Finally Made Some Hits

Was finally able to get to the track yesterday and see how much the alky set-up changed the car. It changed a bunch. 1st launch on the brake and the car went every where but straight and the rpm's skyrocketed and it felt like the trans didn't shift into 3rd.....back to the pits. Trans is a little low on fluid but not enough to cause non-shifting, top it off, add more alky and away we go. 2nd run I lowered the tire pressure down to albs and the car launches like a raped ape, shift into 2nd and the engine immediately starts bouncing off the limiter, shift to 3rd, rpms don't drop. Trans messed up ?? Nope....put it in each gear back at the pits and the car moves....trans is good. Texted Jon Faubion to see of he had any ides. A couple of texts back n forth and he finally just calls. After the him trying to get information out of me, he finally determines the converter is way too loose with the additional torque the alky set-up is producing. Emailed Lenny ( Ultimate Converters ) last night and explained what was happening and he responded this morning ( now thats great service.....responding on a Sunday ) .....I'll talk with Lenny on Monday and ship the converter back to him for a stall decrease this week.

Thanks to Jon and Lenny for the help

Yea,sound like your blowing through the converter. That's what bbf's and alky do.

I couldnt believ e how the 460 after I put the alky carb on it now to see how the new 552 will like the tolit setup

But how was the burnout?

it'll be a hand full with a 3spd and ladder bars..

cool40 wrote: it'll be a hand full with a 3spd and ladder bars..

X2,it amazed me how the 2 speed tamed the launch. Boring as hell tho

Sometimes boring is a good thing

John Myrick wrote:Sometimes boring is a good thing

X2 its good to make it to the next round !!!

mines not to boring......


injected methanol = torque from hell.

Any 60ft or 330 numbers from the 2nd pass?

DILLIGASDAVE wrote:Any 60ft or 330 numbers from the 2nd pass?

No.....I didn't even bother looking or keeping the slips

I think I have every slip for every pass i've ever made. It pays to go back and analyze your slips sometimes and compare.

bbf-falcon wrote:I think I have every slip for every pass i've ever made. It pays to go back and analyze your slips sometimes and compare.

DAMN!!! You kept both of them!!

They weren't complete runs or even half a run, that's how bad I went through the converter. So nothing to look at actually .

56Tbird wrote:

bbf-falcon wrote:I think I have every slip for every pass i've ever made. It pays to go back and analyze your slips sometimes and compare.

DAMN!!! You kept both of them!!

Hey,if I wanted any of your shit,I would clean it off every bathroom wall between ohio and Ky.