For those who wanted an update.....
It's Friday night and I'm back from the track. Not so good results. But not the fault of Elite.
I made one pass and parked it. I smoked the clutch through 2 and 1/2 gears.
At first I thought I was spinning the tries so I peddled the throttle to keep the R's down. But when I shifted to second and the R's went right back to 5,000 in a milisecond. So I peddled some more to keep the R's from wigging out. But I never felt much forward force. Hit third and it went right back to 5,000 R's. So I backed out of the run.
I pulled off on the return lane and jummped out of the car to look things over. Smoke, and that awefull unmistakable smell was comming out from under the car. I thought I might be on fire for a second. I lifted the hood, you know, to add oxgen to fuel the fire if there was one, it ended up being just smoke and that nasty smell, nothing more.
I rolled back to the pits and let it sit for about an hour and a half, then got in and drove her home. Strange thing is, she seemed okay on the drive home.
I only had one set of tires with me. I couldn't come up with a second set of wheels, so I chose to mount a set of 18" BF Goodrich G-Force Drag Radials. I dropped the pressure to 12PSI, heated them up a bit and I launched.
Only thing I can figure is the HP is high, and the Drag Radials had too much grip, so we found the weak point, the clutch. I wish I would have kept the pilots on for this first outing.
I have to figure what to do with the clutch. Was it a bad launch, is a stock clutch too weak for this much HP and drag racing? What would be the best thing to do? Will someone at VOI be able to replace mine with a strong raceable clutch while I'm there? If there is any Drag's going on at VOI, I'd like to be able to take part in it.
Even though it got home fine, I don't think I should hammer it without really looking at the clutch first.