Nostalgia Dragster Rebuild

[GoLfMan]

cant wait bro I expect a call when its started!

[Mrk_Mickey]

Nice one you douche-bag! hahaha. Stilll can't wait...

[Jarred]

nice one team preen...

updtes??

[Mischa]

yeah mofo its saturday

[Preen59]

We've ran it.. I was in the seat. It was loud. Full update soon.

[Treza360]

We've ran it.. I was in the seat. It was loud. Full update soon.

Wicked. Starts hitting F5 key repeatedly.
Cheers,
Trent

[Preen59]

Small update here now. Here's some pics..

The fuel lines which i tethered to the chassis suspended to avoid rubbing on the chassis (old kart racing trick. If you want more info i'll post some pics with a how to.)



And a couple of shots of the car rolled out in the sun (no body panels are fitted).

[fuzion]

thats awesome dude, absolutely love it!!!

[Preen59]

The car fired first shot with no issues. We were very, very happy about that.

It was a bit rich on the methanol feed, but pretty close. The bottle isn't big enough and it sucked it up really quick. Hence we had to shut it off and refill! Need a bigger bottle..

So Dad shut it off, refilled the bottle and we went again. After the second start Dad switched over to Nitro relatively quickly. The engine was way rich on the valve and it half fouled the No. 1 and 2 cylinders. It started throwing raw fuel out the front pipes and rich backfiring (hard to hear in the second video). To avoid engine damage we shut it off pretty quick.

We would have run it again, but we couldn't get onto Rick. Dad was a bit apprehensive about leaning it off and going again without consulting "the doctor", so we called it quits for this weekend.

No oil leaks, nothing broke, the engine ran without any issues apart from tune.. We're extremely happy!

This first video below has the engine just running on methanol, no nitro.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JcHt08qZTQ

[fuzion]

god i hope you have no neighbours

the bass was rumbling my floor from the crackling lol

[Preen59]

god i hope you have no neighbours

the bass was rumbling my floor from the crackling lol

hahahaha! A bloke from down the road walked up to see what the **** was going on!

And that was just on methanol!

[Preen59]

Here's round 2 with the early shut down due to the mixture as i stated before. That stuff shooting out of the pipes is raw Nitro, not smoke. It was throwing it out on the ground and on the tyres. Waaaaay rich.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29i-GkgwjfQ

[DaveMack]

The car fired first shot with no issues. We were very, very happy about that.

It was a bit rich on the methanol feed, but pretty close. The bottle isn't big enough and it sucked it up really quick. Hence we had to shut it off and refill! Need a bigger bottle..

So Dad shut it off, refilled the bottle and we went again. After the second start Dad switched over to Nitro relatively quickly. The engine was way rich on the valve and it half fouled the No. 1 and 2 cylinders. It started throwing raw fuel out the front pipes and rich backfiring (hard to hear in the second video). To avoid engine damage we shut it off pretty quick.

We would have run it again, but we couldn't get onto Rick. Dad was a bit apprehensive about leaning it off and going again without consulting "the doctor", so we called it quits for this weekend.

No oil leaks, nothing broke, the engine ran without any issues apart from tune.. We're extremely happy!

This first video below has the engine just running on methanol, no nitro.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JcHt08qZTQ

YEEHAH!!! Preeny ... that's what I wanted to hear. I mean ... it's OK to go off and listen to dragsters built by pple you don't even know ... but it's been great to keep up with the build thread and finally hear it sparkle into life. Congrats to you & your Dad.

Dave

[Spyda]

PURE AWSOMENESS

[Mischa]

congrats thats so cool