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Performance Tuning and Race for 150 mph

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Rocky Mountain Race Week Day 5: We Let the LSXcalade Absolutely RIP on 25 PSI! (New Personal Best)

What happens here

With the car repaired, the driver attempts a new pass, aiming for a 150 mph trap speed. He makes a few tuning adjustments before the second run to increase boost. After the second run, the driver confirms a speed of 150 mph with a 9.41-second quarter-mile time, successfully reaching his performance goal for the event.

Goal: Achieve a 150 mph pass to successfully complete the race week.

Tools and materials

  • Laptop — Monitoring vehicle parameters and making tuning adjustments
  • Racing Helmet Simpson — Head protection during racing
  • Racing Suit K1 — Fire and abrasion protection during racing

What they say

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hit me like a freaking wall i'm left all right time to do my thing fun you got this about the mine [Music] 982 139 sorry i'm not very animated right now i'm just really tired but that felt good that's a 980 i can turn that in job complete let's get back to the pits get brett these logs and go have some fun there's my champagne you ready yay today is a good day well no i guess i just kind of turn it up see what it does we got the number the average is locked in i just turned up the boost i think i might be having an issue with my boost control solenoid i don't know but i turned up the duty a significant amount so if it's gonna work we're gonna know right away um i'm gonna pull up there and see what happens i'm a launch harder too so it's go or blow or do nothing because my boost control solenoid's messed up we're going to find out something's going to happen either way what was that boy what was that dang my windshield wiper broke well that's what i'm talking about that was some 950 at 150 boy we're doing this again that was actually a new personal best square [Music] it's been 150 1.6 before and that was a 1 5 60 foot spun pedaled fireball my core support thingy freaking flew off i don't even think they shut the track down somebody probably ran it over and it flew off hit my windshield wiper and like broke that or knocked it loose i like here's the right lady did it bro yeah yeah and i spun and peddled it and it went 950 at 150. yeah dude you almost go eight to that with a one with a one six sixty foot can you get that thing in like a one four six degrees we're doing it it's gonna hook it's gonna book and i wanna see a 940 at least alright so somebody on the track they had to clean it up here it's about to run [Applause] [Music] 941 at 151 dude dude yes there is nothing i wanted to accomplish this week that we did not do everything from the uploading a video every day to playing it safe to finishing with a nine second average to coming out on the last day and freaking letting it eat all of it it's a freaking big fat w for the week it could not have gone better could not have gone better i rarely ever say that this is one of this week will be looked back on as a turning point in whatever the heck it is i'm doing 5 10 20 years from now guaranteed and if you're here watching this you were here for it and someday you'll talk about it too

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