83-88T-Bird Guy
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Edit: ( 5-02-16) The thread title is incorrect. My apologies. It should read " The newest Ford Mustang GT racing NHRA Stock Eliminator is a 3 valve"
I found out this morning that my car is not the first S197 Mustang GT to enter Stock. A racer on the east coast did it in 2009 with a 2008 GT running the factory auto trans in F/SA. My apologies if I misled anyone.
It was not intentional. I had asked a friend to research the archives of the year end stats books and he just simply overlooked that the other driver did it in 2009)
I made my first official qualifying pass with my S197 Mustang GT in NHRA Stock Eliminator @ Indianapolis Raceway Park at the Div. 3 race.
This is the newest Ford NHRA Stocker running in the "traditional" classes ( i.e. Non-Factory Stock Classes)
When I first started this project I had 2 defined goals headlining the 2 phases of the project, with the number 1 priority was to keep the costs down as low as possible without compromising the safety of the car or violating the rules of Stock Eliminator as published in the NHRA rulebook.
Phase 1 :
Build my 3V Mustang GT and make my first pass with it at the Div. 3 race in late April @ Indy. It did not matter how quick the car ran, so long as the car passed tech, passed the scales check after the run, and also passed the critical fuel check while using a fuel from the NHRA approved fuel list.
Phase 2 :
To qualify the car under index at a divisional or national event while using the factory issued 5 spd. automatic trans and Spanish Oak ECU.
Phase 2 is yet to be determined, but this thread is about that day @ Indy that happened just 2 months after I purchased this red 2005 Mustang GT.
As you will see on the qualifying sheet, I entered the car as a 2009 GT only because when I weighed the car the first time it was not eligible as a 2005 in H/SA. It was 85 lbs. too light and there was no way I could legally add weight right then and there at the track. I could not claim it as a G/SA car because G class and quicker require a SFI harmonic balancer, of which my car was not equipped.
My only choice was to go to my backup plan and enter as a 2009 model because it could run at a lower weight as an '09..
It does not matter what year the car actually is, but rather that the car appears to be the year and model you are claiming it to be on your tech card.
Qualifying sheet after the 1st qaulifying. session :
# 74
Scale check before I discovered it was too light for H/SA:
Fuel check area: I was using VP Fuels C-11....not sure it was doing my catalytic convertors much good...lol
My one and only pass and I just happened to get paired up with the quickest 3 valve NHRA Stocker on the planet...C. Downing's 2010 3V Cobra Jet ( stick car)
Ignore the car #'s and classes on the top of the time slip...the people in the tower @ Indy had not yet received all of the tech cards, so they punched in the car number and it showed my car and class from last year ( '84 Turbo Coupe)
The class I actually ran was I/SA with an Index of 12.30 at a minimum of 3410 lbs with me in it.
My car weighed exactly 3500 lbs. on this run:
Before the run. I had to do a quick letter change with electrical tape and white medical tape:
Inside and looking out of the newest Mustang GT Stocker in the country:
For me it was a great day.It did not run under index, but that was not the goal for phase 1. There simply was not enough time to make it run under index before the divisional race.
So, phase 1 has been accomplished.
Now I have less than 4 months to accomplish phase 2 and run under index at the Divisional race at Bowling Green , KY the weekend before the Labor Day weekend.
I found out this morning that my car is not the first S197 Mustang GT to enter Stock. A racer on the east coast did it in 2009 with a 2008 GT running the factory auto trans in F/SA. My apologies if I misled anyone.
It was not intentional. I had asked a friend to research the archives of the year end stats books and he just simply overlooked that the other driver did it in 2009)
I made my first official qualifying pass with my S197 Mustang GT in NHRA Stock Eliminator @ Indianapolis Raceway Park at the Div. 3 race.
This is the newest Ford NHRA Stocker running in the "traditional" classes ( i.e. Non-Factory Stock Classes)
When I first started this project I had 2 defined goals headlining the 2 phases of the project, with the number 1 priority was to keep the costs down as low as possible without compromising the safety of the car or violating the rules of Stock Eliminator as published in the NHRA rulebook.
Phase 1 :
Build my 3V Mustang GT and make my first pass with it at the Div. 3 race in late April @ Indy. It did not matter how quick the car ran, so long as the car passed tech, passed the scales check after the run, and also passed the critical fuel check while using a fuel from the NHRA approved fuel list.
Phase 2 :
To qualify the car under index at a divisional or national event while using the factory issued 5 spd. automatic trans and Spanish Oak ECU.
Phase 2 is yet to be determined, but this thread is about that day @ Indy that happened just 2 months after I purchased this red 2005 Mustang GT.
As you will see on the qualifying sheet, I entered the car as a 2009 GT only because when I weighed the car the first time it was not eligible as a 2005 in H/SA. It was 85 lbs. too light and there was no way I could legally add weight right then and there at the track. I could not claim it as a G/SA car because G class and quicker require a SFI harmonic balancer, of which my car was not equipped.
My only choice was to go to my backup plan and enter as a 2009 model because it could run at a lower weight as an '09..
It does not matter what year the car actually is, but rather that the car appears to be the year and model you are claiming it to be on your tech card.
Qualifying sheet after the 1st qaulifying. session :
# 74
Scale check before I discovered it was too light for H/SA:
Fuel check area: I was using VP Fuels C-11....not sure it was doing my catalytic convertors much good...lol
My one and only pass and I just happened to get paired up with the quickest 3 valve NHRA Stocker on the planet...C. Downing's 2010 3V Cobra Jet ( stick car)
Ignore the car #'s and classes on the top of the time slip...the people in the tower @ Indy had not yet received all of the tech cards, so they punched in the car number and it showed my car and class from last year ( '84 Turbo Coupe)
The class I actually ran was I/SA with an Index of 12.30 at a minimum of 3410 lbs with me in it.
My car weighed exactly 3500 lbs. on this run:
Before the run. I had to do a quick letter change with electrical tape and white medical tape:
Inside and looking out of the newest Mustang GT Stocker in the country:
For me it was a great day.It did not run under index, but that was not the goal for phase 1. There simply was not enough time to make it run under index before the divisional race.
So, phase 1 has been accomplished.
Now I have less than 4 months to accomplish phase 2 and run under index at the Divisional race at Bowling Green , KY the weekend before the Labor Day weekend.
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