3 days o'racin'

**2ton** · 07-02-2009, 06:43 AM

Changed converters last week then spent the weekend at the track. Since I had 3 days of racing scheduled, I decided that I would have lots of seat time to try the new converter. Fri. ran Club Clash, fuel pump failed and lost first round. Fixed it Sat. morning, headed for the track and got there just in time for the King Street drive. Ran 2 classes, K/S and Pro ET. Took 8th in K/S, lost second round in Pro. Sunday was Ford day at Bandimere. Ran in Street Ford and Pro Ford. Lost 3rd round in Pro, 4th round in Street, both times the car didn't hook and the 60's went backwards so the car wouldn't run the number.
The track was bad and those 235-60-15's are pretty small.

Sunday the car laid down a new best. This was at 9100' DA;

60' 1.642
330' 4.857
1/8 7.596 @ 89.68 mph
1000 9.988
1/4 12.029 @ 110.51 mph

The best 60' with the new converter is a 1.637. A little more tweaking on this 349 and I should be able to drill 11's. Pretty happy to be knockin' on that door with an all motor, drive it through the gates 4 door Fairlane. We'll see what happens this weekend in K/S.

**ckelly** · 07-02-2009, 07:27 AM

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Sunday the car laid down a new best. This was at 9100' DA;

Nice runs. That's pretty quick at that altitude. At 9100 DA I could walk faster than my car. Well, if there was someone in the staging lanes with an oxygen tank I could borrow. 3500 is good air around here.

**DF66Stang** · 07-02-2009, 09:31 PM

Hey 2ton,

I was down there for Ford Fest and probably saw you run (especially since you were running 2 classes). Which Fairlane were you?

By the way, those are pretty good times for all motor at this altitude.

DF

**68fastang** · 07-03-2009, 04:40 AM

Congrats-11's are just around the corner.
Help us flatlanders out-what does that correct to at sealevel?

**2ton** · 07-03-2009, 06:19 AM

Using NHRA's correction factor for s/st @ 5800', 12.029 translates into an 11.31 at sea level, assuming the car dead hooks. MPH would be around 116. Trying to calculate off DA gives a range of potential ET's, quick of 10.73, slow of 11.02. My buddies weather station says 10.87 correcting from DA but I think that is a suspect number. My guess is that anything under an 11.50 and I will have serious traction issues that would limit 60'. Might find out at Topeka this fall.

DF, my car is a light silver/blue '64 4 door. There were 4 '64 Fairlanes up there, mine, a white and red one, a white T-Bolt clone, and a full chassis dark blue and black one. The white/red one was running bottom 12's on a big block, which is odd 'cause he usually runs mid 11's. I didn't see the clone run. The chassis car went a 10.16 on it's 7th pass ever. I built the diff in that car, the owner built the 557" engine. With some tweaking it should run 9.90's.

I only had 9 client cars up there this year, not a huge turnout for the race. The chassis car was the quickest, the black '55 Crown Vic that runs 17.30's was the slowest. The others run between 11.60 and 15.40.

**68fastang** · 07-04-2009, 09:19 AM

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Using NHRA's correction factor for s/st @ 5800', 12.029 translates into an 11.31 at sea level, assuming the car dead hooks. MPH would be around 116. Trying to calculate off DA gives a range of potential ET's, quick of 10.73, slow of 11.02. My buddies weather station says 10.87 correcting from DA but I think that is a suspect number. My guess is that anything under an 11.50 and I will have serious traction issues that would limit 60'. Might find out at Topeka this fall.

That helps put things in to perspective.You definitely have it running great,especially for four door driver!
I got a feeling I'd get my feelings hurt if I ran my car at your track LOL!

**2ton** · 07-05-2009, 05:56 AM

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That helps put things in to perspective.You definitely have it running great,especially for four door driver!
I got a feeling I'd get my feelings hurt if I ran my car at your track LOL!

Probably not. I'd bet you would run a mid/ high 11 on the car once you had it sorted out. Very respectable.

**DF66Stang** · 07-06-2009, 07:36 AM

2ton,

I do remember your car running that day and was impressed with the quick times.

I looked on your website, and it says you were running a TCI converter built for your application. What are the details on the new converter? Did you go a whole lot looser?

The converter is one of the areas I'm thinking about changing to try to improve my times, and I'm always interested in other racer's experience with different vendors.

DF

**2ton** · 07-06-2009, 11:02 AM

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Originally Posted by DF66Stang

2ton,

I looked on your website, and it says you were running a TCI converter built for your application. What are the details on the new converter? Did you go a whole lot looser?

DF

I had this converter custom built by a shop in Denver. There was nothing wrong w/ the TCI, but wanted to try something new and stay w/ a local builder.

TCI flashed about 3100. New converter flashes about 4200. Footbrake, no electronics or trans brake. RPM at the line is 1800.

Put the TCI that was in my car in a buddies Mustang. 347 C-4 combo I built a few years ago. He pulled a Boss Hog out (I will not recommend their converters, not real impressive) and his 60's went from 1.92 best to 1.79 best. Car ran 12.74 on the TCI, so it's definately a good converter.

The TCI is a more street friendly converter. RPM has to be a little higher now to move the car. PM if you want the name of the converter shop.