[DeTomaso] PANTERA RAN GREAT

[asajay at asajay.com]

Kirby,

You know the Dog can't turn a wrench.  Why do you think he needs peons  
like me to come along?

Trouble is, we didn't do any testing at all once in Ely.  Even had we,  
I didn't have the software loaded on my notebook (gee that would have  
been a good idea), but we -did- take the Electromotive book with us in  
case of real difficulty.  Though again, the morning of the race, he  
went to the start line and I went to the finish, so we wouldn't have  
tuned it anyway.

I'm sure he'll have Dick Drenske over soon to give it a whirl and  
tweak it a bit.

I will say though, once warmed up and having run 150 for a bit over  
half an hour, it was really purring and running very nice.

Asa Jay


Quoting Kirby Schrader <kirby.schrader at gmail.com>:

>
> Dear Dawg,
>
> You _know_ you can adjust that warm up sequence to make it right,
> don't you?
>
> Just get off the Crackberry and get on the laptop hooked to the ECU!
>
> :-)
>
> Kirby
>
>
> On 22 Sep 2008, at 9:09 PM, Mad Dog Antenucci wrote:
>
>> Morning,
>> AJ and I made it back okay.....we ran an easy 150.38 mph which WOULD
>> have been good for a trophy 12 years ago but not on Sunday....2008
>> viper ran a near perfect 149.995 mph average....still he was a candy
>> ass driving a new machine.
>>
>> Dan Courtney came up with new Cobra Bullet wheels and Z rated rubber
>> but his bow tie engine started losing oil pressure and he dropped
>> out right after narrows....racers were SHOCKED to see his Pantera
>> becaus it was so rough but I have to give him credit for trying to
>> win the $5 million challenge.....AJ printed out fake bills hehe
>>
>> The EFI changes were impressive....tell the efi guy that he needs to
>> lean out cold operating whatever on ECU.....one of the reasons it
>> ran so rough UNTIL it was cold according to a couple EFI people is
>> the computer thinking something is wrong because it takes so long to
>> warm up....what scared me was I used all most a quarter tank of fuel
>> (half of it race gas) to go from Ely 20 or so miles to pre grid....I
>> gased up at lund truck stop but was really worried that I would come
>> up short on run.....but soon as engine was WARM after leaving
>> starting line the fuel economy was BETTER then the old Holly double
>> pumper.........the oil temp was like 200-210 but water assuming
>> temps were correct never got to 180 UNLESS we got a bad reading....
>>
>> Side skirt on drivers side on FRONT pulled loose but stayed on
>> car....so no worried there....talk to you soon.
>>
>> Daw
>>
>>
>>
>> Mad Dawg Antenucci
>> Team Pantera Racing
>>  The 1st & still the only vintage race team in open road racing
>> www.teampanteraracing.com
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