Re: Prostreet / Dragrace 1972 blazer
 

All the tracks here are NHRA... Ive always thought of IHRA as an east coast thing. Anyway, I can see your truck is well thought out.
As for mine... no threads or pics really. I took hundreds during disasymbly out of neccesity. Now that Im reassymbling I just dont seem to have time. Im self employed which means I work long hours. So... when I get some guilt free time to work on the truck... thats all Im thinking about. I dont mean to be selfish, but I just want to hear this thing make noise again for a change. Im busy with all the tedious stuff anyway and I think probably nobody would find wiring and plumbing all that interesting anyway. I think I spend more time staring at it and thinking rather than wrenching:lol:. That would explain why its taking me so long.
I have been going to the digs since 1965 when I was in the 5th grade... so mine is geared that direction. However, its mainly a street vehicle, not a race car. Yours obviously is mainly a digs car... right?
It sure would be great to see them side by side though, because its funny how close our thinking is really. Mines a stick car though... Ive always liked rowing my own.

Re: Prostreet / Dragrace 1972 blazer
 

I work 4 weeks on and then have 2 weeks off and thats the only way ive been able 2 work so much on it over the last year and a half. I do plan on driving mine a fair amount,but yes racing is a primary goal. It will burn pump gas,no trans brake,3.90 gears and 3200 stall. I will be plumbing and wiring mine starting tuesday and cant wait to hear it roar !!!! I agree it would be cool 2 line them up together. I do like seeing clean wiring and plumbing thats well thought out.

Re: Prostreet / Dragrace 1972 blazer
 

Man i forgot how much time it takes to make your wiring from scratch and to route everything properley. lol Its starting to come together now though

Re: Prostreet / Dragrace 1972 blazer
 

couple more pics:metal:

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Ok well i got it fired up and tuned, now im back at work for 1 month and the driveline from strange is on its way. I will be home june 28th and taking it to the drags over the 4th of july weekend and will post time slips. here are a couple pics and i will try and post the fire up video.:metal:

Re: Prostreet / Dragrace 1972 blazer
 

my engine fire up

Re: Prostreet / Dragrace 1972 blazer
 

Sounds awesome.

Re: Prostreet / Dragrace 1972 blazer
 

here is the longer version me,my brother,and my coworker jason

Re: Prostreet / Dragrace 1972 blazer
 

DAYUM!!!
sounds mean

Re: Prostreet / Dragrace 1972 blazer
 

Nice!

Re: Prostreet / Dragrace 1972 blazer
 

That blazer is bad azz..are you going to drive on the street?

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yep im gonna drive it around and race it

Re: Prostreet / Dragrace 1972 blazer
 

Engine of course sounds Awesome... heh,heh,heh. Wont it be fun to cruise some parking lots to set the car alarms off?

On another note... Wow... that fuel pump is loud too. Where and how do you have it mounted?
Mine is the Product Engineering race unit that Procharger recomended. Its Huge. Im mounting it underneath on rubber bushings that came with it on a bracket attached to the frame right behind the fuel tank.
Hopefully startup time is coming soon. Ive got all the parts, just not much spare time.

Re: Prostreet / Dragrace 1972 blazer
 

OK so i got the truck finished at 2:30 a.m. sunday morning and made it through my tech inspection at 10 a.m. that morning. Thanks to the weather I only made one pass. I ran 12.2 at 102.6 , i spun the tire for 150ft and my 60 ft time was 1.7, I only ran it at 5000 rpms through each gear and let off before the finish line. Well at least it held together,and I was really quite pissed about driving threw the mud and water to get to staging lines. Only in alaska.Well today I loaded the truck up and had my friends at denali detail wax it up. next up the august first car show. wish me luck !! and everyone good luck and gods speed with there projects

Re: Prostreet / Dragrace 1972 blazer
 

Congratulations on completing your build. It looks great. I'd be interested in knowing how much a difference it makes on E.T. with or without the top on it. Once you get it dialed in anyway.

Re: Prostreet / Dragrace 1972 blazer
 

I love this truck.

It's nice to see a fast truck that actually looks nice too....so many guys will ignore one for the other, but this one is the complete package.

Obviously, you're still in the shakedown phase (motor break-in, suspension tuning, etc) but do you have a gut feeling about the kind of numbers it will eventually run? Any goals in mind?

I'm sure everyone would love to see a video clip next time you run it down the track!!

:metal:


-G

Re: Prostreet / Dragrace 1972 blazer
 

Ok so spur of the moment yesterday I decided to take the blazer to a carshow in evening. Out of 70-80 vehicles they gave out 4 awards and mine took best of show in competition vehicles. I never even built it 2 show and damn did that make me feal great. Now I am entering one more show this summer, with all my boys and there hotrod trucks. Then this sucker is getting driver/dragracer duty. LOL you can always repaint that ****.:metal:

Re: Prostreet / Dragrace 1972 blazer
 

realy looks good

Re: Prostreet / Dragrace 1972 blazer
 

first run ever

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12.2...on a 1st run...wow! Tracked nice and straight too...That thing looks awesome! Great job...keep them vids comin.

Re: Prostreet / Dragrace 1972 blazer
 

it actually spun for quite a ways,left and then right, but all that torque really pushes you forward. LOL thanks and yes more video to come

Re: Prostreet / Dragrace 1972 blazer
 

What an awesome backdrop to that drag strip! Congrats on the first one - sounds like it's only going to get faster!

Re: Prostreet / Dragrace 1972 blazer
 

Nice build. You using a glove box for your gauge's correct? those racing seat bolt to the stock location? And has anyone seen a thread on a longbed prostreet or am I about to be the first?:metal:

Re: Prostreet / Dragrace 1972 blazer
 

What kind of brake system you have stock style?

Re: Prostreet / Dragrace 1972 blazer
 

u have clearance issues with rear end and frame?

Re: Prostreet / Dragrace 1972 blazer
 

great build, when you get a chance can I get some ideas on how the glovebox door gauge cluster came together

Re: Prostreet / Dragrace 1972 blazer
 

Nice build and thanks for sharing with us.

Is be interested to see how it runs when you get some traction and everything else dialed in.
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