13.82 @ 99.84 MPH

[buzzard]

On pump gas and street tires. My goal was to get a 100 MPH club patch, but I'm still prett happy. More later.

[Artiki]

What ya running? Four-banger?

[monkeybiker]

Teehee - nice one Darren!
Mind you - it's only this country where all the A coupes seem to be running 4 bangers.

[wingnutz]

Congratulations..., alot better than the 15's of the past...! And your car is looking great...!

Are you happy because you beat Krupanuts best time...?

What did he run this time...?

Mark

[Artiki]

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[Kerry]

Man, that's so close! To bad you missed 100 but congrats on stepping it up.

The patch is cool!

I steped up to a 13.42 @ 101.53. That's half a second better than MoKan. Would have been better if I could have hooked up better. The launch pad sure seemed greasy to me. Didn't matter. It was a lot of fun!

[buzzard]

Yeah, the couple of times I stepped into it, I spun through 1st and most of second. I talked to some guys that have more track experience, and they said that Little River is the slickest track they've ever been on.

I really wanted the patch. Next time I'll have a spool, or posi rear. That should help a bit with hooking up.

[Roothawg]

Go posi..no spool. You'll hate it on the street.

[WZ JUNK]

I made a few passes yesterday. The best two were a 13.3828 @ 100.06 and 13.3809 @ 100.20 I won the street rod shoot out but I did not run as fast as I thought I would. I spent some time on the truck this week. I changed out the rear to a 373 with a spool, new distributor and I removed the tailgate and changed out the bench seat with a plastic racing seat(about 150 pounds saved). I will have to look at my slips but I think I ran nearly as fast at the HAMB drags without these changes. I really thought I could make my first 12 second pass but I did not come close. I am going to do some figuring and I may make one more big change to be able to do the 12 second pass but I am nearly at the limits of suspension. I do not want to lose my ability to drive the truck on the street and to take my road trips but I would like to go a little faster.

[buzzard]

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Go posi..no spool. You'll hate it on the street.

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Flat Top brought me a third member, yesterday. I'm going to have a 4.11 or 3.73 to put in right before the races. Just to the track and back. The open 3.55's work great on the street, so I don't want to change that.

Glad you got to run yesterday!

[Roothawg]

Ahhhh....I can smell what you are steppin in.............

[QQMOON]

Good on Ya Buzz What Motor you runnig
JR

[smittyshotrods]

You can't pedal that heap any faster? http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

By the way where was krup?

[buzzard]

327 Chebby in my '31 Coop. Just getting it sorted out after some changes. Since the last trip down the track, I put a Muncie with scattershield,performance clutch, new cam, roller rockers,and 186 camel hump heads. Oh, and I just switch from 3 94's to 2 Edelbrock 500's.

I went from low 15's to high 13's. Hopefully mid 13's with the traction issues figured out and a little work on the shifter stick.

[QQMOON]

Good Stuff Keep it all together good luck
JR

[stangzilla]

so close so so close
next year we can get those patches together!

[buzzard]

Gotta get one for Kelley, too!

[stangzilla]

that would be great would she be the first girl in the 100 mph club down there?

[JimC]

Bottle feed it, John!

[buzzard]

Yeah, I think Laura is running low to mid 15's in her Merc.

We need to get Laura B. down there with her Nailhead powered Chevy!

[Cadillacin Marcus]

you should easily get lower ET's what gears are you running??

[buzzard]

I'm running 3.55's with an open diff. I think 3.80's or 4.11's with a mini spool or posi for the track is what I need. If you see the video of my 13.92 run (BLAKE vs. BUZZARD post), you can see I left at just off idle trying not to spin out.

Crushproof(Outlaw and Lux) had it tuned and dialed in really good. With a little traction and a little driving practice, the car should be much closer to 12's.

[Bass]

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you should easily get lower ET's what gears are you running??

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You've never been on this track. I tried to launch at about 3 grand and ended up sitting still as I spun the tires. I had to do like buzzard and launch at idle and lay into it as I got moving.

Buzzard would have easily been in the very low 13's on a stickier track.

[BLAKE]

Dude... my little flatty was spinning them off the line... that oughta tell you something! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

[Cadillacin Marcus]

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I'm running 3.55's with an open diff. I think 3.80's or 4.11's with a mini spool or posi for the track is what I need. If you see the video of my 13.92 run (BLAKE vs. BUZZARD post), you can see I left at just off idle trying not to spin out.

Crushproof(Outlaw and Lux) had it tuned and dialed in really good. With a little traction and a little driving practice, the car should be much closer to 12's.

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Most definitely need to get with the lower gear and some sort of posi/locker..also a nice set of slicks will help a bunch as well of course...I would like to see the video though..?? sounds cool... http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif

[Slag Kustom]

alittle tire spin is better then too much traction and bogging down the motor. what was the rpm at the big end??

next time you should beable to hit the 100 mph mark http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Fordicator]

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you should easily get lower ET's what gears are you running??

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You've never been on this track. I tried to launch at about 3 grand and ended up sitting still as I spun the tires. I had to do like buzzard and launch at idle and lay into it as I got moving.

Buzzard would have easily been in the very low 13's on a stickier track.

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This is true. I personally watched Bass spin his tires down half the track. We were laughing our asses off. That was a good show. Now if only it was the big top fuel smokey burnout that the Loco Greengo car did..... Bass lit them up further though.

[48_HEMI]

That track sounds as slick as the L.A. River bed, used to feel great in a bone stock 56 Olds, I could keep frying the tires thru 4th gear. didn't have a clue about traction back then lol