“Live” from Gainesville 2018

Geoff Turk · 03-17-2018, 12:22 AM

Blackbird’s Florida adventure comes to an early end.

After loaning the dyno tested bullet that we intended for Gainesville to teammates down Bradenton last weekend, we discovered, having beaten the motor in the car for 20+ passes, we needed another.

The crew at BES burned the midnight oil to ship us a ‘frankenstein’ motor but we had no time to do our normal dyno tests. With lots of help from the great people and equipment of DSR, we installed it before Q1. The Q1 8.09 @ 168.66 was a ‘break in’, soft hit pass (1.24 60’, just 1.4 mph off 7.99 run). Sadly, Frankenstein’s life was short as the hodge podge of parts didn’t like the Q2 tune up.

The great news for the Mopar fans is that Leah should have a pretty fast ride Q3 and hopefully deep into the rounds through Sunday.

Time will tell and either way it goes, it certainly won’t be from any lack of trying or from any nefarious activity.

Should be an excellent Factory Stock Shootout with lots of strong players !

03-17-2018, 12:22 AM	#11
Geoff Turk Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2017 Location: Yorkville, IL Posts: 41 Likes: 12 Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: “Live” from Gainesville 2018 Blackbird’s Florida adventure comes to an early end. After loaning the dyno tested bullet that we intended for Gainesville to teammates down Bradenton last weekend, we discovered, having beaten the motor in the car for 20+ passes, we needed another. The crew at BES burned the midnight oil to ship us a ‘frankenstein’ motor but we had no time to do our normal dyno tests. With lots of help from the great people and equipment of DSR, we installed it before Q1. The Q1 8.09 @ 168.66 was a ‘break in’, soft hit pass (1.24 60’, just 1.4 mph off 7.99 run). Sadly, Frankenstein’s life was short as the hodge podge of parts didn’t like the Q2 tune up. The great news for the Mopar fans is that Leah should have a pretty fast ride Q3 and hopefully deep into the rounds through Sunday. Time will tell and either way it goes, it certainly won’t be from any lack of trying or from any nefarious activity. Should be an excellent Factory Stock Shootout with lots of strong players ! Last edited by Geoff Turk; 03-17-2018 at 06:28 AM.