75 Nova U/SA

MikeMoller · 06-30-2015, 04:23 PM

Sooooo the new alternator setup worked well, but hard to tell if there was a performance pickup. Ran an 1/8 mile CCRA race and the air was really bad, 90+ degrees and very humid, first really bad air I have run in. One P/SA car that normally runs mid/low 8.0's in reasonable air was running high 8.2's, and I was at 9.56 twice. Took 2 degrees timing out and went slower. So I'm guessing based on the P/SA car I was losing at least .2 which would have put me at 9.36 in reasonable air(9.50 IHRA 1/8). No races coming up and weather is HOT so going to concentrate on header and converter mods for the time being.

Mark, the current headers are Hooker Headers#520-2451(several pics on JEGS) 1 5/8 prim 30" long 3" collector with 18 inches added. I don't think these are totally 'equal length' either. Test was to see if the merge stuff worked on the 'old' headers before I hacked up the hookers. So not going to hack them based on the test. And yes I am going to call Kenny.

06-30-2015, 04:23 PM	#28
MikeMoller Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: Raleigh NC Posts: 629 Likes: 27 Liked 243 Times in 73 Posts	Re: 75 Nova U/SA Sooooo the new alternator setup worked well, but hard to tell if there was a performance pickup. Ran an 1/8 mile CCRA race and the air was really bad, 90+ degrees and very humid, first really bad air I have run in. One P/SA car that normally runs mid/low 8.0's in reasonable air was running high 8.2's, and I was at 9.56 twice. Took 2 degrees timing out and went slower. So I'm guessing based on the P/SA car I was losing at least .2 which would have put me at 9.36 in reasonable air(9.50 IHRA 1/8). No races coming up and weather is HOT so going to concentrate on header and converter mods for the time being. Mark, the current headers are Hooker Headers#520-2451(several pics on JEGS) 1 5/8 prim 30" long 3" collector with 18 inches added. I don't think these are totally 'equal length' either. Test was to see if the merge stuff worked on the 'old' headers before I hacked up the hookers. So not going to hack them based on the test. And yes I am going to call Kenny. __________________ Mike Moller NHRA 203 Q-R-T/SA Last edited by MikeMoller; 06-30-2015 at 04:30 PM.