Late nite SyTy crew chime in (drunks welcome)
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J_SULLIVAN
A&P slave monkey
Re: Late nite SyTy crew chime in (drunks welcome)
Yeah Phillip we sure could have used this, this past weekend :lol:
Yeah Phillip we sure could have used this, this past weekend :lol:
TYRODD
My ass. Look at it.
Re: Late nite SyTy crew chime in (drunks welcome)
Sorry doods, I've been MIA 'round here lately
. Been lifting fowdeez and practiced making a few kids :rotf: . Theres gonna be some funnyish stories floating around at Nats...Jeremy is gonna "Cherish" every remark, 'eh cuz? :rotf:
"YAAAAAAY!!!!" :rotf:
J_SULLIVAN said:
Sorry doods, I've been MIA 'round here lately
. Been lifting fowdeez and practiced making a few kids :rotf: . Theres gonna be some funnyish stories floating around at Nats...Jeremy is gonna "Cherish" every remark, 'eh cuz? :rotf: "YAAAAAAY!!!!" :rotf:
J_SULLIVAN
A&P slave monkey
Re: Late nite SyTy crew chime in (drunks welcome)
YAAAAAY! :idea:
YAAAAAY! :idea:
SY2932
Administrator
Re: Late nite SyTy crew chime in (drunks welcome)
"No good deed goes unpunished". Got a call from my neighbor tonight asking for my advise on getting his friend's car running as it wouldn't start. Sounded like a dead fuel pump to me and I grabbed a few tools to confirm it as I was heading out that ways anyways. Well my brother calls and I am talking to him on the phone while I am gathering my gear. I get everything loaded into my S10 and I'm off. I was still talking to him on the phone when I noticed that my Fluke DMM (Digital Multi Meter) wasn't on the seat. I thought that I had forgotten it so, I turned around to go back and get it. I get back home and it is nowhere to be found. Then I get a bad feeling that I set it on my cab while I was putting my tool box in the seat and forgot about it...
I drove really slow down the road both ways looking for it on the side of the road but didn't see it. I'm going to walk the distance which is a mile both ways, first thing in the morning when it is light out. I live out in the country and the weeds on the side of the road are high which made it hard to see anything even with a flashlight. The fuel pump was dead and I agreed to replace it for him for a small fee. The kicker is the price of the fuel pump and what he is paying me to do it is only about half what my meter is worth. As a rule I will not answer calls when I am in the process of loading a vehicle. Now I remember why... SUCKS 2 B ME :evil:!
"No good deed goes unpunished". Got a call from my neighbor tonight asking for my advise on getting his friend's car running as it wouldn't start. Sounded like a dead fuel pump to me and I grabbed a few tools to confirm it as I was heading out that ways anyways. Well my brother calls and I am talking to him on the phone while I am gathering my gear. I get everything loaded into my S10 and I'm off. I was still talking to him on the phone when I noticed that my Fluke DMM (Digital Multi Meter) wasn't on the seat. I thought that I had forgotten it so, I turned around to go back and get it. I get back home and it is nowhere to be found. Then I get a bad feeling that I set it on my cab while I was putting my tool box in the seat and forgot about it...
I drove really slow down the road both ways looking for it on the side of the road but didn't see it. I'm going to walk the distance which is a mile both ways, first thing in the morning when it is light out. I live out in the country and the weeds on the side of the road are high which made it hard to see anything even with a flashlight. The fuel pump was dead and I agreed to replace it for him for a small fee. The kicker is the price of the fuel pump and what he is paying me to do it is only about half what my meter is worth. As a rule I will not answer calls when I am in the process of loading a vehicle. Now I remember why... SUCKS 2 B ME :evil:!
myclone
Donating Member
Re: Late nite SyTy crew chime in (drunks welcome)
The above is why I quit messing with other ppls vehicles... Never fails that someone who A)Is clueless about cars B)Is getting me to do it trying to save money C)Since "A" usually describes these ppl they have neglected the car to the point of no return...which all means the repair ends up costing ME money somehow.
No thank you...take your junk to a garage or subscribe to popular mechanics and read it on the toilet to learn something like I did when I was a kid.
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SY2932 said:
The above is why I quit messing with other ppls vehicles... Never fails that someone who A)Is clueless about cars B)Is getting me to do it trying to save money C)Since "A" usually describes these ppl they have neglected the car to the point of no return...which all means the repair ends up costing ME money somehow.
