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Exner Geek
EFI Slant 6
Joined: 20 Jul 2008
Posts: 382
Location: St. Louis Park, MN
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(Sat May 05, 2012 1:27 pm)
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| Guzzi Mark called me this morning to report on the test and tune session Friday night. Conditions were favorable and Mark set a new A/nitrous record at 10.90 then added weight to get into B class and increased the nitrous shot from 60 to 90 and lowered that record to 10.69. Today he will go back to A and try it with the 90 shot. His 60' time on the 10.69 run was 1.45 with a 6.68 eigth mile, the top end was 122MPH at 6700RPM even with his new 4.10 gears! Those are some pretty stout times, congratulations to Mark.
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Rick Covalt
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Joined: 23 Oct 2002
Posts: 2878
Location: Waynesboro, Pa.
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(Sat May 05, 2012 2:00 pm)
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You go Mark!! Woo Hoo!!! Think he has that hood bolted down good?  Congrats!
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Big T
Turbo Slant 6
Joined: 17 Jan 2009
Posts: 516
Location: Crescent City, Ca
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(Sat May 05, 2012 8:38 pm)
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VIDEO>>> PLEASE TELL ME THERE IS VIDEO!!!! CONGRATS MARK_________________ BIG T
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slantzilla
Board Sponsor & Moderator
Joined: 17 Oct 2002
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Location: Park Forest, Illinoisy
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Exner Geek
EFI Slant 6
Joined: 20 Jul 2008
Posts: 382
Location: St. Louis Park, MN
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(Sun May 06, 2012 6:17 pm)
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Mark called again today. PJ won Saturday's race in a borrowed stocker. Mark went 10.57 to set a new record in A/Nitrous. Apparently his B/Nitrous record is 10.59 not .69. 9 cars Saturday, 8 today.
You have to be impressed with the performance of that Aussie head gasket! I used to think you needed o-rings and a copper gasket for high compression, maybe not.
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Bruce Pine
TBI Slant 6
Joined: 10 Jun 2004
Posts: 166
Location: Paradise, CA
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(Sun May 06, 2012 11:10 pm)
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| Just pulled in our home driveway. Dutras took 1st and 2nd today. That's a new record also. Dutras are tied for 1st in points. Another record. More to follow.
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Dart270
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Joined: 21 Oct 2002
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Location: Blacksburg, VA
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(Mon May 07, 2012 3:07 am)
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Big congrats to the Dutras and PJ in competition.
Great JOB, Mark! I wonder if he's thinking about 9s now. Betcha he is...
Lou
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Big T
Turbo Slant 6
Joined: 17 Jan 2009
Posts: 516
Location: Crescent City, Ca
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(Mon May 07, 2012 7:30 am)
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Maybe at Samoa!!!!!!_________________ BIG T
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Greg Ondayko
Supercharged
Joined: 27 Nov 2004
Posts: 2769
Location: IRWIN PA
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(Mon May 07, 2012 10:00 am)
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NICE..
Congrats to all - Dutras and Guzzi's
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Doc
Guru
Joined: 14 Oct 2002
Posts: 4978
Location: Working in Silicon Valley, USA
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(Mon May 07, 2012 11:23 am)
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Wow... what a weekend!
Allen and I made it home by 11:30 last night...
The only "drama" was that the 66 Wagon / Toad towing combo, did not want to display it's tail lights (running lights) when we safety- checked before leaving the track at 8:30 PM.  
30 minutes later, we had a "hot wire" feeding that circuit and were on the road, headed home.
A Big Thanks to Edd J., PJ, Bruce & Wendy P. for hosting this race and putting-up with the Dutra "squatters" that pitched camp on their pit spaces... right at the finish line.
Yes, all the SL6 KillerBee racers were well packed into a small space at this event, because it was a BIG national points race for NRHA.
Lots of racers & fast cars blasting by, all weekend long.
Super fun to watch Guzzi Mark running mid 10 second passes, like "clock-work". All the spectators also like that!
It was nice to see Allen get to the final on both days... he has had a long "dry spell" as far as winning rounds go and it looks like he shook that off.
It was also great to get a "father vs son" final with him. We have talked about that for years and it happened this weekend... and "the old man" won it !   
I also made great progress getting the new K1 engine in the Lancer to "settle-down". I did change-out the Fat-Pak after Las Vegas and went back to my divided plenum H-Pak intake... Standing start, full throttle "hits" are back and so are the 1.8xx 60 ft times. (with no spray)
I still had all kinds of missing, popping and inconsistant on Saturday so we changed the spark plugs and found 2 that had super-wide gaps. 
The car ran a whole bunch better with a correctly gapped set of new plugs!
This new engine still "hits-a-wall" at 6000 RPM, like it's floating the valves or bouncing the points in the distributor. (I know... get rid of the points... ) Some additional "sort-out work" is needed before our next race.
Anyway... another fun week-end of SL6 racing.
DD
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Greg Ondayko
Supercharged
Joined: 27 Nov 2004
Posts: 2769
Location: IRWIN PA
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(Mon May 07, 2012 11:30 am)
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Imagine what the car might do with some sort of Distributorless type ignition
Congrats again.
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sandy in BC
Board Sponsor & SL6 Racer
Joined: 08 Nov 2002
Posts: 4608
Location: Burton BC canada
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(Mon May 07, 2012 11:37 am)
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| Congrats!......sounds like an excellent event! |
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Rick Covalt
Board Sponsor
Joined: 23 Oct 2002
Posts: 2878
Location: Waynesboro, Pa.
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madmax/6
Turbo EFI
Joined: 07 Jan 2004
Posts: 1444
Location: long beach ca
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(Mon May 07, 2012 8:26 pm)
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| Just got home,pooped.Put 1200 miles on new truck and averaged 16.4 mpg towing,very happy.NO 9s for me,would like to get the mph record in A nitrous,I did go 123.996 with the 4.10s,so maybee with 3.91s.Congrats Doug.Guzzi Mark
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Dave95693
TBI Slant 6
Joined: 14 Jun 2009
Posts: 176
Location: Wilton, Ca.
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(Mon May 07, 2012 8:50 pm)
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| Yes, congrats to Doug and to Allan as well who ran a great race against me to push me out of the competition. Great weekend all around with lots of great conversation. I would congrat Mark but I have a rule about congratulating anyone with teeth on the front of their car.
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