2010 TS mustang in the works

Well, guys alittle update. Ran another personal best at the JEGS norther SPORTSnationals. We slipped in a qualified 32 with a 7.22 @ 190.8. Still running just on the motor. That was launching @ 5800 and shifting @ 7900. We are looking forward to one more race this year (a quick 32 race at pacemakers) then a nice off season to look at our options for more power to make qualify less nerve racking. Thanks to everyone for the kind word.

And thanks again to Ken and Dan and the Advanced Chassis guys, Tony and all the BES guys, Kenny for this great trailer, and marty with neal chance. we wouldn't be where we are without all the help!

Nice job. Can't wait until you turn that spray on. That thing is going to FLY !!!

Looks like the car is doing great and congrats on the little one!

Just curious what tire are you running?

They are hoosiers, 33.5 x 17 x 16 i think.

86bigblockbird wrote:They are hoosiers, 33.5 x 17 x 16 i think.

Thats car is bad!!! i wish i cauld see it in person! very nice..... thanks for all the pics!!!

Well, getting ready for our first full season in divison 3 here we've started a weight loss program for both me and the car. We saved 34 lbs going to 2 light weight batteries, 15 lbs removing the nitrous systems we weren't using, and i've lost about 20 lbs (and shooting for 20 more) i weighed 260 when i started and i just got below 240 last week. Not sure how crazy i'm going to get with it yet, but i've still got the 2 nitrous fuel regs to take off, and the wiring panel is out getting updated, so i haven't been able to weight the nitrous side of that. We've got one stage and the purge that will go back on if we'd ever need it, but if we don't have any trouble qualifying we don't see any reason to put it back on.

any updates ????

Funny you should ask. We are on our way home from the last race of the year for us. It's been a great first season for us. We came into the weekend needing to win one round to take 3rd in the points and we went all the way to the semis. Had we won the event we could have take 2nd, but we broke a wheelie bar tube and were lucky to keep it off the wall.

Plans for the winter are side exit headers, adding back one stage of nitrous, and an engine rebuild.

more pic's!

86bigblockbird wrote:Funny you should ask. We are on our way home from the last race of the year for us. It's been a great first season for us. We came into the weekend needing to win one round to take 3rd in the points and we went all the way to the semis. Had we won the event we could have take 2nd, but we broke a wheelie bar tube and were lucky to keep it off the wall.

Plans for the winter are side exit headers, adding back one stage of nitrous, and an engine rebuild.

Andy,

I met y'all at the Jeg's SuperQuick 32 race (Sept 11-12 ) last year at Pacemakers Dragway and fell in love with the car then. Then again this year at Beech Bend Div 3 race and this past weekend at the Doorslammers Nationals. I'm with the poppy red T/S Mustang that Mark McDonald races and we were pitted across from you all. Jack Austin (Mark's car owner) had a nice visit with you and your family. Our sincere congratulations on a fine thrid place finish in the NHRA Div 3 Top Sportsman class.

Charlie Evans

Your car was super yesterday Andy! Glad you kept it out of the wall when the bar broke. Super nice car!! Good Luck next year!

Thanks again everyone.

It was nice too meet you charlie, i didn't put 2 and 2 together until just now. i knew i recognized your name from somewhere. We had a nice chat with jack, it's always good to talk to other ford guys. there aren't too many of us running top sportsman.

I don't have too many pictures yet, but everything is fixed on the car and they started working on the headers friday so it should be ready to pick up this friday or saturday. after the car get back i'll be finishing putting the 1st stage back on and then sometime in november the engine is going back up to bischoff to get a rebuild. The motor worked flawlessly for well over 80 low 7 second runs, i think we we're getting pretty darn close to 100.

This is from chicago where we ran our fastest pass ever 7.10 @ 194 and DNQed, but got into the field as an alternate and lost 2nd round.

This is when we found out my baby boy loves race cars as much as his dad.

That same weekend we won the event at mid michigan.

And here's what the wheelie bars looked like after louisville(they are fixed now).

I'll get some picks up of the headers, new wheelie bars, and the nitrous/engine once we get the car back.

Andy,

gourgeous car , cant wait to see what she will do with the winter upgrades

Here's all the update pics I have for now. I'll post some wheelie bar pics once I get the repairs painted. We took the motor and trans out this week. The motor goes to BES the second weekend of November.

86bigblockbird wrote:
That same weekend we won the event at mid michigan.

WOW, beautiful car, looks awesome.

Well, we're just about ready for the season now. all the rest of our parts should be here this week some time and we'll be ready to spray it.

86bigblockbird wrote:Well, we're just about ready for the season now. all the rest of our parts should be here this week some time and we'll be ready to spray it.

i cant wait to see yall get after her ......

Me too bruno, we're gonna be creeping up on it with a 250 shot then a 300 shot when we need it. We're hopefully going to Ohio valley drag way in April to test before the Indy divisional. Just need some warm dry weather now.

Well, things have settled back down after Indy. We went thursday for the track test session and made 2 hits. one to the 1/8th mile and shook on the second hit. We got two qualifying runs friday(weather wasn't good saturday) peddled it on the first one because i was going left and went 7.02 @ 197. We found out this run that the converter was a little loose, crossed the stripe @ 8258 RPM. Made a few more small chassis adjustments for the second session and went 6.91 @ 192 lifting about 1200 ft. and coasting through.

Since we're spraying it for the first time we were learning a lot each run. spraying a 28n 22f system got us pretty close to 250 extra horses and we learned a lot about the fuel pressure settings and how much we wanna retard the timing.

Anyway, tighter converter is here and i'm working on replacing the racepak harness that got damaged. so we're looking forward to norwalk.

here are some pics from the weekend.

Sounds like you're getting a handle on it. Good Luck!

Nice