Willing To Hold...Again

[Justin Graham]

I have NO idea what I’m doing. I must’ve done a few things right twice this year though. Two rounds still kinda itch me…but, I’m still having a blast!

There’s a lot of Kenny Rogers’esses on here. Y’all holding more than you’re sharing

[1700camaro]

Originally Posted by Justin Graham

Y?all holding more than you?re sharing

I believe the poll/members were pretty straight forward & for the most part honest.

IMO, what the poll didn't show was the ones holding more & they didn't want to share/participate.

1700/781L

[Cglrcng]

You think I can hold against all fast company? Was I holding or dialing honest? (I learned more about my own car in a week and 44 passes, than I have in all the years owning it). I knew what it was, and adjusted my driving to a slightly wounded car.

That Gambler was all 6 (23 of them), second cars...and slow poke me.

1 laughed at me before first round said look around everybody is dialing 6's but you in that slow heap. I said ok I paid my $200.00 bucks, here is how it will go...I will be good by 2 thou, you will think I am parked at the 1/8th mile (those in Sportsman thought that at least, and said so often, Mrs. Hoeffer actually thought I was broke at the finish line), and I said I think you are going to fly by and breakout. We shall see!

Good by 2 thou, and he lifted as I took the stripe dead flat in it but my left foot just touching the brake pedal just in case. Yes I lost Round 4 The Semi's (round of 3), but the competition was the weeks Giant Killer and Money Winner Andy Schmalls, and here is why (besides the very nice .010 he slammed me with)....The second pic, after 13 months my cheap $20 Buck a bag Tennis Balls in the rear springs (FWD cars get traction devices as necessary, and with all the action the rear independent coil springs receive pushing a heavy slow car. I need something to keep it from squating, lessons learned They were each and every single ball flat and busted, totally worn out and beat up, and deformed...Not 1 had any air left in them, it took some passes to figure it out and stalling the car much higher than normal), to preset the rear and take up the slack.) had flat given up the ghost from travel with the car loaded down with an extra thousand pounds while trailering, sitting in storage etc. and a lot of launches. But, not something I could fix in storage or in the pits safely.

Air bags are on the way now, I want my R.T's back! Hey, even wounded I turned 200 into 600 and my second semi's of the week...Won Sportsman the next night, and all were the first time beyond 1st -3rd round duck in 13 months since back late in life. The Holley Terminator X is almost finished with the install too! Rare though I can Run Pro, and run against the Super Pro guys in Gamblers also in my Turtle.







Nope, I was not holding, just running what the car said it would and the weather said I was probably going too. Closest I got to the Run for the money all week was the last day though, I was good by .002 above in Pro leading at the time slip booth, and by the time I got to my Pit Area, that was gone and beat by a thou dangit! It was all fun though. Holding would not have helped me like dialing honest did. Both ends of the track and stripe decisions all help.

Then again...it depends on the day...and who you are. Lol. I wish they would just put a chalk stringline mark across the 1/8th mile finish line at least (I am going slow enough to actually notice and see it. LMAO!

[1700camaro]

This Poll/Thread has done reasonably well with 9,800+ views. All this without drama; there are still threads out there without it.

While I primarily race 1/4 mile, it seems drag racing is headed for shorter distances. It doesn't matter to me; I actually like racing 1/8 mile.

Anyway, I have limited holding strategies for the 1/8th. The plan this year is to start testing more holding in the shorter distance. I'll be doing this while racing 1/4 mile & I've done some in the past. We'll see how it goes; the racing starts very soon for us in Las Vegas.

1700/781L

[Cglrcng]

Testing on the 24th! My Winter Improves better work, because they were a lot of hard work. They were not off the shelf purchases, though there were many purchases and a ton of my labor over a long period.

Will I become a holder? Who knows, but not folding. See ya there 1900.

Pretty Ambicious as John Irving stated.

[GTX JOHN]

We are pulling for you at our place Gary!

[Jack McCarthy]

seems like if you only hold 2-3-4 then there are two decisions to make
1> do i need to hit the brakes
2> when do i need to hit the brakes

if ya got 5-6+ then there only one > when

captain

[Cglrcng]

Originally Posted by GTX JOHN

We are pulling for you at our place Gary!

Ty John, it fired up first time last Friday rur, rur....first key stroke and roared to life after exactly a month apart like it never had been apart John....then before the fuel pump came back on (pump prime worked everytime I went key on)... it died. Tried 4 times and same result, then I ran out of daylight and open header noisemakers time in my close neighborhood. I had been up for days@that point was exhausted.

Went to bed and got up late Saturday, started through that long drawn out Holley 1st Startup checklist, did not get far before total embarrassment set in...1st up brought up the check functions, fuel pump on and it runs fine, so the relay is working, got my Wife Celeste out in the garage at the keyboard to check injector function with my hands on it and ear close and zero clicking sounds or spray when she hit the few milliseconds test button a few times, throttle body throat and blade are totally dry but I can gather through the nose a faint smell of sweet Sunoco 110, yeah the pump prime is providing something, but no spray...so, I remove the clip, noise it as she fires it again, there is juice there at the clip, put the meter on the injector to ck ohms and it is low, yeah the stock injector(s) I own are all low impedance injectors and oh lord what a fool I am....In paper building a Holley EFI systemand first choosing the features you choose the ECU then build the system around that ECU, last
January there was a footnote once I chose the Terminator X system, while HP and Dominator can use either high or low impedance injectors Terminator uses only the high. Old age caught up to me, but you do not build a system for a combo that you cannot buy an off the shelf kit for by buying the injector first, you buy the ECU first (I could not get to that laptop fast enough to order the exact injector from holley I need to get fire in the holes and keep it running long enough to reach at least idle and she is standing there whole I am red faced.

I order 1 and spend another hundred and change, she was as usual not really happy waving another hundred plus goodbye, not upset, just not happy...until I said "well thank goodness we own a budget Stocker: that only needs 1", as I scrolled to same part number but a set of 8 of em, then she glanced at the much bigger price and smiled once I said we only need 1 and maybe a spare
later, at least it is not a set of 8. She was happy...the Injector is due here Friday by 9:00PM and I already warned all the neighbors on Friday evening I am making lots of happy open header noises no matter the time it arrives!

What a goofball though forgetting to buy the right injector. Getting older is hell.

At least I know it works right once that issue is resolved. I did achieve a short idlingsession the next morning dribbling a bit of gas down the throat. just once, but you know I had to make at least 1 attempt. Lol. It is going to run great!

Now just to get the last 8 wires (the Bosch lsu 4.9 WBO2 sensor wires pin mapped), but I need the TYPE and other configuration data to do so), and tge choice was in correctly of WBO2 type so I did not hurt it as the light showed yellow so it was heating key on.

That is the job for today. And the injector is 3 days from arrival. Then happy sounds begin again. Testing just a week away and I hope this cold weather is still here. She is going to fly! Well, for a slow car at least.

[Cglrcng]

Originally Posted by GTX JOHN

We are pulling for you at our place Gary!

John, are you and Jon going to Vegas to test anything a week from Friday? I would like to get an appointment to speak with you both about a very near future purchase please. Got the truck and need a rolling third part of the equation very soon.

Ok, I will stop junking up this thread with all kinds of my off topic chatteting. Sry bros. I am just really giddy that the 3rd part of goal 1 2025 is so close and timely.