Me and Jason (firstsvt) were at Byron with the Chicagoland Mustang guys Saturday and I was finally able to achieve the last of the three performance goals I set for myself before the season. I cut and paste my post from the CMC site:
I had a good time today with everybody. Great weather and no major breakage although personally I struggled with a belt-slip (low psi) issue early in the day.
There were almost 400 cars there and things were really hectic most of the day, but as usual the guys that left early missed being able to basically hot lap for the last 60-90 minutes when most people had left. Even though I cool down at least 15 minutes between runs, I got 12 passes in yesterday. Not to mention the fact that the air got MUCH better after about 5PM. I was consistently 1-2 mph faster on every run after 5PM. I saw one of the SRT-4 guys go 11.81 late in the day too.
I set 3 performance (4 total) goals for myself this year and achived the last one yesterday (with big thanks to CAP42 for helping on the last one).
130 mph trap - did that way back in April/May in good air
10 second ET - did that a few weeks ago at MSC
1.5x 60 ft. - Got a 1.59 and 1.58 yesterday after CAP laid some nice rubber down in front of me on his runs
Have the motor survive the season - So far so good.
In fact I almost pulled off all three on the same pass yesterday when I went 11.002 @ 128 (1.59 60 ft.). I'm sure it's possible. I just need good air and I need to make sure Chris (CAP) is going to be at the track that day.
Jason also ran a new best Saturday (10.85 I believe) and his car will go faster still.
:biggthump
For the remainder of the year I'd like to see if I could beat the quickest ET I ran in my GN (10.82), but that might prove to be difficult without perfect conditions/driving. Maybe I could fly Evan Smith out to make a few passes in my car.
I must say the Cobra has been good to me this year, with well over 125 quarter mile passes and 20,000+ miles since January (68,000 overall). I'm looking forward to next year with it. :headbang:
I had a good time today with everybody. Great weather and no major breakage although personally I struggled with a belt-slip (low psi) issue early in the day.
There were almost 400 cars there and things were really hectic most of the day, but as usual the guys that left early missed being able to basically hot lap for the last 60-90 minutes when most people had left. Even though I cool down at least 15 minutes between runs, I got 12 passes in yesterday. Not to mention the fact that the air got MUCH better after about 5PM. I was consistently 1-2 mph faster on every run after 5PM. I saw one of the SRT-4 guys go 11.81 late in the day too.
I set 3 performance (4 total) goals for myself this year and achived the last one yesterday (with big thanks to CAP42 for helping on the last one).
130 mph trap - did that way back in April/May in good air
10 second ET - did that a few weeks ago at MSC
1.5x 60 ft. - Got a 1.59 and 1.58 yesterday after CAP laid some nice rubber down in front of me on his runs
Have the motor survive the season - So far so good.
In fact I almost pulled off all three on the same pass yesterday when I went 11.002 @ 128 (1.59 60 ft.). I'm sure it's possible. I just need good air and I need to make sure Chris (CAP) is going to be at the track that day.
Jason also ran a new best Saturday (10.85 I believe) and his car will go faster still.
:biggthumpFor the remainder of the year I'd like to see if I could beat the quickest ET I ran in my GN (10.82), but that might prove to be difficult without perfect conditions/driving. Maybe I could fly Evan Smith out to make a few passes in my car.
I must say the Cobra has been good to me this year, with well over 125 quarter mile passes and 20,000+ miles since January (68,000 overall). I'm looking forward to next year with it. :headbang:
