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Pel the reverse shift thing may take a long time to reprogram your brain! I think like riding a motorcycle it's just instinctive for your arms and legs to do all the controls from wrote memories! Maybe just drive the car up and down the block repeatedly shifting first second third, and then go to sleep. They say that doing repetative brain excercises like learning a new language, and then taking a nap, helps you memorise much faster!

Originally Posted by stovens

Pel the reverse shift thing may take a long time to reprogram your brain! I think like riding a motorcycle it's just instinctive for your arms and legs to do all the controls from wrote memories! Maybe just drive the car up and down the block repeatedly shifting first second third, and then go to sleep. They say that doing repetative brain excercises like learning a new language, and then taking a nap, helps you memorise much faster!

Ha Ha!!
I've been practicing my launches in my sleep since last weekend I would rather have been dreaming about being on a beach soaking up some sun with the wife and maybe doing some snorkeling etc etc... Maybe even being on the same beach while this happened ?

Ahhhhhhhhhhh Ursala! Sweet dreams my friend!

Ha Ha!! I thought that would raise a smile from someone
I was not only dreaming, I was singing "underneath the Mango tree my honey and me" etc But in a Sean Connery accent For those of you who have never seen Dr No here is a clip

007 Ultimate Bond Girl - YouTube

OH my!! Its nearly the weekend ??

I took today off so i could take my Daughter and Grand Daughter Faith to hospital so Faith could have an op on her eye to unblock a tear duct in her right eye. The poor little lamb has suffered since birth with a gunky eye every few days due to the eye fluid not draining away properly which leads to bacterial build up in the fluid despite our daily efforts to keep her eyes clean. The surgeon said that the op was a success and that she should be good from now on

Holy Crap! I remember back in the day how stressed I was when I had to take my 4 kids into hospital for minor surgery. These days its double the worry as I have to keep my Daughter calm as she is fretting over Faith while I also fret over baby girl Faith

This Grandad stuff is not a ride in the park sometimes eh ? I'm happy to report that both my girls are now back home and settled in bed. I do have some amusing pics from today to post up when i get minute to get them off my phone.

I have to work tomorrow until 3pm then i can come home by 6pm from London and get the MG ready to rock. My main aim is to come home on Sunday with a 9.5 timing ticket. My secret aim is to come home with a 9.4 timing ticket

I'm glad everything went well with your granddaughter. I still remember when our first born was in the NICU. It was no fun at all. Good luck with the new times. Keep thinking about the knife and not the woman and you might be fine.

That's just sweeeeeet glad to see rodding in that that style,I like it good friend from high school drove one his dad won in can you believe a poker game, but it didn't look or run the sweet

GUYS!!!
Its now 10pm here. The MG is on the trailer and ready to rock tomorrow. I just need to stop on the way to fill the fuel can and I will be at Santa Pod at 7.15am waiting for the gates to open as usual. Last weekend was the National Finals at the track so it should be well rubbered in. I now feel like an expectant father for some reason ? To say I have the jitters would be an understatement
I'm going to hit the track running in the morning. I want a non nitrous PB of 10.7 straight away. I then want a nitrous PB of 9.5 for my second pass. And I want to come home on Sunday with a 9.4 timing ticket if the old girl holds together. I know that I will not sleep well tonight because I will be having the usual dreams about leaving the line and breaking the car straight away. Or I will dream that I am having a good run and I can feel the car is pulling hard, but just before the finish line I see smoke and flames from the zoomies and she loses drive. OR that I leave the line and plant my foot to the floor and nothing happens?? When me and my friends all arrive at the gates in the morning I will be the one demanding coffee from my mates flask first. Then I will sit in the truck and doze off to sleep before the gates open. I'm sure a dream expert would be able to tell me what this all means ? I'm thinking "lack of confidence in myself" ? Who knows!! What I do know is that I'm going to have one hell of a good time with all my buddies this weekend

Good luck tomorrow Pel. Here's to getting what we wish for!
Just dream of the flag dropping and the race beginning

Hi Guys!!

