My Fairlane gets into the 11s...

[Steve1968LS2]

Thank God.. lol

Even though this was a street car we had the goal of getting it into the 11s.

Well, I set up to go to a private track day. $115 for 100 cars, all day. Normally that means you get 20-30 runs. It sure beats the nomal deal where there are 400 racers and you get 2-3 runs.

Anyways. Showed up, tossed on some ET Streets, set them to 15psi and ran the car.

The first run I blew the shift and went into neutral (hitting the rev limiter.. oops!). That's just me not being use to the ratchet shifter. Anyways, The results were 1.786 60ft time, 7.714 in the 1/8 mile and then I coasted through the lights for a 13.464 at 72.64 mph. lol

The next run I got my act together and ran 1.789 60ft time, 7.667 in the 8th for a run of 11.995 at 113.37.

Now I was hoping to be able to try different tire pressures and messing with the adjustable shocks, but everything that could go wrong at the track happened. A guy crashed bad and had to go to the hospital. Our ambulance was later borrowed by the oval track, so we couldn't run for an hour.

Then, every joker with a turbo started blowing up thier junk and oiling the track. Then the sweeper broke and they couldn't clean the left lane, so we were down to run lane for the rest of the day.

So I got three lousy stinking runs in for $115... I'm sure I could have gotting into the 11.80-11.70 range given my trap speed, but I will just be happy knowing I did get the big ass Ford into the 11's. Even if it's just barely.

Now I can finish up the car and get it to her new home back east.

Here's a vid of my screwed up run.. at least the launch looks good. (it's RUN 12).

http://www.motorgen.com/vid/showphot...to/224/cat/511