1st run was against an RB26 powered S14= I got smoked! The excuse was the fact that the tree service was in PRO function and I got caught waiting for the 2nd staging light while the linesman was telling me to come up some more.
S14 Sentra
R/T 1.179 R/T 1.287
60' Ft 2.156 2.799
330 5.642 6.928
1/8 8.347 9.903
MPH 92.55 83.11
1000 10.612 12.414
1/4 12.530 14.547
MPH 114.75 104.72
Next race was worse! The car seem to always bog when I release the clutch. I mean it wouldn't go anywhere. This resulted in me getting smoked again by a supra. The supra went [email protected] and the sentra went 14.862 @ 106.11mph.
Next race was a tad bit better as I was pitted-up against a turbocharged neon. I added a crap load of timing between 1000 and 4000rpm to help this car get out of the hole; and to prevent it from falling on its face like it had been doing. This time I hooked-up my DIS-2 and used my 2-step feature. Even though I'm not a master at using it yet, the car was able to build-up some boost at the line (5psi), the tree staged and the neon guy jumped a little to fast. He ended up running a 14.136 @111.02mph and the sentra went 14.236 @ 111.38mph giving me the win because he fouled. That launch felt so much better, but I was still able to spin them drag radials good through 2nd gear.
Last run of the day for me; I ran a stock mazda 6. I did a few more timing corrections, took out some more fuel and let some more pressure out of the radials. The trees staged, but counted down unequally, so the mazda took off. I was sitting there holding the 2-step and holding my rpm @ 7000 for about 10 seconds at which time the tree finally started coming down and the sentra jumped off the line with some aggression. I actually felt like this was going to be the 12-11 second run because the car never felt like that off the line.
Got through first selected 2nd which felt kind of rough, tried to draw 3rd, tried to draw 3rd (hello, Mr. gearbox or clutch
), tried to draw any gear and it was a no-go. Finished the last run with a 16.487 @ 60.20mph while being in neutral. The mazda did a 17.446 @ 79.56mph. My 60ft was at a 2.368 which was the best of the day despite the fact that the throw-out bearing let me down. Oh well, it takes me 35 minutes to pull down the transmission and inspect, but I know it's the release bearing because it whines when I try to engage it and it was makeing noise before I got to the track..First 2 runs were done at 18psi and the last 2 at 20psi. The gearbox held-up, the stock engine held, the drag radials held, but the user failed to master the art of launching a car in adrag racing environment.
And add to the fact the I installed the MSD 72lb/hr injectors just yesterday, so tuning wasn't the best, but at least I didn't lean out or blow-up the engine.
The stock CA18 is the bomb and it's going to take one to kill it. I earned my respect for the day, but I'm not happy with my skills at drag racing. So to make me happy, I had to literally out an uncountable amount of car lengths on some boosted accords all following each other whilst I was stuck in 4th gear. the look on their faces had to be priceless. I maybe a pus at the track, but I am something to be reckoned with on the highway.
So it's time to fix the release bearing and put in some dyno time to tune the new injectors.
Dee
