I heard Johnny ran a 10.8s and then had fuel problems and there was like 12 trucks.

Any details???????

VINNIE

 

They had first round qualifing today, and there is more qualifing tomorow. So until tomorow is over it will be hard to get any real results.

I also heard Johnny had some electrical problems, but that he has them solved now. I heard the problem happened in the test and tune runs today, and he missed the first round. I don't know why Johnny is trying to run a 10 second run in a bracket racing event. If he detuned his truck to run high 11's he would have a much better chance of winning the event.


I heard there were only 13 trucks.

When I talked to JR and PG they had left the track, and were allready on there 2nd beer.

 

For some people, high 11's is detuning, but not for JL. High 10's maybe, but not high 11's

NMRA? Now thats real racing

 

http://www.stangcrazy.com/events/200...ace1/index.htm

stangcrazy is the official event coverage should be updated pretty regulary as the day goes on.

 

How come only 13 trucks showed up ??

 

For once I agree with JJ. I don't understand why people detune their trucks. I understand if you are running at a track where you don't meet the guidlines, but if you have a cage and all there should be no reason to detune 2 seconds.

 

This is why I say to detune the truck when you are bracket racing.

When I run my high boost setup my times can vary up to 2 - 1/10th of a second.

On saturday when I ran my street program last weekend in Orlando all my runs were within 3 - 1/100th of a second.

Also running less boost I have less of a chance to loose traction off the line. Remember when your bracket racing it doesn't pay to be fast, it pays to be consistant.

 

if your comparing the nmra to ffw then i can agree that the vehicle count is less than half.

but their were 14 trucks that qualified 1st round. not including jlp and not everyone gets there on friday either.


i agree that you need to be consistent but i dont agree with detuning the truck more than 5 tenths. that should be enough to be consistent.

not meant to flame.

 

I ran a 10.74 test and tune saturday morning last weekend at the Fun Ford Event. The track was junk on saturday so I borrowed a 3.5 upper pulley from Don C., took the 8lb lower off and put a 6lb on it. Which gave me 12lbs of boost. That was the only pulley combination I had for the Kenne Bell. Went right back out in test and tune and the Truck ran 11.37 so I left it there for qualifying. Sunday eliminations I went 6 rounds. When my competitor red lighted I ran it out the door and went 11.40. I was very comfortable at that pulley combination for consistency.

During test and tune for JL in Bradenton NMRA he ran a 10.88 he missed first round of qualifying, 2nd round qualifying he went 11.60. 3rd round has not happened yet. As for the trucks at fun ford we had 27 Lightnings and 6 other ford trucks. The only Lightning vendors there was JDM and REM. In NMRA you have JL, Tommy Lightning, REM, and Amazon Racing. So I think we did pretty good at Fun Ford. All of the Fun Ford races have a large amount of Lightning turnout, in fact last year we were bigger than their Mod Motor class. Thats why Ford has given us a Truck to give away this year.

Jim@JDM

 

Johnny just ran a 11.29 for 3rd round qualifying.

 

Looks like JL heard me and detuned his truck
Now he will have a chance to win the event.
Good luck JL

 

For Johnny, I think 10.80 is detuned if he gets a decent launch. He is running 18psi, maybe a little less, with hardly any timing. His a/f is way rich. His truck is going to be nasty when he let's it loose.

 

Truck & Lightning Final Qualifying Order(Unofficial)
This is the unofficial final qualifying order pending any news from the tech department.



1. Mark Morales 10.256@127.56
2. Keith Kohlmann 10.497@123.93
3. Johnny Lightning 11.296@120.82
4. Scott Westgate 11.628@108.39
5. Tomm Dottari 11.721@114.22
6. Chris Taylor 11.935@114.40
7. Dan Pearson 12.361@110.11
8. Eric Leeper 12.370@110.44
9. Dwayne Schwarz 12.451@107.74
10. Bryan Stanley 12.482@110.14
11. Jerry Mulkey 12.503@102.82
12. Brian Schauder 12.701@93.98
13. Jim Owens 12.767@103.54
14. Jay Edwards 12.842@105.75
15. Linn Erdman 12.911@103.63
16. John Ashcroft 13.106@104.66
17. Jim Roberts 13.438@101.85
18. Pete Howe 13.494@100.24
19. Paul Gamino 15.274@87.63
20. Matthew Morrow 18.267@72.44
21. TR11165 26.852@30.05

thanks to stangcrazy.com for the update.

 

16. John Ashcroft 13.106@104.66

shouldnt he be at the white house or something

 

LOL..........


PEacE......................
Jim