Thanks, like bob said turbos are'nt allowed in renegade. You see this car was set up back in the late 90's. I won a FFW event in '99 with a T-trim vortech. I went 10.0@132 at the event with it. I got a 138mph run with it a few weeks later in cold air. At the time the the biggest Vortech allowed was the T trim and the D1 was the biggest Procharger and the Novi was the biggest paxton. The Novi and D1 seemed to make the most power and Bob Kurgan had the fastes renegade car at the time with a Novi 2000. You even had to run a restricter inside the blower tube to be able to run a Novi then. So in 2000 I had the Novi on the car. What happened was we got some electical gremlins and and burnt valves,pistons and even cracked a A4 block 3 times!We made changes, even brought the car down to LaRocca's in NJ and he could'nt figure it out either.I'd fix it then blow it up on the first pass then fix it and then blow it up on the first pass. I always dynod it before I brought it to the track.I did changes when I did fix it hoping that was the problem. but nothing seemed to fix it.
By then it was fall of 2001, I was very frustrated so I just fixed the broken parts and parked it. By this time I was a member of this site and I decided i wanted a F body for the street. So I picked up a red '97 WS6 T/A witch I liked alot but a year later I traded it in for a '00 T/A witch I love and will never get rid of.
But last summer I decided its time to get the saleen going again. We had it on the dyno and everthing seemed good. But we had the electric fans (engine and tranny) off and the A/F was good even slightly rich. the engine got warmed up so we put the fans on and the A/F went to 21:1 !!! We never had the fans on when we dynoed it before. Then when I went to the track I ran the fans.The whole problem was the power wire from the alternator was'nt heavy enough gauge!! We fixed that and it ran mint. I went to the track the next week and my first pass off the trailer in 3 years was a 9.7@146. I was so pumped.
Taking the time off got me behind in the technology part of it. You have to keep updating every year to keep up.
If I were to do it again i would build a 347 with heavily ported Victor Jr's and the biggest legal procharger. Like Mike Freedman was running. Right now renegade cars are runing low 8's. Someone even got in the 7's. I dont want to go quicker than 8.5 because I dont want to cut up the car to much for the cage you need to run quicker than 8.5. right now i could put it back to stock and 99% of the people would never now its been a race car since the mid 90's.
well enough of my rambling. later guys