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Re: Hot Rod Drag Week 2017: The Experience. [Re: MoparBilly] #2416148
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Wow, that was some of your best work Billy.

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Two pairs later Dan and Squirrel helped push Brian Kohlmann's AA/FA into the water. I had seen a photo of Brian's coupe when he wrecked it at the Meltdowns a couple of months earlier, and I was convinced the little green beast was done, so just presenting it at the starting line of Drag Week 2017 was a win in my book. When the reverser engaged and Brian backed up to stage he had already exceeded what he accomplished at Drag Week 2016. The 354 FirePower sounded sweet as the small tire fueler lunged off the line with 1.24 sixty, but it was up on the tire and skating around by two hundred feet out. Brian pedaled it once and tried to keep it planted, but the 31 Chrysler was still pretty skittish, so Brian kicked the Lenco out of gear at around five hundred feet and coasted through from there. The 11.00-81 on the board wasn't very impressive, but Lohnes quickly explained that the eighth mile ET was 5.89 at only 96, so the power was definitely there.

Tom Bailey was up next with the Drag Week 2015 winning Project Sick Seconds 2.0 which had done some wall surfing of it's own lately, so the Pro Mod 69 Camaro was wearing a white wrap instead of it's signature silver paint. I have been of fan of Bailey and openly rooted for him when he finally won with the original Project Sick Seconds in 2013, but at this moment he was the only real threat to run quicker than Schroeder, so I wasn't in his corner. The 1.04 sixty was nice, but he had to pedal once shortly after that, then once more before the eighth and the time lit up as 6.794-204.
"I'm happy with that number", I beamed at Rachael.
"Not sure he will be", she quipped back.

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Re: Hot Rod Drag Week 2017: The Experience. [Re: 340Cuda] #2416258
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Originally Posted By 340Cuda
Billy,
I was with Clark at St. Louis, while I am pretty sure they were W9s, I really made an assumption as much as an inspection. However saying that I think W8's would have jumped out at me cause they do look a little different than the W9s. I wanted to ask Paul a thousand questions but he was pretty busy at the time we dropped by.

Jim:
Thinking about it, he sure builds some fast stuff, although mostly big CI. If we build an ultimate DW motor I would use his stuff for sure.

Already looking forward to DW 2018!

Bill


Yes w9 top end and "598" Mopar intake that I did.
I did all of the valve train also.

Was nervous about valve train life ( first time had to make cam go over 1000mi😮)
Over 1200miles and did not even have to adjust a rocker motor is seeing 8500 rpm+on the pass.

Set class record and lost the deal due to carb struggles and converter not matched to the new engine.

Hope to back next year and show what car really has in it.

Paul worked his butt off to get this done big thanks go out to him and his Son for busting hump.

Re: Hot Rod Drag Week 2017: The Experience. [Re: MoparBilly] #2416538
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BIlly great writing again. I suspect you thought more than twice about hanging you emotions out here for all to see, and telling us all that you cried at the track. But that's the kind of stuff that makes it real and makes your story great.


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Re: Hot Rod Drag Week 2017: The Experience. [Re: MoparBilly] #2416565
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I doubt any of us will tell you about what we did when we read it

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Originally Posted By squirrel
I doubt any of us will tell you about what we did when we read it

Not me! Did seem to cause some allergy issues...

Re: Hot Rod Drag Week 2017: The Experience. [Re: W5DART66] #2416699
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Originally Posted By W5DART66


Bill

Yes w9 top end and "598" Mopar intake that I did.
I did all of the valve train also.

Was nervous about valve train life ( first time had to make cam go over 1000mi😮)
Over 1200miles and did not even have to adjust a rocker motor is seeing 8500 rpm+on the pass.

Set class record and lost the deal due to carb struggles and converter not matched to the new engine.

Hope to back next year and show what car really has in it.

Paul worked his butt off to get this done big thanks go out to him and his Son for busting hump.


Brett,
Thanks for the update

Good good job on Paul's stuff as usual. He keeps getting faster and faster, but so do the others. Hope he can win it this year.

Bill

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Originally Posted By 340Cuda
Originally Posted By squirrel
I doubt any of us will tell you about what we did when we read it

Not me! Did seem to cause some allergy issues...


I had them also. Thought that went away in the winter months.


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Re: Hot Rod Drag Week 2017: The Experience. [Re: MoparBilly] #2417830
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To this point, Drag Week 2017 was on an unprecedented pace with 170 passes completed in an hour and twenty minutes. Then the fuel altered and pro mod were ran as singles, followed by Gavin Lusk doing some pogo stick, two wheel stands in the first 100 feet action with his Cougar, so he coasted down and the track was checked. Two pairs later the Aussie Falcon Ute with the turbo LS spit oil on the track and a fifteen minute clean up was required. The end result was ten cars with time slips over the next twenty-five minutes which left us openly wandering how long Lonnie Grimm would extend the session before going to the Street Machine Eliminator class.

In the middle of that Michelle made her first attempt in the purple Duster which the guys in the tower nick named the "Not Eddie Miller Duster". She was already nervous about her first ever pass, but the extra four or five minutes sitting in the water box while the Cordova Dragway staff checked the surface only added to that. It was obvious she was no where near full throttle at the leave, and she gingerly applied more power until the big block was full song around the eighth mile resulting in an 11.85-118. Then the Duster died on the return road and her husband and brother in law had to tow her back to our pit. Not the Day 1 start our crew was looking for but we quickly discovered the hall effect switch mounting screw was loose, allowing the gap to grow to the point it was no longer firing, so a relatively easy fix.

