Fubar does Hot Rod Drag Week 2024

[Unholy707]

Gotta post all the pics after the week man, rooting for you

 

[jonx96]

Wednesday you will be 4 miles from my place. I may be there but if you need something let me know

 

[fubar569]

Wednesday you will be 4 miles from my place. I may be there but if you need something let me know

I hope I don't need anything but I appreciate the offer. Unless you have access to a spin balancer and want to play some games. Lol.

You can't miss the purple turd. Hope to see you there.

 

[fubar569]

Day 1:

155 total cars in Street Machine Eliminator and zero cars in all motor big block. A couple people made the switch to fill the class and since I am in C/D group with the rest of the street machine Eliminator cars I don't get to run for about another hour. We're down right now for a tranny spill. Car should be ready to roll when called. The live stream is up for those that want to watch. We'll hopefully have GoPro onboard.

 

[vortecd]

 

[fubar569]

Gonna start pulling lane 1 shortly for SME. I'm in the back half of lane 2.

 

[DavidKFla]

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Gonna start pulling lane 1 shortly for SME. I'm in the back half of lane 2.

what's SME?

 

[fubar569]

what's SME?

Street Machine Eliminator

Should be pulling lane 2 shortly.

 

[fubar569]

10.229 @ 136.xx

We got it on gopro too. Will post later.

On to indy

 

[fubar569]

 

[fubar569]

I do not have the raw gopro video yet. It's posted to Facebook but as friends only so I'll get it to upload public at some point.

Also. Official day 1 results: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/zAzt5H1xWwo6eF9x/?mibextid=xfxF2i

https://www.motortrend.com/events/hot-rod-drag-week-2024-results/

Currently 8th of about 150 cars.

 

[fubar569]

 

[DavidKFla]

I see that people are whining about Finnegans new front end on Blasphemi?

 

[vortecd]

 

[fubar569]

My time slip for the day is turned in. My first pass I had an absolute pine cone moment on the line as launch control would not properly activate so I did three little mini burnouts after I was fully staged and ended up running no time.

Went back to the pits for some practice and ended up getting 1900 RPM to hold without pushing through. So I went back up and made a second pass and went 10.289 which slides my average back to 10.259 for the week so far. A couple hundredths slower 60ft which explains the couple hundredths at the top. Also accidentally left the car in D instead of M for the first shift. As a result the car short shifted 1st extremely early it it probably wpuldve been a 10.teen pass.

I've noticed a weird RPM plateau in the log files when I run launch control. It occurs right after I come off the brake and the car starts to accelerate. It coincides with the "Fuel System Status" transition from what would be considered OL Accel into Normal-CL as the commanded lambda changes from 1.0 to actual target. This odd plateau is not present in past footbrake logs. Mph doesn't plateau at the same time and appears consistent. No evidence of spin or otherwise.

To further elaborate there is absolutely no knock retard at all either short-term or long-term, timing appears to be normal, injector duty cycle and any other metric you can examine look to be acceptable and does not show anything to be in danger at this point. It's just...odd.

Despite that the car will just blueprint all day long on launch control which is the exact opposite of what some of you experience. So I can't explain that. Lol

 

[fumanchu182]

If it's running in OL it's using a table and none of the sensors. Something may be programmed for that dip. This is still awesome to watch and I wish you the best of luck for the rest of the week! I'm going to try and snip your time segments from the large videos each day if they are recorded.

I used anti seize on my beadlock bolts only spun tire on wheel once when I dropped it down to 15 psi

If you spun a tire on a beadlock you installed the tire wrong or put the antisieze on the knurling. The tire will tear before it spins on a correctly installed beadlock. I mention this because spinning on a beadlock is the precursor to the tire coming out of the locking rim and the wheel. Might want to check em again.

Wednesday you will be 4 miles from my place. I may be there but if you need something let me know

Just don't tell him he's wrong. He sounds like the most arrogant ...on the phone... well according to his wife commenting in the background 🤣

 

[vortecd]

My time slip for the day is turned in. My first pass I had an absolute pine cone moment on the line as launch control would not properly activate so I did three little mini burnouts after I was fully staged and ended up running no time.

Went back to the pits for some practice and ended up getting 1900 RPM to hold without pushing through. So I went back up and made a second pass and went 10.289 which slides my average back to 10.259 for the week so far. A couple hundredths slower 60ft which explains the couple hundredths at the top. Also accidentally left the car in D instead of M for the first shift. As a result the car short shifted 1st extremely early it it probably wpuldve been a 10.teen pass.

I've noticed a weird RPM plateau in the log files when I run launch control. It occurs right after I come off the brake and the car starts to accelerate. It coincides with the "Fuel System Status" transition from what would be considered OL Accel into Normal-CL as the commanded lambda changes from 1.0 to actual target. This odd plateau is not present in past footbrake logs. Mph doesn't plateau at the same time and appears consistent. No evidence of spin or otherwise.

To further elaborate there is absolutely no knock retard at all either short-term or long-term, timing appears to be normal, injector duty cycle and any other metric you can examine look to be acceptable and does not show anything to be in danger at this point. It's just...odd.

Despite that the car will just blueprint all day long on launch control which is the exact opposite of what some of you experience. So I can't explain that. Lol

Too many things to go wrong with the brake why I don't use it. I also have run my best times leaving close to idle

 

[DavidKFla]

I never used launch control and always used "drive" on the shifter.

 

[2ndAmend]

My best times were with launch control, apparently the car has more skill than me!

 

[jonx96]

@fubar569 where did you end up staying tonight?