No thank you...take your junk to a garage or subscribe to popular mechanics and read it on the toilet to learn something like I did when I was a kid.
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SY2932
Administrator
Re: Late nite SyTy crew chime in (drunks welcome)
You got that right, my neighbor will be the first one to admit that he doesn't know anything about cars. He said it several times tonight as a matter of fact. I was telling him and his friend what I was doing and why I was doing it. I was explaining that the port on the fuel rail would allow you to check how much fuel pressure was present. My neighbor then asked if maybe his fuel injectors weren't working correctly. I then informed him that if the fuel pump is dead, there will be NO fuel pressure developed in the fuel rail therefore, NO fuel will be delivered by the injectors :roll: .
myclone said:
You got that right, my neighbor will be the first one to admit that he doesn't know anything about cars. He said it several times tonight as a matter of fact. I was telling him and his friend what I was doing and why I was doing it. I was explaining that the port on the fuel rail would allow you to check how much fuel pressure was present. My neighbor then asked if maybe his fuel injectors weren't working correctly. I then informed him that if the fuel pump is dead, there will be NO fuel pressure developed in the fuel rail therefore, NO fuel will be delivered by the injectors :roll: .
SY2932
Administrator
Re: Late nite SyTy crew chime in (drunks welcome)
Update: Welp, turns out that I left my DMM on a chair right outside the front door. Which is odd because when I'm out in the garage, I go in and out of the house via the door in the garage... And I only worked half a day to make some passes at the track today. Got a new best of 12.4 @ 107, it's not a *huge* improvement but a tenth is a tenth! In fact, three of my five passes were 12.4's running T3 20 psi.
Update: Welp, turns out that I left my DMM on a chair right outside the front door. Which is odd because when I'm out in the garage, I go in and out of the house via the door in the garage... And I only worked half a day to make some passes at the track today. Got a new best of 12.4 @ 107, it's not a *huge* improvement but a tenth is a tenth
! In fact, three of my five passes were 12.4's running T3 20 psi.
Ty0279
Historically Significant
Re: Late nite SyTy crew chime in (drunks welcome)
Excellent Mike. Wait 'til the cooler Ohio temps roll around and you'll be in the 12.3's....maybe a 12.29
"Turbo V6's are for women and children" ... :rotf: :rotf:
SY2932 said:Update: Welp, turns out that I left my DMM on a chair right outside the front door. Which is odd because when I'm out in the garage, I go in and out of the house via the door in the garage... And I only worked half a day to make some passes at the track today. Got a new best of 12.4 @ 107, it's not a *huge* improvement but a tenth is a tenth
Excellent Mike. Wait 'til the cooler Ohio temps roll around and you'll be in the 12.3's....maybe a 12.29
"Turbo V6's are for women and children" ... :rotf: :rotf:
SY2932
Administrator
Re: Late nite SyTy crew chime in (drunks welcome)
Perhaps more than anything, I need to work on getting my 60' times down. Even with the lower psi, my best 60' time was 1.708 (quickest pass was a 1.711). I think suspension mods are next on my "to do list" in front of getting that <<<PTE stealth turbo mounted up that I have had on my shelf for over a year and a half now. The truck is *really* squatting violently when I launch it with the drag radials on. The comments from everyone who sees my runs is amusing but, it's not helping my ET's.
Interesting day at the track all in all. Saw a guy who just got a Honda 1000 crotch rocket bring it straight up at the start line and dump it. Fortunately, he didn't get hurt but the bike took a pretty good hit. A guy with a Mitsu 3000 GT had one of his turbines exit the exhaust housing on a low 12 second pass. Handsdown the high light of the day was watching a TOTAL POS colt run a viper that was running 11.9's and 12's flat. The colt smoked the front tires for a solid 7-8 seconds before he staged. The viper ran a 12 and the colt ran a 11.5 . He was packing a HUGE turbo. The colt owner was well on his way to a 10 second pass later (timeslip showed 104 in the 8th) until his shift cable broke...
