Ok Guys, what a day..... I always go in tentative the first time out. Yesterday was no different, I had low expectations, just being happy if all went well and we made some mid 10 second passes would have been great.... We get to the track a little late, except for Brian.... he was on time..
.. Mike got the children area set up with his wife taking care of them... Mike and Brian are in the trailer checking out a little puddle of water under the car... My first response is what are you looking for... fire it up and lets get the car out of the trailer. Out she rolls, we warm her up and give a quick check over and out to the staging lanes. Unfortunately I had only 1 computor and my son was also setting up another customers car so the computor thing was a little bit of a pain in the butt. The plan for Mikes first pass was to roll off the line, basically no boost and to get the 1-2 shift in and recorded then lift. Mike worked it like a pro... checked the recording out, saw the fuel was way lean, added a bunch and sent him back out after checking all the engine fluid levels, filling the fuel cell. The plan.... launch a little more aggressively, use the trans brake, run it out if all feels well.... the result was a soft launch, a perfect run and a 10.13 @ 132.1 flashing on the scoreboard with 17-17.8lbs of boost..... I was elated to say the least. We had far exceeded what I thought we would run out of the box... Needless to say.. so wasn't Mike. The next pass with a little more tweaking was aborted, the trans brake did not hold and mike went through the lite.... the last run we just power breaked it, got a little squirrelly around the 1-2 shift lifted and hit again, closed out with a
10.01@134.something on 21lbs... not bad.. that was it for the day, the temps were in the 90's.. 93 with 62-65% humidity.. not exactly the best air ... I have to say, congrats to Mike, he did a fabulous job driving and anothe big thumbs up to Bob at RPE for building another killer motor..