A little background on me and my cars. I've been racing and building cars for around 30 years now. Everything from GM muscle cars that have went mid 8's at 8000ft DA. To my current Fun, semi DD, Porsche 944turbo that has went 11.1 @132 this season at 8000ft DA. BITD I also tuned and crewed a low 6 second nitro coupe.
I have gotten back in the drag game over the last couple years using MY Porsche. However, I've really been drawn back in to the street race as well. Now that we have some street legal street racing happen, I'm really excited to get back to the top of the street cars around here. After trying to get into our top ten with the porsche with limited success I had to rethink my direction. The porsche works great on a "no -prep" race situation, beating a few mid to low 9 second cars..But it's getting more difficult with a lot of drag cars coming out and them doing way too much prep IMO. The other problem is that the Porsche is a transaxle car, and likes to break axle joints and now the transaxle itself.
My DSM experience is relatively limited. I've tuned my sons talon to run 11.8 @ 118 up here with minimal changes ie: holset hy35 using a t3 .63, clutch, injectors, ostrich. exhaust, with a stock IC. I really only worked on it for about 3 months.
So onto my new venture. After visiting Puerto Rico with my girl this year, I realized that I could do everything I want to do with a smaller budget using a small platform. I was really impressed with the cars I saw running consistent sub 8 and 9 second runs. I started looking and almost picked up a starlet, bungthen found a really clean (body wise) Datsun 210 driving down the road and made a deal on it.
So far I've just done some initial weight reduction and minimal changes to the looks. It weighed 1900 at the local truck scale before I removed a few items IE: bumpers, sound deadening, rear seat, and some small stuff. It should weigh around 1830 after the parts I deducted.
The engine is built and waiting for the day. It's a 9.5:1 2.0 with with eagle rods, wiseco pistons, kiggly springs, crower 272 cams etc. I'll be tunigng with tunerpro initially and then going to DSMlink after I get a few miles on it.
The rear end will be a nine inch ford using ladder bars and coil overs.
Against my nature, I'll be going with a turbo 400 transmission. I'd really like to keep it a clutch car, but 8th mile racing is just to quick for it
.The plan right now is to get the rear suspension done first, hopefully in the next month. Then do the cage (just going ten point with subframe and out riggers). Will probably blow up the current engine with a couple fogger nozzles
here are some pics of the car after doing a little work and a vid of my black car. The black car may also get a swap in it at some point.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQ4y-Icu9WU
