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Re: Drag Racing
« Reply #500 on: December 17, 2016, 07:31:18 PM »
Bob Jane and ANDRA mixed like oil and water.
Same with CAMS.

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Re: Drag Racing
« Reply #501 on: December 17, 2016, 08:42:17 PM »
Problem was you paid top dollar to watch at Calder and the facilities were crap. No shade and no where to sit in the middle of summer.
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You've never been to Willowbank have you ;D
Host's the largest drag racing meeting in the world, outside of North America, apparently ::)

A grass hill, red hot tin stands for spectators paying stupid entry fees. Sloping ashphalt pits for Pro Series. Dirt, dust and rocks, or mud, for the rest of the brackets, all on the side of a hill.....

And........ One, only one M & F shower for all entrants.

Apparantly they hold world class events. Must be a world class facility ???
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Re: Drag Racing
« Reply #502 on: December 17, 2016, 08:50:47 PM »
Sound like Calder was the prototype for Willowbank....

Don't complain too much. At least you've got somewhere to go.


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Re: Drag Racing
« Reply #503 on: December 17, 2016, 11:29:44 PM »
Sounds like it hasnt had much done to it in the past 25 years then ..
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Re: Drag Racing
« Reply #504 on: December 18, 2016, 08:55:23 AM »
Is it true that there is no bar at Willowbank?

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Re: Drag Racing
« Reply #505 on: December 18, 2016, 12:39:40 PM »
Is it true that there is no bar at Willowbank?

No
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Re: Drag Racing
« Reply #506 on: December 18, 2016, 07:25:47 PM »
Oh thank god for that!

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Re: Drag Racing
« Reply #507 on: January 03, 2017, 03:49:06 PM »
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Re: Drag Racing
« Reply #508 on: January 11, 2017, 04:07:31 PM »
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Re: Drag Racing
« Reply #509 on: January 17, 2017, 09:45:57 PM »
What a Shitbox  ;D
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Re: Drag Racing
« Reply #510 on: January 17, 2017, 10:02:26 PM »
What sort of a mug lair shoe horns a V8 into a Datsun on cheese cutters and goes Drag racing ... Wonder if  this Datto owner is a relative https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuC9E3H6FH8   ;D ;D
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Re: Drag Racing
« Reply #511 on: January 18, 2017, 03:05:56 AM »
 ;D I loved that car.  8)
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Re: Drag Racing
« Reply #512 on: January 18, 2017, 04:43:21 AM »
This was just after I sold it 94. (I never ran those plates.) It was a fairly sharp car too, selling for $11,000 back then.
It was suppose  to be a sleeper and when Tony bought it, he just stuck a big dog in the front yard with those plates.

It could pull off a good skid though.

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Re: Drag Racing
« Reply #513 on: January 18, 2017, 03:30:06 PM »
This is a shot of the engine bay.
To make it handle, we moved the motor down and back to get the number 1 plug lined up with the cross member.

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Handled surprisingly well for what it was.
I'd forgotten how messy the engine bay was in the bloody thing too.

Thought about buying it back last year too, but ruled it out, because at best i'm idiot and it would only end up being impounded and squashed.
Long, low and slow won out over short, light and fast.
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« Reply #514 on: January 19, 2017, 11:14:39 AM »
Long, low and slow won out over short, light and fast.

It's not this low I hope.
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Re: Drag Racing
« Reply #515 on: January 19, 2017, 11:28:04 AM »
Post fittment fine tuning to form a D port shape header   to increase exhaust flow scavenging  ;D ;D
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Re: Drag Racing
« Reply #516 on: January 19, 2017, 11:37:43 AM »
Post fittment fine tuning to form a D port shape header   to increase exhaust flow scavenging  ;D ;D

4" grinder front spring modification ::)
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Re: Drag Racing
« Reply #517 on: January 19, 2017, 12:08:35 PM »
It has been redesigned for speed bumps. ;D

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Re: Drag Racing
« Reply #518 on: January 19, 2017, 01:02:59 PM »
4" grinder front spring modification ::)
Quality redneck performance suspension  tuning skills at their best   :cup:
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Re: Drag Racing
« Reply #519 on: January 19, 2017, 01:17:06 PM »
Quality redneck performance suspension  tuning skills at their best   :cup:

Can't link a Facebook page from my phone, but have a look at my page for a winning spring chop. ::)
Never seen anything like it.

HPEngines is the page.
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Re: Drag Racing
« Reply #520 on: January 19, 2017, 01:49:55 PM »
No Shane, not that low..... thank Christ.
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Re: Drag Racing
« Reply #521 on: January 19, 2017, 02:06:48 PM »
Yayyy can see that worked real well .. Wonder how they went with tire scrub on the bumps .. Probably should have kept the bump stops  and ditched the springs instead .
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Re: Drag Racing
« Reply #522 on: January 21, 2017, 05:11:35 PM »


For those who watch Street Outlaws


Noticed a few articles that Big Chief has been recently running his Crowmod at NHRA events at the invitation of NHRA and no doubt appearance money paid by NHRA too....

Was always going to happen when this show started making these guys the biggest names in drag racing.



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Re: Drag Racing
« Reply #523 on: January 21, 2017, 07:53:34 PM »
Sad day for drag racing today at South Coast Raceway, condolences go out to the family of Cris Stewart
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Re: Drag Racing
« Reply #524 on: January 22, 2017, 03:53:55 AM »
Very sad.

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