TSP Level 2A-R (Larry's motor) Complete and Dyno tested.

Yup, know all about that, always use NGK, FR-5. I'll change them before I go to Cecil.

 

September 20th. Not changing plugs when the cylinder is hot. I'm driving down that morning. I don't need to be that anal. The plugs will be fresh enough. Seen to many people have problems with plug threads. It's not happening to me.

 

It's just not that important to me. As long as I pick up trap speed, I'll be happy. My car is a street car. It doesn't have a roll bar. The SP converter, and GV, and 2 1/2" exhaust soak up some power. If I can hook it, and it runs low 11s at around 118-120, I'll be happy with that. They may object to my lack of a bar anyway.

 

I just got my Q-jet from Jim last week. I'll be driving down with it, making some passes with it, and then swapping on the 1000. Very easy for me to do, 10-20 minutes max.

My fuel pump is working great, 8-9 psi consistently. We will see what that is worth. I installed billet rear lower control arms, and I have pulled out the bump stops in the front, and the front sway bar. Changed my spark plugs today. Tomorrow, I may try to adjust the Koni shocks at all 4 corners. Not really clear on how to do that, but I'll give it a shot. Got brand new P275/60R-15 MT ET Street Drag Radials. Hope to see an improvement from last year, but you never know what will happen at the track. We will see.

 

I was told you can adjust Koni shocks. Not sure of the options, I guess you can make them looser or firmer, but I am unsure how to do that. From what I can see online, the adjustment is made with the shock fully compressed, clockwise for firmer, CCW for looser.

 

So firm in the back, loose in the front?

http://www.koni-na.com/adjustment.cfm

 

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I was there every Friday and Sat night in the mid 80's. Only Buick (besides mine) was a guy named Mike, aka, "Lurch" who drove a black 72 Skylark with a red GSX stripe. So named because he looked like Lurch from the Adams Familyp

Still have a chip on my door from some dimwit at Channel who opened his door into my car.

Was Tommy's Corvette the one in bare fiberglass?

 

Sorry to say the car ran just about the same as last year. My best time was a 11.67@115. Best 60' was 1.65. Car felt great to me, but what do I know. This time, the car hooked every time, it didn't spin that I could tell. Whether that was due to the billet rear lower control arms, no front sway bar, or new MT's, I don't know, but it hooked and went. The only thing I can think of is the SP converter is slowing me down compared to a good fixed pitch 9.5". I scaled the car, and it weighed 4010 with me in it. I'll post more when I get home tomorrow.