Sooooo close... 10.1 @ 142 :(

[treynor]

One of these days a blower car will make it into the 9's! Mine came close tonight with back-to-back 10.1 passes... but not close enough.

Cross your fingers for cooler weather and more HP.

 

[Maverick The Electrician]

Ben, thats awesome. Any chance you can make it to the Texas race Dec. 7th ?

I am going to take the car to the track and try and run a 9 on drag radials soon.

 

[Gerald]

Hi Ben!


Not too shabby man...for blower only..! Any more news you can give us!?

Gerald

 

[treynor]

I'll have the timeslips scanned shortly. The basics -- 1.5x short time, 114-115 MPH in the 1/8th, and about 80F at the track.

Mav, I'll have to see about TX, but that's awfully tempting. Good luck with the DR runs! You've got enough HP to make it happen.

 

[Torquemonster]

Brilliant times Ben - that last 0.2sec is really hard - but you will do it. The 60 footer should be good enough in cold air.... great effort!

 

[Gerald]

This was a "detuned" run?

 

[Dr Roof]

Ben

SWEEEEEEEEETTTTTT!!!

Blower only?

If so that is a new record!!!!

more info!!!

 

[J DAWG]

Nice run. 80 degrees in NorCal....wassup with that.

 

[DChan415]

Were you at Infineon tonight Ben?

 

[Yellow Fever]

Very Impressive Ben !!!

Cheers

Jeff

 

[varanus]

was this sacto or Infineon?

 

[treynor]

Moroso. I think the cool October NorCal air will be just the ticket. Infineon is probably my next stop, because it's cooler (and they'll kick me off as soon as I run >135, so I might as well get it over with )

 

[Moundir]

This was a "detuned" run?

Come on Ben, more details man, how much boost? Was this with the 800 800 detuned setup?? If so that is insane, turning down the boost has actually lowered your et Congrats on the runs, You will be 1st in 9s with SC only

 

[Walt McFarland]

Ben;

This is the year you do it. Until then, 10.1 is a good piece of work.

 

[Snake Bitten]

Was this in the Benz???



Come on...bring your beast to Texas...I wanna see it!!!

 

[1TONY1]

Way to go Ben !! I'm sure "others" want to know if you used nitrous or not. If you had some cooler air you would have been there. Also, was it a 10.10 or 10.1X ?

 

[Fishtail]

Keep up the great work Ben!
1TONY1 you can drive too..... Can't imagine what you could do behind the wheel in the cooler weather

 

[GaryA]

Ben's knocking on the door! Congratulations! I have a feeling that the 9 second run is coming soon!

 

[Paolo Castellano]

Ben, nice job and good luck!

 

[Jason Heffner]

Congrats Ben. You've worked hard and you've earned it. Now that you have the quickest supercharger only Viper in the world what are you going to do now?

 

[fast?]

Now that you have the quickest supercharger only Viper in the world what are you going to do now?

he's going to disneyworld what else.
great run ben.

 

[treynor]

> what are you going to do now?
What a strange question! I'm going to try to go faster, of course I still want 9's with the current setup, and don't be surprised to see that 32PSI procharger setup reappear at some point, with boost control, an engine and a driveline to match...

Here's the timeslip from the better of the two runs from last night:

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[MES]

Congrats on the new record So close, yet so far away Did Doug drive it at Moroso? You should have let us locals know it was there, I would have liked to see it go.

 

[treynor]

Yes, this was still Doug driving it. He wanted one last chance with the new setup to put it down the dragstrip, and I told him to go for it.

I'm sure it'll be quicker out here in Cali - temps are about 30F cooler than in Florida, and blower cars loooove the cold air. The real question will be whether I can drive it well enough to get a 1.4x 60', which is about what it'll take to get into the 9s.

 

[snooptodd]

awesome job Ben. Any chance the video camera was running at this event?

 

[MaxedGTS]

treynor,wow the 1/8 mph is FAST too!!!!

Max