Re: Drag Strip Results

[Nico Over <nover@xxxxxxxx>]

Don, have you considered installing a wide band O2 sensor. Easy to do and 
this will provide you with the ground truth on whether your are running 
lean/rich at wide opn throttle. If nothing more will give you a guide towards 
further tuning. Just a thought.
Nico Over
Va. Beach, Va.

On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 05:03:21 -0700 (PDT), Donald Gallimore wrote
> Took the Belvedere to the drags for the first time this year.  I've 
> did an engine rebuild after wiping out two cam lobes.  Went to a 
> .545 lift Camp Cam
> 
> shaft.
> 
> Performance was okay with a best of 12.5 and 107mph.  Best 60 foot 
> was 1.80. Funny thing is that the last 1/8 mile was pretty 
> consistent at 4.6 seconds for runs from 12.95 to 12.50 - didn't 
> matter. Still got a way to go to get to sub 12 second run or even 
> beat my personal best of 12.40 at 110.
> 
> One problem still there is that it seems to run out of gas over 5000 
> rpm in first gear.  I can run second gear to 5700 and going through 
> the traps at 5300 showed not fuel starvation.  Work around was to 
> shift to 2nd at 5000 and to third at 5500/5700.  I don't have a fuel 
> pressure gauge but it seemed to stutter pretty bad so that's my 
> guess.  Have I called it right?  Might be too lean or an ignition 
> problem although the latter seems unlikely given the 5700 rpm shifts 
> later in the run.
> 
> Akron Don Gallimore
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