With the year almost over and bad weather for a couple months it's time to reflect on the past race season.

I started out the year a little late and on bad tires. The car was running ok but I couldn't find any hook and the 1st couple outings in may and June were a struggle to keep it off the wall. I try'd to adjust shocks and launch RPM but nothing helped. I changed so much stuff I got a little lost

I bought a new set of tires and since I had it backed way down the car went A to B the 1st pass with them. So I didn't change anything for a month. Just ran it every chance I could and got some seat time and had fun. I went 4's everywhere I went and had a blast. I did have an issue with the car not pulling over 7000 RPM but I didn't care. It was fast like it was and I was getting seat time. I was comfortable enough I started entering races and even though it would only go to 7000 RPM I was racing. I didn't have much luck but I got down when no other cars could so I was excited. I got bit by the least expensive part on the car when a set screw fell out of the throttle body and cost a race. I still had fun 😎 I had people telling me it's the baddest car there and caught the eye of a lot of folks. It was the fastest car at the track several times so that was pretty cool too.

Then I had a friend that ran a local Outlaw program ask me to go to Memphis with him and some of his guys to race JJ DaBOSS. I'm not a street racer and was really nervous but jumped at the opertunity. It was a learning experience and I got hustled with some "Chase is a Race" BS! I went down with the car still not pulling over 7000 RPM and never been on a street with this car so my expectations were low lol. I just wanted to not blow the tires off. I got matched up with JJ's wife as she drove the red Nova that did the wheelie against OKC. She left and I never caught her. She won but crashed after the finish line. It will be on TV and I hope I don't look like to big a fool. I try'd and hope we get to race them again.

After that deal I came home and had to buy new tires again, because as she was crashing in front of me, I spun my car out trying to get stopped and trying to not hit her as she was flipping and rolling down the street. That was a costly weekend but my car was still in one piece so I looked at it as a victory lmao.

I decided that I was going to start turning it up to get ready for next year and went into testing mode. I was still fairly consistent in the 4's but the 7000 RPM deal was holding it back in the mid 140 MPH range. I searched the EFI and MSD and finally found a Rev limiter for the injectors I had missed. It was set at 7000 lmao. I turned it up a little and the car went consistently over 150 mph. I was pretty happy with that but I never had the sixty foots that I put down last year. Then I ran out of weather and must wait till March .

But I know what it needs to get the sixty back, I have the top end fixd. And it's setting on new tires just waiting for decent weather.

All in all I had a blast running this car I bought from a junkyard so many years ago. It's fast as heck and I'm finally convinced I have a handle on this thing. When I tell you I built it from a junkyard car to a 4 second race car most people don't realize how much I built lmao. The few that do know, I hope yall enjoy seeing the vids and pics. I hope I fly the MoPar banner hi enough for yall to buy some T shirts because I have some coming in January.

Thanks for all the help over the years and I wish Monte was here to keep me straight.

Sounds like you had a good year despite the gremlins!
Be sure to let us know what episode you will be on so we can tune in. And put me on the list for a shirt....

Any upgrade plans for the winter?

Sounds like you had a good season.

What type of EFI do you run?

That is awesome. Your have had a bad a$$ turbo Mopar for a long time now. I still remember the driveway burnout video from way back lol.

You should post some pictures of the fleet, I'd love to see them.

I run FAST EFI. I have the XFI black box on the Avenger and the old gray box on the Valiant. I got the Valiant out twice this year to a couple bracket races. Went some 5.90's with it.

Best pass of the year for the Avenger was a 4.87 at 145. The car was on the limiter for 200 feet on this pass but I didn't lift lol. I expect some 4.70s at 150+ pretty early next year. Then I'll start dialing in the sixty foot to see what it can do. I expect some 1.09 sixtys pretty early. It went 1.15 last year but never got back to thar this year.

Since Photobucket went down I'm not sure how to post pics. My files are to big for attachments.

Thanks gents.

Good stuff........

Hats off to you bro. There are very few people who have taken a car as far as you have on their own.
The amazing thing to me is you’ve litterally hand built your whole car(how many people build a body), but you can’t figure out how to post pics🤯😁
Seriously.... my absolute favorite car.

I had no problem until photobucket decided to start suckling lol. I had photo island before that. But they went under water. I had some dam good pics from this year.

I'm really really thinking about breaking my Road Runner out of body shop jail and cutting it up into a big tire Road Ruler. I didn't want to build another from scratch car but I'm getting bored since the other cars are done. It will take forever is the only reason I haven't done it.

TRENDZ, we're going to get together and drink some beers and tell lies. It's on my bucket list 😂

I am going to make my way down there sometime next year. I have so much vacation time built up that I need to burn. Just never seems as though there is a good time to take off.
I need to “stretch the legs” on the old cummins and go on a road trip. South is gonna feel real good after a few more months up here.
I’d like to get an early start on the season with my buddie’s turbo nova. Maybe drag that down there with me. Burned a piston last year on my behalf. Had the GM heat sync coils with the dwell set to high... those coils discharge early when the dwell is to high. My tune up cost him some pistons! Free tune ups anyone?

