i pay $6 a gallon for sunoco purple. my buddy is paying $6.75 at the track. so i had a 55 gallon drum delivered to the house today so i can pump my own. cost $290 so that brings the price don to $5.27 a gallon. a little better. what's anyone else paying for this stuff in other parts of the country?
not bad. off the pump down the street from where i live you can get 76 Unocal 100 for $6.50 but at the track you can get off the pump there for leaded 110 or 106 or 100 unleaded for $5.50 same price for either one. but by the time i drive back from the track i would have already used up about 6 gals.. lol!
Don sunoco purple is 4.99 a gallon at the station in town, blue is 7.50 at the track, I also ordered a 55 gallon drum of blue at 5.90 a gallon...i can make 5 passes on 5 gallons...er thats 1/8th mile passes
don't you use about twice as much though. course i guess if you go out first round you can always drink some of it too.
I think its 5.50 for whatever they sell at the track now. I forget But about the alcohol... it uses about 2x as much but still thats $5 a gallon which isnt bad. And it doesnt use quite 2x as much from what I hear.
I use 1 1/2 gallons per run....starting, idling to the stage lanes, the actual run & burnout, and driving the long way back to the pit (alcohol). On gas, it used about a gallon, maybe a little less. So, not quite 2x as much alky as gas. They do make a primer plus system that allows you to idle and start on gas, yet make the actual burnout & drag strip pass on alcohol. saves a ton of fuel, especially with injection because the injector uses dang near as much fuel just idling around as it does wide open.
The primer plus system is what I've been looking at, from the info I've been able to gather even with it the motor is gonna need to be freshened at the end of every season whereas with gas every two seasons. Also from what info I've got the toilet is the only way to go...carbs are too much of a PITA to keep tuned.
i replace bearings every 100 - 150 runs. cold leakdown test less than 3%. over 300 runs on rings. rebuild every year? not. start of each season carb gets new floats, idle screw bushings, and titanium needles. gaskets are over 5 yrs old. once the idle screws are adjusted at the start of the season, they arent touched. that's a pita? change oil every 25-35 runs, yes. dino oil? yes.
I rebuild mine every year too. After splitting blocks, breaking cranks and tearing transmissions up (and rear ends!), I pull the whole car apart in the winter & freshen it all up. This past freshen up I found that the 9" chunk was broken, and I never knew it. Dunno how long it would have lasted. Also found a 1.82 gearset in a powerglide last year that was broken, but it still worked, but probably wouldn've taken one more launch without exploding. Motor usually looks pretty good though. Bearings & rings every year, whether it needed 'em or not.
$5 a gallon for the purple....I am thinking of buying a barrel...55 gallon's for $210. Seems to be the way to go.
it seems like it's a lot cheaper back east. maybe i should buy a couple of barrels at the roundup. i'd probably get cited for carrying hazardous materials.
