I pulled in to the dragway and teched in for street night. It passed with no issues, so I got in line, made it to the front, staged, took off, hit 3k rpm and … the nitrous didn’t engage! I ran a blazing fast 17.4 n/a. I’m glad it didn’t because it gave me a good baseline anyway. After some head scratching I realized that I lost the setting for the rpm switch to interpret the tach signal correctly when I last disconnected the battery. So a few button pushes later and I was on my way. Pulled up to the line again, launched (if you can call it that) , wound up to 3k, nitrous engages, and to my surprise the puny 185s lit right up! The result was a 16.2 so I knew there was at least a little potential left. I was pretty happy even with that – my 5.0 LTD ran that when it was close to stock. Anyway, I ran 3 more times keeping the tire spin in check – all 15.5s with the best being 15.52 @ 87.9. Not the fastest thing around by any means, but it’s a lot of fun all the same!
The funniest thing was afterwards a guy came up to me and was looking over the car and said, “My mom used to have a Sunbird, but it sure didn’t go like that! What’d you do to it?”
Drag numbers and rubber chunks.
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