Leroy on November 29th, 2009

Here’s a picture of the kit of parts we ordered.

I did some tweaking of our wiring and got a switch and wiring hooked up. Once we get the unit installed we’ll have power for it. Decided to wire it to the network on the car that has power to the switch 100% of [...]

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Leroy on November 23rd, 2009

I’ll post some pics once I get them from the camera in the garage. I got a chance to sit down with all the documentation and look at all the sensors. Crazy to me how light weight the whole thing is – and there are almost no moving parts – especially in the [...]

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Leroy on November 12th, 2009

Well, I was going to be pretty excited to get my new RacePak this weekend.  I was led to believe the kit that I ordered would be tested and packaged to be sent by the beginning of this week, giving it plenty of time to get here all the way on the right coast – [...]

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Leroy on November 3rd, 2009

Made the first big purchase of the winter.  In a few weeks we’ll have a new Racepak system arrive at the house.  Gonna spend the winter discovering how it all works and getting it setup/tuned.  Its going to take some fabrication work but I think it will be worthwhile because we have always wanted to [...]

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Leroy on October 29th, 2009

Data Power – Buddy Fey
Competition Car Data Logging – Simon McBeath
Analysis Techniques for Race Car Data Acquisition – Jorge Segers
Competition Car Data Logging Manual – Graham Templeton

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Leroy on October 26th, 2009

Wanted to share with you some details from our exciting day of racing. The long and short of it is: We ran in TWO final rounds! We lost both but we had a blast all day long! Here is a rundown of each class and how we fared:

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Leroy on October 13th, 2009

I’m very excited that we are planning to race on Oct 25th.  We’ll let you know how it goes.  Hoping for quick times and consistent lights.

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Leroy on September 23rd, 2009

We have really had a blast taking the car out the past few times.  We have been out to Mason Dixon twice in the last 5 weeks.  Both times we ran with the outlaw pontiacs which is always fun.  But it was a little soured by losing first round in both events because of red [...]

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Leroy on October 7th, 2008

Well, just want everyone to know that even though we didn’t get a chance to compete – we had a great time doing test-and-tune runs. Had a really great reaction time on the second run, and a great ET and sixty foot on the first run.
Dragtracker is working nicely for organizing our [...]

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Leroy on October 2nd, 2008

Found this article very interesting…
http://sportscarnet.com/blog/2008/09/shocking-and-fascinating-facts-about-top-fuel-dragsters/

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