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Offline Johntsi

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Re: Building a car for the mile
« Reply #60 on: December 12, 2009, 07:48:08 PM »
Good suggestions.

December sucks for working on a project. Been busy working on Santa stuff (3 little girls), however parts are stacking up.  Thing should move fast in Jan. 

On a side note, I am thinking of installing 3 nozzles for fire suppression in the engine bay. One up top at the firewall over the intake manifold/fuel injectors/valve cover, one over the exhaust manifold and the 3rd underneath pointing at the oil pan/downpipe.  Is that adequate or is there a better setup.


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Re: Building a car for the mile
« Reply #61 on: December 12, 2009, 10:29:39 PM »
3 Nozzels  seems fine.  FireFox and other manufactures ,, suggest 2 or 3,,, so you should be OK,,,

Make sure the nozzelz are near the front, so agent sprays from front of engine bay towards firewall,, this was any air under hood while moving will not disrupt or limit the effectivness of the agent you are using.

What will you be using ?

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Re: Building a car for the mile
« Reply #62 on: December 13, 2009, 07:58:56 AM »
Right now I have one firefox system and 1 safecraft halon system.  Have not decided if I will use both or order another firefox system.  One system for under the hood and one for in the car of course.

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Re: Building a car for the mile
« Reply #63 on: December 13, 2009, 09:31:56 AM »
So you don't go faster than your license allows check out    www.f-body.org/gears/   Plug in your tire size, ring gear ratio, transmission gearing  and this site will give your theoretical speed at rpm and top speed. USE YOUR TACH to indicate your speed! Good luck and be safe!

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Re: Building a car for the mile
« Reply #64 on: December 14, 2009, 07:18:33 PM »
John,
I have personally seen the driver of a car violate his licensing run. I was holding his timing slip (impound Monitor duty) and Keith snatched it away and as the culprit came into impound, and he was invited to take a ride in Keith's truck, I don't think they were evaluating his sound system.

There is plenty of time to make the ultimate run, I can't wait to see another Mitsubishi take a record at Maxton. Maybe pick up a few pointer's on the truck. No, I won't convert to a 4G63, I'm 4G64 all the way.
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Re: Building a car for the mile
« Reply #65 on: December 14, 2009, 10:19:08 PM »
Mike, did you get the clutch and motor sorted out yet ?
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Re: Building a car for the mile
« Reply #66 on: December 20, 2009, 07:10:55 PM »
Hey Mike, you get the truck sorted out? Look forward to seeing you out there again.

I too have seen Keith have to "speak to" people who broke the rules, one guy in particular who just posted for using the highway outside the gates as a test track ;).

Reichen, shouldn't you be working on the evo or as usual you gonna wait until the week before you are supposed to be here so we spend most of our time fixing stuff instead of racing?  :evil: :cheers:

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Re: Building a car for the mile
« Reply #67 on: December 21, 2009, 08:43:00 AM »
I think I have it all working. Set the record at Speedweek and broke the Transmission in the process, had to finish in 4th (all I had left) gear. Got that fixed and now I'm trying to find a coolant leak after I got everything back together. I think it's the T'stat Housing or the Hose. Too cold to work in the garage right now, especially with water....
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Re: Building a car for the mile
« Reply #68 on: December 21, 2009, 12:56:30 PM »
Breaking is ok as long as you set the record in the process, look forward to seeing you at maxton again this year.

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Re: Building a car for the mile
« Reply #69 on: January 05, 2010, 12:18:04 PM »
With 3 months to go until Maxton I just scheduled several weeks off in the begining of March to make sure I wrap this up.  I will post some more progress pics later, seat is in, more safety equipment has been finished and installed as well.

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Re: Building a car for the mile
« Reply #70 on: January 05, 2010, 08:07:15 PM »
Well from the way you tell it at least 1 car(yours ) will be done so we should be good to go.
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Re: Building a car for the mile
« Reply #71 on: January 06, 2010, 07:11:57 PM »
Well from the way you tell it at least 1 car(yours ) will be done so we should be good to go.


We both know you won't start working on the car until a week before you have to leave for Maxton and we will run into 12 problems at the track before we get to make the first god pass because of it ;).

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Re: Building a car for the mile
« Reply #72 on: January 08, 2010, 09:07:05 PM »
 he was invited to take a ride in Keith's truck, 

O that must have been a ride   :-o.I don't want to ride in the truck . Please don't make me get in the truck.
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Re: Building a car for the mile
« Reply #73 on: February 12, 2010, 10:16:20 AM »
After getting pissed and not being happy with some of the rewire, I ended up ordering a 12 circuit drag harness with switch box kit from painless, didn't hurt they are doing $100 rebate on them right now. I have some heavy time schedueled to finish the fuel system and wiring next week.  Should be getting much closer to being ready for the dyno soon.

On a side note, production supercharged says you have to have wipers.  That just means linkage and motor right?  I certainly don't want the arms and blades on at the speeds I hope to be seeing. Also about the radiator in that class when it says stock, it means stock location not a stock radiator right?

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Re: Building a car for the mile
« Reply #74 on: February 12, 2010, 02:59:41 PM »
You must have a radiator and in the stock location.  The way I understand it you may use an aftermarket replacement as long as you put it where the stock on was and in the same orientation.

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