Well we had a great time at the track this weekend, making seven total passes. We are going to need to add some power to get our 12 second time slip.
Ambient temps were in the high 70s and humidity was pretty low, it was great weather for racing. On the first pass we had a large slug of silicon that clogged the outlet on the fuel cell and caused the car to fall on its face at the line and crawl down the track. The remaining passes of the night went fairly well except for the third one where I wasn't sure I hit second gear, these 5 speeds feel a little different on the shift than a mustang's T-5. The car ran three passes consistently right at 14.35 @ 93 mph with 1.95 60 ft times and eighth mile times of around 9.10. I was happy with it given this is a stock engine in a gutted car.
The boost gauge said 12 psi peak, AF ratio was around 11.7 to 1 on the wide band with 93 octane pump gas with 10-15% ethanol. I thought that was a little rich so I splashed a little E85 into the tank and we were at 12.2:1 for the last several passes. That is a little lean in my opinion but the car neither slowed down or sped up so i made no more adjustments after that.
Car weighed 3,120 lbs with me in it and 2,910 with me out of it. Obviously my estimate of weight loss was a little ambitious but we feel there is some more ground to be gained here because we still have some things we can remove.
First order of business, I think the 2.73 gears are killing the car, as it seems like it may bog a little at launch and then spin the tires when it recovers. I think we'll be better off with 3.08s and a slightly lower launch rpm.