It's About Time (Not MPH)

[Billy Nees]

Originally Posted by Frank Castros

The 5 principles of attaining success; Positivity, patience, persistence, discipline and visualization.

and Tequila! Lots of it!

[Glenn Briglio]

Originally Posted by Billy Nees

and Tequila! Lots of it!

You take your medicine today.

[Mark Yacavone]

Tucson Report
Seeing this is an altitude track, I won't bother with actual time digits.
But started out about 70 under. Raised the starting line RPM , raised the timing, leaned the fuel out.. etc. Last run last night, 86 under. First this morning 87 under. I guess that's okay for these inconsistent stick cars.
Fiddled around a bit more and ran 1.02 under ,then 1.04 under.
It's all coming back to me after 7 years off.

Main two things I learned are that I can't go through at 6300 with a stock cam, and that's not a good time to be shifting into 4th. It needs a better cam that will like RPM a little more.
Also, that it's really hard to set the rpm on 5 grand and watch the tree too, without a 2 step.

So at least two Christmas presents to myself. Anybody have a USA built 6AL and a two step that is just collecting dust? The cam won't be as easy but we're working on that.

I guess I'll be putting the paint job off for a while ;-)

[Adger Smith]

Great build Mark... glad to see you doing it..
I have one comment... Kadar and Dime Rocker... sorta Oxymoron-ish to me. LoL
Love the Ol'Yac on the window...
good luck with it....

[Mark Yacavone]

Originally Posted by Adger Smith

Great build Mark... glad to see you doing it..
I have one comment... Kadar and Dime Rocker... sorta Oxymoron-ish to me. LoL
Love the Ol'Yac on the window...
good luck with it....

LOL ..We trade some labor... and Pontiac parts too.
Thankfully my cylinder head was in great shape ..Guides, valves, springs..He knows about my D/R plans .
If a valve breaks, it's all on me ..Not him.

Thanks for following along

[Nick Heath]

Impressive stuff, Mark! But none of should be surprised - you know what you're doing. It is always fun to see the run-by-run progress.

[Mark Yacavone]

Okay, I completely forgot to update this last January, after our double Combo deal.
Saturday was so windy, we had to race 1/8th mile ...Not a fan at all.I built this car, thinking I'd be getting 7-8 second head starts. Normally, I would have bailed out for Saturday but I wanted to support the boys' efforts in this series.
Come to find out, my car only runs about .3 under in the 1/8th.
First round , a friend (we're all friends here) put a package on me , and that was that.
Sunday, we went back to 1/4 mile, and my little car went back to about a second under.
I managed to go a few rounds and get semi-final money. Probably had a shot in that round but took my foot out of it. Big mistake.
I don't have enough data to know what kind of a run I was on.
But I did learn some things ,which I'll address and report on later.
Lately, I been working on a coat of Summit Pure White.
I can't paint in my shop, so I had to do it in three stages outside the door, early in the morning. It came out okay I guess. It's kind of a 10 footer right now, but I'm in the process of spiffing it up a little.
Yup , I'm getting to the pictures ;-)

[Charles Stewart]

Congratulations for your first qualifying run at the Div 7 Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park with a 17,07 sec. on the EF/S index at 17,45.
Keep on Sir,

[Mark Yacavone]

Originally Posted by Charles Stewart

Congratulations for your first qualifying run at the Div 7 Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park with a 17,07 sec. on the EF/S index at 17,45.
Keep on Sir,

Thank you ,Charles.
Fact is we finally figured out a way to add a bunch of timing to the stock computer. Turns out, it didn't like higher timing at all. It's now back to the setup that was FAST!

[doglover44]

This is a cool build you going to the Phoenix national ?