It has been raining here since last fall... Woodburn opened up in March but it has rained pretty much every weekend.....

The sun made an appearance today and it is supposed to hit mid 70's today and 80's over the weekend....
Coincidently the Friday Night Fun Drags start TODAY!!

I need to go burn off some gas as I have over half a tank.... and mount the MT's....

I got the NW fuel kit fully installed and want to see if that helps my high end and keeps me accelerating past the 1000' mark....

I am also supposed to get the remote tuning cable from EC today... then I will setup a re-tune date with them and be ready for new weekend.....

 

Good luck brother, kick some a$$!!!

 

Take some of those V8 Crossfire dudes with ya!
Lets get some times!

 

Unfortunately all those guys are on the wrong side of the country!!!

 

Oh yeah. Fergot.

 

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....

 

No noise before the failure? Mine has a rattle when the air is on for some time now. I plan on taking the belt off this weekend to see if I can find the offender or offenders. I suspect more than one.

Les

 

Sorry you had issues after a fun day at the track Mike. I am glad it was not worse. I wish I had your weather problems. Where I am, we have not had any rain for more than 2 months now and for the last month it has been consistently over 100°. It is supposed to be 104° - 105° this weekend. My grass is dead, and it is no fun going outside. This is the hottest/driest spring that I can remember.

 

Dude, that looks pretty rough. Hopefully, when you get it off, you'll
be able to find a way to clean up the seat and save yoursefl the $200.
I now have an undeniable urge to get my flash light and go
take a look at mine.

Good luck,

Coyote

 

Oh man! So sorry that happened to you Mike. I always worry that I didn't tighten my pulleys enough. I tighten them to 20 ft lbs of torque which should be way more than enough. Hope your car recovers ok. It does really suck though when they don't prep the tracks good enough. It just causes problems with spinning which can result in axles and diffs breaking. Good luck with everything.

 

nevermind. the part is indeed 200$ that sux!

 

well I remembered that I keep almost everything.... including an old tensioner that I thought might be causing belt slip and has a kind of buggered up bolt that I worry about using when I have to pull the belt.... I also have a couple of spare stock 90mm pulleys.... so I can get the car fixed and usable... just cant floor it...

I will get a new one and the larger 100mm pulley so I can go have fun soon... The new tensioners come with a 90mm pulley so I will have another spare.....(can you have too many?) anyone want to trade for a 100mm?

I checked all my other pulleys and they seem to be fine. No rattles or grinding...