Last weekend in Iowa

**Goat Blower** · 10-21-2003

Damn, you guys missed out. It was 75 and sunny both days at Cedar Falls. The track was sticky, the entry fee was only $20, and those silly tubbed out V8 race cars were only running 12's and 13's :3gears: .

PSI2HI · 10-21-2003

Last time i checked Cedar Falls had races this coming weekend as well.

Nick

CVD · 10-21-2003

Im going this weekend. Hoping for cold. I'd rather have a bit more power and pray for good track/prep.

Pushit2.0 · 10-22-2003

Word, saturday or sunday, I plan on saturday. Anyone want to tow my car to Iowa?

~John
I need a tow vehical, I already have a car dolly lined up.

AJ · 10-22-2003

I have a truck that may have a friend tranny and we are waiting on word for a trailor as well. LOL All goes well the dakota will be towing Nash down.

Jacek · 10-22-2003

im going for some watching. anyone have room?

Jakey · 10-23-2003

I don't think there is anyone on the site from down this way (Ames) but if there is anyone from Southern Iowa and is looking for a ride up, I'm planning on heading up for the day Saturday to watch so let me know.

john · 10-23-2003

Can you pick me up in MN? :P

Jakey · 10-23-2003

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Originally posted by 92tsiawd84@Oct 23 2003, 09:30 PM
Can you pick me up in MN? :P

HAH, sorry, I'm not sure if I am going to be attending anymore since the gates do not open until 12:30. I was hoping that the racing would have began long before 12:30.

**Goat Blower** · 10-23-2003

Actually the 12:30 start time is great, you can leave at a decent hour in the morning. I got there in 3.5 hours towing a full car trailer averaging 75 mph.

Skip the brackets on Sunday if they have them. Test and tune on Saturday was great, Sunday sucked. They had no idea where to put my car for a class, needless to say I was easily the fastest in the street class. My only competition was a newer Vette running a big shot of nitrous, but he just couldn't roll with the 6000 rpm stutterbox AWD launch. :drool:

AJ · 10-23-2003

What did you run Steve? Im just itchen to find out!

**Goat Blower** · 10-26-2003

11.922@118.something. That was missing fourth gear. It took a second to get it in which explains why it was my slowest trap speed of the weekend. My short times sucked a bit as well, I didn't have time to swap on my Nitto drags, so I ran with my hard-ass 17's instead. I was pretty happy with the car, but the tranny problems really slowed me down. My cleanest passes were shifting at about 7200 and babying the tranny into 2nd, 3rd and 4th. I won't have this problem next spring. :bounce:

john · 10-26-2003

Nice time. What turbo are you running? What boost?

**Goat Blower** · 10-26-2003

FP Red, ~30 psi.

john · 10-27-2003

You should dyno at elite this saturday. Then you will have a chance to move the list up.

**JET** · 10-27-2003

Gratz on the 11 Steve! Sounds like you need some dyno time or something though. 118 traps for 30 psi on a red seems a little low. Andy ran 122 on a 20g at 30 psi and I ran 123 on a 50 trim at 26 psi. Maybe you need some HKS cams? Anyway, gratz again and I am glad to see there is going to be more competition next year!!

**Shane@DBPerformance** · 10-27-2003

He ran 123 mph short shifting the tranny. 118mph was his worst trap.

Nash · 10-27-2003

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Originally posted by JET@Oct 27 2003, 09:38 PM
Gratz on the 11 Steve! Sounds like you need some dyno time or something though. 118 traps for 30 psi on a red seems a little low. Andy ran 122 on a 20g at 30 psi and I ran 123 on a 50 trim at 26 psi. Maybe you need some HKS cams? Anyway, gratz again and I am glad to see there is going to be more competition next year!!

Actually I ran 122 trap at 26psi. I have yet to make a pass at 30psi.

**JET** · 10-27-2003

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Originally posted by ecoli@Oct 27 2003, 08:52 PM
He ran 123 mph short shifting the tranny. 118mph was his worst trap.

Ahh, that is much better. I thought I had heard 123, but Steve didn't mention anything about it.

Andy, didn't you say you were running 30 psi at RF when you ran the 11.2? I thought for sure you were. Was it tapering off again?

**Goat Blower** · 10-27-2003

The car was running pretty good, if not still a bit conservative. As I mentioned a few times, my tranny was really bad, to the point where I missed a few gears on some passes, and ran down a few muscle cars trapping 15-20 mph less than me. I know it's bench racing, but with a good tranny, it would've been much faster.

I'm still missing some power though, some wideband tuning would work wonders. I only tuned at the track based on the crappy stock 02 sensor and reading plugs. I've already got the 272's. Unfortunately I won't be able to perfect this setup since this motor is coming out and going to be sold soon, and I'm building up something a little more exciting for next year. :3gears: