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Saturday, I participated in a WannaGOFAST half-mile event here in north Georgia. It was an awesome experience and I received ALOT of attention with the truck. The staging lane is a single file half-mile long string of cars that runs right through all the spectators... so it is essentially a rolling car show. Very cool feeling when people come up to me and are excited as I am of my last pass and want to know more about the truck. I even had people walk up and ask to put cameras on my truck... it is just a great feeling to see so many people who appreciate my vehicle almost as much as I do. I was filling up my fuel cell for my trip home about 11:30 at night and some guy stopped by to commend me on my runs that day, so it seems I made quite the impression.
I put up shop with Injected Engineering who had some amazing cars there as well. They have a Hellcat that make 780 or something rwhp, ran 150s IIRC, a procharged SRT8 jeep that ran back to back to back 155mph passes, a roush mustang that ran 165 as of saturday. They probably ran faster on Sunday but I wasn't there to see. Some really great people in that shop and I'm blessed to be friends with them.
I made my first pass on my street tune (19psi, 14deg) and I ran 142mph. It isn't a race-prepped track so hooking up in 1st was not very smooth, but it pulled hard all the way through. I didn't get a video of it, but some may pop up on youtube at some point. Put a bus length on a corvette and then he let out of it about the 1/4 mile marker so not sure where that would have ended up at.
On the second pass I ran 141 mph. Added two more degrees of timing but it lost traction about 4500 rpms in first gear and it short shifted into 2nd way to early. My 1-2 shift is supposed to happen at 6400 rpms so the truck really bogged down at the bottom of second when it happened. Put a few bus lengths on a camaro that probably trapped 130 something.
Even with my proven ice cycling and packing method, I quickly found out that IAT2s can become a pretty significant issue beyond the first 1/4 mile. In addition to the long staging lanes where I was almost constantly idling for 30 mins straight, I simply do not have the fluid capacity to support a run that long. Even with my switch that shuts off the I/C during the staging process, IAT2s reached 180 on the first pass, and went up to 250 on the second pass :shocked003. Needless to say, some improvements can be made in this department. BTW, this was with water/meth spraying through a -10 nozzle as well.
The truck ran perfectly though! For a street driven 10-second quarter mile truck that ran the half-mile with no other modifications, I couldn't be happier. I drove it the two-hour 120 mile trip there and my wife drove it home. Not a single mechanical issue.... except now I need new some new MT drag radials.
I highly recommend that any who has the chance, to participate in a half-mile event. :smt023
The whole reason all of you clicked on this thread... here is the video of my second pass :smt023
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I put up shop with Injected Engineering who had some amazing cars there as well. They have a Hellcat that make 780 or something rwhp, ran 150s IIRC, a procharged SRT8 jeep that ran back to back to back 155mph passes, a roush mustang that ran 165 as of saturday. They probably ran faster on Sunday but I wasn't there to see. Some really great people in that shop and I'm blessed to be friends with them.
I made my first pass on my street tune (19psi, 14deg) and I ran 142mph. It isn't a race-prepped track so hooking up in 1st was not very smooth, but it pulled hard all the way through. I didn't get a video of it, but some may pop up on youtube at some point. Put a bus length on a corvette and then he let out of it about the 1/4 mile marker so not sure where that would have ended up at.
On the second pass I ran 141 mph. Added two more degrees of timing but it lost traction about 4500 rpms in first gear and it short shifted into 2nd way to early. My 1-2 shift is supposed to happen at 6400 rpms so the truck really bogged down at the bottom of second when it happened. Put a few bus lengths on a camaro that probably trapped 130 something.
Even with my proven ice cycling and packing method, I quickly found out that IAT2s can become a pretty significant issue beyond the first 1/4 mile. In addition to the long staging lanes where I was almost constantly idling for 30 mins straight, I simply do not have the fluid capacity to support a run that long. Even with my switch that shuts off the I/C during the staging process, IAT2s reached 180 on the first pass, and went up to 250 on the second pass :shocked003. Needless to say, some improvements can be made in this department. BTW, this was with water/meth spraying through a -10 nozzle as well.
The truck ran perfectly though! For a street driven 10-second quarter mile truck that ran the half-mile with no other modifications, I couldn't be happier. I drove it the two-hour 120 mile trip there and my wife drove it home. Not a single mechanical issue.... except now I need new some new MT drag radials.
I highly recommend that any who has the chance, to participate in a half-mile event. :smt023
The whole reason all of you clicked on this thread... here is the video of my second pass :smt023
never got to hear 1 from outside at that speed, but been told I could be heard a ways off on spirited trips LOL now I know 
