Re: TDR - Wednesday 07/16/2014
Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2014 8:36 pm
I had a bunch of fun last night too. Watching The Accountant's car keep getting quicker, to 32V's run in the finals, it was a good time. Unfortunately, my truck wasn't running too well. My best was a 14.78 at 90mph. This is WAY off. With the conditions last night, I should have been around 14.2x at 96mph. I also went to Summit yesterday morning and bought new drag radials. These were working well and had a couple 2.07 60' times.
Trying to assess the problem, today I decided to put new plugs in the truck. The ones that were in there had about 15k hard miles and as it turns out, the gap on them had closed to about .024 on all of them but one. The supercharger guy calls for around .035 so this is where I gapped the new ones. The truck seems to have liked the new plugs, at least by the seat of my pants. This Saturday I'm getting my rattly flowmaster replaced which I'm hoping will only help the situation. I'm concerned that my lack of top end power may be that the muffler baffle came loose inside and is partially blocking the outlet. We'll find out as I think I'm going to cut the old muffler open just to see what it looks like inside. Somewhere between the plugs and the exhaust, I'm hoping there's a solution, as I plan to go back out next Wed to redeem myself and my second round redlight and poor E.T's.
Hope to see more people there. It's the last Wed of the year... I'm thinking 32V will be there with his new exhaust too!
-BP
Trying to assess the problem, today I decided to put new plugs in the truck. The ones that were in there had about 15k hard miles and as it turns out, the gap on them had closed to about .024 on all of them but one. The supercharger guy calls for around .035 so this is where I gapped the new ones. The truck seems to have liked the new plugs, at least by the seat of my pants. This Saturday I'm getting my rattly flowmaster replaced which I'm hoping will only help the situation. I'm concerned that my lack of top end power may be that the muffler baffle came loose inside and is partially blocking the outlet. We'll find out as I think I'm going to cut the old muffler open just to see what it looks like inside. Somewhere between the plugs and the exhaust, I'm hoping there's a solution, as I plan to go back out next Wed to redeem myself and my second round redlight and poor E.T's.
Hope to see more people there. It's the last Wed of the year... I'm thinking 32V will be there with his new exhaust too!
-BP