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Posted: **Mon Oct 03, 2011 3:56 pm**

Posted: **Tue Oct 04, 2011 6:53 am**

Nice job.

Chris.

Posted: **Tue Oct 04, 2011 8:47 am**

Ha Ha!!
You found us then mate !!!

Did the lash up on the fuel pump hold out for long? I stopped on the way out and went to the topof the banking as I knew Paul (yellow bimmer V8) and you were close to the front. She made it all the way to the finish line that time with a 13. Just curious to see how the pump works when you get a repair kit for it. I'm still thinking that the internal regulator may be sticking. And you deffo have a problem with the right hand side of that carb.

All simple stuff which can be sorted without too much hassle I'm sure.

I didnt come back on Sunday. I took the engine and box out of the MGB instead. I was fed up with having to be happy with 13.9 or 14 seconds in a car with not eniough cylinders and front wheel drive

Catch up soon

regards
Perry

Posted: **Tue Oct 04, 2011 10:39 am**

hey there perry.

yes the guy we bought the pump off happend to be down on sunday and had 2 of the fins on him haha. we got the pump to work tempoary got a 13.3 best of the weekend.

but i have been lookin into the edelbrock pumps and found there common for loosing pressure when the car warms up, so im going to buy a red top facet adjust the timing to 10 instead of 4 and peak up to 32 ish over the next few weeks. got the right hand bank of the carb to work with the screw now aswell.
few little kinks to sort then back down for bonfire night due and the rwyb on the sunday and see if it sorts it out.

so fingers crossed lol

cheers mick

Posted: **Tue Oct 04, 2011 11:39 am**

v8mini1 wrote:hey there perry.

yes the guy we bought the pump off happend to be down on sunday and had 2 of the fins on him haha. we got the pump to work tempoary got a 13.3 best of the weekend.

but i have been lookin into the edelbrock pumps and found there common for loosing pressure when the car warms up, so im going to buy a red top facet adjust the timing to 10 instead of 4 and peak up to 32 ish over the next few weeks. got the right hand bank of the carb to work with the screw now aswell.
few little kinks to sort then back down for bonfire night due and the rwyb on the sunday and see if it sorts it out.

so fingers crossed lol

cheers mick

Thats a strange one Mick??
My Eddy pump is in the boot. Yours is underneath and not really exposed to any real heat?
I run my pump flat out into a dead head regulator and its been fine. At least you got the fins sorted

I'm down for the Flame and Thunder gig. I'll see if I can pop over for the last RWYB as its only 30 mins for me. I'll bring some tuning gear if you want to do some testing

Regards
Perry

Posted: **Tue Oct 04, 2011 9:13 pm**

hey perry.

yeh that would be awsome. try and get this mini blowing a 12 second been close haha.

any help would be much appricated and hopefully have a run up the track next to your mgb for a giggle.

see you at the flame and thunder

cheers mick

Posted: **Wed Oct 05, 2011 1:16 pm**

Hi Mick
Nice talking to you at the Pod and thanks again for the push start! Hope you are getting the fueling sorted.

Posted: **Wed Oct 05, 2011 6:30 pm**

v8mini1 wrote:hey perry.

yeh that would be awsome. try and get this mini blowing a 12 second been close haha.

any help would be much appricated and hopefully have a run up the track next to your mgb for a giggle.

see you at the flame and thunder

cheers mick

MGB wont be running until Xmas on the dyno

Can you post up your best timing slip data so we can look at whats going on with the car after it leaves the line.

regards
Perry

Posted: **Fri Oct 07, 2011 8:20 pm**

hi perry.

this one is from july

reaction - +4.506
60ft - 2.0417
330ft - 5.6829
1/8 - 8.8021
1/8 - 78.55
1000 - 11.4491
1000 - 92.94
1/4 13.7106
1/4 97.98

reaction - .3690
60ft - 2.1133
330ft - 5.8871
1/8 9.048
1/8 76.05
1000 - 11.8204
1000 - 90.16
1/4 - 14.1257
1/4 96.93

theres two from july and one from april

reaction - .2347
60ft - 2.0124
330ft - 5.6168
1/8 - 8.6673
1/8 - 81.38
1000 - 11.2484
1000 - 94.08
13.4969
98.19

all from may

.2212
2.0481
5.6109
8.6743
80.80
11.2584
94.70
13.4910
99.06

.2355
2.0155
5.5901
8.6396
80.94
11.2227
94.69
13.4532
99.28

.2341
1.9967
5.58335
8.6330
81.38
11.2082
94.70
13.4249
99.70

.2380
1.9822
5.5678
8.6801
80.08
11.2851
93.91
13.5246
99.06

.2844
2.0739
5.6634
8.7099
81.39
11.2712
95.90
13.4858
99.70

there are many tickets of 14+ and some 16+ due to totaly runing out of fuel these runs it only ran out of fuel at the very end.

rest of tickets ran out in diferent spots on the track since fitting the edelbrock pump times has got worse and worse now fitting a new pump and getting it to say 5.5psi at the carb.

Posted: **Fri Oct 07, 2011 8:24 pm**

hi phill no problem

. hopefully see you down there again soon

Posted: **Tue Nov 01, 2011 9:43 am**

hi perry

the times from last run the 13.4

0.2625 1.9398 5,5141 8.5533 80.68 13.4412 97.30

the write up on the engine is as follows

rover v8 engine 3.9 stage 3 heads

just had new valve guides, new stem seals (new type 30cc) new valve seats 3 angle in heads , new shells and mains , new distributor with moroso advance springs with vacuum taken out. runing on edelbrock 500 carb and inlet manifold with k and n filter which comes with jetting kit for carb , timing chain with double vernier timing gear, also has sinvle valve springs with on less coil in heads, also comes with a cam tht i havnt fitted yet , the cam is a crane h224 power which comes in @2800/5800

valve float 6500
cam timeing 5/btdc/39abdc/54bbdc/0atdc

Posted: **Tue Nov 01, 2011 2:44 pm**

Hi Mick
I would leave it all as it is until you get a line lock fitted so you can get those tyres properly warmed up before a run.

Your 60 foot time of 1.9 seconds will be more like 1.7 or better with more grip off the line.

Once you have the launch nailed we can look at whats going on at the top end regarding best gear required for crossing the line. And dont forget to get it on a dyno so we have more info on the power curves.

You have 3-4 months to tinker with this now before we get back out for serious testing next year mate

Then it may be a case of adding a small puff of gas for 4th gear ??

See you soon
Pel

Posted: **Tue Nov 01, 2011 10:48 pm**

hi perry

i have had it on a dyno ill attach a photo for you to look at.

would you be able to link me to a website with the nitrous kit you'd reccomend for my set up. i might treat my self for xmas hahaha

.

any feed back on dyno would be great

see you in 3-4 months maybe get a shot at your mg haha

cheers mick

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/65 ... 039vv.jpg/

Posted: **Wed Nov 02, 2011 8:10 am**

looking at that chart I would be shifting gears at 3600rpm and see how she pulls.

Catch up soon mate.
Pel

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