Jay although it's just bench racing...
How do you feel your 3 packages would have faired ET/Power wise to what you have seen of Drag Week results?
Will we see a seperate "Heres What Happened to...." thread?
Still waiting for the why you have CPS problems in car and not on the dyno.
Thanks
Lance
Well, can't take away anything from the Drag Week winners, of course, because they made it there, and I didn't. But my Shelby clone should be good for 9.00 to 9.20, and the winner in that class (Modified NA) averaged 10 flat. In BB/NA, I think it would have been a real close race between the Mach 1 and CDMBill's Mustang. The Mach 1 ran 6.35 in the eighth with a pretty lousy 60 foot time just before the event, so I'm thinking it would have been in the 9.80 to 9.90 range in the quarter, which was just about where Bill was. Due to a quirk in the rules the Galaxie would have had to run in Unlimited, and of course it had no chance there...
On the crank sensor thing I spent the week of Drag Week working that problem really hard, and I've kind of concluded that the ems-pro gave up sometime over the last year. No matter what I did, it just wouldn't recognize the signal from the crank sensor. I picked up an MS3X Megasquirt and will re-wire the EFI system so I can use that; I like that setup a lot better than the ems-pro, and had great luck with it on the Mach 1 motor.
I'm waffling over future plans. The engines are in the cars, but I'm tempted to pull them out and run them both on the dyno. The 530" high riser got pulled off the dyno before I could try an upgrade on the cam, so I'd like to try that, plus I'd like to build a new intake manifold upper with runners about 15% smaller in cross sectional area and see if that improves the performance. I'm also thinking about ditching the Peterson pump setup and going back to a stock pump and a vacuum pump for crankcase evacuation.
On the SOHC in the Shelby clone, since I never got the chance to put it on the dyno, I'd kind of like to run it there, and also install the sheet metal intake I built for it last year. Then I could put the HIlborn setup back on the Galaxie. Also, my original plan for this engine was to go dry sump, and I have time to do that now, so that would be interesting to do on the dyno as well.
At present, the idea of pulling the engines back out of the cars, after I've just spent a bunch of time putting them in, is not very appealing. I'm going to think about all this for a while before I do anything...