FINALLY the light at the end of the tunnel I think!

426Roadrunner68 said:

That’s awesome. Congrats! Car is rippin.

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bobtile said:

Finally have WOT!
2 years ago I replaced my front carpet.
The jute underneath gas pedal was keeping it up...
Scraped the padding off and voila.
So many stupid overlooks...

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BSB67 said:

Love that car!

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BSB67 said:

Love that car!

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cdr said:

Badass BOBBY, love your Car !!!! street car for the win

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bobtile said:

I've got the car consistently running low 9.50's now. Finally getting my 60 ft. to where Im happy.
Went 1.29 last Saturday.
Still have a bunch of racing to do this year. Hopefully going to make some tweaks over the winter and get this thing a little quicker.
Pretty happy with the 1.29 especially with 162 passes on my MT's.
New slicks on the way for some fall air numbers...

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Budnicks said:

Dang 9.50's @ 162, that things moving

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BSB67 said:

I think the 162 is the number of passes on the tires.

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bobtile said:

As you probably have seen, I've been trying to sort out this Gen 3 combo for 2 years now.
Sometimes searching for big issues you overlook the basics.
After finding a bunch of things wrong in the engine this spring I decided to build it myself. Until Saturday, my best e.t. after rebuild was 9.84@ 134.7. As it got warmer out, the car was running 10.0s. Something was still off.
Although my consistency was now there, it was slow.
I had a race Saturday with my NODRAMA club.
First pass was 9.95@132.8
Sitting in the pits staring at the car during an extended oil down cleanup, I grabbed a buddy and had him push gas pedal to the floor.
Throttle blades were at about 3/4 open...
Past experience with my 440's had me believe there wasn't much gain by opening up fully for some reason.
But I spent time to get it as close as I could to fully open anyway. It's still not completely there but I'll work on that this week.
So I go up for my second timeshot and was i surprised...
9.59@138! I still only have 22° of timing and it should take 25.
1st round my opponent went red so I ran it out and went 9.58@ 138.23.
Best part is I made it to the finals but lost.
Car was very consistent. First 3 passes @ 1/8 mile were all 6.06@112 and last 3 (round Robin so it was hot) were 6.08's@112.
I think Im finally happy.
Ps D.A was 2700 most of the day.
Looking back in my log book from last year with DA @ 2700 I was running 9.90's.

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HardcoreB said:

Props to you for perseverance, it can get frustrating! Nice running combo. What does it weigh with you? Did you dyno the engine? I know Steff found some power opening up the plenum in that intake if you haven't already. And there's more in the 60ft for sure. Nice!

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