Perhaps more than anything, I need to work on getting my 60' times down. Even with the lower psi, my best 60' time was 1.708 (quickest pass was a 1.711). I think suspension mods are next on my "to do list" in front of getting that <<<PTE stealth turbo mounted up that I have had on my shelf for over a year and a half now. The truck is *really* squatting violently when I launch it with the drag radials on. The comments from everyone who sees my runs is amusing but, it's not helping my ET's
.Interesting day at the track all in all. Saw a guy who just got a Honda 1000 crotch rocket bring it straight up at the start line and dump it. Fortunately, he didn't get hurt but the bike took a pretty good hit. A guy with a Mitsu 3000 GT had one of his turbines exit the exhaust housing on a low 12 second pass. Handsdown the high light of the day was watching a TOTAL POS colt run a viper that was running 11.9's and 12's flat. The colt smoked the front tires for a solid 7-8 seconds before he staged. The viper ran a 12 and the colt ran a 11.5
. He was packing a HUGE turbo. The colt owner was well on his way to a 10 second pass later (timeslip showed 104 in the 8th) until his shift cable broke...
dgoodhue
BuSTeD 4.3
Re: Late nite SyTy crew chime in (drunks welcome)
Congrats on the new time. For the rear you probably could use stiffer shocks to help with squating or take out the blocks, the front suspension will help as well. Your truck squats more than most Sy's, which makes me think the shocks are toast.
Congrats on the new time. For the rear you probably could use stiffer shocks to help with squating or take out the blocks, the front suspension will help as well. Your truck squats more than most Sy's, which makes me think the shocks are toast.
SY2932
Administrator
Re: Late nite SyTy crew chime in (drunks welcome)
Thanks Dave! I'm more swayed towards going to stiffer shocks (not a fan of the 3/4 ton look) as the KYB Gas-A Just shocks that I put on only three years ago still *seem* ok... There was also two street driven turbo'd hayabusa's trackside today as well. The one was running 9.30's @ 175 MPH. The other one that I got to line up against on my fourth pass went 9.473 @ 171.49 (6.497 @ 129.06 in the 8th) to my 12.491 @ 106.76.
Thanks Dave
! I'm more swayed towards going to stiffer shocks (not a fan of the 3/4 ton look) as the KYB Gas-A Just shocks that I put on only three years ago still *seem* ok... There was also two street driven turbo'd hayabusa's trackside today as well. The one was running 9.30's @ 175 MPH. The other one that I got to line up against on my fourth pass went 9.473 @ 171.49 (6.497 @ 129.06 in the 8th) to my 12.491 @ 106.76.
SY2932
Administrator
Re: Late nite SyTy crew chime in (drunks welcome)
Dave, you got a part number for those QA1's? It's interesting that you mentioned how your truck used to be since mine is doing pretty close to the same. I was just thinking about how your truck looked at the '02 NATS and how you were currently running QA1's which was the first shock that came to mind to help with my problem.
Dave, you got a part number for those QA1's? It's interesting that you mentioned how your truck used to be since mine is doing pretty close to the same. I was just thinking about how your truck looked at the '02 NATS and how you were currently running QA1's which was the first shock that came to mind to help with my problem
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SeattleSy#1255
Category 5 Conservative
Re: Late nite SyTy crew chime in (drunks welcome)
9/17/05
drinking beer and drunk by myself...where the hell is kurt or Steve, i want to talk some political smack! :friends:
this thread rulz! :git:
9/17/05
drinking beer and drunk by myself...where the hell is kurt or Steve, i want to talk some political smack! :friends:
this thread rulz! :git:
myclone
Donating Member
Re: Late nite SyTy crew chime in (drunks welcome)
I'll see what I can dig up. Got them off erue if that helps right this minute.
FWIW when I went to the nats I had the orig shocks off and tested them by hand to see how hard they were to compress and they were STIFF. When I swapped the QA1s on the same shocks were pretty floppy. Dunno if the 15psi launches killed em or what but there was less than 10 miles on the truck from the time I tested them until the time I took them off to swap in the adjustables. :scratchhead:
SY2932 said:Dave, you got a part number for those QA1's? It's interesting that you mentioned how your truck used to be since mine is doing pretty close to the same. I was just thinking about how your truck looked at the '02 NATS and how you were currently running QA1's which was the first shock that came to mind to help with my problem
I'll see what I can dig up. Got them off erue if that helps right this minute.
FWIW when I went to the nats I had the orig shocks off and tested them by hand to see how hard they were to compress and they were STIFF. When I swapped the QA1s on the same shocks were pretty floppy. Dunno if the 15psi launches killed em or what but there was less than 10 miles on the truck from the time I tested them until the time I took them off to swap in the adjustables. :scratchhead: