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I made 15 passes tonight!!!

I have tomorrow off, and the weather was beautiful. so I went racing! Stupid Layla won't pass tech (leaking oil from bad machine work on head) so I took the truck. Yes, that's right, my truck. Check out the package:
.637, 2.610, 12.076, 19.151@69.00 (7:34PM)
.079, 2.632, 11.997, 19.171@66.88 (7:59)
.061, 2.652, 12.029, 19.094@69.05 (8:07)
.058, 2.765, 12.254, 19.351@68.79 (8:17, shifted into 4th)
.106, 2.603, 12.006, 19.130@68.39 (10:16)
.224, 2.602, 12.030, 19.165@68.33 (10:33)
.048, 2.606, 11.997, 19.126@68.37 (10:52)
.199, 2.552, 11.969, 19.082@68.52 (11:11)
.144, 2.585, 11.960, 19.060@68.83 (11:23)
.024, 2.589, 11.981, 19.046@69.22 (11:31)
.032, 2.614, 11.935, 18.94@69.66 (11:36)

Out of the other 4, I never count the 1st run (bad voo-doo), 2 runs had time-clock issues (as in dumb-but ricer boy left before tree activation), and 1 run was aborted (went into safe mode). I'm proud of the 10:16 to 10:52 package, very consistent. Of course, once the sun went down, it started going faster. Notice 6 of the 11 passes were better then .100 lights, including 3 in a row and the last 2. Not bad for a stick-shifted, foot-brake launched 19 second truck. Iwas sleeping on 3 of the lights, and got distracted on the .6 one. The .104 I was trying for my normal good light but encountered some bad wheel-hop. The really funny thing is, out of the 15 slips, 10 were wins because the other guy red-lit or slept sooo bad at the tree. The 10:52 pass was against a 13.90's blown GTP and I had him to the 330' he left so late. The best times were launching @6000 RPM, dumping the clutch, and slamming every gear with a bone-rattling "crunch"! The more I babied it or tried to "drive" it, the slower it went, so I beat on it more! There's a 1-hour plus gap to drool on a 1990 IROC that was tubbed with a twin-turbo big-block that ran 8.50's @160!!! I have a video of it launching, it's soooo cool! Street legal too, though I doubt it's ever street driven. The baddest real street car there was a 70-80 year old guy with a green 4-door 73 Nova with black steel wheels that went 12.40's on motor!! There was a pretty sweet White 67 Cougar going 12.00's on spray (4-Speed car though). OK, I'm done for the night, have to work on car tomorrow, must race TC soon!!!

I made 15 passes tonight!!!

Reply #1 –
how the hell did you get 15 passes? at my strip (atco) your lucky if you show up on the good nite (tuesday) and there arn't any gamblers you get 5-6 before it gets crowded. englishtown, your lucky if you get 3 tops. i saw 15 and almost had a heart attack lol.

nice job tho, last time i went i saw a explorer running high 18s all nite, and a very high 17second econoline van. what kinda truck was it?

I made 15 passes tonight!!!

Reply #2 –
On test'n'tune around here, if you get there when the gates open, 6pm, youre lucky to get 4 in, from 6-11
It's Gumby's fault.

I made 15 passes tonight!!!

Reply #3 –
A very, very stock 1996.5 Nissan Harbody King Cab 4x4. It has the 2400 4-Cyl from the 240SX and a 5-Speed manual with 4.88:1 posi's on locking axles. I launched in 2WD for fear of destroying my transfer case. It's got 130K miles and the only mod is Royal Purple oil and a really good tune-up on top of 30"x10.5" true M&S tires. It's only supposed to get 16-18 MPG and I'm getiing 18-20 so I know it's tuned pretty well. I've been chasing a CEL that comes on and off for awhile so I got to diagnose that down to the front O2 sensor going dead lean at WOT. Replacing it today. :D I think I should take it bracket racing with the 19.1x's it runs really consistent. And now I have a really good baseline for dropping my dial-in further down the rounds.