abq, dragstrip, 7/1
 

Im thinking about heading out to the dragstrip for the 1st time in my fd this friday, just wanted to see if you guys wanted to head out there and make it a big deal :bigthumb: It would be awesome to have more 7 owners there.

What are the temps like out there in NM?

Watch out for heatsoak. You have an air intake temp gauge in your car?

well I'm down if I can get out of work on time. what time would people be heading out at.

it's hot out but the track is open at night till about 12:00pm some times. At night it is a lot cooler out.

Burn, i'll be in New York Shity this weekend

its usually in the 60's at night. ya I have the pfc which tells me what my air temp is. plus its usually pretty busy so you have a while to let your car cool between runs. JFroTurbo I wont know if Im going for sure probably till around 7 lol. I guess i should have givin a week or so notice and made it an actual date. It all matters if chris (the bf) gets his nitrous back on his car after work or not. If I do go we'll probably head out there closer to 9 since its still pretty hot out untill than.

ya I wont be able to make it. :( next weekend for sure, and that way we can plan it all week and get some people. sorry guys.

OK.. let the planning start early this week. Im down to go to the track friday OR saturday night.. which is better for everyone.

for me saturday night, its hard to get out of work friday night.

will anyone else be able to make it sat night?

come on abq. where is all the rotary love? we going to get picked on by the V8 crew if no one else shows.

so sad :(

ok this is sad, i think that we need to pick another date later in the month. make a new thread, with date and everything. this thread still has 07/01 on it as the date. i do want to go but i would like a lot more people to go as well. that and i dont know if i will even run my car because of all the leaks and sound the car has been making as of late.

ya.. i say we'll make a date later on.. get more people to go. My tranny is acting up anyways so I dont really want to go beat on it tonight or untill I change the fluid and see how its running than.

right on, we need to make it some time end of this month early next month, i need a rebuild bad, im planning on droping off my car at rotaryRX some time around the 15th. but i still can't run, i will have to break in my engine.

I went to the dyno drags at dyno edge friday night and dynoed 300.4rwhp my 1st pull I dynoed 280rwhp and my air/fuel was so rich it was off the chart.. so I leaned it out a little with the pfc and gained 20rwhp at my peak, but I gain 70rwhp at 5300rpm!!! it was crazy. I think with precise tuning it may get 310-315. But it was fun.

not bad at all :cool:

the numbers are in there ... 300 sounds right to me. (you might get 325 (maybe).

I'd not played with the PFC ... THe last engine I blew was due to detonation ....
lack of fuel -- or -- too hot on intake air; guess I'll never know.
But, The fuel pump got upgraded, the injectors are bigger, and then added the intercooler.

-- If you are goin to get all you can out of it, without going to far, I'd suggest you call Chris at rx7.com -- and ask him what he thinks the limit is -- he would know.

:~) S

nice pull. :)

i didnt mess with anything except for the injector duty, when tom tuned it to fix that sputtering when i baught it from you he upped the injector duty, and with out a dyno to tune it on he must have thought it was running good (which it was) but really it was wayyyy rich, off the chart rich, and so I leaned it out to the "safe" zone while on the dyno and it just so happened to gain 20peak hp in the process. Besides that I dont think im going to "push it to the limits" i just want it to be running within the right numbers, which i think it is now. Thanks guys :)

I could be that the maps were set to the elevation in Dallas TX,
and it was way too rich "up" here ...

just a guess.

:~) S

it was actually too lean once it came up from dallas, and tom set it to the best of his knowlage where it ran good which happened to be way to rich. It was best to tune it on a dyno w/ the sniffer n stuff so I could get an a/f ratio at diff rpms. I leaned it out a little from where tom had it but it needs some fine tuning with the maps that I dont know how to do.

that kind of tuning is an "art" ... and I think you are right to say
"It was best to tune it on a dyno w/ the sniffer n stuff" ...

All part of the fun -- I am glad you are digging into it like this ...
maybe you should become a gearhead -- you seem to lean toward it.

:~) S

PS: & I am glad to know the car went to the right owner .. :~) S

Im slowly becoming a gearhead.. verry slowly :p: I try and soak up whatever is around to learn. Im happy to have the car its defffinitly in good hands :bigthumb: Ive still yet to go to the track or take some good pictures of it but when I do i'll be sure to contact you :bigthumb: