Re: If you knew then what you know now...
[Re: BradH]
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03/02/18 08:38 PM
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The only thing I would have changed is I would have bought my heads up car while I was younger and my son still lived at home. At my age it’s hard doing a class like that by yourself. It may end up being another bracket car
1970 Duster Edelbrock headed 408 5.984@112.52 422 Indy headed small block 5.982@112.56 mph 9.42@138.27
Livin and lovin life one day at a time
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Re: If you knew then what you know now...
[Re: BradH]
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03/02/18 09:09 PM
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I would have never started.
Just because you think it won't make it true. Horsepower is KING. To dispute this is stupid. C. Alston
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Re: If you knew then what you know now...
[Re: BradH]
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03/02/18 09:28 PM
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Cab_Burge
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... would you have made different decisions as far as how you approached racing, or your choice of builds, or... ??? I would have never built and raced a 1970 Baracuda 4 speed with a Hemi in NHRA stock on a 9 inch wide slick I should have weighed that car first as far as how much weight on the front tires and rear tires with me in it It had 2160 Lbs. on the front tires and 1280 lbs. on the rear without me in it back in 1976 before NHRA required the drivers weight in the drivers seat I never raced that car again after weighing it that day That car had a minimum weight of 3440 Lbs. with out the driver after a run back then
Mr.Cab Racing and winning with Mopars since 1964. (Old F--t, Huh)
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Re: If you knew then what you know now...
[Re: BradH]
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03/02/18 09:32 PM
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Dana 60 instead of 8 3/4, Super Sprag, LBA valve body and aftermarket front drum in 727....DAMHIK................
Curator at Adams County Speed Shop
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Re: If you knew then what you know now...
[Re: BradH]
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03/02/18 10:05 PM
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I would have started racing at a younger age, and learned how to do more on my own sooner like welding, building transmissions and rear ends. Lastly I wish I found this forum sooner!
Last edited by humpty; 03/02/18 10:06 PM.
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Re: If you knew then what you know now...
[Re: BradH]
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03/02/18 10:46 PM
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I would of taken photos of things I built, I wouldn't have taken 8 years off.
Truth has no agenda, but those with an agenda make their own truth. Some of us are so open minded they only see their View
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Re: If you knew then what you know now...
[Re: BradH]
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03/02/18 11:26 PM
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When I was 10 years old I was going to the track with my Dad racing his 63 Max Wedge car, about then he was 2 tenths off the Australian A/MP record before he threw the Brooks rods out the side of the block, that was 75/76, 20 years later we got the car back and I found 5.14 gears in the diff !!! What RPM is that ? 120mph 32" tire.
Im no guru but Im sure I could have got that record.
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1963 Plymouth Max Wedge 1971 Barracuda
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Re: If you knew then what you know now...
[Re: BradH]
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03/02/18 11:39 PM
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I would have done more research and chatted with more people before starting a build. Would of went to an aftermarket block out of the gate. Doing those simple things and I’d have enough $ left over to do a second car. That I know for sure.
1971 Plum Crazy Super Bee. 572 World Aluminum block with a Cope 727 & Dana 4.10 out back. 9.88 @ 138 with a 1.35 60 NA. Dialed back to 10.0’s. 4000 lbs with me in it.
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Re: If you knew then what you know now...
[Re: BradH]
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03/03/18 12:06 AM
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Building my 440SP motor with stock pistons and that 290@.050 solid wasn't the ticket, running the 14x32's @4.5psi was no good just because everyone else ran them at that back then, and the 90/10's weren't the best, probably would've done better with some used stock shocks, too much front end rise, apart from that the car still ran well and managed 10.7's with 2.14 906's but I'm sure I could've gone quite a bit quicker today with the same set up just changing those things, at the end of the day my goal was a 9 sec pass which I managed with a small shot of spray so not a bad way to bow out of the sport in 1990.
1969 'Cuda 446ci, best 9.96@133.9 in 1990 1971 340 'Cuda, best 11.01@122.8 in 1987
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Re: If you knew then what you know now...
[Re: rb446]
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03/03/18 12:20 AM
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I would have spent more money on getting good suspensions and rearends under my cars.
Experimenting with 8 3/4 rears and Superstock springs was an exercise in wallet lightening and not much else.
'63 Dodge 330 11.19 @ 121 mph Pump gas, n/a, through the mufflers on street tires with 3.54's. 3,600 lbs. 10.01 @ 133mph with a 250 shot of nitrous an a splash of race gas. 1.36 60 ft. 3,700 lbs.
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