Posted By: ksj
Mike Cotten - 02/14/12 01:16 AM
Mike Cotten wins SuperStock at the WinterNationals. 
Mike Cotten
Posted By: 68shifter
Re: Mike Cotten - 02/14/12 01:21 AM
Awesome!!!
Posted By: DavidDean
Re: Mike Cotten - 02/14/12 01:29 AM
Very Cool !! which car? 70 cuda?
Posted By: sam64
Re: Mike Cotten - 02/14/12 01:31 AM
way to go mike,couldn't happen to a nicer racer.
Posted By: Chris2581
Re: Mike Cotten - 02/14/12 02:02 AM
383 Powered!!
Posted By: 70AARcuda
Re: Mike Cotten - 02/14/12 02:30 AM
beautiful 70 383 cuda........
Posted By: MoparBilly
Re: Mike Cotten - 02/14/12 03:00 AM
Awesome Car, it's the X Art Pacheco "Six Pack Performance", X Eric Bell entry, couldn't have ended up in better hands, Mike completely went through it and made it his own!!
Posted By: Big Squeeze
Re: Mike Cotten - 02/14/12 03:20 AM
That's AWESOME!!! Mike and his wife Paula are SUPER NICE people!!!......
Posted By: rt66jim
Re: Mike Cotten - 02/14/12 03:28 AM
Congrats to Mike. I've had the pleasure of knowing Mike since the late 70's. Jim
Posted By: Mroctober
Re: Mike Cotten - 02/14/12 04:00 AM
Been Racing a long time in Stock! Now Super Stock. 
Posted By: slantzilla
Re: Mike Cotten - 02/14/12 04:22 AM
Posted By: 68shifter
Re: Mike Cotten - 02/14/12 04:38 AM
From Indy
Posted By: mr_340
Re: Mike Cotten - 02/14/12 06:55 AM
Congrats to Mike and Paula. I have seen those green Dusters at Ennis forever. I think one of those got damaged in a trailer accident a couple of years ago. Good to see a Division Four racer win a big one.
Posted By: Jacob Pitt
Re: Mike Cotten - 02/14/12 04:18 PM
They are good people! Happy to see him win!
Posted By: smokinwoody
Re: Mike Cotten - 02/14/12 04:31 PM
does anyone have a photo of his car coming off the line?..
Posted By: rt66jim
Re: Mike Cotten - 02/14/12 05:25 PM
Quote:
does anyone have a photo of his car coming off the line?..
Jeff, if you go to this link there is one.
http://www.yellowbullet.com/forum/showthread.php?t=449011
Posted By: smokinwoody
Re: Mike Cotten - 02/14/12 05:44 PM
Quote:Quote:
does anyone have a photo of his car coming off the line?..
Jeff, if you go to this link there is one.
http://www.yellowbullet.com/forum/showthread.php?t=449011
thanks Jim..
Posted By: smokinwoody
Re: Mike Cotten - 02/14/12 06:32 PM
staging but no launch picture...
Posted By: 70AARcuda
Re: Mike Cotten - 02/14/12 08:59 PM
on starting line...
Posted By: 340RICK
Re: Mike Cotten - 02/14/12 09:41 PM
cool car.....one of my favorites
Posted By: BradH
Re: Mike Cotten - 02/14/12 09:46 PM
The last time I heard of a competitive 383-powered E-body SS car was Dave Boertman's '71 Challenger back in the '70s. IIRC, it was capable of dipping into the high 10s under good conditions, but that was back when SS cars were still supposed to be running unported heads, too.
How fast is Cotten's ride these days?
How fast is Cotten's ride these days?
Posted By: dsd70bee
Re: Mike Cotten - 02/14/12 11:09 PM
His ET in the final round was 10.242 according to NHRA's web site.
Posted By: WadeMetzinger
Re: Mike Cotten - 02/14/12 11:12 PM
I think its capable of high 9.90s but I don't think he's ever ran a 9 at a NHRA event. I think the best he's let it run during competition is 10.13. The Hogans sheet metal intake looks bad to the bone on the 383.
Posted By: Doug Walker
Re: Mike Cotten - 02/14/12 11:32 PM
Wednesday August 31, 2011
Posted By: 11secdart
Re: Mike Cotten - 02/15/12 12:41 AM
Congrats!!! I really like that car!
I really like that car!
Posted By: Big Squeeze
Re: Mike Cotten - 02/15/12 01:08 AM
Quote:
I think its capable of high 9.90s but I don't think he's ever ran a 9 at a NHRA event. I think the best he's let it run during competition is 10.13. The Hogans sheet metal intake looks bad to the bone on the 383.
Does he have a different Hogan intake on the car??
Last time I talked to him he said he was going to actually plant a flower in it and set it in his back yard......said he'd had a Victor intake cutup and modified to fit his heads and it ran a LOT better........ 
but for all I know he may have had another one built..... 
Posted By: Ari440
Re: Mike Cotten - 02/15/12 01:10 AM
Quote:Quote:
I think its capable of high 9.90s but I don't think he's ever ran a 9 at a NHRA event. I think the best he's let it run during competition is 10.13. The Hogans sheet metal intake looks bad to the bone on the 383.
Does he have a different Hogan intake on the car??
any pics of this hogan manifold
Posted By: Ari440
Re: Mike Cotten - 02/15/12 01:14 AM
Posted By: Big Squeeze
Re: Mike Cotten - 02/15/12 03:06 AM
Quote:Quote:Quote:
I think its capable of high 9.90s but I don't think he's ever ran a 9 at a NHRA event. I think the best he's let it run during competition is 10.13. The Hogans sheet metal intake looks bad to the bone on the 383.
Does he have a different Hogan intake on the car??
any pics of this hogan manifold
I don't have any, but I can get some the next time he's back in town.....I think they're going to be gone for at least another month or so......him and his wife are retired now.....
Yeah, he said that Hogan intake was "a $2,500 garden planter".....
Posted By: WadeMetzinger
Re: Mike Cotten - 02/15/12 04:04 AM
You're probably right Wayne, I haven't spoke to him about it in a long time. I'm usually talking to him about small blocks and trying to learn what I can from him.
Posted By: SuperStockWagon
Re: Mike Cotten - 02/15/12 05:07 AM
Great start to the season Mike!! And an .001 light in the finals to boot! 
Posted By: SuperStockWagon
Re: Mike Cotten - 02/15/12 05:13 AM
1 more..
Posted By: 340Cuda
Re: Mike Cotten - 02/18/12 09:43 PM
Mike lowered the car a little over the winter, this is right before Pomona. He has won round one in Phoenix on a heads up run with another J automatic car so he is off to a good start. Mike and Paula are one of the most well liked couples in drag racing.
