Archive for the ‘Bob’s Blog’ Category
fuel injection nozzles & jetting challenge
Wednesday, January 26th, 2011The determination of nozzles & jetting in a new fuel injection setup can be a challenge. (more…)
Nitro spark advance
Thursday, January 13th, 2011Decreased percentages of nitro richen the racing engine. (more…)
Methanol fuel temperature
Friday, December 3rd, 2010A lot of pit buz that cooler fuel runs better.
METHANOL VAPOR ISSUE: We found in our methanol publication development that only methanol vapor burns. (more…)
Nitro 20% update
Monday, November 22nd, 2010We made a full pass. Picked up 3 tenths of a second and about 7 MPH over 9% nitro. It was a rush. The engine is louder. And more radical. We are still making enough engine heat at idle to keep the oil dilution minimal. We are on our 16th pass on the same oil and it looks good.
Nitro 20%
Friday, November 19th, 2010We dropped the AFR to 3.2 The idle went up by 300 RPM over the 9% setup (with no idle adjustments). (more…)
Nitro 9%
Sunday, November 14th, 2010With a small increase from 6% to 9% nitro, in preparation we dropped the AFR to from 3.7 to 3.4. As a result, we picked up a tenth of a second and about 4 MPH over 6% nitro. (more…)
Nitro 6% with port nozzles
Friday, October 22nd, 2010We added port nozzles and put about 60% of the fuel into the ports.
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Nitro 6% for drag race test
Thursday, October 21st, 2010We tested a low percentage of nitro last week in our blown alcohol drag race roadster. (more…)
Blown alcohol for 2010
Wednesday, October 20th, 2010Just a note about our test engine for this year. We put our blown alcohol engine back together for nitro testing this year.
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