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"Excerpts"
By: Steve Turner Super Ford Magazine August 1998 |
Dan Schnetzer's Red 93 LX rolled off the trailer looking
like a new cheerleader at school. The car was gorgeously
prepared and with a shakedown pass clocking it a 8.65/138,
we were expecting this car to exhibit some cartwheeling
8-second school sprit. Unfortunataly, electronic gremlins
plagued Turbo Don to the point he never really got off
a clean pass.
"I made a few changes and it's a real problem right
now," Schnetzer said. " Well the car is breaking
up. It seems like it is getting too much fuel out of the
car and it's not making any change. I've pulled 25 percent
of the fuel out and it's still doing the same thing. I
put a new coil on the car. That could be it. I'm trying
to go through the things I changed since the last time
I was out. It ran great at Atco, but I couldn't get enough
fuel through it." At least he made the cover.
Jeff Lipscomb and his friends made the long haul from
Oklahoma to run their unique turbo/nitrous coupe. However,
this turbo car was aalso plagued by gremlins. "At
about 4 or 5 pounds of boost, it's flat. It's running
out of fuel," Lipscomb said. "The FMU is not
kicking up the fuel pressure enough. Anything more than
4 pounds of boost, it leans out."
Though he and his crew struggled in vain to get the
car running like it should--in the low tens--Lipscomb
took it in stride. He was happy just to make it in the
magizine--a wish we were more than happy to fulfill given
the effort he made to run our event. In typical racer
fashion, like the crew at CFM, the Lipscomb crew started
with a bare car a week before the Shootout and installed
the complete drivetrain in time to make the race. Now
that's dedication.
Dedication to 5.0 racing is something that has only
grown stronger. Despite the tuning struggles, we were
happy to attract such a broad cross section of 5.0 performance
to Shootout this year. It gives you an idea there are
still unique ways to make your car faster than the next
guy's.
As you browse through the tech sheets, you'll probably
notice, as we did, that a number of the really quick cars
are still running Trick Flow Street Heat aluminum cylinder
heads. This speaks to how good those heads really were
when they came out in the late '80s. It also show that
as the modern small-block race heads from Brodix,Edelbrock,
Trick Flow, and others become more prevalent, these true-5.0
cars are bound for more sevens. That's next year, however,
for the 10th Anniversary 5.0 Shootout.
Note: The Tech Sheets may be seen between
Pages 71 to 88
Excerpts written by: Steve Turner
in the August 1998
Issue of Super Ford Magazine Starting
on Page 74 All Rights Reserved
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