Project; "BEATERBIRD"

Been a little while since I posted so here's a little bit of an update I have a pretty big racing events I want to make on the 10th and 11th of May so I'm doing a little bit of prep work right now and I put my car on a diet.

First off I removed the racing seats that I had in ... the first time I was lightning up the car I decided to keep both front seats because I thought I would have a friend or my wife ride around with me but it has turned out that's not the case and I've actually only had a passenger one time since the car's been up and going. So I bought this lightweight kirkey that weighs a whole 5 1/2 lb ... each one of the seats are removed weighed 31 lb and the seat brackets were 10 lb eachhttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...89a3f0d19a.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...b71d262287.jpg

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The Next Step I did was I took off the front fenders and trimmed the extra metal that was behind them and I also removed the front bumper and foam ... this isn't a daily driver anymore and I have a trailer that I'm taking it to the track on so the next step will be to remove the door bars/brackets and rear bumper... the car will be getting a six or eight point roll cage so I'm not terribly worried about removing the door bars.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...278dd3d40b.jpg

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Well I got the car put back together and I was able to remove a total of 122 lb off of the car I also relocated my nitrous bottles down to where the passenger seat was located but when I did that I rewired the heaters with a large plug and connector so that way I can quickly pull out the bottles and bottle bracket to remove an additional 70 lb when they're not neededhttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...b1e8da4dff.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...4126e3afee.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...a8ad495d74.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...02453f9997.jpg

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So I went to the drag strip for a pretty big event and I wanted to make several passes and see if I could improve the car naturally aspirated unfortunately on my way to the drag strip I noticed the motor was a little bit of a funny sound and I discovered I have broken a bolt in the block that holds the alternator ... this is going to be fun to try and extract I ran up to a hardware store and bought a bolt so that way I could limp the car home trying not to break the one other Bolt holding the bracket to the engine block. While I was there I bought a set of left handed drill bits and easy outs hopefully I can get this bolt out of the block ... I did make a few passes at the track after I took off the alternator belt so it wouldn't get any unneeded stresshttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...f580fe7291.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...e4e0331954.jpg

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https://youtu.be/aZmeklZ9hhM

So the car leaves really hard off of just a foot break this is a video of me cutting a 1.34 60 foot time ... now the full pass wasn't so great because the transmission doesn't want to shift but after talking with a transmission guy I'm going to make some changes to see if it'll shift better

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Originally Posted by zooguy

https://youtu.be/aZmeklZ9hhM

So the car leaves really hard off of just a foot break this is a video of me cutting a 1.34 60 foot time ... now the full pass wasn't so great because the transmission doesn't want to shift but after talking with a transmission guy I'm going to make some changes to see if it'll shift better

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Bro, thats an impressive launch. How much are u spraying off the line.

LTXtech.com is my drug...

Believe it or not that's actually with the motor turn down a little bit I'm only spraying 200 shot and I don't have a trans brake so it's just a little foot break action getting the RPMs up to about 2500

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Originally Posted by zooguy

So I went to the drag strip for a pretty big event and I wanted to make several passes and see if I could improve the car naturally aspirated unfortunately on my way to the drag strip I noticed the motor was a little bit of a funny sound and I discovered I have broken a bolt in the block that holds the alternator ... this is going to be fun to try and extract I ran up to a hardware store and bought a bolt so that way I could limp the car home trying not to break the one other Bolt holding the bracket to the engine block. While I was there I bought a set of left handed drill bits and easy outs hopefully I can get this bolt out of the block ... I did make a few passes at the track after I took off the alternator belt so it wouldn't get any unneeded stresshttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...f580fe7291.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...e4e0331954.jpg

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That's a bitch

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Originally Posted by zooguy

https://youtu.be/aZmeklZ9hhM

So the car leaves really hard off of just a foot break this is a video of me cutting a 1.34 60 foot time ... now the full pass wasn't so great because the transmission doesn't want to shift but after talking with a transmission guy I'm going to make some changes to see if it'll shift better

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That's badass

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Luckily I was able to get this out with relatively easy effort I would highly recommend everybody buy a small set of left-handed drill bitshttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...98da662659.jpg

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