beerbongskickass

Well most of us made it to the dragstrip, I had a little car trouble and spent most of the day on the side of the freeway.

I blew my head gasket maybe a week earlier so I had to change that the day before woodburn. I ordered/bought all the parts needed and the install went well, my car started up and ran fine ( I did it all myself! ). Jeff (Abaz), Leia (rxsprincess), Travis (sidewinderx7), Steve (88dx) all came down to stay at my house the night before so they wouldn't have to get up early. Jason (****) and Alec (CivicZC) also came up that night to hang out for a while. I had another buddy come over that night and we did a little trouble shooting trying to get his car to run right. We all ended up going to bed pretty late and were planning on leaving at 60 in the morning so we could get to woodburn early.

Just before I fell asleep I remembered I forgot to install my walbro 255, so I did a quick fuel pump install at 3AM. The pump had a piece broke off so I couldn't run the little filter on it. I asked a few people (Jeff was one of the people, I don't think he remembers though) and they said I shouldn't have a problem running it without a filter. As we leave in the morning my car starts up fine and I get about halfway there and my car dies. I was bogging down bad so I had to pull over, and then I couldn't even turn it over. I thought the fuel pump took a ----, but then why would my car also be dead? I spent most of the day on the side of the freeway, we changed my alternator and fuel pump, but still couldn't get it started so I just left my car there and went ot woodburn.

Anyways I didn't get to run my car, but after woodburn Jeff helped fix my car. We first checked for spark and got nothing, so after $177 for a ignitor and coil from NAPA we had spark, but no fuel. Well we finally figured out not having that filter on the fuel pump, it cant suck up the gas when it fuel gets low (I had about 1/4 tank) so I stuck the rest of my race gas in I had in the trunk and it fired right up and I made it home just fine, but bummed out since I couldn't run my car. So here we go with the pictures... Jeff will update with all the times and anything else since I was not there most of the day.



Head gasket install. Here is me the night before holding the goods. I figured I would just unbolt everything in one piece to make it easier on me.




Tighting the rest of the bolts for my intake mani.




Bottom is done, now it's time to put the top side back together.




Just finishing up tighting down the mani.






I ran out of anti freeze so I just decided to take a pee in my radiator.




Now it's the nexy day and I made it a little over halfway to woodburn.




We had a pretty good view the whole day (Steve rode down with me).








Changing an alternator on the side of the freeway. Thanks again Jason and Alec for helping me out. Jason on the left and Steve on the right.




WTF!? I only have one bolt holding my alternator on? We can fix that with a screw driver and zip ties.




We thought the alternator was the problem, but after switching nothing happened. I still decided to flip it off.




I am in there switchging the fuel pump right now back to my stock one, still didn't fix anything.




Me not in a good mood.




This dude came by to check things out. I told him everything was going good and if we can't get it fixed my buddy has a trailer so we can tow it. He just said don't leave it here overnight because it will get broken into.




I finally get to the track after leaving my car behind. I remebmer nobody got pictures of Stefan's (98ctr) car at BOTI so I made sure to snap a few. Your car looks sweet by the way, I like the welds. You also do the best burnouts I have ever seen!






Of course I had to get a shot of the HMT sticker.




Here is an intec racing car that ran 9.92 @ 146 mph I believe, Stefan you could proly give a little more info about this car.




Here is Stefan and the intec car lined up. Stefan ran his 11.6 on this run.




Leia in the staging lanes.






Jeff tighting down the charge pipes. Leia had problems blowing charge pipes most of the day. I believe there was a hole in the hose and that was causing it to blow?






This time it blew a charge pipe so hard it knocked the bumper off!




Jeff tried a few runs in the bullet, but he couldn't even get the charge pipe to stay on during a burnout. HE left the bumper off and the charge pipe went flying across the track when it blew haha. The starter went up and asked Travis 2 times if Jeff was okay to run without that pipe lol.




I didn't get to watch Beau run at all, but I chatted with him for a bit. I guess he had a little run in with another car and his new enclosed trailer.




A picture of Beau's timeslip on his 10.6 run. Awesome time Beau! WTF is that a 1.2 60 foot I see?!?!? We all came to the conclusion that can't be right because that's like a world record for front wheel drive cars. It must be the Garrison Gerth.




