Dave-r in american car world mag • The Dodge Challenger Message Board

by **Adrian Worman** » 14 Sep 2009 23:03

Daveman, just seen a piccy of your lovely car in action at mopar nats. I really like painted bumpers on challengers, it looks very smart mate.
cheers, Adrian

by **dave-r** » 15 Sep 2009 7:28

Oh! Thanks for the heads up. Are you on subscription or is the mag on the news stands now? I will have a look at lunchtime if it is out.

by **dave-r** » 15 Sep 2009 12:24

Must be in the October issue which is not in my news agents yet.

by **Adrian Worman** » 15 Sep 2009 22:43

Its on subscription, came in post at the weekend.
Really cool car mate. You a lucky boy!

by **dave-r** » 16 Sep 2009 11:49

Spotted it this lunchtime. It is the photo below.

Diana is going to be mad as hell when she sees Dave McBride has called her Linda in the caption. :roll:

by **dave-r** » 16 Sep 2009 12:00

Fabian Bernard's white Chally is in there too.

Apparantly doing 9 second runs with your 500 inch engine Fabian. :lol:

by **Eddie** » 16 Sep 2009 15:43

Congratulations Dave! Thats a perfect pic :thumbsup:

by **Dale1035** » 17 Sep 2009 3:31

Great picture.

by **dave-r** » 17 Sep 2009 7:37

I was pulling 1.6 60ft times. :thumbsup:

It is everything after the 60ft that was going tits up! :frown:

by **fbernard** » 17 Sep 2009 9:27

dave-r wrote:Fabian Bernard's white Chally is in there too.

Apparantly doing 9 second runs with your 500 inch engine Fabian.

Best I did there was 12.30.
As I found out back home, the secondary butterflies on my carb could not open fully, with the accelerator pump rod hitting the bowl fuel fitting

Back then, I also thought I had some rev limiter problems (same as you did, with the same MSD ignition). And smallish tires (26) on bulky steel wheels.

I sorted all this out this month, at a RWYB in Northern France (no big carb though, I used the Street Avenger 'cause I was lazy). Rev limiter 'problems' were in fact a tach problem : my tach had totally reset (reset to a 5 spark per rev configuration, go figure), I thought I was losing fuel at 5.1/5.2k RPM, when I was in fact hitting the real rev limit at 6.5k. Shiftlite was turned off. It took me 10 minutes with the user's manual to reprogram it again.
I also have brand new racing wheels with 28.5 tires, along with a line lock!
I still have to make some mods to the line lock (install it on the front circuit, I tried it on the rar and I can't use it like that).
I haven't been able to burn out properly yet, the race tires hook up immediately and drag the whole car forward even with the front wheels jammed ! There was no chronometers, but my trusty(?) old G-tek said 11.93s. That was enough to put a stupid smile on my face for the week-end...
Next year I'll do better at Santa Pod!

by **dave-r** » 17 Sep 2009 10:03

Wow. Pretty good if it will do that on the track. That was the sort of time I was hoping for. Maybe next time eh?

by **jimbob 440** » 17 Sep 2009 21:14

dave-r wrote:I was pulling 1.6 60ft times.

It is everything after the 60ft that was going tits up!

which run was that then ? didnt realise you got off the line that well, i remember seeing 1.71 on one of your slips, although you should be pulling 1.6 60fts with 4.30 gears :thumbsup:

by **dave-r** » 18 Sep 2009 7:38

Crap. Maybe I am mistaken. I will have to check.