The Achieva lives again!

[Robert Swartz]

Finally got the car back to the track.

The day started with some promise. First pass out of the gate, well. I was terribly late on the tree, probably left on the third green! Time was a gain, an 11.43. So we're still 1.5+ seconds off the EF/SA 1/8 index of 9.85.

After that, I had a case of redliteitus. made two more practice passes and the eliminator. Red lit on all of them. Car then settled into the 11.50's, in the same range of our best pass the first time out. Truth is, we really haven't done that much to the car. Other than tune up parts and the cold air intake. It was warm and humidity in the 60%+ range, that's enough to affect a little motor with next to no hp.

On a side note, on the second practice pass. I experienced something I never expected from an FI engine. About 15 or so feet out of gate, the car stumbled or bogged? It immediately picked up. It killed the et but the car was only 1mph off it's current norm. It went 59 mph, every other run has been right at 60. It does occasionally have a stutter on start up that I have yet to solve. Here again, it's only right at start up and once it throws it's fit, it idles and runs fine. It's thrown no codes to give me an indication of what it is. Something else to work on.

When you show up at the track early. Sometimes you get to see some interesting things. We got to watch them clean the track.