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    New Minivan Record

    Well it took a long time, and I just barely got it, but my couple year battle to beat Terry (gasketmaster)'s old minivan record finally was achieved.

    As most know, I'm not very active on the forums, but wanted to make the record pass known. Today my van went 11.759@115.34. Being that this was a record breaking run I wanted to make a backup run, to show it wasn't a fluke.


    I let the van cool and about 30 min later made another pass. This time went 11.757@115.14. SO broke my own record...by .002 but hey, it's a win!!!

    Now lets have all the haters chime in as yes, I was using the laughing gas as I always have. My build is the same as it always has been, I've just been trying to get that perfect blend of boost, timing, nitrous, track prep, temp, and wind. Today was a little warm, but otherwise perfect. Little to no wind, pretty sticky track, ran some cooler plugs so the van was really loving everything today and it showed.

    I'll try and answer questions and comments in the post, but it's been a long day and I have to wake up early tomorrow.

    Here is a link to the youtube video.
    http://youtu.be/lv-ReYlyDxE
    Last edited by Joe_Van_Duno; 07-27-2015 at 07:39 AM.

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    Re: New Minivan Record

    is there a build thread somewhere??

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    Yep here is my build thread. I'll have to review it and see if anything needs to be updated.
    http://www.turbo-mopar.com/forums/sh...Bullet-shoebox

    I also updated original post with link to youtube video so we don't have to deal with FB privacy settings, and corrected my typo on my times. it was a long day yesterday.

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    Re: New Minivan Record

    Awesome. Congrats Joe!

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    Re: New Minivan Record

    Hard-earned! Congrats, Joe!
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    Re: New Minivan Record

    Quote Originally Posted by contraption22 View Post
    Hard-earned! Congrats, Joe!
    thank you, it's really a pain in the butt to make these tool sheds go fast. I've gone 116mph in the past but based on my times, and Terry's, I'm wondering if there is just an aerodynamic wall that is very hard to break through around the 115 mark.

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    Well, wind resistance increases exponentially.
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    Re: New Minivan Record

    Nice to see people still plugging away at goals like this! Awesome

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    Re: New Minivan Record

    Congrats Joe!

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    Re: New Minivan Record

    I'd heard rumors...

    Congrats!!

    Crazy to think that basically everyone within ~.7 of the ET record has done so with 8v setups. Not only did you beat the record, but you took one of the harder roads to get there which adds to the impressiveness.

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    Re: New Minivan Record

    Quote Originally Posted by Joe_Van_Duno View Post
    thank you, it's really a pain in the butt to make these tool sheds go fast. I've gone 116mph in the past but based on my times, and Terry's, I'm wondering if there is just an aerodynamic wall that is very hard to break through around the 115 mark.

    No haters in this thread Joe! Congrats! Funny thing is, Woody seems to hit that aero wall about ~95MPH

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    Well, we're talking about ~110hp here but when i took a very slightly modified 2.5 tbi out of my 5spd aries and put it in my 5spd caravan, the top speed it was capable of dropped from ~115 to 95mph. So the aero difference was worth 20mph of top speed!

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    Re: New Minivan Record

    Quote Originally Posted by Vigo View Post
    I'd heard rumors...

    Congrats!!

    Crazy to think that basically everyone within ~.7 the ET record has done so with 8v setups. Not only did you beat the record, but you took one of the harder roads to get there which adds to the impressiveness.

    Once again, thank you guys. I did take a little harder road to get here, but wanted to do it with old school stuff. I mean when I built the van the record was around 12.5, so I was building with the intention of spraying to the record but running 13.0 or high 12's on motor. I never thought I'd be doing low 12's on motor and spraying to a 11.7x.


    I think now it's time to seriously consider weight, and start cutting the van to loose weight. Also I have a 1 gallon fuel cell to replace the stock tank that I always raced with at least 1/4 tank, most of the time closer to 1/2. The best part is that I have the intake prepped for 4 fogger nozzles and just picked up a jet pack, so in theory I can now spay up to a 600 shot. I also have a spare big valve head sitting on the shelf, so I think with some weight reduction and a much bigger shot of Nitrous next season (or maybe late fall) I'll be looking to improve this time drastically.

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    Re: New Minivan Record

    Well done sir

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    Congrats! And I'm over here still trying to break into the 13's haha.

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    Nice work!!! Congrats!

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    That's great stuff! Awesome! I love me some turbovan action!

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    Way to go Joe, my minivan brother!
    And you did it all on my fuel pump? ? ? I feel honored!
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    Congrats Joe! That is a great accomplishment. I'll be the first to suggest that you use the full 600 shot on this thing. It would be glorious if only for a brief moment in time.

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    Congrats Joe!!!

    Job well done!

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