Shiny new best at Night of Fire

**Ares** · 06-14-2009, 01:16 PM

Started day with a 12.40 and 12.42 in time trials. My normal can't buy a good light for 1st round elims but go 12.37. Then buying into the second chance race I go 12.38 then a 12.36 dumping before the strip(car was fast at 1000) also cutting a nice .003 light for bye next round.

Course it's not an odd number of cars and I get Balaska in 3rd round of No Box. Think I figured car would have gone a 12.31 or 32 last pass so I dial 12.33 and car just flat out hauled ass down track running a 12.25@111.75 lifting. Mike dialed 11.23 and went 11.16@120.84. Not sure if he tried getting out of it. That was a loss worth laughing about

I did everything the same all day long and car just kept going faster. Well except for second time run as car pulled off track and got my engine a little warmer then I wanted.

**Martin0660** · 06-14-2009, 10:48 PM

Congrats Ed!!!!!!!

That was weird yesterday. My car didnt run for crap, althought it was almost consistant crap ;) All of a sudden, second round of street the car came to life. pulled "right the whole way down. I let out at 1000' and still coasted to a 12.51 (on 12.88 dial). It was a new best 60' at 1.611, but no where enar enough to account for it running right. I think I have something going on with air correction in my tune. Car runs 12.70 -12.80 in the heat, get cool and it drops right to 12.30's ????

If we only raced to 330' I've got a car to beat :D

**Shorty429** · 06-14-2009, 10:51 PM

congrats man. your car runs awesome!

**Ares** · 06-14-2009, 10:52 PM

Bob I saw that pass of yours, looked real good. Even Steve announcing was shocked of how far off you were from dial.

Looking at all my recent timeslips I see for the ET range I am in I can add 2.02-2.04 to the 1000' to figure my dial if I lift on a pass.

**somethingclever** · 06-14-2009, 11:42 PM

Nice job Ed....love the data!

With a D/A of 17xx and track elevation of 1250' the air must've been pretty good. I'm no where near PGH right now but seems like I'm missing out on some nice June weather.

**Martin0660** · 06-15-2009, 01:27 AM

Originally Posted by Ares

Bob I saw that pass of yours, looked real good. Even Steve announcing was shocked of how far off you were from dial.

Yeah, I'm not real thrilled, makes it look like I got a hatch full of sand. On the good side, it keeps everyone geussing ;)

Originally Posted by Ares

Looking at all my recent timeslips I see for the ET range I am in I can add 2.02-2.04 to the 1000' to figure my dial if I lift on a pass.

Typically I have good enough notes to do the same. Hell, I used to be able to watch one of your time trials and have a pretty good idea what I was going to run :D The problem now is I dont have good notes on this new combo, it's pulling some weird stuff based on temeprature, and this thing is completely different from 1000' to the stripe.

**CobraII** · 06-15-2009, 10:15 AM

Congrats Ed, thanks for posting the slip. I never got to check yours or Mikey's out. Dialing was a challenge Saturday night. I think I'm jetted pretty rich though, judging by the chunks I was picking up.