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I ordered a pair of Mickey Thompson 11.00X28X15 drag slicks about 5 months ago and they finally arrived (sea freight).  You have to plan in advance if you want to drag race in Thailand.

These Mickeys are a great fit for my race truck.  The Goodyears are available here in Thailand in a similar size (10.5X28X15), but that particular tire happens to be for a heavy Super Stock drag car (stiff sidewalls), not my little 800 kilo thing. I would rather run Goodyears, but  . . . . . they cannot make a drag slick for EVERY car combination.

These M/Ts combine for 23 inches of width. Nice.

The progress part: I have been in pretty steady contact with my shop guys and although the progress has been far from swift, it seems like all issues have been sorted.  The starting and idling issues related to the fact that the Subaru injectors DO FIT the 1UZ intake manifold, but they do not fit well. .  . . the rubber swelling issue is prevalent no matter what gas you use.  So, the fix is to make some small aluminum "washers" top and bottom of the injector so that the rubbers are held firmly in place (the lower washer) and also to make sure the injector does not get jammed too far up into the fuel rail (the upper washer) to compress the rubbers so they have no room to expand (like the standard 1UZ injectors).  I discovered this from other 1UZ racers here.  What a hastle . . . but necessary. They do not suck air around the injectors now . . . and they will not allow boost to blow out either.  With that done the thing starts up immediately, but still wouldn't idle below 2500 rpm . . . what's up?  After a long search the throttle shaft of the throttle body was found to be so loosely fitted that it sucked gobs of air in there. I have  a better, high quality throttle body to fit now.  These little details . . . flaws of quality, have cost me a lot of time. So now I am only waiting for a day when I am off work and the dyno is open at the same time . . . . and I am not on vacation! That day looks like May 6, 2010. Wish me luck.

I got to worrying that my single Bosch fuel pump would not be enough if I ever added a dry NOS set-up . . . and Jeg's was having a sale on the Aeromotive A1000 FI fuel pump . . . . so I had one ordered with fittings.  The specs are great:s

A1000 (#11101) Specifications

Fuel injected engines:

Up to 1300 HP for naturally aspirated

Up to 1000 HP for forced air inductionAs can be seen from the accompanying chart, this is a very good fuel pump which should provide me with adequate fuel delivery for any future modifications up to 800+ horse power. What is this?