Drag racing at Terre-Haute tonight...
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Guys,
We loaded up the 50 PaceMaker today and went to Action Drag way to see
how the solid motor mounts worked. Action Dragway is a older 1/8 mile
track about 1 - 2 miles off of I-70 on US 41 in Terre-Haute.
Well we got two passes in and were waiting for Super Pro to start the 1st
round of eliminations when the rain came rolling in.
The PaceMaker ran a 11.374 on the first pass in the right lane.
The 60ft time was a 2.507.
This is one of the better runs especially in 94 degree heat and high humidity. I was expecting a 11.6x run.
The second pass was 11.334 in the left lane.
The 60ft time was 2.520 but it picked it up all the way down track.
After the first pass I was expecting the Hudson to pick up about this much
but I don't have too much experience at this track yet.
Mike (the guy I race with who has a 69 428 SCJ mustang) ran 6.993 in the
right lane his first pass and a 6.957 in the left lane the second pass.
His 60's ft times were slow on the second pass the same exact ammount
as mine were. Also he had picked up down track which was really wierd.
We have noticed that his car and mine have been acting just about the
same from round to round, other than I am about 5 seconds slower.
This usually is very helpful since we predict how our cars are going to
run on each other.
Well we never got to find out how consistant we both were going to be
tonight because of the heavy rain. Looks like my drag racing luck has
given out but at least its a great way for me to get it to rain. And boy
do we need the rain!
The motor mounts made the Hudson feel much more stable in the burn
out box. I was able to control the tire speed and duration a lot better
tonight.
Looks like I've got my bugs finally worked out.
Next week it the Night of Fire at Muncie with jet powered drag vehicles.
Mike and I are going and it should be a blast.
later,
PaceRacer50
We loaded up the 50 PaceMaker today and went to Action Drag way to see
how the solid motor mounts worked. Action Dragway is a older 1/8 mile
track about 1 - 2 miles off of I-70 on US 41 in Terre-Haute.
Well we got two passes in and were waiting for Super Pro to start the 1st
round of eliminations when the rain came rolling in.
The PaceMaker ran a 11.374 on the first pass in the right lane.
The 60ft time was a 2.507.
This is one of the better runs especially in 94 degree heat and high humidity. I was expecting a 11.6x run.
The second pass was 11.334 in the left lane.
The 60ft time was 2.520 but it picked it up all the way down track.
After the first pass I was expecting the Hudson to pick up about this much
but I don't have too much experience at this track yet.
Mike (the guy I race with who has a 69 428 SCJ mustang) ran 6.993 in the
right lane his first pass and a 6.957 in the left lane the second pass.
His 60's ft times were slow on the second pass the same exact ammount
as mine were. Also he had picked up down track which was really wierd.
We have noticed that his car and mine have been acting just about the
same from round to round, other than I am about 5 seconds slower.
This usually is very helpful since we predict how our cars are going to
run on each other.
Well we never got to find out how consistant we both were going to be
tonight because of the heavy rain. Looks like my drag racing luck has
given out but at least its a great way for me to get it to rain. And boy
do we need the rain!
The motor mounts made the Hudson feel much more stable in the burn
out box. I was able to control the tire speed and duration a lot better
tonight.
Looks like I've got my bugs finally worked out.
Next week it the Night of Fire at Muncie with jet powered drag vehicles.
Mike and I are going and it should be a blast.
later,
PaceRacer50
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Comments
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I'm envious!
25+ years ago I raced my 68 Chevelle for 3 summers at Seattle Internation Raceway and it was a blast!
Although my 49 is modified once she's on the road - I'll be back at SIR flogging it down the track and loving every second!
Keep the stories coming it keeps me motivated!0 -
I love the drag results posts too. Sounds like the motor mounts were a good idea.
Now spray that outfit and lets see what times she runs!
Mark0 -
Mark,
I found a Kaiser bracket with tension arm for sale
yesterday. I like this one better because the Golden
Hawk Studebaker bracket I have is cast iron becasue
its got the thermostat housing mount & water passage
in it. This one is very heavy, like 25lbs+ heavy.
The Kaiser would let me do a setup similar to your's
but move it out the additional 1/2" to match my Chevy
small block balancer.
Paradise Wheels has the lower crank pulley I need
already drilled to match the balancer. That was the
hard part to find so now I am closer to getting all
the other small items rounded up.
Now I'm starting to think VS57 now then Spray it...
PaceRacer500 -
PaceRacer50 wrote:Mark,
I found a Kaiser bracket with tension arm for sale
yesterday. I like this one better because the Golden
Hawk Studebaker bracket I have is cast iron becasue
its got the thermostat housing mount & water passage
in it. This one is very heavy, like 25lbs+ heavy.
The Kaiser would let me do a setup similar to your's
but move it out the additional 1/2" to match my Chevy
small block balancer.
Paradise Wheels has the lower crank pulley I need
already drilled to match the balancer. That was the
hard part to find so now I am closer to getting all
the other small items rounded up.
Now I'm starting to think VS57 now then Spray it...
PaceRacer50
I need to make some copies of the Kaiser bracket to Hudson adapter I got from Rudy. Just a smidge of relief on the Kaiser bracket is neccessary to fit the head bolt above #1 intake and bolt it all together on the engine.
The distance from the front block surface to the outer lip of the S/C drive sheave is 5.5" with this bracket arrangement and a VS57. One inch further out than the outer edge of the single sheave B series dampers.
I'm going to use a dual sheave Hudson damper I have that has the outer sheave cracked. Machine off the cracked sheave and fit the blank S/C sheave that Paradise Wheels sells. My water pump and generator will then use an A series belt similiar to the '54 and later 308.
I barely have room in front of the '49 Coupe to pull this off, and will require moving the radiator as far forward as possible. I'm not sure how this will work with a Pacemaker/Wasp, those radiators do not have as much forward wiggle room as the long hooded variety of stepdown.
You might want to investigate a SN60 or SN93 supercharger as they obviously have shorter noses and will still bolt up in the Kaiser bracket. A dang good way to get all that forward room back. Its not impossible to have an ATI harmonic balancer made with the Supercharger sheave machined integral to the Damper body. With the SN series, you have alot more belting choices than the VS. One of ATI's selling points is the ability to drive a centrifugal supercharger from it as the inertia ring is between the outer shell and hub rather than being the outer shell itself.
Mark0
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