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Old 08-03-2015, 07:16 PM   #11
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Default Re: Soup up trick.

I would be afraid to try that. Besides, it is cheating. A guy doing that would not have actually won anything anyway. Just screwed some people.
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Old 08-04-2015, 07:26 AM   #12
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Amazing how a couple of posts can suck the fun right out of a thread....Ed, this was supposed to be "tongue in cheek"! Notice the winking smiley face on Jeff's first post?
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Old 08-04-2015, 12:32 PM   #13
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A 1/4 Midget racer I used to weld chassis for told me they did it for years !
The tracks finally used a A/C leak detector to sniff the oil , it would pick up the nitro same as a freon leak !
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Old 08-04-2015, 12:33 PM   #14
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Mr Jeff,
Did you know that if you spin the old smog pump backwards it would draw in more clean air / fuel in ?
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Old 08-04-2015, 01:27 PM   #15
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Default Re: Soup up trick.

If you don't want to mess with the oil theres the "sterno" trick that was allegedly used by one of the Toyota Teams to qualify for the Daytona 500. A jelly like substance that was enriched with a power enhancing chemical was applied to the inside of the air cleaner element. The plot fell apart after the sudden increase in speed by the car led curious tech inspectors to the alleged jelly still present in the intake manifold.
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Old 08-04-2015, 01:34 PM   #16
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I seem to remember that this trick worked best with Pennzoil.
Maybe that was nitrous instead of Nitro.
I'm old you know.
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Old 08-04-2015, 01:53 PM   #17
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Cheating only if u get caught funny thing is I got pulled for piston and rod. And was only one of 3 cars to pass. Lol was runny3 quarts of royal purple was told when you cross finish Line shut it off. Glad it wasn't my motor it works
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Old 08-04-2015, 02:35 PM   #18
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A 1/4 Midget racer I used to weld chassis for told me they did it for years !
The tracks finally used a A/C leak detector to sniff the oil , it would pick up the nitro same as a freon leak !
This. When I was the VP Fuel rep in AZ I would be the filling station for the go cart nationals on dirt. The carts would have to come up with a dry fuel tank and unscrew oil cap. If tank was dry I could fill with spec fuel and the AC sniffer was put in oil hole. A couple of tanks were wet and some of the motors had something in oil that sniffer picked up. They were removed from line and sent back to correct. Funny when they came back everything was good to go.
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Old 08-04-2015, 02:53 PM   #19
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James every red light has a price! Its never a free lunch.
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Old 08-04-2015, 06:36 PM   #20
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I like to soak my air cleaners in nitro so the fumes are pulled into the carbs as soon as I hit the throttle, air cleaners catch on fire every so often but it looks good going thru the lights with fire shooting out from under the hood.

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