10/18/21
Well, I got back from a whirlwind drag racing weekend for the slant six racing points series. We wrapped up the season this year at London Dragway, outside of London, KY. Its a nice track set almost inside the Daniel Boone National Forest.
I got Lots of passes, and Ran a best (for the Weekend) of 7.49 int the 1/8 and 11.92( I think ) in the 1/4 mile.
I will post all of the times when I get to look at my slips.
A few of the Mechanical and electrical gremlins that had the car somewhat confined to the local tnt or the Garage are now solved I can confidently say.
- Low / falling Oil Pressure when Revving / High RPM was solved by up-sizing the supply line from the Block to the oil pump from -10AN to -12 AN.
- Erratic Crank wheel / Trigger issues to megasquirt were solved my Making the Silver Sensor Air Gap 0.002" and also Putting a 220KΩ potentiometer in line between the trigger and megasquirt. (it has adjustable resistance ) so I just turned up until megasquirt got a nice clean square wave input.. really took me years to figure that one out.. But it seems good now. I think in electroncs speak they may refer to that as a pull up resistor? this one is just adjustable.
I runnered up in both slant 6 Races.
Saturday's Race Final round (which took place after Midnite I think) I had a horiible light (like 0.250 or some thing atrocious!) , and then also broke out. Rick Had less horrible light and broke out by less and got to the stripe first.
Sunday's race I Met Rick again in the 2nd Round and Was able to defeat him fair and square.
I went to the final with a local gentleman bracket racer with a nice stockish 66 valiant signet.
I cut an almost unfathomable 0.0003 light but it was -0.0003!
If I red lite again, that's how I would want to have it .
Car runs good. Driver needs improvement.
Pulling in to the soon to be swamp pits:
Some Glamour Shots: in the pits on Sunday
'Till next time..
Greg
