Not for Nuthin' But Close!

[Billy Nees]

Originally Posted by Billy Nees

With the 2022 season coming up and "Not for Nuthin'" becoming a one-class car I decided to treat it to a "little something" that will hopefully get it into the 14s.
CF/S (at D wt.) here we come!

Well, I had a "Frankenstein" torque converter built for the Cavalier. I didn't want to go for a "full race" converter because I want to be able to hook this thing up. I reached out to a converter rebuilder that I've done business with before (with good results) and he mixed-and-matched a pump, cover and a modified stator from different stock applications that should be good for "at least" 600-800 more stall speed than I have with my "turbo Sunbird" converter. If this all works out as planned, I should have about a 3400-3500 stall speed which should pick the Cav up a bunch and still let me hook it up.

[Billy Nees]

I got the new converter in the car, went to Atco and wasn't too happy with it UNTIL I got home and started looking back at my records and realized that I had forgotten that I added 220 lbs. to the car. I'm happy now! Oh, with the car. The driver should be flogged!

[Henrys Toy]

Originally Posted by Billy Nees

I got the new converter in the car, went to Atco and wasn't too happy with it UNTIL I got home and started looking back at my records and realized that I had forgotten that I added 220 lbs. to the car. I'm happy now! Oh, with the car. The driver should be flogged!

Good morning Billy,
We'll let the floggings begin.
Can we call you bad names as well?
All kidding aside, factoring in the weight that you added did the car pick up?
We can all be accused of such crimes, mostly just being human.
Have a good day and keep thrashing Bill, I'll give you shout towards the middle of the week.

Respectfully,
Henry Kunz 1534 H/SA

[Doug Hoven]

On a slightly unrelated but also quite related topic, there seems to be a bit of a competition emerging. All of last year Billy and I had been neck and neck for qualifying positions at each race we went to. After qualifying above me this past weekend at Atco, we both have some things we are going to try to make each of our cars faster before the next race at Cecil County in May. Here's the riveting saga emerging. Can an 18 year old engineering student with a recently self-rebuilt 6 cylinder nova outqualify a well seasoned racer in a junkyard fresh, clapped out, turd brown cavalier?(or vise-versa). Only time will tell....

[Billy Nees]

Originally Posted by Doug Hoven

Can an 18 year old engineering student with a recently self-rebuilt 6 cylinder nova outqualify a well seasoned racer in a junkyard fresh, clapped out, turd brown cavalier?(or vise-versa). Only time will tell....

Youth and vigor will always lose to old age and treachery!

[Larry Merk]

I don't know Billy, but can tell he definitely needs one of these shirts.

[Doug Hoven]

Originally Posted by Billy Nees

Youth and vigor will always lose to old age and treachery!

You're lucky I'm staying in U/SA for the time being. As you very well know the nova is a much better runner against the V/SA index. But I'll keep things fair and leave my extra 280lbs of lead at home for now.

[Billy Nees]

Originally Posted by Billy Nees

I got the new converter in the car, went to Atco and wasn't too happy with it UNTIL I got home and started looking back at my records and realized that I had forgotten that I added 220 lbs. to the car. I'm happy now! Oh, with the car. The driver should be flogged!

I only have time for a quick update (VERY busy).
The converter definitely helped pick the car up everywhere but mainly in the 60-330 ft. area but it looks like it picked up .10-.15 overall. The MPH seems down but it was pretty windy at Atco.

My biggest surprise of the week came at "The Beav" on Sunday! First of all. the car slowed down a half of a second ( .2 being weather and the rest being "The Beav"!).
Last year at Numidia, I mixed-and-matched camshafts and found the "re-ground" cams to be the overall fastest even though they did hurt the car in the first half of the run. When I installed the re-ground cams for the last time, I "flopped" (not my word but an apt description!) both cams into an advanced position and raced the car for the duration. At "The Beav" I took the time to "flop" the exhaust cam into a retarded position and was rewarded with runs that were .12 and .16 faster!
Good day!

[Billy Nees]

Cecil County Update!
I replaced the Driver with a Trained Monkey after consistent floggings didn't change the Drivers demeanor. The Monkey needs work.
It wasn't the usual C.C. weather by a long shot! More like Numidia in July.
The car still continues to surprise me with it's consistency. Once I (I mean the Monkey)"found" my starting-line RPM with the new converter, I was .022 on my last T&T run and .005, .007 and .020 on my two Q runs and 1ST RD.. The car runs whatever it is supposed to run give-or-take a couple of hundredths. It ran the fastest ETs it ever did at this weight and on a not-good weather day (15.023 15.60 index). With this combo in the car it should have gone 14.80s at Atco. We'll find out at M.G. this coming week.

Back to the Monkey, I put a 15.09 on the car pretty-much assuming that it would go an 09 or a 10 against a AA/SA dial of a 9.88. The Monkey had the tree and decided to dump said AA/SA car in the lights and gave up the win light by .0025 killing .02 and 3 MPH. .577 under in over 3000 ft. of air!
Good junk.
Bad Monkey!

[Mark Yacavone]

Originally Posted by Billy Nees

Cecil County Update!
I replaced the Driver with a Trained Monkey after consistent floggings didn't change the Drivers demeanor. The Monkey needs work.
It wasn't the usual C.C. weather by a long shot! More like Numidia in July.
The car still continues to surprise me with it's consistency. Once I (I mean the Monkey)"found" my starting-line RPM with the new converter, I was .022 on my last T&T run and .005, .007 and .020 on my two Q runs and 1ST RD.. The car runs whatever it is supposed to run give-or-take a couple of hundredths. It ran the fastest ETs it ever did at this weight and on a not-good weather day (15.023 15.60 index). With this combo in the car it should have gone 14.80s at Atco. We'll find out at M.G. this coming week.

Back to the Monkey, I put a 15.09 on the car pretty-much assuming that it would go an 09 or a 10 against a AA/SA dial of a 9.88. The Monkey had the tree and decided to dump said AA/SA car in the lights and gave up the win light by .0025 killing .02 and 3 MPH. .577 under in over 3000 ft. of air!
Good junk.
Bad Monkey!

Yep..Sounds like me at the last Combo race. I was racing a 10.0 S/S car in the semi's and decided, from the looks of things, to give it up .Turns out I had 4 hun to work with, but then ended up way over the dial.
Last time I did this a 10.7 Stocker was rare. Now, 9 sec. cars are everywhere.
So now I've decided, if I can't tell who's getting there first....keep it welded to the floor and hope the car knows what to do.

Glad to hear it wasn't the car's fault LOL
I see the 60' s are coming around :-)