[65nss4spdGTO]

Congratulations Jack on hitting the 7 second mark. 7 second Pontiacs are few and far between in comparison to the "other" brands. I'm curious as to the number of hits you made on the car this year to reach your goal?

Calvin Hill
Hill Performance
708-250-7420

[Jack Gifford]

Originally Posted by 65nss4spdGTO

... 7 second Pontiacs are few and far between in comparison to the "other" brands...

In comparison to other obsolete brands? Just askin'...

[65nss4spdGTO]

Originally Posted by Jack Gifford

In comparison to other obsolete brands? Just askin'...

My reference is comparing all other brands.

Calvin Hill
Hill Performance
708-250-7420

[LiL Jack]

Originally Posted by 65nss4spdGTO

My reference is comparing all other brands.

Calvin Hill
Hill Performance
708-250-7420

I put a post on YB in the nitrous section to kinda get there opinion and they all seemed to be impressed with the "small" cubic inches and weight that I did it at.

[LiL Jack]

Originally Posted by 65nss4spdGTO

Congratulations Jack on hitting the 7 second mark. 7 second Pontiacs are few and far between in comparison to the "other" brands. I'm curious as to the number of hits you made on the car this year to reach your goal?

Calvin Hill
Hill Performance
708-250-7420

I started looking over some of my logs and about 5 passes were last years, so about 32 passes this year. One motor pass, then I had two or three nitrous passes when I had electrical problems. Rewired the car. Went out and started spraying one system. Then started working on two, then turned the plate on before the fogger and that seemed to make a big d.ifference in how the car left. It was NOT that way at Norwalk. The things we learned after Norwalk I am confident we could have gone a high 8.0 or low teen back then.

Ran 4 passes at Yellow Bullet Nationals in 8.50 index, so I dont really consider that tryn to get in the 7s.

So honestly a little over 20 passes to learn what the motor likes and the chassis likes to tune it in the 7s.

I never nipped a plug all year, never changed the head gaskets. I ran a compression test three times and they were all around 175 lbs, except before this last time out 4 and 6 were 150 and 155 lbs respectively.

I don't consider myself some great nitrous tuner, but I can read a plug and adjust and try different things from there. But I am sure that what Gaby did to the chambers and the motor made the tuning window much larger. Which just makes me look good

Thanks also to my pit biotch Woody, a friend since high school and to Brian, Jeff and Mike for all the help at the track. ECMTTFMF!

[Jeff Kinsler]

Originally Posted by LiL Jack

I started looking over some of my logs and about 5 passes were last years, so about 32 passes this year. One motor pass, then I had two or three nitrous passes when I had electrical problems. Rewired the car. Went out and started spraying one system. Then started working on two, then turned the plate on before the fogger and that seemed to make a big d.ifference in how the car left. It was NOT that way at Norwalk. The things we learned after Norwalk I am confident we could have gone a high 8.0 or low teen back then.

Ran 4 passes at Yellow Bullet Nationals in 8.50 index, so I dont really consider that tryn to get in the 7s.

So honestly a little over 20 passes to learn what the motor likes and the chassis likes to tune it in the 7s.

I never nipped a plug all year, never changed the head gaskets. I ran a compression test three times and they were all around 175 lbs, except before this last time out 4 and 6 were 150 and 155 lbs respectively.

I don't consider myself some great nitrous tuner, but I can read a plug and adjust and try different things from there. But I am sure that what Gaby did to the chambers and the motor made the tuning window much larger. Which just makes me look good

Thanks also to my pit biotch Woody, a friend since high school and to Brian, Jeff and Mike for all the help at the track. ECMTTFMF!

good job jack and Gaby..

[65nss4spdGTO]

Originally Posted by LiL Jack

So honestly a little over 20 passes to learn what the motor likes and the chassis likes to tune it in the 7s.

I never nipped a plug all year, never changed the head gaskets. I ran a compression test three times and they were all around 175 lbs, except before this last time out 4 and 6 were 150 and 155 lbs respectively.

I don't consider myself some great nitrous tuner, but I can read a plug and adjust and try different things from there. But I am sure that what Gaby did to the chambers and the motor made the tuning window much larger. Which just makes me look good

We are in the process of adding the "Special Deck" insert into the E-heads like we have done with the Tigers. To date, this has proven to increase head gasket life, I was curious if you felt this would help?

Thanks.

Calvin Hill
Hill Performance
708-250-7420