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Re: New member 200" Supercat FED
« Reply #15 on: July 11, 2013, 04:01:31 PM »
Only the short part of the trip Cali to AZ it was on the truck and in good company I might add. One of Roo's top fuel cars was sitting next to it. The rest of the trip it was in the front of my big Haulmark trailer.
Here are a few shots of Johnny's FED on the truck ;D

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Re: New member 200" Supercat FED
« Reply #16 on: July 11, 2013, 09:15:10 PM »
Hey FYI. Heres the link for the WandC car that Steve repoped.
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=595703

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Re: New member 200" Supercat FED
« Reply #17 on: August 30, 2013, 08:32:08 AM »
Quick update..
We are a little behind due to our house being on the market and all the fun with that scenario.

We received the Race-Pak and are in the process of installing that.
I will be machining a Mag base soon for the 462.
All the measuring is done for the zoomies so I will get going on that this week.
I made the new dash so we now have a tach, fuel psi, oil gauges.
Glen had a loaner fuel pump drive so I will get that installed as soon as it arrives. Thanks Glen.
I will post some pictures soon as we should be working on the car this weekend.

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Re: New member 200" Supercat FED
« Reply #18 on: September 09, 2013, 09:30:00 PM »
Here are a few pictures of where we are with the engine updates.
I will post some info when I have more time.

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Re: New member 200" Supercat FED
« Reply #19 on: September 10, 2013, 03:22:47 AM »
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Re: New member 200" Supercat FED
« Reply #20 on: September 27, 2013, 09:37:52 PM »
I got the zoomies done finally on the Supercat... I got the tubes bent to what I needed by Ted's Fabrication  (225 digger on this forum).
This weekend we will try to get the drive-line finished and adjust all the cables.
I'll post more as I go.

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Re: New member 200" Supercat FED
« Reply #21 on: November 05, 2013, 07:09:03 AM »
We drove to Las Vegas last Saturday and got the Chassis certed to 6.0. I was told it would pass top fuel with the addition of 1 horizontal bar so we were quiet happy. We then drove to Bakersfield for testing on Sunday. Well we had a great time Sunday at Bakersfield... This was the first time we had all worked together as a team and we thought it went very well.
We fired the car up in the pits and got a lot of peoples attention. We fueled the car and set the timing at 32 locked to be easy on it the first pass. This car also uses a 4 port mechanical fuel injection system.  We looked at what we had and came up with a tune for the fuel.
The first pass into the unknown was to be an easy one. Launch soft and accelerate down the track (like getting up on the highway) to make sure all was well with the driveline. We have a GoPro video (that was mounted on the front axle facing back) which came out great. We also had one of my sons filming also and that came out great. We made a good pass, as in no leaks, no questionable noises, car went straight and pulled about three G,s on the race pack all the way down.
8.2 @ 166 not to shabby ;D
Next pass leaned out the fuel a little to bring up the power.......... and

Blew the tires off going in to second. Looked all over the track on that pass.

3rd pass was 15 minutes after the second packed the chute, fueled up and into the lanes as they closed.
3rd pass blew the tires at about 300-400 feet out, staightened out got back into it and made a decent pass to close out the day.
I'll post pictures and video links after we convert the video
Here is a link to the first pass
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Re: New member 200" Supercat FED
« Reply #22 on: November 05, 2013, 08:08:13 AM »
Looked good on first pass. And you have a good looking dragster.

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Re: New member 200" Supercat FED
« Reply #23 on: November 05, 2013, 12:41:15 PM »
Thanks Jeff we try to look the part ;D..
I put up the rest of the videos. I only set the barrel valve by sound/response and that was on the rich side for sure. The timing was at 32 degrees which is also on the easy side of things. Next time out we will turn up the wick a bunch. Our RacePak was also having some issues, no rpm and no record at times. That is going to Racepak next week when they are done with sema and the finals in Pamona.
Thanks again for the positive comments.
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Re: New member 200" Supercat FED
« Reply #24 on: July 04, 2014, 08:41:19 PM »
A lot has gone on since the last post on the build. We moved to Florida just east of Orlando. I have been working 6 days a week since we got here, so not much time for the Fed. We switched to a mag along with a few other things.
Today we finished "all" the work on the car and even prepped the raw chassis so it won't rust down here.
Last week we ran it for the first time at sea level. It sounded a little soft so this week we researched a new fuel tune and set it up.
The car is ready to go in the trailer and head to the track. We are going on Sunday morning if the weather is on our side. Saturday we will go if my morning work load is mellow.
Here is a shot of the car in the shop and ready to go

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Re: New member 200" Supercat FED
« Reply #25 on: July 29, 2014, 07:34:28 PM »
Heading up to National trail raceway in Ohio in a few hours to run the Cat at a National Buick event. Looking forward to running the car for a few days with friends.
We will be one of the faster cars there so we are really looking forward to it ;)

I'll post results when I get a chance.

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Re: New member 200" Supercat FED
« Reply #26 on: August 03, 2014, 05:29:18 AM »
Somewhere I had a pic of my rail in the pickup before I built the trailer but cant find it now. There used to be some on the net too. Even with the six carb set up. Doesn't matter anyway. I liked the rear engine deal.
Enjoy the pics of everything. thanks
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Re: New member 200" Supercat FED
« Reply #27 on: August 03, 2014, 06:24:28 AM »
Somewhere I had a pic of my rail in the pickup before I built the trailer but cant find it now. There used to be some on the net too. Even with the six carb set up. Doesn't matter anyway. I liked the rear engine deal.
Enjoy the pics of everything. thanks
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I saw that over on the HAMB. I have not figured out the new format on that forum since they updated it.
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Re: New member 200" Supercat FED
« Reply #28 on: August 11, 2014, 06:53:10 PM »
Here are 2 videos from up in Ohio a few weeks ago.



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Re: New member 200" Supercat FED
« Reply #29 on: September 01, 2014, 03:21:21 PM »
Few updates since the last post.
We spent some time on the dyno to discover some converter issues. New one is on the way......
We ran a good pass on the dyno. found we do not have enough pump on the car. We have the new one going in over the  next few weeks. Trans and engine are being gone through also getting ready to go to Bowling Green next month.

First run in Orlando 93F and 88% Humidity GoPro
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Second pass GoPro
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Second pass camera
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