Going to e-town tonight, 3/30

[14.6@97MPH]

Taking the Mark VIII to Englishtown Raceway Park tonight! Sorry for the late notice for those that would have liked to join me.

Weather looks perfect for racing, mid-40's. I just changed the plugs today (autolite 764's), I'm running the right gas, I have the right amout of gas (below 1/4 tank), I just changed the filter to a K&N panel air filter, and took the spare out. My previous best in this car is 14.4, I think I can get a 14.3 out of her.

The only mod on the car is the LMS cat-back exhaust.

If anybody wants to or can join me with the late notice, come on out!!

Ken

 

[DLF]

Late notice and it's going to rain.....

 

[blacklsc1]

i was gonna head over there, but it loos like rain. Lets get a date on the calendar so a few guys can show up.

 

[14.6@97MPH]

The forecast was rain, but it didn't rain until much later. NOBODY was at the track, which was awesome, no waiting around!!

My times sucked. My best run - 14.573 @ 91.88, obviously something wrong on the top end.

It was all the 2-3 shift.

I didn't realize (and nobody on any of the Mark VIII boards pointed out), when you run 245/50 16 tires on an LSC geared car, you HAVE to shift into 3rd through the 1/4. I can't believe nobody pointed this out in any post about 245's on stock rims?! I have always held 2nd gear in both my Marks through the 1/4 with stock tire sizes.

Anyway, for some reason my 2-3 shift was messed up. The 2-3 shift would not happen at WOT. The car would just bang off the rev limiter and not shift?! In all of 5 of my passes the same thing. A WOT 2-3 shift has never worked right in this car and never worked for the last 100k miles of my 93 Mark. I never really worried about it before, because 1st that is around 100mph and 2nd if I was at the drag strip I didn't need 3rd with stock tires to finish the 1/4.

On the way home I think my car fixed itself, or learned how to do a 2-3 shift at WOT. I basically let the car bang off the rev limiter in 2nd at WOT until it finally shifted. It took about 5-6 hits off the rev limiter.....I'm sure this is great for the car. Anyway, it did finally shift, at ~6,500, and after a bunch of other runs on the street, it now shifts fine at WOT from 2-3 at ~6,500 rpm's. It's almost like the car learned how to do a 2-3 WOT shift.

Now I have to go back to the track and see what she'll run going into 3rd properly.

Sorry for the long winded story.

Ken