H motor was completed a few days before we had to leave. The new parts needed a bunch of machine work and I was short on time for posting updates.
I took the car down the street and it wouldn't pull past 4000 rpm. I decided to try and iron it out at Speed Week. We arrived on Saturday morning and I figured out that I had forgotten my log book at home. I was able to contact a friend that was leaving that day and he was able to pick it up. With not being able to go through tech and my wife showing an interest in driving we decided to go through rookie orientation and get her ready if she decided to run.
Here she is doing her bail out test.
My log book made it Saturday afternoon and we made it through tech at the end of the day. Sunday morning we went to the rookie course and made a pass. The car went to about 4k and started to nose over. I shifted to second and it did the same thing. It was just overly rich and not building boost. Finally in 3rd it built 5 lbs of boost and the same in 4th. We made it through mile 2 at 83.331 mph. With knowing my wife wanted to run and this was an open record in H/CBGC we decided to go to impound.
I changed the main jets from 200's to 180's (the smallest I had) in hopes that it would lean it out enough for the engine to rev a little and get the turbo to spin up. I also adjusted the boost controller up just in case it was starting to let the wastegate open.
The next morning we went to impound early and got the engine warmed up. The engine ran better and pulled to 7,000 rpm and the turbo built 7 lbs of boost this time. We ran 105.337 mph and called it good as this turbo is just too big to spool up on this little engine. We will be back in September with a smaller turbo to try for some more blown records. This was Record #6 in H/CBGC at 94.33 MPH.