Racing Equipment Abradable Piston Coatings January 15, 2015 / January 19, 2016 by John Heard Last year during tear down when I was inspecting the pistons, I noticed a bit of piston rock had been going on. Not terrible, but just enough to scuff up the top of the piston near the top ring - more than I'd like. The piston skirts didn't get knocked in, no excessive cylinder clearance - just big piston and a short skirt I guess. Read more » Abradable Coatings Piston Rock Pistons Powder Coating
Fabrication Racing Equipment Converter Bypass Plumbing January 10, 2015 / January 10, 2015 by John Heard | 2 Comments on Converter Bypass Plumbing Here's the latest project been wrapping up here during the off-season, while I've got the engine out I had the opportunity to clean up the plumbing on the transmission. Last year after the transmission freshen up, the changes made to the trans resulted in higher converter charge pressure. Well the converter didn't like that, the higher pressure tightened it up a bit too... Read more » Bypass Lines Cooler Lines Line Pressure Torque Converter
Misc 2014 Season Update September 21, 2014 / November 11, 2014 by John Heard I've been a bit lazy about updating the blog this summer after getting the car running. Been crazy busy most of the time but now we're down with the transmission out of the car so thought I'd catch up a bit. This summer Chris and I scored our first win! I've been doing this quite a while and been to the finals many times, but something "always" happens and we runner up, but finally at Kansas International Dragway during the Summer Nationals we won in their Extreme Drag Radial Class! It was bitter sweet for sure! We also finally got the car into the 4's, actually at that race. One of the key things that had been causing issues, the nitrous controller which we had been fighting a delay in got replaced with a new NMS-1000, and that helped a ton. Read more »
