My new drag toy. 93 lx coupe carbed LS1/th400. (pics) by JRracing

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Well here is a up dated picture of what the car looks like now after the new wheels/tires and mini tub work. 

I also put decals on for my business. I do collision repair and just about any kind of body/paint work you could think of.

I hope the car works really well with the improved rear suspension. It would cut 1.36-1.41 60'. I will be very pleased if I can get 1.33-1.34 out of it. Anything more than that would be like Christmas lol.

I also did alm door panels but kept the pw, pl. These were done by scott rod fab in OH.

4-27-2011

I got the mustang out yesterday and put about 10 miles on it. It all feels ok. The bias ply tires on the front feel weird. I'm not use to how that feels. But the 325 dr's feel real good on the back. It hooks up a lot easier than before when I had the 275's.
It pulls really hard on the street. I didn't take it up real high in rpm's cause we need to set the valve lash again but it feels good.

I want to get an alignment before going to the track. And adjust the valves. I also need to wire the shiftnoid and hook the nitrous back up.

I hope to hit the track next week or so if the rain will let up.

4-29-2011

So as some of you know, I sold my 2000 ss a few months ago. I didn't really drive it much the last few years so I decided to let it go. Well in the mean time I started looking at old school rides and rat rods. I really dig the old stuff.

I found a 57 belair 4 dr sedan on cl near Lexington, KY. It has a 283 ci with a old cast iron power glide. Manual stearing and brakes. Drums all the way around lol. It is in great shape. A old fella owned it and he passed away recently. The family was selling two of his old cars. This and a 1950 olds "88". The guy said his father drove this car all the time and said it was the best driving car out of the 4 he owned.

My plan is to drive it like it is and not put to much into it or get carried away with the paint job. It could use some chrome work re done and the paint needs a little help but hey it is a driver.

I welded some large U bolts in the floor behind the rear seat. So down in the crack of the seat you can hook onto the for my daughters car seat. I put the car seat in there tonight and we went to the local cruise in spot. Then to Texas road house for dinner. We had a blast in it tonight. My daughter loves the car..

And NO, it is not getting a ls1.

5-5-2011

I went to IRP last night for some test hits. It was good and bad.
The car started off on the first run doing the dredded breaking up problem down track. So we changed the plugs to a hotter set and I moved some wires near the ignition box when I wired the shifter, so I moved them back and went up for another hit.
I left on the brake at 3000rpm's and it cut a 1.39 60' and and I noticed right away it cleared up so I put the pedal all the way down from about 3/4 on the launch. I was not sure if the shift noid was going to do it's job and I got ancy and pulled it back some were around 7000rpm's and the dam thing went right into 3rd gear and totally missed 2nd gear.
I rode it out to a 10.21@133.

I was so happy, I hot lapped it and it ran good but the 60' fell it 1.4x and went 10.3xx. Then I hot lapped it again and it fell to 1.5x and spun hard.

After that I knew to give it a break and check things over. And I'm glad I did. When I took the hood off I noticed a lot of oil around the rear of the motor. It was dripping off on the ground at the back. Turns out the -10AN breath tube that goes to the valley cover was coming loose. The bulk head nut on the bottom was coming off. I could lift up on it and tell that it was still holding it in there but was starting to un screw.
That would be ugly if that happened. So I put it up. I was happy to know the car went straight and ran pretty good.

And on the last run, I set the shifter to 6200rpm's and let it shift with out freaking out about it not working lol, and it worked great. I was ready to go back and crank it up to about 7200rpm's.

I hope to get in one more test before my first race of the year. Which is next Friday night. Lucas Oil Raceway at Indianapolis presents "Friday Night Rage". I am running a 10.0 index class. I hope this series does well. I like new things lol.

5-7-2011

Once I learn to trust the car and let it do it's thing I can focus on the shock settings and tire pressure to try and get the 60' down a little more. I may even need to try a different converter. I have had this same converter for three years now. It flashes in my car to 5000 rpms.

I also want to put some weight back in it were I want it. In the back lol. My car was 56% frt and 44% rear bias. I would like to get it 50/50 and see how it acts. I want it to hook on any track, all the time..
At some point soon the BFG's will come off in favor of some Hoosier or MT dr's. I just want to give them a fair shake and see how a 325 tire feels on the track.

5-15-2011

Your related to those people? The driver was a young guy and there was an old fella about 65ish that looked to be the captain of the team lol.
They seemed cool.

I had bad results at that race. I broke the sprag in the trans earlier in the day during tnt. It would not go into second gear at all. So I raced it going from 1st to 3rd. My qualifying runs were 10.27 and 10.19 shifting it like this. I ran the 10.0 index.

I got put out in the first round sleeping at the light. .228 rt. I ran 10.33 to the other guys 10.40. Those .400 pro tree lights are no joke. I cutting good lights on a .500 tree but this .400 **** is crazy. A guy almost needs a trans with a pro brake to release quicker than a normal trans brake like a tci.

I will pull the trans this week and get my buddy to look at it. He thinks the sprag broke again. He said that going from 1st to 3rd like I did last week killed it. I didn't mean to. But I manually shifted the car last week and it will easily go from 1st to 3rd due to modding the shifter for the shift noid. I got over excited and pulled it back into 3rd gear.
My buddy says that is really hard on the sprag doing that.