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Re: Hot Rod Drag Week 2017: The Experience. [Re: MoparBilly] #2419927
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I stayed and watched cars for a good while after Boone and Dale left with the Gremlin and the Duster, but finally decided I should head up before they called Street Machine Eliminator.
I drove the Valiant up to the lanes, and into a traffic jam right where the bottle neck of the narrow return road opened up into the six lanes of the pre-staging area we had used while in tech the day before. They already had two lanes blocked off and empty for the SME cars, but with ten or so of us blocking the road, even if SME was called they couldn't get up there. My fear was that just like Monday of last year,I was once again going to get turned around and sent back to the pits so they could stage the next class. Luckily spots cleared up and we were all able to squeeze up just as the call went out for the Street Machine cars to the lanes. I walked up in the staging lanes to find Boone standing alongside the Ruster with a big orange cone in front of the car.
"What's that for?" I asked him, as I motioned towards the cone.
"That is where they are cutting off the first session", he laughed, "Dale was four cars ahead of me and he's going to get to run, but I'll have to wait until after the SME guys."
Without a word between us, both of us walked toward the starting line to find a place to watch Dale's first run.
"Did you see the blue Ranger from DW 2006?"
"I thought that was the same truck", Boone nodded, "much quicker this year!"
"Yeah, 8.55-160 was impressive, but I can't recall what he ran that year".
"I think 9.6 something at 138", Boone shrugged, "all I really remember was the look on his face after he spun it out in the rain and backed into that ditch on the way to Indy!"
"Yeah, his net tailgate broke when he hit the ditch and unloaded all of his stuff in the woods on the other side! He was white as a ghost". I laughed, "that was the first time we met Kyle Loftis from 1320 Video, just him and his camera!"
"Which has grown more since then", Boone shook his head, "1320 Video, or Hot Rod Drag Week?"
"That's a toss up", I shrugged, "but I think few could have predicted this much success for either one!"

Dale did a conservative burnout, and staged in the right lane. The front end rose quickly at the hit until the tires appeared to be tickling the pavement, and then it broke the MT ET Streets loose and he had to pedal it once. The naturally aspirated 580 sounded done by a 1000 foot and the board lit up with a 9.761-142.
"He just can't buy a good pass on Day one it seems", I shrugged at Boone.
"Nope, 9.59 is his best ever run on a Monday, even when he had an 8 second nitrous combo!"

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Anybody heard from Billy?

Maybe the brothers are getting ready for DW a little early?

Don

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Billy is doing fine. Give the story time. Still 8 months until DW18.


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Originally Posted By cudadon
Anybody heard from Billy?

Maybe the brothers are getting ready for DW a little early?

Don


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Re: Hot Rod Drag Week 2017: The Experience. [Re: JERICOGTX] #2434540
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Originally Posted By JERICOGTX
Billy is doing fine. Give the story time. Still 8 months until DW18.


Mom, Dad, and Boone arrived from Oklahoma on the Nineteenth of December, and stayed out here soaking up the 70+ degree weather until January the 6th, so that precluded any work on the story. Since they left, I've been getting affairs in order to try and make 2018 a better year than the last couple, starting with, well, me. So I'm down 9lbs already, and spending more time making laps around the neighborhood than sitting in front of the PC. Now, for a little Housecleaning:

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If you don't mind me asking, what ever became of the music education and what are you doing today? Sorry for the detour, just curious. wave -Trent


Trent,
After leaving NEO A&M in Oklahoma, I uprooted my Wife and new daughter, and came to Phoenix to get yet another Associates Degree in Automotive and Diesel Technology from AAI. So I have two Associates degrees and I'm a CDL truck driver...go figure! I wouldn't trade either experience for anything however, my love of cars and music was only enhanced by the education I received at both places.

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Billy, don't know if you noticed a guy in a Ram pulling a trailer with a bunch of engines in it waving frantically at you going the opposite direction after you got through Antioch, IL heading back to Byron, that idiot was me! wave Saw the Gremy about 5 miles before you too.


The funny thing is, I remember this exact moment because it scared the crap out of me! I was thinking: "Was he trying to tell me something is wrong with my car, or is there a cop behind me, or ahead of me?"


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Billy thank you again for the yearly Drag week saga. It makes a lot of us want to do this at some point.

Because I am a problem solver I might suggest something like this
https://www.amazon.com/LifeSpan-Fitness-TR1200-DT5-Treadmill-Desk/dp/B006M2PJV0



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Originally Posted By Just-a-dart
Billy thank you again for the yearly Drag week saga. It makes a lot of us want to do this at some point.

Because I am a problem solver I might suggest something like this
https://www.amazon.com/LifeSpan-Fitness-TR1200-DT5-Treadmill-Desk/dp/B006M2PJV0


LOL


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Does anyone know when registration for 2018 opens ballpark?


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Re: Hot Rod Drag Week 2017: The Experience. [Re: MoparBilly] #2436044
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the guy from Hot Rod said they're aiming for early March. Last two years the early bird registration was the last Saturday in February.

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Thank you!


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