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Re: Ok Boys and Girls it's Storytime
Gates open at 6pm. It's all T&T as far as I know. 5.80 and other Index classes Saturday.Along with a Big Tire Class.
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Hhmm..... Sounds like a good opportunity to get out of the house!
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Come on out then. I'm not doing anything exciting. I need to try some suspension tweaks and get some seat time. Just little wheelies and throttle stop runs. I'm planning on going to Bowling Green, Kentucky in a couple weeks.
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I'm just a spectator but I love going to the track & watching the variety of vehicles & efforts of racers. Stock appearing vehicles that really move out are just too cool & the track atmosphere is like returning to that favorite playground.
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Didn't get to make it out there last night as my neighbor w/the Model A's needed some help w/a project we've been working on together. He's been rearranging his shop w/the pallet rack based decks like I did mine earlier this year so he has more room for working on the Model A's.
I'm going tonight though just because it's been too long since I've been to the track.
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I made seven hits last night. That track is awesome to say the least.If you see little Red Thunderbird that's my buddy Eugene.I'll post pics later.
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Was wondering how the track condition was w/the current heats impact.
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Just a pic from Xtreme. This is my old friends Thunderbird. I blew up my old 565 20 years ago side by side with this car in the lights at Hallsville Raceway.
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Back in 2005 when I finally got the truck in the 8.90's in the 1/4 I blew up the timeslip on a copy machine. I put it in a big envelope and stuffed it with red feathers then mailed it to his Car Lot believe me it was hilarious. when I unloaded the truck the other day i found one in the floor of my trailer. I found it kinda odd so I had to send him a pic.LOL
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I guess that's it for now. The truck seems to be healthy after all the unpredicted Cylinder Head issues. I have a bunch of work to do getting ready to pull out next week for Bowling Green Kentucky. I have to enter online so I'm going to wait till early next week so I can get a better weather prediction. I don't want to go that far to sit in the rain.
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Well it looks like too much rain in Kentucky. We're going to San Antonio instead. It's only supposed to be 102 on Friday
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102, yeah pass on that lol.
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Well I got back from my adventure in San Antonio Sunday. We were supposed to test on Thursday at 1pm. That got moved to 4pm. I made two passes and the truck was running good right at 153 on the index. They had a Super Comp Dragster lose its brakes and run off the end of the track. That incident ended T&T for the evening. So we moved into the real Time Trials for the race on Friday. That came to a halt when Top Dragsters were pulling up chunks of asphalt on the top end of the track. The our Division Director decided to run us 1/8th mile. I'm going like how the hell do I do that? I run 7.60 to 7.70 on 10.90. The 1/8th mile index is 6.90. I went to bed and all I could think of was how in the hell I'm going to make this work. So I had to speed it up off the line and take a ton of numbers out of my throttle timer. Saturday morning we start over. I go 7.10 at 123 first pass. I made more adjustments and went 6.80 at 123.The 3rd and last pass I was 6.88 at 122. So maybe I can make it work!
The left lane was horrible so first round everyone stacked up in the right. My friend from Tyler Billy Hughes was behind me and he was the last guy I wanted to run. He has been tearing them up in the 7.0 class at Prescott Raceway in Oklahoma. Well they pull up next to me and I knew he would be tough. He was .023 on the tree and 6.902 I was .001 and was down there hard on the brakes for a 6.91 at only 115 to take .0078 of finish line for the Win. We got postponed again to run second round Sunday morning. What do I do wrong ? The sun was in my eyes and I got out of my routine. I go up there and stage but forgot to turn on my delay box. I went to deck the throttle and rolled the beams. I haven't done anything like that in 20 years. Maybe I can do better at the Tx Motorplex Double Sept. 17th.
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Sucks about the second round, but the win against Billy sounds like a good tight race.
I remember him having a killer Camaro back in the day in Tyler. Cool to hear that both of you are still racing and having fun doing it.
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Re: Ok Boys and Girls it's Storytime
Well guys I'm going to be at the Tx Motorplex Wednesday Sept 16th through the 20th. It's a Double Divisional race. Anyone attending come by and say Hello.
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Good luck!
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Thanks Monty. I'm leaving early Wednesday so can do some more testing. I changed my 4-link back to my old setup. I haven't changed it since the new front suspension was built. It works great wide open but I'm still having 60 ft issues on the throttle stop. I put more hit in it. And tweaked the front springs a little. It randomly wants to slip the right tire at the hit. Hopefully I get it to work right.
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Well I haven't posted in awhile because there wasn't anything exciting to report. At the Ennis double race I made it to the third round then lit the old red bulb in the first race. Then lit it up again first round in the second race. I came home that Sunday and just left everything in the trailer. I was getting ready that Tuesday to head to Saint Louis. I rolled the truck out of the trailer and noticed my right Slick was low. I jacked it up and was rotating it around just to find a screw in it dead center. I'm like really two races on a new set? I made a few phone calls to make sure I could get a new set of Slicks when I got to St Louis. My Son in Law and I made the 10.5 hour tow up there and spent 3 more hours working on the truck. I wanted to test but I was too tired and wasn't springing $100 for a couple of passes. We had two time trials Thursday and we were done. I felt like they were pretty good I was close to the index at 154 mph. Long story short I ran the same guy first round in both races with the same result. He was .000 on the tree against me in the first round and .003 against me in the second. So we hung around Saturday and came home on Sunday. I have been doing alot of research on 4-link stuff. I worked on the truck this past weekend and made a big change. I leave Thursday for Noble Oklahoma and will test Thursday before all the official activities start on Friday. Then I come back next week just to leave Wednesday morning for the National Event at the Texas Motorplex for the last race of the year.
PS: I haven't posted much because I don't know if anyone even reads this thread anymore. My view counter id frozen at 99,466 and has been for a long time now. I've reached out to Moderators and nobody knows how to fix it.
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Hopefully the testing results are what you expect after the changes & there's no drama!
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Regan, I'm still here and check in every time you update. I am hoping to make things work out to head up to Ennis at least for the Saturday part of the race...If I show, I will definitely look for you.
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Thanks guys. Maybe I'll see yall next week.
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lol.
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