So... Finally got to race this ute, at long last, after 4 cancellations due to weather.
1/4 mile at willowbank raceway.
Turns out it was on the same night as my daughters best friends birthday, so she didn't come.
I wasn't expecting too much, this is exactly as I bought it, which is what I wanted to know and then work up from there.
I was hoping it would drop into the 14's ..
First run (on the right, highlighted in orange)
street air pressure, completely as I bought it.
So heaps of room for improvement LOL.
Second run
2 tenths better, but it wasn't going to improve over that, so I parked it and watched the other cars race.
Met some really great people.
Was beside a VN ute with a nice 350 chev in it, that runs mid 10s
Which is owned by a young woman who's owned it since she was 17 and built it to what it is now.. extremely impressive.
There was another L67 there in a VU ute.. Man that has so much work done to the engine and was doing mid 12's
So got a bit of a reality check, no way I'm spending that sort of money, so re thinking it a little..
My original plan was to try to get it into 11's over a couple of years..
So for now, the plan is to put a decent centre in the diff with 3.7 gearing..
Then get it tuned.
At the last roll race meeting I met a nice dude who owns a shop at Slacks Creek. he's got a dyno there, and has a ton of experience with the V6's
He put an after market blower on his V6 and it's putting out 870 NM of torque, he knows these cars inside out..
So will get a tune and decent gearing then decide where to go from there..
He said that when you change the gearing in the rear, the computer will freak out a bit and need the computer tuned to the new gearing.. news to me LOL I had no idea.. anyone here know about that?
What was weird, on the street the rear tyres light up.. but wearing a helmet, loud cars beside me.. I couldn't tell about the traction if it was great or horrible LOL.. It seemed to get off the line ok.. but very slow 60 foot, so could be just be under powered and in i need of an awesome tune etc.
Who knows, we'll find out when I get it on the dyno, in I hope 2 to 3 weeks.
We are doing the Roma 3 day 1/8th mile event at the end of April.. if anyone here goes there come and say hi..
We are meeting up with the woman there who owns the orange VN ute too..
Good news is, It can't go any slower LOL