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Old 09-28-2006, 09:03 PM
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So according to this post you made elsewheres the fastest the car will do as it sits like you said earlier is 138mph, yet you said at the begining of the thread you do 150mph on a regular basis? If it was bouncing off the rev limiter at the track at the top end, and you never encountered that before, than that woudl mean you probably only were hitting like 125mph before.

"I finally made a pass at the strip with my twin turbo 1000 hp Chevelle. Good news is nothing broke, bad news is that I ran out of gear. I made 2 passes with only 10 psi and wend 10.80 @ 130 even on both passes. Went through the traps at
I reset the boost up to 18 psi and ran out of gear, I had it set to 10 psi in 1st gear, 12 psi in second, and 18 psi in 3rd.
Due to a bad launch and having to pedal it the pass was pretty bad. I launched with a 1.90 60', my 1/8 mile was a 7.0@112, and my quarter was 10.55@ 138.
1.9 seconds before I tripped the clocks, I ran out of gear and was on the rev limiter at 7000 rpm till I let off right before I finished. The car sounded like it had gunshots coming out the tail pipes and was blowing flames out the tailpipes also! I luckily have it on video so I was able to time exactly when I first hit the rev limiter to when I actually finished the pass.
I was pretty dissapointed that I did not get to see how much power the car put to the ground by my trap speed.

I need to get some 3.08 gears for my 3 series carrier and some new tires. I have 3.42's now but did not count for converter efficiency. I also am trying new tires seeing that I has to try to keep the car straight the entire pass!

Anyone need some 3.42's!!"

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