Re: Cudaman\'s 10.3 Run @ V10 Nationals (pixs)
Hello Chris,
Thanks for the question. We ran and WON the street tire shootout on Friday and having slipped the clutch several times for traction purposes, it became glazed and failed on our first nitrous pass during qualifiying on Saturday. Typically a Viper clutch will come back if sufficient cooling time is alloted. As you know from being there, we did not have much time between runs, so I elected to NOT use nitrous in first gear. That is the reason why our E.T. was slightly down. Our best ever MPH is 145.86. Our best MPH of the event was what you quoted 143 and change.
We use a single stage nitrous system that injects nitrous/propane and gasoline all at the same time. Lee Saunders runs the same system on his Viper and ran 9.89 for the quickest qualifying time in Mod 2. Both of our Vipers are 750SS packages straight from my website, with the exception that Lees car still uses the STOCK cam. Both cars have heads/cam/headers/exhaust on STOCK cubic inch engines with stock drivetrains and gearing. As for mulitple power adders, I would consider an intercooler on a turbo or supercharged car to be a 2nd power adder, or a stroked engine with nitrous or forced air induction.
Again, thanks a bunch for the reaction time payout...Im glad I got to give it back to everyone at dinner that nite.
Tom
BTW, I have nearly 1000 posts, and I still have alot to learn! LOL