I had some fun the other day with the Musty and a friend who wondered about the effect of the nitrous system has on it. Needless to say, he found out what a difference it makes via the huge grin on his face.
We ripped through 1st without any traction at all, even on the soft 30-50% ramp up. Second caught traction and the power quickly came full on to 100% then, in a mere blink of an eye, came the 5800 shift point. Once we reached 90 mph, I let off and the Rusty Musty had covered quite a bit of ground as our turn off had approached quickly. I jammed the brakes in order to make our left turn onto a side road.
After a quick turn around, we went back at it with the zip-through of the first 3 gears. In the same fashion, we came to our starting point, where there was once again little braking distance remaining, and I pressed the clutch in while I gave the max to the brake pedal. Needless to say, we had shit bricks because the car was showed no immediate signs of stopping and brake fade instantly came to mind. We did, however, make the necessary reduction in speed and made our almost missed turn off.
Finally, we parked the Musty and shut off the engine after a slight cool down period. The front brakes were smoking up a storm and they STUNK to say the least! What a riot the Musty is on the 125 hp hit! Fun day!
I noticed the fuel needed a bit of a reduction, so I dropped it again to bring the peak power up a bit more. This power level is just fine for such a sketchy vehicle! The car needs more gear, but it's not worth the money to spend on this junker just yet. 3.73 gears and some slicks could drop this car into the 12's as many have done so with much less power and these two items.