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masracingtd1167
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bill masiello Shelton Ct.
Your Best Time: 7.40's at 181 on motor 6.94 at 192 nitrous
Your Engine: 394 chevy
Your Track: Lebanon Valley Dragway
Your Vehicle: 2003 Neil and Parks
Small amount of nitro or m5
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April 01, 2013, 01:53:13 PM »
Hi Spud I am not shure if this would work for me or not . If I wanted to pick my car up a little let's just say 3 tenth's do you think going to m5 methanol or 20 pecent nitro would do it . The only problem I see is my compression is 14.8 . I do run pretty big cam 280 Int 294 Ex 114 CL I run a pair of Ron's terminators on a sheetmetal intake a 0and a half pump 37 nozzle 88 main jet no high speed The way the car sit's right now it will go high 7.40's and that's with a tight 6400 converter and 1560 lbs . I have sprayed it with a 200 shot of nitrous and gone 6.94 . I would like to be able to run the 7.0 pro class but you can't run nitrous . Also if I took all the nitrous stuff off it would be about 60 lbs lighter Thank's Bill
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slingshot383
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Your Best Time: 1/4 mi. 7.95 @ 168
Your Engine: Chrysler, alcohol, 528 cu.in.
Your Track: Gateway Motorsports Park (the Swamp)
Your Vehicle: Undercover Chassis 23T altered
Re: Small amount of nitro or m5
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April 01, 2013, 05:00:21 PM »
I've run 18% in a 528 Mopar with iron 440-1 heads and that much compression. Car loved it, #3 quench area of the head, not so much, blew out a 2.5" x 1.5" piece of the head. But, I think it was a thin area and was destended to fail anyway.
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Spud Miller
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Re: Small amount of nitro or m5
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April 04, 2013, 07:54:21 PM »
Hi Bill,
I don't think 20% is going to get you 3 tenths. Probably take 30% or a little more and you would definitely have problems with that much compression ratio. Heads, head gaskets, bearings...
Lower that squeeze and I think you'd do great by putting more juice in it. Swap out those pistons for something with less dome and away you go!
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George
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Your Vehicle: 1964 Mercury Comet Super Stock/ M automatic
General Location: Midwest USA
Re: Small amount of nitro or m5
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May 20, 2013, 04:32:32 AM »
I played with some M5 late last year and it didn't show any improvement over my " cheap stuff".
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masracingtd1167
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bill masiello Shelton Ct.
Your Best Time: 7.40's at 181 on motor 6.94 at 192 nitrous
Your Engine: 394 chevy
Your Track: Lebanon Valley Dragway
Your Vehicle: 2003 Neil and Parks
Re: Small amount of nitro or m5
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May 20, 2013, 10:25:13 AM »
George did you fatten it up at all? They say about 10 percent richer
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COKER
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Your Track: Oriley Race Way Park
Your Vehicle: FED
Re: Small amount of nitro or m5
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June 22, 2013, 03:28:24 PM »
'Spud,
Congratulations on your magazine article you deserve it. On the low amount of nitro issue Rich Barnard out of Ohio had a big block with aluminum heads and 12.5:1 compression on alky and best he ran was 8.16 and was frustrated with the performance of the car. I mixed him up 25% and right out of the box he went 8.02, 8.01 and on a 8.00 index run he went 7.96. Like you I don't recommend the nitro much with 14:1 compression. It did seem to me with the engine set to run nitro you gained a tenth for every 10% you added. I found it to be a good tuning tool.
coker
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George
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Your Vehicle: 1964 Mercury Comet Super Stock/ M automatic
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June 26, 2013, 05:26:07 AM »
Quote from: masracingtd1167 on May 20, 2013, 10:25:13 AM
George did you fatten it up at all? They say about 10 percent richer
Yes I did. But I will try it again soon. I got a few things figured out.
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