Slobalt

[Ellis V Buth]

Originally Posted by Billy Nees

Ellis, don't disregard the wheel alignment! I aligned the Cav last fall (it was really bad!) and hadn't had it out 'til last Sunday and was quite surprised! I haven't figured out just what it was worth yet but it was significant! Much more than a RWD car would have been.

We had just had the car aligned before turning it into a racecar. Unfortunately, when checking that we were already 1/8" out which seems like the right place to be with a FWD racecar so there wasn't anything to gain from that.

I appreciate the tip though...it did encourage us to at least check the alignment to confirm where we were.

Car ran a 15.95 at almost 87 mph this past weekend so we are still making steps in the right direction at almost .55 under. Looks like you've got the Cavalier flying now!

[TCarper]

Hello Mr. Buth. Really like your slobalt thread. I to am a FWD racer here in D1. running a 1985 Grand Am in BF/S. Good job on et improvement. I enjoy seeing other FWD racers and their progress. What 60' times are you posting? You mentioned different gear ratios and I can tell you you will need to think outside the box on that one. Not much available off the shelf for us FWD guys. Any future plans for improvement? Keep up the good work.

[Ellis V Buth]

Originally Posted by TCarper

Hello Mr. Buth. Really like your slobalt thread. I to am a FWD racer here in D1. running a 1985 Grand Am in BF/S. Good job on et improvement. I enjoy seeing other FWD racers and their progress. What 60' times are you posting? You mentioned different gear ratios and I can tell you you will need to think outside the box on that one. Not much available off the shelf for us FWD guys. Any future plans for improvement? Keep up the good work.

60' times are killing this thing. 2.26 I believe is our best 60 to date. We certainly have ideas on the gear ratio stuff its just a matter of finding the time to work on it.

We have lots of ideas and plans if everything works out right. We still have plenty left to find just in the tune I believe and we are going to try to go through the head this offseason since it hasn't been touched since it came off the assembly line. I think there is quite a bit to be found there as well.

[Ellis V Buth]

Finally got the car back out for the Fall Classic. We made some adjustments to the fuel in the tune and leaned it out at the test n tune on Friday. Started out running 15.94 on the baseline from earlier this season, then ran as quick as 15.82 after changing the fuel curve. We also played around with line pressures in the transmission.

By the end of the weekend we had a 15.77 timeslip with a 2.262 short time and a 10.09 on the 1/8 mile. All were far and away the best times the car has ever run!

Now we are just over a year and a half into this build. Started as a 17.00 1/4 mile car (10.90 1/8 mile). We've spent around $3000 total on parts and fabrication. And we've run .730 under the index! We still haven't freshened anything in the head or the engine or the transmission so there is still plenty left in this old girl I think.

Hopefully we can get some work done on it this offseason. Not sure what we're going to try first, but we've talked about head work, valve springs, cams, transmission gear ratios, and more. We will see what time and budget allows us to do before April rolls around

[Ellis V Buth]

I’m typing this as we drive over the sunshine bridge on our way to Belle Rose. Test and tune today to iron things out on the Slobalt for the week. No changes this winter, but we got a head done and are just waiting on the new cams to get here to get it built. We really think the head and cam are going to make a world of difference in this thing..

For this week, our focus is getting a baseline set and maybe tweak on the tune a little. Trying to beat our .730 under run from fall classic last year. More posts to come!

[JP1738]

I'd not read any of this build thread until you brought it back to the top of the page. Just read through it and this is so awesome! I'll be watching this week to see how it goes! Good luck!

[Ellis V Buth]

Test and tune got everything worked back in for the year. 3 cars here for the Buth’s and all 3 set new personal bests.

Slobalt ran 15.769 which is the quickest pass for it by .001 but still it’s quickest pass. In the lanes now for qualifying