I got a place you can stay. It's a little guest house.
We can take the cars out, I have several tracks within two hours of here.
This is a pic I took out of a vid. I just love the fact that he was talking [censored] in the staging lanes and then didn't get off the starting line.

That thing is so sick.

Funny thing here. I knew of the turbo Valiant via the internet (1998-9ish?) and then saw the black Cutty at GLD a few years (3-5?) later. Both cars are Mopar milestones when it comes to boost and EFI.

What ever happened to the guy with the 71 GTX with the EFI'dblower? He was a VERY smart guy and ahead of his time. IRC Rick was his first name, perhaps from IN?

Blown71X, he's been here and hung our with me. I took him to a redneck bar. He don't drink lmao. He got to see country girls and even a fight after the bar closed. He still talks about that night lmao
Rick sold the GTX and started a new car and it just takes time. He got fed up with the taunts and 2nd guessing that this site likes to throw out at times and just don't come here anymore.

Jeremiah it's pretty cool you remember those vids of my driveway and Blown71X,and TRENDS cars. I wish I got to see the MoLds run before he sold the motor. TRENDS was a BIG inspiration for me to get my car finished. He was the 1st mopar turbo guy that beat on his stuff.

I got to ride in the 71X, it was a bad ride.

Check out my face book page Acceleration Nation




. It has vids and pics of my stuff

I'll have my wife Facebook it for me for sure. After my experience with you guys in chat my social networking career was over lol.

I'll never forget the bashing I took for running the big yellow super coil with my Cheater plate! Those were good times before the economy crashed 3x.

I'm going to send you my email so we can post up some of these pics for those of us not into internet dating.

Those chat days were the best. I still talk to most of those guys, just we face book now. Woody, rick, Al, I even have the Devils book. We all had a blast back then. If you were on this side of the Mississippi I know I would have met you in person as well😆

I have your email, I'll send you my phone number and we can get together. I seem to have found a way to post pics by copying them to my phone from photobucket. It's resizing as I do it then I can add as attachments

Yes sir, we need to see more pictures of the car. The build pictures too! Looking over the ET slip..just damn. Way to represent. In a cloud car no less!

Badazz sir! You have a seriously bad ride and you've done a lot of work. Can't wait to see you on tv.

Those time slips were a good day. One of the few days I had my 9 year old and my dad at the track with me. After the 1st pass I told my dad that I almost coasted to a seven second pass. I told him I'm going to womp it at the 1/4 MPH cone and see if it will go a seven. I got so close but didn't get there lmao. This was when it didn't pull past 7000 .

A pic from when I started back in my old garagearound 2006. And a pic of the fiberglass body parts I made in the winter of 2016.

Did you ever make it to Paducah?

Didn't get there this year. Made it to 5 diffrent tracks but didn't get to Paducah. I plan on hitting it when the Dixie Door Slammers get back there. I think the OSCA is mostly running Evansville this year. The schedule should be out soon.

How far a drive is Bowling Green for you?

I'm about an hour and half away from BG. Let me know when you going to run there and if I'm off work I'll drive over and hang out.

It seems like you had a fun year, I a big fan of the home made car. Someday I'll have to meet you and we can run 'em!!!

I look forward to meeting you and lining up next to that bad A$$ Challenger. Hope you have a great season this year. I'm not doing much to mine, it's setting in the shop ready to race.

Very cool. You have been at it for a long time and glad to hear it is paying off.

Here's my vids from this year from early to late.

1st A to B
https://youtu.be/VBqKeUC1NNQ

Against the camaro that had the nitrous backfire
https://youtu.be/XA-7dAzGuwQ

Solo that you really hear it riding the limiter.
https://youtu.be/Tw67VMKBKPI

Back in the .80's with a 4.89
https://youtu.be/Tw67VMKBKPI

Testing but not fixd
https://youtu.be/_Yke4Yw9dQ4

Coming at ya. Can really hear it on limiter
https://youtu.be/nJdPZ-z02XQ

It's fixed
https://youtu.be/igQFqcDzrVM

Last pass of the year
https://youtu.be/cSiBhzApbc4

Been watching this build for a lot of years. Glad to see you having fun with it and running hard!

Great thread! Thanks for the pics and vids.

sheesh! doesn't stay in the picture long! that thing was flyin!!

Just watched the Memphis trailer and seen my car and watched it in slow motion. She just treed the hell out of me 😁 I take the chase is a race comments back and props to her. 👍
Was the 1st time I got to see any vid of the start.

That's racing 😄
She treed chief as well so big deal. At least I was there.