RE: Drag race results :-)

[62pluckedchicken@xxxxxxxxx]

Getting closer to the elusive 9 :)
Rich Kinsley wrote:
> 
> That was really fun to beat my 35year old stepson. Our race was his 
> second pass for the night. He'll do much better as he catches on. He is 
> in the process of putting nitrous on it now. That should be interesting.
> 
> Rich Kinsley '64 Dodge Polara 4dr 318poly w/goodies
> ====================================================================
> Gary Pavlovich wrote:
> > 
> > Congratulations Rich!  Nice test and tune session as well.
> > 
> > Good to see the Cobra de-fanged by old school muscle.
> > 
> > Gary Pavlovich
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Rich Kinsley" <rlkinsley@xxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 9:37 PM
> > Subject: Drag race results :-)
> > 
> > 
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Rich Kinsley '64 Dodge Polara 4dr 318poly w/goodies
> > >
> > > It was a great night! Here's what happened.
> > >
> > > I discovered that I had forgotten to use the race ballast resistor at
> > > the Geezer drags. So this time I moved the wires to the race resistor,
> > > 1/4ohm..
> > >
> > > Then we started richening the metering rods a step at a time. Also I put
> > > one step richer on the pass side than the driver side. I also put the
> > > accel pump back to max position. Run #1 10.393@xxxxx
> > >
> > > Run #2 we moved the rods up one more notch richer. 10.201@xxxxx
> > >
> > > Run#3 This was against my stepson in his '97 Mustang Cobra. It was his
> > > first time ever to run legal, at the drags. I had richened another step
> > > and my time was 10.031@xxxxx  with a reaction time of .191 . His time
> > > was 10.263@xxxxx with a .629 reaction. (Hee, Hee)
> > >
> > > My last run was still one notch richer but I did screw up and hit drive
> > > just before the finish. I had a 10.050@xxxxx .
> > >
> > > I gotta say there was lot's of improvement made tonight!!!! I do believe
> > > I can get it in the 9's yet! I don't know if I'll be able to run again
> > > this year. If I do you can believe I'll be trying hard for that elusive
> > > (to me) 9 sec mark.
> > >
> > >
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> Rich Kinsley '64 Dodge Polara 4dr 318poly w/goodies


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