Procharged Mustang Gives Heroic Effort, Breaks Twice at the Strip
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If there is one thing you can count on when it comes to racing- whether it’s at a professional level or an amateur, grassroots effort- it’s that cars are gonna break. Racing is all about pushing the limits, which means regularly going beyond them. How else are you going to know the true mechanical limits of your race car unless you break it? Sometimes it occurs in spectacular fashion with connecting rods flying out of blocks and pistons with fatal holes blown in them. Luckily however most mechanical issues are the more mild side and with any luck can be repaired at the track so the racing can continue.
Take Turbo Dan of Youtube fame. In this video the boys enter their Procharged Fox Body Mustang in a drag race at South Carolina Motorsport Park. Unfortunately during a practice run the Wiggin clamp that holds the charge pipe to the intake snaps.
“Anytime you have something like that happen though you need to check over everything the best you can,” says Dan. “All your wires, all your vacuum lines.” Wise words to be sure. Fortunately they had a spare clamp to get the car back on the road. Once the car is repaired trackside, the team lines it back up on the strip for another practice run that goes much better.
“It was faster than last week,” says Dan after the driver makes the initial run down the strip. “Four one-hundreds of a second faster. I know four one hundredths doesn’t sound like a lot, but at the speed we’re at four one hundredths is quite a bit. So I think we’re headed in the right direction.”
Unfortunately bad luck strikes again when a weld on the intake pipe breaks open, ending the race effort for the day. “I’m good at grinding, not welding,” says a humbled Dan. On the other hand, that weld help up for almost a year of drag racing at an extreme 50-lbs of turbo boost. And that is pretty impressive for a self described amateur.
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