We got around to filling the NOS bottle and "shaking-out" a new Fogger II nitrous system on the SL6 Dragcar.
Bob Stepp, my son Allen and I took the car out to Sacramento raceway for Friday night Test & Tune, knowing darn well that there was a big divison 7 "Governor's Cup" race comming-up on the weekend, the place was packed & a qualifing mad-house.
Waited for hours to do the first no spray baseline pass, I got paired-up with a 66 289 "Stang" and got the best of him with a 14.63 @ 91.8 mph to his 15.31 @ 91.3 mph. He freaked-out when he stopped by to say congrats. and saw the car was a Slant powered.
We install the NOS bottle and turned the timing back to 26º total. Did a trial "burp" on a service road out at the end of the track and things were not right. Went back to the pits and found an NOS line popped-off and a few other leaks, thrashed and got it all fixed. No big deal because the tack was still working through qualifing hundreds of pro cars.
Back into line, wait and wait and wait some more. Made our second pass at 10:30 pm, got matched-up with pretty serious looking late model 5.0 Mustang. (big hood scoop, slicks, roll cage, etc.)
Knowing I was "out-gunned" and that the run was a heads-up test pass, I decided to leave on the second yellow bulb and redlighted. (.411) Hit the NOS right as the car left the start and grabbed a 60 ft. time of 1.86 to the Stang's 1.96, We gave the starting line crowd a good show by putting a couple of car lenghts on that "high profile" 5.0.
Wow, the spray really made the car pull hard, it even sounded different. About 150 feet from the finish line we were past the 5500 redline and the engine laid-down. We watched the Mustang drive-by us at that point. (webmaster Chuck was in the passanger seat, along for the ride!) We pulled a 13.21 @ 101.4 mph to the Stang's 12.78 @ 107
The car did not miss a beat, even as we over reved it through the finish. Looks like I need to find some 4.30 gears!
So we took 1.4 seconds and 10 mph off the car's time with a 80 HP "shot". See the link below for more pics of the NOS set-up.
DD
<A HREF="http://www.dutra.org/pictures/engine/dutra-cuda-engine/nos-test.htm">http://www.dutra.org/pictures/engine/dutra-cuda-engine/nos-test.htm</A>
SL6 NOS Set-up
