Damn Jon, rippin it up out there!!! One thing that might make your times so
inconsistent also is because you are making run after run. You noticed what
a difference it made when you went and had lunch and let the truck cool
down. One thing you could do is just carry a little sprayer and spray the
radiator down between runs just to keep it a little cooler. Just a thought
though....you did good man
Later
Scott Miller
Shelby #322
-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Steiger <stei0302@cs.fredonia.edu>
To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
Date: Sunday, April 12, 1998 12:54 AM
Subject: Re: DML: First drags of the year
>At 08:47 PM 4/11/98 -0400, you wrote:
>>NYIRP opened up today and Jon and I were there to kick off the new year.
>>Beautiful day and lots of cars and trucks. Also picked up my new hood from
>>Jon's delivery service. I only got in 4 runs but Jon and his friend Ed
were
>>chowing down and then planning to run some more. Jon was pretty
discouraged
>>with his first run or two but then he settled down and started knocking
them
>>off. First runs were 16 + but then he ran a couple of 15.6's and may have
done
>>better after I left? That was a pretty good jump from his last years 16+
runs
>>and he was a happy camper when I left. I think he's hooked though,said he
is
>>coming back on the wednesday evening runs for sure. It was a good day and
good
>>to see Jon again and meet his friend Ed who was tearing up the track in
his
>>Nissan (I think).
>
> Yep, a Nissan Sentra SE-R. He was dissapointed; never did break into
>the 15's, though he did have a couple of 16 flats. Its got 70,000 miles on
>it though, so its probably a little slower than its published specs when
>it was new. I was surprised to see Bill's son running 15.6-15.7's in his
Neon!
> Once he gets all 4 new tires on there he'll probably go even faster.
Guess
>I'll have to work overtime to try to keep ahead of him! :-)
>
>
> Yep, a good day of racing. :-)
>
> This was my second time to the track. The first time was last year.
>My first run (last year) was a 16.063, but then I couldn't get below
>16.3 for the rest of the night. That was stock. Over the winter, I
>added a 14" open element air cleaner (K&N filter), the MP computer, and
>a 180 degree thermostat. I was pretty sure that would drop me into the
>
>15s somewhere, but I wasn't exactly sure where. My first run this year
>was a 16.3. (Couldn't get the darn 5-speed to shift into 2nd or 3rd)
> Needless to say, I was dissapointed. I shifted a lot better on my 2nd
>run and pulled off a 15.616@87.5mph. Gettin' better! :-) My next 4
>runs were all 15.6 to 15.7. Somewhere in there, Bill commented to me,
>"I smell a 15.5!" :-) I told him I'd be pretty happy with that. However,
>15.6 - 15.7 was all I could do. After getting some lunch (during which
time
>Bill left), I hopped back into the Dak and ripped off a 15.343@89.10mph!!
> I was *quite* happy with that one!! I got right back in line and did
>15.538@89.10mph. I made 5 more runs after that, two of which were 16+
>because I screwed up (either through shifting problems or failing to
feather
>the throttle and losing all my traction) but the other runs were in the
>15.4 to 15.6 range.
>
> So, the short story is that the K&N, computer, and thermostat took
>anywhere from .7 to a full second off my 1/4 mile time. Not too
>shabby, IMHO. :-) (This is a Club Cab with a 3.55 rear and suregrip)
>
> My major problem (next to shifting) was traction. It doesn't hook up
>at ALL in 1st, and hooks up about 1/4 of the way through 2nd. I think if
>I could get some traction, I could do low 15s... I did let some of the air
>out of my tires, which helped a little. Most of the times that I screwed
>up the traction, I let it rev too high in first or jumped on it too hard
>at the start instead of feathering it better.
>
> So, I was feeling pretty happy until I got back to the pit area and
>discovered that some low-life had stolen my gas can (with 5 gallons of
>93 octane in it)!!! :-( Bill: I'm REALLY glad now that I decided to
>leave your hood in my truck instead of leaving it in the pit area and
>racing before you got there!!!! I'm still burned up about the gas can,
>but that can be replaced a lot more cheaply than your hood!
> Speaking of which, have you taken it out of the box or test fitted it
yet? :-)
>BTW: When you asked me if it just bolted onto the stock hinges, it
completely
>slipped my mind to mention that you might have to crimp the hinge a little
to
>keep it from digging into the hood. There's probably a note taped to your
>hood from Terry about this, but it is a little hard to understand. I
talked
>to him on the phone about it, so if you have any questions, just drop me a
>line and I'll 'splain it.
>
> The "ram-air" hood and a fiberglass tonneau cover are on the way, then
>its no mods for me for a while 'cause I don't have the cash! So, hopefully
>those two items will drop my times down a little bit and then I'll have to
>spend some time on my technique.
>
> By the way, one thing that I noticed was that in 4th gear, the power
>doesn't "really" come on until just at the line. I get a nice surge of
>power after I cross the 1/4 mile line, but of course, its no good there.
>Maybe I need some more power in the low end?
>
> -Jon-
>
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