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The shakedown continues for the Tomato.

Last night I went to New England Dyno and Tuning ( www.nedyno.com ) and threw the old girl on the rollers.

On the first pull it made 577 / 526. This was the same tune that I had when the car went 10.58 @ 128.

After some tuning and tweaking the car made 654 RWHP and 580 RWTQ.
This was through FLP dual cats.

I’m taking the car off the road for a few weeks as I’m yanking out the torque converter and sending it back to Precision Industries to get tightened up.

Thanks go out to Dyno Dean Hoffman and Rob from New England Dyno and Tuning, definately the place to go when it’s time to put your ride on the rollers and see what it’s made of

Speaking of that I’ll be going back to NEDT to dyno the LS-1 soon.

I’ll be looking forward to getting the converter back and seeing what it will do with some extra power and a converter that doesn’t slip all the way down the track.

Here are the dyno graphs

http://www.tta89.net/marc/654hp.jpg

http://www.tta89.net/marc/dynopulls.jpg

Hey Ted,
What is needed to run 9's
Some people don't think I have it in me to de-tune it as I know it would need a full roll cage and that is not high on my list, not sure what else is needed?


Marc

Josh-'04 GTO

Marc,

Congrats on the amazing numbers! That's a real nice amount of power to pick up at a dyno session. Hello 9's!

chevy94c

Nice Marc you got that car running awesome.

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Thanks guys

Mike, your ears must have been ringing as we were talking about you last night.

What happened to ya?

Did you ever finish the motor you were building?

Marc

TedH

Elapsed Time (ET) of 7.00 - 9.99
IHRA Class B Competition License required for all drivers running an ET of 0.00 - 7.99 seconds, an IHRA Class C Competition License when running 8.00 - 8.99 seconds or an IHRA Class D Competition License when running 9.00 - 9.99 seconds.
Drive shaft loop
Fire system (8.49 or quicker)
Flywheel shield mandatory (8.49 or quicker)
Harmonic Balancer meeting SFI 18.1 Specifications
Snell 90 (or newer) helmet
Parachute required for all cars running over 150 MPH
Two parachutes required for all cars running over 200 MPH
Jacket meeting SFI 3.2A-5 Specifications
Jacket and pants for all cars running 8.49 seconds or faster which must meet SFI 3.2A-5 Specifications.
Roll cage mandatory for all cars running 9.00 seconds or quicker.
Chassis Certification mandatory for all entries running 9.00 seconds or quicker.
Seat belts meeting SFI 16.1 specifications within 2 year expiration from date of manufacture.
Neutral safety switch mandatory for all vehicles with an automatic transmission. Reverse lockout mandatory. If a manual transmission vehicle was originally provided by the manufacturer with a clutch interlock switch it must remain operational.
Reverse lockout mandatory.
All vehicles running 7.99 or faster must use a diaper.
Flexplate meeting SFI 29.1 specifications
Transmission shield meeting SFI 30.1 specifications
Neck collar meeting SFI 3.3 specifications (8.49 or quicker)
Gloves meeting SFI 3.3/5 specifications (9.99 or quicker) on open bodied entries.
Arm Restraints meeting SFI 3.3 specifications (9.99 or quicker) on open bodied entries.
Check current IHRA Rule Book for additional requirements and specifications.

TedH

Why are you tightening up the converter before seeing what effect the new found horsepower has on the combination?

96Z28SS

Well the converter isn't good now it will be useless with the new power. But now he knows how much torque and power it makes and can tell the converter company his number and they can tighten it up accordingly.

Yeah all that safety garbage Marc said and I quote "Yeah if the car goes much faster and they make me put a 10 point cage and all the saftey equipment I'll just detune the program and run slower"

Can you Guys believe Marc said that!!! I was in shock.

I have witnesses that he said it !!

Rob

TedH

If you need to go slower we can just swap stuff.

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I cannot tell a lie, those words were spoken by me and no I wasn't drunk.

Ted,
Thanks, as far as not running it again, it slips the entire way down the track. Once I launch, it never goes below 6K the entire way down the track, when it shifts at 6400 it might go to 6000 if it's lucky. I'm hitting 6500 through the lights as it is.

Thanks for the info.

Hey, did you read the latest GMHTP?
I thought the conclusion statement was shot across the bow of Rich Kraus and myself as we were the two big dog LT-1's that had to drop out
I'll be sending Rick Jensen some info real soon

TedH

Big Dogs?

Oh yea..... You are talking about cars.... And performance.......

Let him know that next time I want to dial and run any big dogs that care to appear..... And to juice up a payout..... Perhaps an "invited" list for a bracket race....

My84Z

Sled Very nice numbers man! Why not junk the cats for race time?

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I'm sure I'll take the cats off at some point.

Probably the next time we get together at NEDT and do a cz28.com dyno day I'll take the cats off and see what difference it makes

TedH

Ahhhh, I remember now.... Please tell me you have regular tranny fuid and not synthetic in it.... Even my slow car will slip if I use synthetic.

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I'm using Synergen synthetic tranny fluid as recommended by SRA Transmission.

Marc

TedH

Yea. TCI recommened synthetic in their too. It slipped. Put regular fuid in and it worked... Just something to think about.

However I "lost" the tranny in the final round yesterday, about 100 feet out... No gears at all. Had to watch the 2nd place guy zoom by for the win and I had a fantastic ride home on Triple A.