Under the index for under a grand!

[Billy Nees]

Summer's here! From 600 ft DA at "The Grove" to my day at a T+T at "The Beav" where the good air this morning was 2750 ft and it got as bad as 3300 ft by mid afternoon.
"Dime Rocket" tip for the day, local racetrack run T+T days. What would you pay for a tenth in your new Stocker or SS car? 6 hour T+T cost me $40 and it was worth every dime! Just one quick thing about doing T+Ts, go with a plan of what and how you're going to test. If you think that you can go to NHRA meets and test or make changes then you are kidding yourself. I kinda knew when I went to "The Grove" last week that my tune-up wasn't right but I had an unknown converter in the car and, with the bad weather threatening to make it a one Q run and race deal, I wanted to know that the car would go down the track. It did but not very fast. Ancient history.
The first pass, in the same state as it was last week, got me a 15.36 @84.61 MPH. That compared to a 14.81 @ 88.82 best last week. Not even the IHRA index, I've got my work cut out for me. I made 8 runs changing jets, timing, carb gaskets, a different carb and finally, my launch RPM. To make a long story short, it reacted to leaner jets(more so that the weather would require), more timing, taller carb gaskets and raising my starting line RPM. The carb had a pretty bad stumble that I didn't want to take the time to figure out today so it went back in the truck but it showed some promise.
Simple tuning got the car from a 15.36@84.61 in 2750ft of air to a 15.22@85.68 in 3300ft of air. Still not a bad weather index runner but an improvement of almost a tenth and a half and a MPH for 40 bucks and some sweat. I'll take it.