2010 TS mustang in the works

Well, the baby didn't show up yet so we made it out to the track last night. Let me preface this with saying friday nights at MCIR there are alot of street cars and it was pretty hot and very humid so the track wasn't at its best. made two easy trips down the track car went nice and straight, but even trying to roll into the power once i got to about 1/2 throttle it wanted to skate around. We tried on the 3rd run to launch it, but it made a hard and instant move to the right so i coasted the rest of the track. then we pack up and went home. all in all we accomplished everything we wanted to and we are ready to get some serious test done (probably at norwalk on the 9th of july)

nice pics of the car in action!

You need to get someone to video your runs so we can see and hear it run.

BigBlockFalcon wrote:You need to get someone to video your runs so we can see and hear it run.

I agree!

my wife did get this one video, but it was just with her camera. next time will try to remember the video camera so the definition will be a little better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfw0Eqh8hLI

got some testing in at muncie, IN last weekend. We quickly found out the converter is way too loose. it went a 5.16 @142 in the 1/8th. i had the shift setup of 7300 RPM and it would hit that and shift 0.8 seconds into the run. So, we took the converter out sunday afternoon and will have the right one(hopefully) here wednesday, just in time to test friday night and get ready for my licensing runs tuesday and wednesday. We've got our fingers crossed the converter will be right and the car will run faster than a 7.50 so i can get my advanced ET lic.

DANG! That thing sounds nice! Good luck with the converter issues, can't wait to see some fast passes.









Doug...

It was nice meeting you last Saturday....I must say, pictures and videos do not do that car justice...it is absolutely bad-azz.
Are you gonna' make your license runs at Muncie? If so, I might come out to watch.
Either way, nice car, good luck with it.
Jeff

it was very nice meeting you too. sorry we weren't more talkative, but trying to figure out that it was the converter had us deep in thought, haha.

no, were are doing the licensing at norwalk. We are going to try to go friday and run some 1/8th mile test passes and see if we can sneak in to the back of door wars. then tuesday and wednesday we are going to frank hawleys for some learnin' and licensing.

86bigblockbird wrote:it was very nice meeting you too. sorry we weren't more talkative, but trying to figure out that it was the converter had us deep in thought, haha.

I didn't think a thing about it....I know how it is, trying to get a new combo sorted out....not much time for small talk...lol.
Norwalk would be my first choice too...love that place. Good luck with it and get some more video for us.
Jeff

All I can say is that CAR is BADDDDDDDD Ass good to see you at Muncie.

Here are some pictures of our new addition, Collin Andrew Horne, This is just after his first bath about 3 hours old



And this one is about 2 weeks old

Oh, and we also got some more testing done. We went up to norwalk for Friday night Chaos and ran in the door wars program(we knew we wouldn't qualify we were mostly there cause we knew the track would be good)
The engine builder told us we were babying the motor too much, so we are shifting at 7900 now and launching at 5400. the first pass was a 1.12 60 ft then i had to shut it down. it seemed to be staying in first a long time(setup up to shift on RPM with a shiftnoid) so i reached for the shifter to put it into high and hit the switch to activate the trans brake to back up. Thankfully the transbrake was locked out through the delay box and all it did was activate the launch rev limiter.
we moved the bracket for that switch as soon as i got it back to our pit. second run was much better. 1.10 60 ft and shifted when it was supposed to and ran a 4.80 @ 147.33. it was lazy in high and is running a little rich. the air fuel ratio was around 11.3 to 1 and also with the heat we think it might have been timed a little slow. all things considered it was a great outing. the car launched super straight and everything is working great. we are going to make a few adjustments tomorrow, then tuesday and wednesday we are going back to norwalk for frank hawley's school and hopefully we can get it to run fast enough to get my Advanced ET license.

ALso here are a bunch of pictures.







































Dan from Advanced Chassis came with us to muncie the week before, he had to make a few adjustments. Ken came along to norwalk, it ran so straight he had to find something to do and the pound of Ice Cream for a doller was too close to pass up.

86bigblockbird wrote:Here are some pictures of our new addition, Collin Andrew Horne, This is just after his first bath about 3 hours old



And this one is about 2 weeks old

Congratulations on the new family memeber. The 4.80@147 is cool as well!

Incredible build and beautiful car.

Damn nice lap & 60 ft.

congrats on the little one,he'll be more fun than the mustang before long.

Thanks again guys, We made some 1/4 mile runs up at norwalk to get my advanced ET license and things went very well, it went 7.41@187.4, 7.41@186.8, and 7.42@187.8. best 60ft was a 1.09. We tried to make it up to the fords at the summit race, but vacuum pump troubles brought us back home an hour after we unloaded. Ken @ advanced chassis is going to make some chassis adjustments at the next race he can make it to. he thinks for the power we're making he should be able to get the 60fts down to 1.05 or so.

and these runs are all motor correct ??? can wait to see what she does on the juice


btw congrats on the new addition to ther family

It's been awhile so i figured it was time for an update. We just got back last night from the division 3 race at bowling green. We had a good time and learned alot about the car. We ran new best in the heat during the 3rd qualifying session. it was about 92 degrees out and the altitude was over 3000 ft. after 2nd session the bump was 7.37 and we had previously ran a 7.39 and were sitting @ 33rd. We took out the extra battery and any spare brackets we weren't using, we raised the launch RPM from 5400 to 5600 and jetted it down from 92s to 90. after the dust settled we had improved to a 7.29 @ 190MPH, but the bump had also fallen to a 7.28

over all it was a good weekend.

Nice Ride !!

Well, we are looking forward to the sportsnationals at columbus the weekend after next. then possible indy for the fall classic in early october if the weather holds.

until then, here's a little video my wonderful wife made of a local Quick 16 we ran in(we got runner up).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qG_a7IxLuc

If you ever get the chance to race at pacemakers dragway in Mt Vernon Ohio you should, great track and great and friendly people. We went a new best 60ft of 1.06

very cool video ...props to the wife !!!!

Nice passes ! Cool video.