Parallel universes -
Went to the 5th round Saturday, 5 cars left. Decided to go all in for the bye to the final, or go out. -.031, ID-10-T error. He was 90, so there. I had been 80s because of the stumble, so everything was iffy at that point anyway,
I made 5 passes Friday trying to sort out the accel pumps. It seemed to work best with only a slight miss at .059/.059. Ran out of time so I just ran with it. The car runs 87 MPH/5.70 on 110, 5.48~5.51 at 90+ on alcohol.
Saturday it pretty much stuck to the plan with 1.65/1.66 60'. Started at 7.48 and went up around 7.51 dial as the DA went up, then back to .48 until the red light. Didn't have to buy back, got a check for $40. This is the big time.
Sunday thought I'd go up to a .062 in the back to try and fix the miss on the hit. the air was nice so put a .47 on for Dial-4-$ and it missed the hit anyway, ran a 49. Hmm. Put the .059 shooter back in. Dial 49 for 1st round, missed at the hit ran 51. Bought back and dialed a 50 because who knows. That time it hit big, knew I was carrying at least 2 maybe 3. Ran down to about 30' from the stripe and stood on the brake. Hero pass of the day - see below. Next round dialed 50, it laid over on the hit and was 5 off everywhere.
So the problem remains on the hit. My carb guy is just "keep adding shot until it leaves." I did that but it went off script anyway, so not sure if I'm missing something else. I know the carb is a bit on the fat side - should not be, flow is flow. But it runs better at lower speed in the pits with more of the lean out open. Tried leaning out the idle screws until it died then adding back 1/8. Then 1/2, then another 1/8. Didn't seem to care one way or the other. Runs great down track, intervals are very close so if I can fix the pump shot at the hit it'll be killer. I just think I'm missing something. Anybody car to share their shooter size on alcohol?
The frameable time slip - easy 5.48, killed 2 MPH almost exactly (had been running 90.02). The 4.77 in the middle repeats like crazy if the car will leave. I've got 6 or 7 tickets that carry that number LOL. Sambo parks across from us and as soon as we got out of the cars I hollered "Sambo! We put on a SHOW!" Good times.

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Chris - Merkel, TX
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