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Re: 2018 MPC Real Street - First Race of the Season [by TommyT-Bone]

Tue, 14 Aug 2018 04:17:57 +0000

Drag Racing:: 2018 MPC Real Street - First Race of the Season

Interesting read .....

Re: 2018 Pre Season Testing [by rklessdriver]

Mon, 26 Mar 2018 17:23:01 +0000

Drag Racing:: 2018 Pre Season Testing
Well we got a lot more work to do....

We should have tested the car before taking it to a big race. There just was not enough practice time before eliminations started to get everything sorted out.

On my one practice run, I had problems with the nitrous switch not touching the carb linkage... not even sure how that got messed up because it lined up and worked fine for 2yrs before this.

The nitrous was working in 1st round eliminations and I cut a great light but I could tell the car wasn't pulling very hard and he quickly caught me.... I glanced at the AF reading and it was just off the map lean... I initially thought my Wide Band O2 was messed up because it was reading 14.7 going down the track.... but I went a head, lifted and coasted to the end... I could tell something was wrong and he was already past me so the race was over, no reason to hurt something.

We went back and changed some stuff on the fuel pressure and made a test pass but again the AF was 14.4 before the sensor burned up and the controller gave me the error code for voltage out of range.... So I had to lift early or risk hurting the engine.

We again tried to put more fuel to it and make another test pass between rounds but again we were unsuccessful and the AF was 14 something before the controller gave the voltage range error code again..... No doubt the heat burned the O2 sensor up.

So we are pulling the intake/nitrous kit off it tonight and sending it out to a different company to get fixed... I have had a lot of tuning issues with this kit from day one and it even cost me a set of pistons a few years ago.... It's just time to move on and let someone else take a swing at fixing it.

The engine was running fine when we loaded up to go home and again when I unloaded it the next morning..... but we are still going to leak down test it just to make sure.

Hope to have the intake and kit back in a few weeks and then we will do some more testing.

We did have a good time at the race. Middle Ga Motorsports Park puts on a good show. The track was prepped very good and the they kept the show interesting and constantly moving with numerous grudge races and test passes between elimination rounds.

For sure we will get this sorted out and be back.
Will

Re: 2017 Winter Upgrade/Update thread [by rklessdriver]

Wed, 21 Feb 2018 20:17:02 +0000

Drag Racing:: 2017 Winter Upgrade/Update thread
Thanks!

I have really enjoyed building and racing this engine (and car) over the past few years. As well as being able to share my success and failures with all of you that read my post here.

Stay tuned to the drag racing section. I have an entire Season of racing results and updates coming. Season starts May 19, but I will be doing some (hopefully lots) pre season testing in the months till then.
Will

Re: For sale at Mecum 2017 in Florida [by BillH]

Wed, 28 Dec 2016 14:52:15 +0000

Drag Racing:: For sale at Mecum 2017 in Florida
Quote:

bogus wrote:

rarity and provenance... remember, this was a FACTORY built hot rod. Not a normal race car converted from a street car.

Real race cars are valuable... think Cobra, Ferrari, Porsche... those sports racers are seriously valuable.

Yep.

Guess I should have bought one of those from Dave, probably about $1,000 back then.

But, I also should have bought this when it was offered to me for $1,800.

Re: 10-29-2016 MPC Real Street - Last race of the season [by rklessdriver]

Tue, 01 Nov 2016 19:12:48 +0000

Drag Racing:: 10-29-2016 MPC Real Street - Last race of the season
Video of round 1 eliminations.

https://youtu.be/zoX1Q7yrTxQ

Will

Re: 10-09-2016 MPC Real Street race [by BillH]

Thu, 13 Oct 2016 18:54:43 +0000

Drag Racing:: 10-09-2016 MPC Real Street race
Glad you found it Will.

The MSD OptiSparks have had that problem too, lot of posts on the web about it.

Re: 09-10-2016 MPC Real Street Race [by BillH]

Wed, 14 Sep 2016 22:58:39 +0000

Drag Racing:: 09-10-2016 MPC Real Street Race
Racing's never easy, is it?

As long as you're not going backwards...............

We won't be at the track until October either.
And this one is 2 different events that will take 4 days, going to be exhausting especially if we have more problems with the car.

Re: 08-26-2016 MPC Real Street Race [by rklessdriver]

Mon, 29 Aug 2016 13:19:23 +0000

Drag Racing:: 08-26-2016 MPC Real Street Race
Thanks Tommy.
Will

Re: 08-20-2016 MPC Real Street Race [by Matatk]

Fri, 26 Aug 2016 17:38:12 +0000

Drag Racing:: 08-20-2016 MPC Real Street Race
Glad you're tuning it and not me! Good luck and I hope it works out.

Re: 07-09-2016 MPC Real Street [by BillH]

Tue, 19 Jul 2016 15:13:03 +0000

Drag Racing:: 07-09-2016 MPC Real Street
Quote:

rklessdriver wrote:
but my "pit crew" forgot to bring it.... along with a bunch of other useful stuff like the fuel funnel and spark plug socket....

First race of the year and we just didn't have our routine down.
Will

Driving to a road race the first year I had the Formula Ford, was 2 hours into the tow when I realized I forgot my helmet. My 4 hour tow turned into 8 hours.

Had to make up a "trailer load checklist" cause when I start thinking about racing, I can get brain dead.