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Old Jun 4, 2011 | 10:33 AM
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MikeR
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From: North Plains, OR
Default Re: Sunshine = dragstrip

The good and the bad.....

I still had 1/2 a tank of 92 gas in the car when I got to the track.... beautiful day and a nice tail wind...
The first two runs were okay at 12.1 and just over 114mph with 1.8 60' times. They didnt prep the track for the fun night drags and it got slick real fast... runs number 3, 4 & 5 I spun badly during launching and ran 12.8, 12.9 and 13.4(I let off to stop the spin)..... I still beat all the cars I ran... mostly Mustangs.. The first run was against the Impala I ran the day I hit 11.9... he is a 16 sec car so it looks really bad for him... with the track conditions I decided that was enough slip sliding and left.....

The ugly.....
On the way home I was cruising down the freeway and heard a clunk and banging under the car and something black bounding on the road behind me... crap, what did I run over? I didnt see anything on the road... a few minutes later I see the engine temp on the Dashdaq is RED, look at the needle on the dash and it is climbing quickly.... so I find a spot to pull over quickly and kill it. Pop the hood and sure enough, my belt is all loose, but looks okay. WP pulley and all on the passenger sides looks good. Where the heck is my tensioner pulley?? It came off. I just looked at the tensioner this morning in good light and it looks pretty clean. Nothing else damaged and even the fan belt looks find. But it looks like the nut came off and there is some metal stuck on the tensioner around the bearing seat and on the threaded bolt..
Dont know if the pulley siezed and spun if off being driven by the engine or what. I will pull it and confirm, but it looks like it can't be salvaged, the seat looks damaged and the means a new tensioner. The EC re-tune will have to wait till I get this fixed.

Taxi ride for car.... $195.00
New tensioner.... $200.00

Oh yeah, the fuel kit works good. AFR's were running between 11 - 13....






this is the under side where all the pressure is applied....

 

Last edited by MikeR; Jun 4, 2011 at 01:41 PM.
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