A final shot of the track.

yayopwrcrx

damn looks like fun.....would of been cooler if some one got hit in the head with one of those pipes

HMT-Admin

Wow, what an eventfull day yesterday. Leia's car was running solid all day long at 15psi, and as soon as I turned it up to 17psi it was blowing charge pipes off. (yes even the tbolt ones) She was having problems getting use to the car, making 3 runs in the low 13's then finally hitting a 12.3, it was getting late and I wanted to make a run in the car, ---- both times I didnt even make it out of the water box and blew out the charge pipe. Lol, watching the charge pipe launch out of the car was pretty funny.

Beau's run was great, we were all excited he broke into the 10's. I remember asking him, lets see the slip, and seeing that 1.2 60 foot, I couldnt beleive it!! I was like that must be like some kind of new world record or something!! haha, I think it was a glitch, because if it was true beau would probably have the fastest FWD car in the world. I dont even think big guys like hoyos, and kubo get sub 1.3 60's.

What did beau change?? lol, the spark plug wires and the distributor cap, didnt touch the boost (24psi) Good job on the tune up buddy!

Pat and his bad luck really sucked yesterday, just glad we got everything figured out, sometimes it can be the simplist things. What really boggled me was that you had no spark when you were cranking the car over??.. I figured for sure it was either a coil or ignitor. But then after we replaced it we had great spark but no fuel?.. Fuel pump is turning on (power/ground) but nothing coming to the rail, and the car has 1/4 tank of gas, so I pulled it back out and I could see the bottom of the pump wasnt touching any gas. The filter has to be put on otherwise it wont draw the fuel to the inlet and suck it up. I dont remember telling you "oh you dont need that" I remember saying how in the hell did you break it putting it on? and on a 4g the pumps dont sit so goofy and it will suck the fuel up without the filter. You should of just put your old one on.

Anyhow, thanks to Pat for letting us Stay, Good job to Stephan for the 11.6 run. Beau setting a new world record, and travis/steve for all the help. Leia's car will make 1 more run this season, she will hit 11's in it, she just needs to get use to the power and shifting.

Jeff

beerbongskickass

Well technically you didn't say don't use the filter. You had told me I should upgrade my fuel pump and I told you I broke that plastic tip off so I couldn't put the filter on it. Ted was the one who told me just use it without the filter, you were standing next to us though when we were talkgin about it. I talked to a few other people and they seemed to think it would be okay since I have that fuel filter in the engine bay anyways. Lesson learned for me I guess.

What I am wondering though is that if I would have left my stock pump with the filter in my car would I have still broke down? That no spark thing was completely different. Either way I am just glad I made it home and thanks for all the help.

Oh and thanks Ross (woodywoodruff) for driving all that way getting me the extra pump and tools. You saved me even more driving time.

AgentMurdoc

damn looks like you guys had a gang of a good time, well except for pat (sucks for the lucks man ). Damn I'm surprised that you actaully left your car on the side of the road, I'd be paranoid as ---- and wouldn't know what to do.


Congrats to all and their good times, especially beau, 1.2... that's just... well... it's just.

woodywoodruff

Your welcome pat..Im just bummed that i didnt see you run this weekend...Nice times though guys!


His car is okay on the side of road...Its purple! Nobody breaks into a purple car...Right pat?

FooK

That screwdriver in the alternator has to be my best trick yet. See me lounging on the back of the ZC, damn I was tired. I think I got to bed at like 3am and Pat called me at about 7:50am or something.

Look at Beau's slip, the dude next to him had like a 4.3 60 foot. How do you manage that? push it?

Anyways, it was a cool event, well what we saw of it. Hopefully I'll be there to run with ya at the next one, instead of spectating.

HMT-Admin

Few more pics,



Leia getting use to her new roll bar/race seat in the hatch.



Beau with his little annoying brother





Beau on his first run, setting the new world record, lol



Intec's All Motor race car.



Freeway Repairs



After a long day.... Failure

12's soon pat.. soon, maybe next time


Jeff

juli0_bustamante

thats crazy..down here you cant just park cars on the side of the freeway...your car would have been gone!

Anyway all the cars look hot even the one on the freeway!

Cant wait for the 13th of november...track day at California Speedway...who's coming with me?

ssl2k

Jeff/Beau

What kind of couplers/clamps is beau using?

those are taking 24psi from a sc61 right or something like that on his race car...hook dem up on the h22

p.s.

if you already have the same ones, nm, just an idea