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Originally Posted by Larry Hill
Do you folks use PO the help the nitro get started. In toy airplanes at 70% or above we would use a little PO to get it to light. We found the clear nitro was slightly faster that the yellow stuff.
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I'm actually not even sure what PO is. Sorry.
We actually use 87 octane gasoline. When you see the squirt bottle it's simply squirting the gas into the injector. Then when we're spinning the motor we're simply squirting more gasoline into it as the fuel pump is being turned completely on. You'll hear it first start on gas and then you'll hear the sound change. That change is the nitro now being lit. Once it lights on nitro we stop feeding it gas and then lower the pump volume (gallons per minute) to where we want it and adjust the idle. When both numbers are where we want them we pull the pump wide open to do a burnout.
The driver then trims the pump back after the burnout and doesn't put it wide open again until both top bulbs are lit.
And Larry - You're probably not going to remember this. But back in 2017 you let my 4 year old son sit in your Cuda at Bolling Green during the SportsNationals. It was his first drag race. He's now 7 and still talks about it.