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Thanks the Factor for sponsoring today's video. Let's get to the live action. Hell yeah! brother, you're on the pleas. FR YouTube Channel you got that Ted up dialed in Brother: Yeah! bring PC Computers Bro Hey Anyway, what I'm going to test right now is the trans brake and the bump button because we have the bump in at Sig week.

Every pass you make even though you're just going for your own time, you have to leave within 1 second of the tree falling or your time for the day doesn't count. so we're doing some SI we testing today. We obviously want to go in 850 as you guys know, as close to an 850 as we can get but not an 849. So 850 is perfect.

We want to get close to that today. so when we start S week on Monday we're already ready I like that plan I Like that plan one step ahead of the game this. Dash Yeah Dudee clean dude custom. that's nice.

5 horsepower 10 20, 30 40 like 800 horsepower. We only made a th000 of a din so I had to add another 300 ther bump test that look good and smooth 11 lbs. It's probably all we want to leave with. Really right? Yeah, all right I like it.

let's go to the track it bumped I mean I think it bumped smooth. yeah but you know like when you're on asphalt. it actually oh it was just turning the tire. Oh so Yeah, it might be really violent.

When we get to the track we'll see it didn't really move the car a whole lot. It'll see rotated the tire a little bit if it was. It's like impossible to test your bump on asphalt because just there's no no traction. but when we're on a prep surface it's going to Bow If it works, we'll see well over to the track We go.
let's go run at 850 85. Yeah, that'd be good so we kind of had to guess on the tune. We went with 11 lb on the leave and basically what I think is going to be 12 lbs the entire way down cuz 850 just not real fast. No Ruby's going to cough out something faster than that.

So we're going to try and go a little slower. maybe an 890 880? I Honestly no idea what. It's easier to speed them up than it is to slow them down with these big old turbos on it. So we're going with the try to start slow, keep try cuz it's probably not going to go slow and then creep up on.

That's enough. 15s on the D I Hope it goes I hope it's slow enough to where it's not faster than I If it goes like 870 something right now, that'd be perfect. Do you think that's enough? What? I Just put in there? Yeahwe I leave it see where it's at. You heard it first guys.

James doesn't want to turn it up. We're not trying to go sixes, you know. oh that sish or squeak that the corner just squealing always. Here's her character, you know.

Love that sound all right Ruby First burnout in forever. There she is is. Oh Ruby the rocket. She sounds so good.

Oh this is going to be a nice rip right here. Come on. Ruby No time, no time. All right.

All right. Definitely going to need a little bit more Pizzazz than that cuz that was a little too slow. My Dash piece fell out in my lap. felt like I waited for an internity for it to get to an RPM I can shift at Drive old girl back up there and see how slow that was.

Oh what do we get here? 8848 No way. dud that's great. Are you kidding me? 848 Almost right on the money right now. Oh we're 300 away 200s away from a perfect run.

Dude that is awesome. Wow, sometimes you just forget how great Ruby really is. You know what the heck? There's not a chance I could have predicted it to be that close. Wow Let's go.

that's so good W Dude I'm sensing a lot of one and done coming up this sick week buddy. Don't say that dude. you know happens when we say one and done 130 60t 546 at 132 848 at 161. First pass back for Ruby Almost dead on the money.

Dude: Almost dead. She like I'm not going back in that Barn Dude I Want to bave there. She is there. She is old Ruby We're a little off.

Yeah, little off. Oh not feel that fast at all. We were a little off 848. Dude, how about that He? Okay, that's uh.

pretty good. Now the question is, do we leave the 60t alone and just put a little bit in up top? Is that going to 48? Went 848. Yeah. we got to slow down.

Oh yeah, yeah, we got. So leave track alone. That works it. We'll just maybe pull like a degree or two one.

Dee from 5 seconds on that there. Jack Yeah. 15 lb of boost. That's perfect.

That was perfect. Kind of nailed it. Yeah, all right. so I'm just going to pull a little bit of timing out.
We're going to leave the Boost see what happens? So timing, you know, can make a lot of horsepower or it can rob a lot of horsepower. We're just going to pull one degree out which should reduce horsepower quite a bit only from 5 seconds into the run on. So that's 3 and 1/2 seconds of 1 less timing than that run. See what that does? Hey Sam you got a microfiber towel on you.

Just how many would you like to have? Just wondering if you had one handy here. We got them laying all over the place full. What about a Coke You got any Coca-Cola with you? There's one thing wrong with this one here. Oh, it's empty.

It's empty. Unreal. That's terrible. All right.

that's I See, you got a mullet axle with you. What you doing there doing some Machining on that thing? Sam Nice. Here's an ax that goes into the mullet and it's going to make this is a go fast axle. Here Am You're darn right.

So we got one degree of timing coming out at 5 seconds on and we'll see if that's enough to slow blow that 848 down to an 850 with an O Let let's see what this degree of timing will do for us. Think an 850? Yeah, yeah. I Like that. W Buddy from The Auction Block to the water box, this thing is ready.

All right. Ruby Oh might on the money Here we go. here. we go.

Wait for it. Get the app out. Wait for it. Wait for it.

What in the hell it went faster? What in the world? Dude, You hit the wrong button. Picked up to the 60. Oh, check our data. Check the air.

