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The Numedia 100 MPH club sticker. Here, they give you a certificate, too. See it below! |
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Denny Aungst |
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This is the first time that my car has ever been to Numedia Dragway. I found out that they have a street racing program also. They give you the opportunity to become a member of it's 100 MPH club. I didn't touch the car since last week at Beaver Springs. I assumed the Nitrous bottle was empty for the last race at Beaver, but I didn't get to fill the tank for today.
Chris Ives, however, loaned me a fresh bottle to get in to the 100 MPH club here. Should have been a breeze, right? Wrong. As you can see on the results of the first time slip, the power was not there, and a severe miss was still present from last week! Besides, the temperature was 85 degrees, the humidity was 95, and the baometer was 29.68. Definitely not good drag racing weather!
| Dial= *** |
| R/T= .544 |
| 60'= 2.483 |
| 330'=6.471 |
| 660'= 9.743 |
| MPH= 74.90 |
| 1000'= 12.565 |
| 1/4 mi.= 14.934 |
| MPH= 95.31 |
Results #2:
| Dial= *** |
| R/T= .534 |
| 60'= 2.421 |
| 330'= 6.569 |
| 660'= 9.870 |
| MPH= 76.34 |
| 1000'= 12.596 |
| 1/4 mi.= 14.894 |
| MPH= 97.36 |
Results #3:
| Dial= *** |
| R/T= .738 |
| 60'= 2.337 |
| 330'= 6.311 |
| 660'= 9.585 |
| MPH= 76.55 |
| 1000'= 12.310 |
| 1/4 mi.= 14.598 |
| MPH= 98.10 |
Results #4:
| Dial= 14.00 |
| R/T= .571 |
| 60'= 2.447 |
| 330'= 6.338 |
| 660'= 9.563 |
| MPH= 77.06 |
| 1000'= 12.272 |
| 1/4 mi.= 14.528 |
| MPH= 100.22 |
Results #5:
| Dial= *** |
| R/T= .876 |
| 60'= 2.605 |
| 330'= 6.670 |
| 660'= 9.835 |
| MPH= 78.50 |
| 1000'= 12.505 |
| 1/4 mi.= 14.739 |
| MPH= 100.82 |
So, How did the day go?
| First, I decided to take a time shot (practice race) immediately upon
arrival without any tuning changes to give me a base to work with. (P.S. I used my
original bottle, also.) As you can see, the car runs almost exactly the same as the last run last week. Assuming that the reason for the miss in the engine to be present, it must have really been an empty Nitrous Bottle causing the problem. Here is where Chris comes in. He loaned me the bottle and I attempt it again. |
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| Comments (Results #2): Here we turned on the new Nitrous. No improvement! Because of the miss, (or maybe the track) I had NO wheelspin, and my times are improved on the short side. Problem is as I go father and faster the car misses even more! Now I am worried that I burned a valve last week, so I pulled the plugs looking for metal on the tips. They looked fine, well, maybe a little lean, but at least no pieces. |
Comments (Results #3): Slipped on the reaction time, I was doing VERY well. Any way, shifting the plug gap a bit helped some, but I still noticed the miss. Chris and I decided to check the timing. THAT MUST HAVE BEEN IT! The timing mysteriously jumped from 8 before TDC to 2! The distributor was tight and all, and the change must have happened when it started missing last week. That is what I thought was the bottle going empty. Lets see what happened in results #4. |
First round elimination!
Comments (Results #4):
Dialed in a 14.00 to be sure I don't break out. Wrong! This time the other car was on its dial in pretty well. When I slipped off the nitrous button for a split second, he got me by a fender. At least I made the 100 MPH club!
Finally. That time it didn't miss at all. The times were about correct even though the speed was down a little. I was told that that would happen here. Maybe I could get into the 13's now. Any way the weather wasn't cooperating tonight, so into first round of eliminations.
What happened? (Results #5):