With the new clutch installed and broken-in for a few hundred street miles, we headed out to the track again on January 22nd, just in time to get some results for this issue.

Our first run, taking it very easy on the launch and shift points, resulted in a 12.80 at 113 mph. A few more passes were made, each time taking the launch rpm slightly higher. The ET's would work their way down a tenth or two at a time. Finally we hit a 12.31 at 115, on a 1.80 60 ft. We knew the car still had quite a bit left, as we were no where near our best 60ft of 1.67.

A few runs later, with confidence that the clutch was doing it job, the ET Streets were heated up real good, and the launch was raised to 5000 rpm. Shift points were now at 6700 rpm. This resulted in a 12.13 at 116mph, on a 1.73 60ft time. This was the fastest run of the day. Shortly after another car oiled down the track, so we called it a day and decided that we'll save 11's for another day. All in all the day was a success. The engine performed better than we'd expected for the first time out. In fact, we performed no tuning whatsoever that day. The timing was left at 18 deg initial and 40 deg total, and the jetting in the 750 Holley double-pumper was 74/primaries and 78/secondaries. All runs were made with the Ram Air Box intact.

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