Unseasonably warm weather (70F) convinced my local track to open an unscheduled test and tune Wednesday. We got four passes in, the first was just a tuning pass 1st/2nd gear pull.

Three full passes:

Pass two:
1.3648 60'
3.7466 330'
5.6587 at 128.96mph 1/8
8.7277 at 160.79mph 1/4

Pass three was a soft launch and really rich:
1.4050 60'
3.7862 330'
5.6701 at 131.11mph 1/8
8.6960 at 161.80mph 1/4

Pass four:
1.3420 60'
3.6688 330'
5.5440 at 129.27mph 1/8
8.5581 at 162.93mph 1/4

If there is another chance this season, we'll take it out again and lean on it some more. I think it has a little more in it, but the rest isn't going to come out easily. This is still on Q16, a change over to VP Import might let me squeak a little more power out with a little more aggressive tune. That change will not happen until next season. I do have some other things to mess with to find more power though.

This is also, as far as I've been able to find, the quickest a FWD car has gone on gasoline. The previous record was 8.57 (Kenny Tran in his old Honda). Beating this record was one of my major goals for this year.

Special thanks to guys that help me out:
FP and their killer cams - Forced Performance Turbochargers
Wiseco Pistons - Manufacturer of High Performance Forged Pistons & Performance Parts for Motorcycles, ATVs, Snowmobiles, Marine, and Automobiles - Wiseco Piston Inc.
Precision Industries Torque Converter - Precision Industries
Borg Warner/Airwerks 74mm S400SX3 74/83 turbo - Airwerks
Monkeywrench Racing - Monkeywrench Racing Home Page

Video here:
http://www.kigglyracing.com/Me...d.wmv

Kevin

 

Great job Kevin!!!

Congrats on that!! I hope we can line up next season, your car scares me with how smooth and easy it looks!

Do you have motor pics and such we can see?

 

Awesome!

 

congrats Kevin

 

good stuff

 

Good job Kevin, that car leaves SOOO smooth!

 

Congrats man, nice to see.

 

Thanks guys!

Rota92, there are a bunch of good full-car detail shots here from the talon shootout this year:
http://s441.photobucket.com/al...rt=60

I hope to make at least a couple real races next season (if there are any). This year we just did a couple club races.

Tony, we aim to please We'll see what happens when I get this pig on a good track next season. Everybody sees it in person compared to the AWD cars and thinks it leaves really soft because it isn't bouncing all over the place and going sideways. They don't realize how quickly it gets to the 60' and 330' marks until I leave next to a high-8 sec AWD car and totally clobber them up to these marks.

In the past, a well prepped track was always 0.1sec better on the 60' than a regular TNT night at my local track. I don't think that will hold true anymore, but I think high 1.2's are quite likely.

Kevin

 

congrats on the times, super smooth off the line.

 

great job bro !

 

Awesome, I'll check it out when I get home from work!

I can see that 1.2 happening no problem when you come to E-town next year

Looking forward to seeing you out with us next year!

 

congrats