Bluepower @LS1 Nats

[hot460]

Great work Dude. Awesome 60 too. Must have nearly felt like you were in your old falcon. :

[Bluepower]

Nice and relaxed with an ice cold VB next to the keyboard... :

What a great night Friday night, I had a mission, and wanted to take out the NA and Forced records out, one after the other, and after having ripped out the 11.6 @ a monster 120mph I knew the track was "on" (the 1.7 was my fault - it should go mid 1.6 but i wont complain)

The NOS was a major wakeup call. I had a lowly 100shot in which is my baseline, and it shows a tough 400rwkw plus on the pump, with about 350 of those at 3500rpm........

having 350rwkw on launch is nice - i put all the trim back into the car bar a few small items, car weight back up to 1700kg for the meeting, and whoa!

Hit me like a tonne of bricks!

First pass was a 10.70 off the trailer with spanking new tyres, and the car never bettered that pass, however managed 2 more 10.7's, 2 10.8's, a 10.90 and a sideways 11.0.

best "all round" pass was an 10.76@129mph. all the 60's were 1.5's.

I raced more twin turbo's than i could care to remember, but was never beaten by any of them.

Funny how much you learn in such a short period, but i already have a list of things i know i can improve on.


Special thanks to Craig, as usual my man on the spot with the tyre guage/Nos bottle/bag donuts, and AGRO, who provided much in the way of entertainment and drank lots of beer. Daniel (AU2PWR) and whoosha, Cams290 came over - 3 great guys, was good to shake their hands, just a pity i didn't get to share a bourbon bottle with Cam again - but Cam if your reading this, after I ran the 10.70, the Holden boys seemed to calm down a little. Next year, they wont have much to brag about, i'll make sure of that lol

One thing i did learn on the weekend, is that LS1 turbo's bleed.

And if it bleeds, we can kill it.

Thanks for all the kind words. Im going back into hiding

Chris

[Craig]

Originally Posted by Bluepower

Thanks for all the kind words. Im going back into hiding

Chris

Pigs you are, the weather is getting cooler, surely calders track is improving, about 3 cars that i know of that have one little goal each they want to achieve. Forget hiding pal as you would say "it's game on" and we aren't here to .... spiders.

out: out: out: out: out: out:

[Rod]

well done Chris

the 1.5 60' is awsome

regards
rod

[CV PERFORMANCE]

Well done on th time good effort mate

Did you race on your pump fuel or race fuel and is your motor built or opened in anyway Thanks

CON

[Bluepower]

Hi Con, Hows things?

I am not very experienced with Nitrous, so i was curious on the fuel and to whether or not it would benefit me.

On the Friday night i ran the 10.70 and NA 11.6 with pump fuel.

On the Saturday, I tried the race fuel, best I got was a 10.76 but picked up 2 mph. I also noticed the 60 was the same.

The motor is a stock 290 and has been opened to fit oil pump gears. I have also tried several different sets of camshafts in this engine, without seeing any real benefit.

Like i said, a newbie to Nos here so im not too sure how aggressive to go - i am concerned about many things regarding the Boss engine and a wet shot, maybe we could chat sometime about it, i have heaps to learn.

The NOS is only a stop-gap thing until my blower kits are ready, maybe i should go further but im not sure how much the stock pistons and rods will handle.

I did see a white CV performance commodore up there, i would have loved to have seen the HYPA deal in the flesh.

How did you guys go? were you there? i would have said Hi if i had of known...

[Craig]

There was a CV Perf white Commodore sedan there Chris, remember when i disappeared on friday night with the tow rope, went down to the bottom of the track to give the guy a tow back to the pits, it spat a belt off from memory.

I am sure there will be a bottle of Jim Beam coming my way....

[Quadcams]

Originally Posted by Bluepower

I did see a white CV performance commodore up there,

That would be TKiwi, brand new built twin turbo ls1 on its maden voyage.

[XRQTOR]

Originally Posted by Bluepower

Hi Con, Hows things?

I am not very experienced with Nitrous, so i was curious on the fuel and to whether or not it would benefit me.

On the Friday night i ran the 10.70 and NA 11.6 with pump fuel.

On the Saturday, I tried the race fuel, best I got was a 10.76 but picked up 2 mph. I also noticed the 60 was the same.

The motor is a stock 290 and has been opened to fit oil pump gears. I have also tried several different sets of camshafts in this engine, without seeing any real benefit.

Like i said, a newbie to Nos here so im not too sure how aggressive to go - i am concerned about many things regarding the Boss engine and a wet shot, maybe we could chat sometime about it, i have heaps to learn.

The NOS is only a stop-gap thing until my blower kits are ready, maybe i should go further but im not sure how much the stock pistons and rods will handle.

I did see a white CV performance commodore up there, i would have loved to have seen the HYPA deal in the flesh.

How did you guys go? were you there? i would have said Hi if i had of known...

I'll have the first 29o dropped in this week, feel free to help yourself to it if ya need.