ERM!! Where do I start. Firstly the weather here this weekend was fantastic. The track was awesome. My friend in the Slingshot broke the 8's with and 8.8 + 8.8 + 8.7 and finished with an 8.9 this afternoon. My Friend with the Capri beat his PB of 9.03 with an 8.69 straight off the trailer. I had several attempts off gas to get the transbrake launches right. And I found the the push button is faulty. I can push it in and get the T brake working, but any slight side to side pressure on the button makes the brake flick off and back on again. I did however manage to NOT shift forwards into Neutral on all 4 test runs. But I kept shifting straight to 2nd gear as soon as I let the button go DOH !!! Then I decided to leave the transbrake alone and go back to a foot brake launch at 2000 rpm with the nitrous turned back on. This would give me useful information about how different the high stall converter would behave. I left the nitrous settings as they normally are for the 9.6 runs. So the only difference would be a looser converter now. My thought was that it should spool quickly to its flash stall point and be on the peak torque for the engine at around 4900 rpm as I left the line. It certainly did this I wont ramble anymore. Heres a video.
Perry Stephenson testing the new transmission - YouTube

Well the track was certainly holding the power and your getting a good hook for sure! Love the wheels up but it looks like it caught you by surprise.

And you're not yet back into the 9's.????? Hopefully the faulty switch will get you on the path to sorting out this combo. It looks like the air was cold also. What was the temp?

Air temp during the weekend days was hovering around 75F.

Originally Posted by pel

Air temp during the weekend days was hovering around 75F.

Good temps for making power.. I'm thinking you just need to make some laps and "feel out" this new combo, then you can start tweeking the tune-up based on experience and knowledge and not guessing. You've made a lot of changes over the past 12 months, hoisting the wheels like that says you've got the power and can put it down and the track will hold on to it..

Now you need to relearn the basics and be able to get repeatable results, then tune for the conditions that day. My point oh two anyways! LOL

Those are my thoughts guys. It did take me by surprise and I backed off too hard in panic mode I've never left the start line before and only been able to see the sky !

The wheelie bars will be going on over the winter months. And I intend to dial the launch power down and start learning all over again. But before then I need to find out why she wont idle properly now as she seems to be dumping way too much fuel in according to my afr's. And also I need to look at the suspension as it hit the ground hard and pushed way past the bump stops to see the inner wishbone bushes touching down as they now have flat spots on the steel tubes that hold them. The engine is solid mounted, so the impact will have echoed through everything and maybe the carb took a jolt. It my just be one of the float chambers over flowing. And now when I'm rolling anf turn left there is a metallic scraping / grinding noise (like when you have brake pads wearing low and the metal of the pad is hitting the raised groove on the edge of worn disks) coming from the front left side wheel area? And when i tried another burnout after that run I had to abort after a few seconds because the rocker breathers started gushing lots of thick white smoke, so I aborted the run and got towed back to the pits. I left the MG in the pits for 2 hours while I crewed on the slingshot as we then PB'b again with an 8.7 pass before we packed up. I turned the key on the MGB and she fired right up and I drove her onto the trailer while having to tickle the throttle to stop the engine stalling?

I now have about 10 days before the next round on track so I can do some tinkering and testing. I'm just hoping that there is nothing seriously wrong as that will see me off track until sometime next year. And it may cost more than I have in the budget to get it fixed in time. That would put a big frown on my face for sure But do you know what? I've watched the video countless times now, and I'm thinking that I lost at least 1 second off that pass with me wimping out and coming right off the pedal until it landed. And then I got back on it which meant that the nitrous would take another second to build back up to full power. And I still ran a 10.1 pass Woo Hoo!! That has turned my frown upside down and I still have a big cheesy grin on my face whenever I think about the run or watch the vid Even if I have to wait until next year to get back out. I will be confident that next year I will smash my sub 9.5 goal in a big way ?

And hey! Who would not want a vid like that of their car

Regards to all

Pel

Wow, that was a way hard launch! Definitely stinks to hear of the issues from the landing. But it could have been worse. Hopefully it's all nothing serious. Good luck with it!