Ok Boys and Girls it's Storytime

[71Dragtruck]

Cool I'll try to tune in when I can, maybe I'll get lucky and see you run.

Looks like you guys has some rain.

[71Dragtruck]

Well damn just saw you run, that was a crappy deal for you Regan, you would have had him too.

[regan wilson]

[QUOTE=71Dragtruck;8503001]Well damn just saw you run, that was a crappy deal for you Regan, you would have had him too. [/QUOTE

I dont know, only if he broke out. This was the longest weirdest weekend of racing I've had. Two time trials Thursday (which sucked) and first round that night. Lost second round on Friday. Almost got a time trial Saturday morning but it started raining while we were in the lanes. They dried the track but next time they call eliminations for race 2. I was .008 on the tree and set up hot. I got a gift my opponent was ..686. We were supposed to run second round on Sunday but it ended up a total wash out. Got up early Monday morning becuase we usually run early and didnt get to run second round till yesterday afternoon. I added a 2 numbers to the transbrake since I just had a .008 the day before. But bam I was -.001 red. The truck acted like it didnt want to pull all the way to 7500 either. My mph was off and I was way slow on the et. So after being at the track it boils down to this.
Thursday- Two time trials and a first round win.
Friday- Second round loss.
Saturday- First round win
Sunday- Rain Rain Rain
Monday- Second round loss

[regan wilson]

I left out Tuesday, worn out and have to work. lol

[regan wilson]

[IMG][/IMG]Just a random pic from Houston Raceway Park last month

[regan wilson]

How do I stop the Photobucket pics from showing so big?

[71Dragtruck]

You have to resize your photos now before you upload them to PB, yes lame.

[regan wilson]

Thats better. I did 50 50. It was 100 100

[71Dragtruck]

Trucks looking good, you might have mentioned it before, but what size rear tire you running?

[regan wilson]

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The sixty foot is about a tenth slower than I like. But the MPH don't lie!

[regan wilson]

Sorry 71 I missed that post. 14x32 on the slicks. Still running the 12” wheels though. We originally did 13x31 Slicks on these wheels. Didn’t think I would go bigger on the tires than that.
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[71Dragtruck]

That's what I have now too, 14x32 on a 12", I'm switching to the new Hoosier 33x13, same rollout narrower sidewall, my 14's are a bit too wide for my setup.

[regan wilson]

Originally Posted by regan wilson

Somewhere around this time I was spraying the truck some . One day It spit the rods out and cut the block and oilpan in half (ouch). So I built another one with square port heads and a mild solid cam . It was a stout twelve second runner . I ran this combo till 1989 , also around 88 I got me some Weld Wheels .This is how the truck looked in 1988 and you will see my daughter in the pic . That kid was co pilot to the thrashing of many a Mustang (those were fun to pic on back in the day).......................

On another note the little co pilot to the right is 34 years old today.
Happy Birthday Jamie!! Damn I'm getting old.

[71Dragtruck]

Not sure about you, but the truck is definitely getting better with age LOL.

[regan wilson]

I think are correct on that one.

[regan wilson]

Not much to update other than it's Tulsa Time. (I always liked that song by Don Williams).
I will be in Tulsa next week May 23rd to 26th for our next Divisional. Hope to test Thursday. I brought the truck home from the last race and re scaled it. It was way off so maybe it will be more consistent this outing. I had to get new trailer tires again on top of fixing alot of other things in the trailer. I've already serviced the truck but still have few little things to do. Maybe I can go some rounds

[71Dragtruck]

Well good luck, let us know how you make out, I'll be thrashing trying to get my truck ready for next weekend also.

[regan wilson]

Well Mother Nature just ruined my plans. I should be sitting in Tulsa now but I'm home. They had a bunch of rain this week and the place was supposedly a mess. There was more rain in the forecast this weekend but now there isn't. Doesn't matter now they called it yesterday. I may try to go test somewhere not sure. All this rain has really screwed up this season so far. I'm still shooting to make a whole season but when they rescheduled this one it makes it a week after the Topeka double race I believe. If so I cant make it.

