DonsBolt
Bronco Guru
My friend who has a 67 Olds 442 has been after me for a little while to go to the darag strip and teach him how to race his car. He calls me up this afternoon and asks me if I want to go to the track tonight, since I was such a nice day I said lets do it.
It is to bad I filled all 3 tanks up the other day, but I had used some of it yesterday, and since the track is a hour or so away I was able to burn a little more of it off. Though I still had close if not 30 gallons still on board( I can hold 43)
So I get up to the track, and rode in the passenger seat of my friends Olds the first run, to show him what to do. He did good, so now it is time for me to see what the Bronco will do
1st run
I took it a little easy launching it off the line, but it bogged pretty good. I ran a 16.99@78.79MPH
2nd run
I launched at a higher rpm, it still boged, but not as bad. I ran a 16.81@80.04MPH
Since I just installed the Truck Avenger the other day, after getting it back from holley, and really havn't dialed it in. I decided to adjust the accewlerator pump on it, to get rid of the bog.
3rd run
the bog is allmost completlly gone, and it launched much better this time. I ran a 16.60@81.74mph
All in all I was pretty happy, If I could have ran with 25 less gallons of fuel, taken off my spare, the High lift jack, and taken out the 20 pounds of tools I had in it, I am sure I could have run better, maybee a 16.3 or so.
Maybee if I launched at a higher rpm, (the highest I launched was 2700rpms) or held each gear a little longer(shifted at 5 grand every time) I maybee could even knock another tenth or so off these times as well. So with a little more tweeking of my timing, tweeking of the carb, less weight, and better driving I can see very low 16's or maybee a high 15 1/4 mile run
So not to bad for a big brick with 35 inch tires.While I wasn't the fastest by a mile, I was faster than a lot of cars that ran tonight. A few people came up to me after the 16.60 run, and said they were amaized how fast my truck went.
It is to bad I filled all 3 tanks up the other day, but I had used some of it yesterday, and since the track is a hour or so away I was able to burn a little more of it off. Though I still had close if not 30 gallons still on board( I can hold 43)
So I get up to the track, and rode in the passenger seat of my friends Olds the first run, to show him what to do. He did good, so now it is time for me to see what the Bronco will do
1st run
I took it a little easy launching it off the line, but it bogged pretty good. I ran a 16.99@78.79MPH
2nd run
I launched at a higher rpm, it still boged, but not as bad. I ran a 16.81@80.04MPH
Since I just installed the Truck Avenger the other day, after getting it back from holley, and really havn't dialed it in. I decided to adjust the accewlerator pump on it, to get rid of the bog.
3rd run
the bog is allmost completlly gone, and it launched much better this time. I ran a 16.60@81.74mph
All in all I was pretty happy, If I could have ran with 25 less gallons of fuel, taken off my spare, the High lift jack, and taken out the 20 pounds of tools I had in it, I am sure I could have run better, maybee a 16.3 or so.
Maybee if I launched at a higher rpm, (the highest I launched was 2700rpms) or held each gear a little longer(shifted at 5 grand every time) I maybee could even knock another tenth or so off these times as well. So with a little more tweeking of my timing, tweeking of the carb, less weight, and better driving I can see very low 16's or maybee a high 15 1/4 mile run
So not to bad for a big brick with 35 inch tires.While I wasn't the fastest by a mile, I was faster than a lot of cars that ran tonight. A few people came up to me after the 16.60 run, and said they were amaized how fast my truck went.
an S2000 only ran in the mid 15's?? i thought they would be faster than that...