Did the air get better? Oh see, that's the problem. dude. the air gets a little better. The car acts a little different.

It picked up to the 60t, acted a lot different that time. The Da was 1585 ft on the first run and then it was 1561 ft. It's a 25t change. It's not enough to pick up 510 and I pulled a degree out after 5 seconds I mean what the hell? Interesting? all right.

we'll have to pull another degree out old. Speedy Rocket Well she went faster. What went at 843. That's weird there.

nothing changed but it getting hotter taking timing out. I Yeah I Looked at the Da at 25 ft less but that ain't enough to make that big of a change. Wow, yeah we confused. Uh, let me look at the data log.

it picked up to the 60t so it went a 128 on that one, went a 130 on the first. So what's the deal there? I Guess just the bump felt the same and all that everything was the same. Yeah I did everything the same I did I waited for it to build 11 and 1/2 on the gauge and then I bumped in and then let go the button shift it to the same spot. All right.

well let me check everything. Maybe something went haywire. Dude me man starts and it starts. show us like it had promise I was hoping you wouldn't have said that.

The only thing I can see that's different is you shifted 100 RPM later on the second one. but I mean it literally. it all picked it everything up 11.5 11.6 and for some reason it just 60 15, 6, 15.6 14.1 14 lbs on the booth. So like everything's the same.
The shift was a little bit longer. so how it picked up 500 I don't know I me it picked up, it picked up. uh, one small number to 6 just reflected all the way down. SL You can see it.

It's hard to see, but you can see it pulled the timing out too. you know? So maybe I just pulled two degrees out. That, or maybe just pull earlier earlier. you can pull two, but pull two long like maybe 3 seconds on full 2 3 seconds on 2.

Like that. We were laughing after the first run. we said Ruby don't want to go back in that Barn she said I'm going to behave. Yeah, it's all right.

we're still closer than we ever thought we'd be on our first two hits. So yeah, I mean we're right there. We just got to figure out what it likes to slow it down. We pulled out 2 from 3 seconds on.

We're hoping that lands us right in the low 850s and if we get that, we're done. we'll be happy. So we're going to cool down for a few minutes and then make another rip whole squeaky whole squeaky belt. Ruby Here we go Ruby Work with us on this one.

Ruby Work with us. All right? All right here we go. All right I'm going 851 81 Yeah. I would really like that.

Let's do it. Let's do it. Ruby 851 You go home on time. If we do it, you know I'll put you back in that Barn Ruby Yeah I'm thinking that was it.

That was it. Dude I'm thinking that was it. Let's see 853. Oh, let's go Dude, that'll work.

So now let's go. We change it from 2 to a degree and a half and it goes 85. Oh that's right, right. that's how the math will work out.

I think so 853 at 160 flat. Perfect! So all in all, today we got our boy Jack s seat time and Ruby which he hasn't had well over a year. We went in 853 which is 300th away from our desired time and we shook down our girl Ruby so we know she's running great I mean talk about a successful day. What a good day Dude 130 60t 548 in the E at 131 and 853 at 16.3 Ruby 853 brother I'm cleaning up 853 right where we need to be baby.

that's I like to here no dash. the dash uh I was got on The Brak spooled up, started doing his thing and it froze, bumped in, going on with the dash yeah I bumped in and then uh Gess on my ear on shifting. so I just pull the log and see where that was at. so I know where it was at.

it sounded about the same yeah I kind of went for like the same sound like hey, you know what it was while you were on the two-step I go Ruby I'll put you back in that Barn scared and she did what she had to do. Yeah, all right guys, that's it for now. Thanks for watching new for we freaking see you later dude. pack that trailer, get back in there at least help James do something tight that one there we go that one Yeah buddy.

Little inspection going on here. Make sure Jack s's doing his work right. Yeah.

By Cleetus

11 thoughts on “Ruby makes her first drag passes in over a year… and it couldn’t have gone better!!!”
  1. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars @loganyoung8153 says:

    Ditch those lil sparks and grab some fiesta ST’s lol

  2. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars @sachmoe6584 says:

    How about making like maybe even just a 20ft. prepped surface on the edge of your parking lot by the garage for testing trans brake?

  3. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars @bobbrown6721 says:

    Great episode but the highlight for me was hearing Rip say "Dada".

  4. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars @JOVANI7919 says:

    You guys should get a Dragy in Ruby. Will allow Jackstand to make corrections after seeing the 1/8th and 1000’ numbers.

  5. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars @kostadimopoulos7791 says:

    🫡

  6. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars @kostadimopoulos7791 says:

    🫡

  7. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars @TheBibliofilus says:

    They need to add another tuning parameter: adding or removing weights to James right foot. I expect it'll be mostly removing weight as it's mostly lead from the start anyway..

  8. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars @vintagemotoseattle says:

    Love that you include bits with lil Ripper in the video! He will look back when you're old and gray, and watch these

  9. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars @vintagemotoseattle says:

    sandbagging to the 8.5 class is like watching the special olympics.

  10. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars @the46guide94 says:

    Awe lol rip is so cute man your so blessed, he so interested in all the car stuff you can tell ahah. That “papa” running up to ya was adorable

  11. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars @Tomrod07 says:

    Some would argue that ruby was “squeaky” clean

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