GreggymacZ28

Haven't posted on here in awhile, figured I would update everyone. Well after putting the engine together in 2011 I have been running the points series at my local track consistently since 2012. I have finished 4th, 3rd, and 2nd this past year in the points. I am getting closer, but my goal is obviously a track championship. One problem I have had with my car over the years is that it isn't quite as consistent as I would like and I noticed that at the big dollar races these guys cars on alcohol were dead on almost every pass. So, I decided to do a pretty big tear down this winter. I finally decided to take the engine out and go through it this winter and replace the gaskets and check everything over. Surprisingly, everything looked great! After collecting a lot of my slips over the years, I would estimate there was between 600-800 passes on this car.

Anyway, new to 2017, I have switched from pump gas (93 octane) to Alcohol. I replaced my gm HEI distributor with a MSD pro billet. I got rid of my stock gas tank and holley blue pump for a 4 gal front mounted fuel cell, Magnafuel 500 pump, and all fragola line. I also changed to a Pro systems 780 cfm alky carb.

On top of all this I did some re-wring and some changes to the inside of the car. I decided to get rid of the stock gauge cluster and created my own little set up. I also, installed a lean out valve (its an alcohol thing), and then I installed a new switch panel. I also redid a lot of my nitrous wiring and installed it now so that I have it setup on a button to spray down track depending on the race.I think at one point this winter I had almost everything a part on this car so I am just glad to have it back together.

I made my first outing last week at a big dollar race in Kentucky. I made 23 passes on the car in 2 days (all 1/8 mile except 1 pass). Previous fastest was 7.32 in the 1/8 mile on motor and 11.56 on motor in the 1/4. Fastest in the 1/8 this past weekend was 7.05 at 95 mph and the one 1/4 mile pass I got was 11.26 @ 117 mph. I am extremely impressed with this thing and am really shocked at the difference alky made over pump gas. Also, the car so far is a lot more consistent. There are still small bugs I'm fixing, but in the $3,000 race on saturday night I did make it down to 17 cars (About 140 entries). I think it was around 6-7 passes in a row at 7.12. Anyway, thats enough talking here are some pictures...

AlkyIROC

Alcohol is the way to go. Once you get tired of the carb, switch to injection. It's even easier. A Flying Toilet is the simplest way to go. I'll never go back to gasoline or a carb for a race engine.

www.ronsfuel.com
www.killerrons.com/

mw66nova

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man that's great! can't wait to see how your season unfolds

GreggymacZ28

I looked into rons injection pretty heavily, however I did not want to go to a belt driven pump yet as I was unsure if alcohol was going to be 100% what I was after having had 0 experience with it. So I wanted to have it where I could convert back to gas very easily. As of right now, I could change back to gas in 5 minutes. But, the setup outperformed what I had expected and I do not expect to go back to gas anytime soon! I am loving the alky so far, also a side note... Patrick at Pro-Systems nailed it on this carb and I was very impressed with the minor changes I had to make to get this thing sorted out.

Matt - Thanks a lot man, I appreciate that! I have been watching your build closely as well and wish you all of the best at drag week this year! Also, I think your parents are the ones who do Motor Mania TV? But I was able to run an event last year that they did (Kentucky Footbrake Nationals) and have been watching for a couple of years now. What an awesome job they are doing giving us all some sportsman racing to watch!