next to me instead of watching my gauges/laptop. I ended up Short shifting 2 gears (shifted at 6800in 2nd, and 7200 in 3rd, instead of 8,000rpms)

R/T - .109
60' - 1.890
330 - 5.279
1/8 - 7.985
mph - 93.34
1000 - 10.250
1/4 - 12.208
mph - 115.78

This was my last run of the day figured I was lucky enough that my motor didn't blow so I called it quites while I was ahead and went home.

Car made it home with no problems. - So today I'm going to try new spark plugs, and since I have to fill up again, I'll see if it was just a cause of bad gas, or what?

But anyrate. I was very happy with my times, especially considering only running 18psi, 92 oct, and having misfiring issues all day. Even the 12.1 run had some misfiring in top of 3rd and all of 4th.

So anyrate I'm very happy with the way things turned out. Car made it the track, and made it home in 1 peice. Can't ask for anything better then that.