Well, to finish off my brief season, Dad and I loaded up the car and went to one of the last events to be held in Calgary Alberta Canada, at Race City. They will be shutting down for good I hear this year.
The event was "Calgary's Fastest Street Car Shootout". It was a .400 pro tree heads up event. The rules were very simple. First everyone had to meet at Deerfoot Mall in the city. From there we did a mandatory drive to the track with a planned out route and a check stop point. Once at the track, car numbers were drawn at random.
We half way to the track towing the car, we put 8 gallons of 91 octane fuel in the car. We decided to test my street car. We haven't really done much street miles with the car, so what better way then to unload at the track, and drive bumper to bumper rush hour traffic to the meeting place, Deerfoot mall. It was almost an hour of traffic to go about 20 miles. Drove most of it in first gear. The car never went over 190. I was very pleased and surprised it cooled so well. The car has a 18 x 18 brass 4 core rad, a 5 blade stock flex fan about 3" from the rad with no shroud. This is why I was surprised it cooled. Whenever we got going at a bit of a cruise speed it dropped down to 150-160. It has a 180 thermostat. And it was HOT out for around here this time of year (90 F). Total street driving in the car yesterday was almost 2 hours. I didn't lean on it during the cruise since we had 91 octane in it and it is 13.3:1 with cast iron W2's. Haha.
Once at the track, I probably had about 2 gallons of fuel left in the car. We dumped 5 gallons of 111 octane, and got ready for first round.
First round I pulled a procharged 92 mustang on 17" drag radials. He said he had run an 11.30 so far with the car, and was hunting for a 10. He asked a bit about my car. I told him it was a cast iron headed small block all motor, and we should have a close race since I had exhaust on my car now, and track prep wasn't that great. We lined up, my car hooked ok thanks to the 3.23 gears, and he spun. I ran a 10.97 @ 123.5 to his 11.90 @ 117.
Second round comes, and I get paired up with one of my buddies unfortunately. He has a 440 in a 1970 plum crazy Cuda with a Jerico DR4. He knew he had to tree me and got a -.018 red light. He ran a 11.34 @ 119 mph to my 10.93 @ 125.
Third round. I am the only all motor car left. I get paired up with another buddy. Fox body mustang with a Clevland on spray. He cut a .058 to my .208 light. He ran out of bottle half track but still got me. He ran a 10.50 @ 119 to my 10.78 @ 126.
It was the most fun I have had in one night with my car. It's a shame the track is closing down. Figured I would share with you guys though! Street Cars Rule!
-Kenny
That's a good runnin car you got there. Can you give us some details on the motor?
