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After no success with my
MSD as far as setting my shift points, I decided to
bypass the whole system and put an MSD RPM Activated
unit back in the car. This worked well in the old car,
so there should be no reason that it wouldn't work.
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Once we had the car off
the trailer and warmed up, we noticed that we had a
little water leaking out of one of the cylinder heads
and the car just didn't sound right. To get the car
running for the night I decided to put some Chemiweld in
the cooling system. This seemed to ease the problem, but
the heads will have to come off when I get home.
My first pass was at 7:41pm, the car just didn't sound
and feel right after half track so I lifted before the
stripe, we ran 10.336 @ 119.92 mph. One thing that I was
pleased about was that the shifter worked with the RPM
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Once back in the pits we
looked at a few plugs and they all looked fine, the
water had stopped weeping so we will continue on. My
next pass was at 9:27pm and the Cortina ran a PB
of 10.048 @ 133.96 mph, so we were all excited.
40 minutes later we were up again and by the reaction of
the crew in the deep end and the way the car felt going
down the track. I had finally cracked a sub 10 second
pass. 9.935 @ 134.91 mph. Excited by this we had less
that 30 minutes to back around to the staging lanes for
one more pass for the night.
I put another rpm chip for the gear change to see if I
could improve on the previous run. As luck would have it
the chip was faulty, which pretty much hurt the pass, It
was on a quicker pass up until it was time to shift, but
by the time I reacted and had to manually shift the
damage was done, we ran 10.109 @ 133.56 mph. With that
being it for the night we went home extremely happy.
Until next time
Jim Denaro |
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