Hello all. We made it back in one piece including Bodacious. We had a great time and met several old friends and made several new friends.
I'm still disappointed. This thing is so finicky when spooling it's getting extremely aggravating. I'll have to give the poor powerglide credit after this weekend. The temp gauge was pegged on three of the six runs. Of course, with a looser converter, this shouldn't happen any more. I made four practice runs. I got it spooled on the second, third and fourth pass, but, it took several seconds even with the nitrous on. Before the fourth pass, we pulled the .030 jet out and drilled it to .125". This helped, but, it still took several seconds to get this thing singing. I also had a hard time letting go of the nitrous button.
So, I went ahead and just held it down the entire time I was making passes.
I'm pulling the converter tomorrow evening and sending it back to FTI. It might be a mistake, but, I am demanding 3,500rpm stall this time.
Anyway, enough talk. Here is the fourth pass I made. She spun hard out of the hole so I had to shift and dang near tagged the guard rail.
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This is my first eliminator round. I was placed in an index from 4.40 to 4.79. The weather changed and the air cooled down to the point I could spool pretty good. I ended up running a 4.404 at 79MPH in 300'. At this point, I had the field covered.
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In my second round of eliminations I could not get spooled to save my life. I have no idea why unless the nitrous just didn't work for some reason. So, I bumped in anyway and was handed my ass as I slowly rolled onto boost about half track.
Today, my son Craig hit the nastiest mud pit know to man. We really didn't prepare the truck for this much water so I'm sorta glad things turned like they did. This is his first try. Just like his daddy, when he let go the trans brake he also let go the nitrous button. lol
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I begged the track owner to let him have another go and I thank him for agreeing. All the trucks were pulling hard to the right on take off and Craig's run was no different. Instead of climbing the wall, he let out of it and was done. If you'll watch closely, she was up on that crap until he let off. I'm thinking if he had gone straight, the water would have killed it. Even at this short of a distance, the air cleaner was sucked into itself.
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When we pulled the air cleaner back at the pits, muddy water was actually in the turbo. So, I did the best I could to kick my retarded self in the hiney and I'm crossing my fingers the 480 isn't hurt. We washed it out when we got home and all looks good as of now.
