I went the final round of Import Wars at Great Lakes Dragaway today. Couldnt have asked for a better day to go racing. The air was cool, the sun was beating down on the (well prepped) track, and the Colt was running STRONG!!!!!!!
I drove in, slapped on the slicks, opened the cutout, and went to make a pass. Boost was set to around 23psi. I launch at around 3000rpm, and get the hell out of 1st around 6,000, then shift everything else just over 7000.
Pass 1:
60' - 2.044
330' - 5.477
1/8' - 8.153 @ 91.56
1000' - 10.451
1/4 - 12.367 @ 117.84
Went back to the pits, thrilled about my new times to let the car cool off. Noticed wires dangling underhood, saw my boost switch for the meth injection was busted in half. Ghetto-rigged it, didnt work.
Looked back at my datalog, saw I was hitting between 20-43 counts of knock through the whole run, 10 deg of timing, yada yada.
Took out a loan to put 3 gallons of 100 octane in with my 1/2 tank of 93 octane.
Fairly diluted octane IMO, but figured it couldnt hurt.
So everything was all better, time for 2nd pass. Went up against a "clocks off" sprayed LT1 camaro with big MT slicks on those new weld pro star wheels, big cowl hood. Thought I'd get my ass kicked for sure. Not the case
Pass 2:
60' - 2.063
330' - 5.496
1/8 - 8.118 @ 93.45
1000' - 10.368
1/4 - 12.243 @ 120.51
I reeled the bastard in, took him by a bumper length on the big end. Slowing down side by side, he was slamming the steering wheel, death glare at me.
He promptly returned to put his car on the 'trailer'.
Went back into the staging lanes to wait for another 1.5hrs, giving more than adequate cooldown time.
Pass 3:
60' - 2.004
330' - 5.410
1/8 - 8.031 @ 93.52
1000' - 10.274
1/4 - 12.153 @ 117.44
Drove it there, drove it home.
With this said, I'm going down next weekend to work on reasonably backing these numbers up with the methanol injection repaired. Its one of those things that pisses me off, but hey, I had a great time, and dropped a half second off my previous best.
(11/5/05 Edit: Car went 12.2 @ 117.8 w/a 2.08 60' on pumpgas/meth injection)