My goal is to have a real twelve second street car. I went to the strip last night and tried my darnest to make it happen. I ran the car with DOT drag radials, air cleaner and through the exhuast system. Air was cool enough for a sweat shirt. This was grudge night so no sticky was laid down on the track. The first pass was the best ET, I ran a 13.0 @ 103.9 with a 1.870 60'. After that the track got greesy due to the guys running street tires. Best 60' was a 1.866. Fastest speed was 104.09. I am pretty sure I would have run in the 12's through the headers by 0.300. So maybe a 12.7. Goal is a 12.80 through the exhaust and 12.5 headers. After the 2nd run I changed the metering rods resulting in a 2 step increase in jetting, this did not seem to have any effect. After the 3rd run I added 2 dgs timing. This picked up the speed a little. First run I was heads up with a 2004 Z vette, 400 hp stick car. (this is so cool) I hole shotted this guy with a 1.870 60' to his 2.113, my 1/8 mile time was 8.371 to his 8.445. I had this vette through all but the very last part of the srtip. He just nipped me at the line. All the poor guy saw was six tailights all the way down the strip, he must of been ****tng his britches! I ran a 13.0 @ 103.9 to his 12.814 @ 112. Best part about this is, I drove the car to the strip.
bang When you pull that car up to the line I'll bet a lot of people are really surprized to see how fast it is. Especially when you're running full exhaust. Having a car that looks that good and runs in the 12's is quite an acheivement.
.I know why my accel from a stop seems a little slow,after I switched bushings in my distributor.I changed my rear end gears from 3.55 to 3.08 
.The 09 does idle better and I can shut off the 57 in park without the engine dieseling.
no1: , JimJim are the greatest, Sophie too