Fuel Check What's the point???

Jim Cimarolli · 09-14-2012, 09:43 PM

I gave up even trying to get through fuel check with C-12 down here in D-4.

art leong · 09-14-2012, 09:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Jim Cimarolli

I gave up even trying to get through fuel check with C-12 down here in D-4.

I had no trouble at Belle Rose with C 12. And like I've been saying I leave it in the fuel cell. Without even capping the vent.

Jim Cimarolli · 09-14-2012, 10:22 PM

Maybe they just like you Art! Whatever you are doing I'd just keep doing it.

art leong · 09-14-2012, 10:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Jim Cimarolli

Maybe they just like you Art! Whatever you are doing I'd just keep doing it.

Jim. A lot of people on here could vouch for the fact they don't like me, Ever hear of the Artie Leong factor? 13.5 percent at one time, from races they were not supposed to count.
I'm not by any means one of their fair haired boys.

Jim Wahl · 09-14-2012, 10:32 PM

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Originally Posted by art leong

Jim. A lot of people on here could vouch for the fact they don't like me, Ever hear of the Artie Leong factor? 13.5 percent at one time, from races they were not supposed to count.
I'm not by any means one of their fair haired boys.

I can testify! Artie is a baaaaaaaad boy! Jim

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Dennis P Chapman · 09-14-2012, 11:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Jim Wahl

I can testify! Artie is a baaaaaaaad boy! Jim

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dragracer9911 · 09-15-2012, 08:24 AM

I think what he is saying is that it is a "bracket race" after any heads up runs or class eliminations. With the cost for racing fuel and the extra .10 you pick up from it, it's all about shoe polish. In the "good old days", everyone ran off their class index. The faster car within their index should win against slower car running off their index. There was an advantage for every hundredth of a second to be fast. Now, it doesn't matter as much about ET, because you put what you want on the window. It's more about the cost of the fuel, not the fuel check it self.
With our bracket cars, we used to run VP or CAM 2 fuel at $12.00 a gallon. Now we run Sunoco 93 pump gas @ $3.80 to $ 4.10 a gallon with one degree of timing taken out. Last night, my son's stick car ran an 11.98, 11.97, 11.96, 11.97., so consistency has not been an issue either.
Just my .02.

09-14-2012, 09:43 PM	#1
Jim Cimarolli Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Sulphur Springs Texas Posts: 743 Likes: 148 Liked 166 Times in 46 Posts	Re: Fuel Check What's the point??? I gave up even trying to get through fuel check with C-12 down here in D-4.

09-14-2012, 10:22 PM	#3
Jim Cimarolli Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Sulphur Springs Texas Posts: 743 Likes: 148 Liked 166 Times in 46 Posts	Re: Fuel Check What's the point??? Maybe they just like you Art! Whatever you are doing I'd just keep doing it.

09-15-2012, 08:24 AM	#7
dragracer9911 Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Southern Maryland Posts: 75 Likes: 0 Liked 3 Times in 1 Post	Re: Fuel Check What's the point??? I think what he is saying is that it is a "bracket race" after any heads up runs or class eliminations. With the cost for racing fuel and the extra .10 you pick up from it, it's all about shoe polish. In the "good old days", everyone ran off their class index. The faster car within their index should win against slower car running off their index. There was an advantage for every hundredth of a second to be fast. Now, it doesn't matter as much about ET, because you put what you want on the window. It's more about the cost of the fuel, not the fuel check it self. With our bracket cars, we used to run VP or CAM 2 fuel at $12.00 a gallon. Now we run Sunoco 93 pump gas @ $3.80 to $ 4.10 a gallon with one degree of timing taken out. Last night, my son's stick car ran an 11.98, 11.97, 11.96, 11.97., so consistency has not been an issue either. Just my .02.