Nothing major, I forgot to turn off the N2O switch after my first run and
when I hit full throttle in the burnout the microswitch turned on the juice,
then when the truck up-shifted into second and the slicks grabbed at the
same time, it wasn't swallowing enough air and the combo of fuel and N2O
built up in the air-hat............POP. I lost all of the intake before the
TB. Fortunately everything blew out and nothing went into the motor so I was
running naturally aspirated for the rest of the day. I still managed a 14.8
even with the ailing trans and no juice and sucking in hot air from under
the hood.
The goof cost me an airhat and a piece of metal dryer hose. I don't have an
airbox anymore because this is the second time I did it. I'm starting to
think I need a dummy light to let me know the switch is on, memory isn't
what it used to be. If I still had my jacobs set up to turn on the juice at
2500rpm like I used to this wouldn't have happened but I got greedy and was
launching with the juice.
Joe W.
87 Shelby Charger 13.9
98 Dakota 13.1
----- Original Message -----
From: Bob Tom <tigers@bserv.com>
To: <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
Sent: Sunday, November 07, 1999 8:18 PM
Subject: Re: DML: Cecil County Dragway Meet Report
> At 09:11 AM 11/7/99 -0500, you wrote:
> >I took a few and will try to have them up tonight or tomorrow. It was a
> >blast and I mean that literally
> >Joe W.
>
> Joe. Unless it's too painfull to talk about, do you mind telling
> us what happened? I personally would like to avoid putting my truck
> in any such situations. Thanks.
>
> Message 59 since Oct. 23/99.
> Bob. Southern Ontario, Canada.
> '97 Dakota CC Sport, FR, 5.2L, 3.55 SG, auto.
> PB 60': 2.077 PB 1/8: 9.445 @ 72.41 PB 1/4: 14.917 @ 89.28
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