[71Dragtruck]

****ty deal Regan.

[regan wilson]

Well it looks like we are going to race this weekend. I thought it was in Noble Ok. But I was wrong. It's in Belle Rose, La. Maybe I can get this thing sorted out. I'm going to try to get there early enough to test.

[regan wilson]

Well guys I got home from South Louisiana yesterday. It was hot humid and hellish down there. I made three test passes Thursday. I was spinning on the hit but running good down track. Friday morning with the NHRA taking over I had a good hit in the right lane .005 10.905 @ 153.27. The other two time trials that day went to crap spinning the right tire on the hit. I decided I was going too tweak on the our link. The only flat spot we could find was the scales. I had to wait till everything was over. We worked on in the dark and put some hit in it. First round Saturday morning I had to run an old friend from my hometown Billy Hughes. I was .008 he was -.008 I was way fast but no big deal. Second round I had to run my buddy Jason Owens who was tied for first place. He put me in the left lane I spun a little on the hit and was .20 on the tree he was .011. He was set up too hot and I pushed him out with a 10.86 @ 153.43 to his 10.83 @ 143. Third round I drew Jimmy Daniel from Montgomery Alabama and his all Pontiac powered race car. I blew on the tree with a .054 light to his .021. I went 10.898 @ 152.81 he took a hun of strip with a 10.91 @ 148. His next opponent didn't even leave the starting line. He had a bye into the final and his final round opponent red lit. Dammit!! I'm going to regroup and go to Noble Ok in three weeks. As of today I'm sitting in 12th place in division but still have four more races I can run. All in all I felt pretty good after the weekend.

[71Dragtruck]

Well your weekend was better than mine, we had forecast for rain on fri night and Sat but Sunday looked half decent. So I decided I’d load up on fri morning and head in after dinner to spot my trailer and if we got rained out on the sat the wife and I would just do some stuff in the city. Got word fri the very short non paved stretch of road to the track was damaged from rain and local traffic but was being repaired and should be done before I got there, well halfway to the track bit over an hr into the trip I get a text that the races have been called off due to the forecast for more rain and the damaged road. So I turned around and went back home to unload again.

[regan wilson]

Well I haven't posted in awhile so here's and update. Not a great one but an update. We went to Noble Ok and struggled with track conditions and inconsistency issues all weekend. I did experiment with some timer adjustments and had a good first round win. Second round should have been good but I went up there and turned on the redlight. So at the end of 5 races for the season I had one first rd loss, three second round losses and one third round loss. After all that I was sitting just outside the top ten in points.

[regan wilson]

Moving on to the next race in Topeka Kansas. We left last Wednesday July 26th and made the 500 mile trip to Heartland Motorsports Park. We started time trials on Thursday. With nearly 700 cars we only got two hits at the track. We ran first round Friday morning and I drew a spotdropper that was crossing at 70 and 80mph. I had him good on the tree and went down there and scrubbed nearly two tenths and 25mph for the win. Second round I get up there and the truck would barely start. I'm .009 on the tree to my oponents .000. the truck wouldn't run the number due to low voltage so I got another second round loss. So that was the end of the first race of the weekend for me.

[regan wilson]

Moving on to the second race in Topeka. We got one time trial Saturday morning. Aeromotive was sponsoring a Super Shootout. You put $20 in on this one and the best 8 split the pot. I get up there and try to hit the tree and go .001 10.900 for a one though package. So I have a check coming in the mail anyhow. We ran first round of the second race that afternoon. Low and behold I get the same car again (out of 104 cars). I actually rooled some numbers in o my transbrake to avoid going red. We stage and I watch him turn the top bulb off. We leave the line and he gets an automatic redlight for deep staging. I get back and look at the timeslip and I'm -.002 red 10.905. I'm feeling pretty good at this point. We were done for the day and just sitting around when a guy comes by with a National Dragster shirt on. He tells me the Division 5 Tech Crew picked me for Best Engineered Vehicle!