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Ended my season with a BANG
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09/18/11 10:47 PM
09/18/11 10:47 PM
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BROOK PARK, OH
WILD BILL
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And the good news is it wasn't from the car but the time slips 
I'm sure you're probably all sick of reading about it but I ran another new best since my last post. That makes a total of 4 new best runs in one weekend.
My last new best was a 9.953@132.66mph. Unfortunately it came during first round toady and put me into the buy backs.
I might have ran another but in the buy back round I get paired with a little (fwd style) Charger dialed 10.15. Only .002 difference on the tree and I get him about the 1/8th Got him about my door and blipped the throttle twice about 800'. Next thing I know he's ripping by me and he runs a 10.175@132.17 
Talk about a top end charge 
And with that, my season came to an end. At least I did put a 9 sec dial on the car once
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Re: Ended my season with a BANG
[Re: WILD BILL]
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09/18/11 10:55 PM
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Well that's great Bill! Great time for a big old boat (I used to have a 73). I ran a much slower car once, caught him at the 1/8th, clicked it into neutral at the 1000 foot mark but I guess he turned on the nitrous bottle by then. Threw it back in high and just barely got the stripe and the win light.
"Follow me the wise man said, but he walked behind"
'92 D250 Club Cab CTD, 47RH conversion, pump tweaks, injectors, rear disc and hydroboost conversion.
'74 W200 Crew Cab 360, NV4500, D44, D60 and NP205 divorced transfer case. Rear disc and hydroboost conversion.
2019 1500 Long Horn Crew Cab 4WD, 5.7 Hemi.
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Re: Ended my season with a BANG
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09/18/11 10:59 PM
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great job bill. your deserving of some great runs after the past problems.  clem
when i grow up i want to be just like sunroofgtx, god please don't let me grow up.
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Re: Ended my season with a BANG
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09/18/11 11:08 PM
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To say I had a good time would be an understatment.
The car ran great, I didn't do a terrible job of driving it, got to chat with a bunch of old freinds I havn't seen in a while, and got to meet a bunch of new members.
Yeah I wish I would have done my job better but hey, I had a blast 
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Re: Ended my season with a BANG
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09/18/11 11:17 PM
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You guys are right. After the past few seasons this was the exactly what I needed
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Re: Ended my season with a BANG
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09/19/11 10:18 AM
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Good to hear you got in the nines! You are now in the best situation for a bracket car, IMHO. As fast as you can go without the monkey suit! A couple of pounds of ballast and you can run 10.00 all day!
Think that guy on the last pass was playing with nitrous or a throttle stop?
8..603 156 mph best, 2905 lbs 549, indy 572-13, alky
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Re: Ended my season with a BANG
[Re: 383man]
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09/19/11 11:50 AM
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Yeah, I had to come up with a title that would make you guys 
Wade, sorry I missed you guys 
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Re: Ended my season with a BANG
[Re: WILD BILL]
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09/19/11 07:27 PM
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Quote:
And the good news is it wasn't from the car but the time slips
I'm sure you're probably all sick of reading about it but I ran another new best since my last post. That makes a total of 4 new best runs in one weekend.
My last new best was a [Email]9.953@132.66mph.[/Email] Unfortunately it came during first round toady and put me into the buy backs.
I might have ran another but in the buy back round I get paired with a little (fwd style) Charger dialed 10.15. Only .002 difference on the tree and I get him about the 1/8th Got him about my door and blipped the throttle twice about 800'. Next thing I know he's ripping by me and he runs a [Email]10.175@132.17[/Email]
Talk about a top end charge
And with that, my season came to an end. At least I did put a 9 sec dial on the car once [/quote
I've seen that 4 banger charger run 139+
Doug
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Re: Ended my season with a BANG
[Re: dvw]
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09/19/11 07:29 PM
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That didn't look like it was FWD  
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Re: Ended my season with a BANG
[Re: WILD BILL]
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09/19/11 07:41 PM
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That didn't look like it was FWD
For the 20 minutes every 10 years that they run, those old turbododges are fearsome indeed. 
Congrats on hitting the 9s. 
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Re: Ended my season with a BANG
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09/19/11 08:34 PM
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Out of money, fuel and vac time by the time the Halloween classic comes around. 
I don't think it was a FWD turbo car. It looked like a FWD converted to RWD and a V8.
IIRC
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Re: Ended my season with a BANG
[Re: WILD BILL]
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09/19/11 09:18 PM
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Congrats Bill...it was great meeting you. I saw one of your runs and was all set to record it but my camcorder ran out of juice right as you pulled into the burnout box.  Next year I'm putting my request in early for green wristbands.
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Re: Ended my season with a BANG
[Re: WILD BILL]
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09/19/11 09:39 PM
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Out of money, fuel and vac time by the time the Halloween classic comes around.
I don't think it was a FWD turbo car. It looked like a FWD converted to RWD and a V8.
IIRC
It was definitely not a FWD. I had him in 3rd rd of pro. And he ran that same 10.17 on the 10.15. Unfortunately for me, I ran 11.350 on my 11.36 dial. 
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Re: Ended my season with a BANG
[Re: moparguy7074]
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09/19/11 09:45 PM
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Out of money, fuel and vac time by the time the Halloween classic comes around.
I don't think it was a FWD turbo car. It looked like a FWD converted to RWD and a V8.
IIRC
It was definitely not a FWD. I had him in 3rd rd of pro. And he ran that same 10.17 on the 10.15. Unfortunately for me, I ran 11.350 on my 11.36 dial.
What was his MPH on that one?
I assume you were in it the whole way down 
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Re: Ended my season with a BANG
[Re: moparguy7074]
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09/19/11 10:37 PM
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Well, what ever he's got however it's set up is working for him.
Unless he's running a T stop.
Then he's just plain cheating. 
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Re: Ended my season with a BANG
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09/19/11 11:27 PM
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Holy cow
I'll bet he likes it
Congrats on your WIN my friend 
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Re: Ended my season with a BANG
[Re: 1BadLiLCharger]
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09/20/11 10:36 AM
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Bill......Congrats on your new best Was a PERFECT weekend for racing and going fast. I was going to bring the Charger out but the radiator started seeping so it just wasn't in the cards for me to go this year I guess Looks like I'll have to work on the Barracuda over the winter so I can make some laps in it and see what it will actually run in the full 1/4 without being on the brakes  There's a LONG list of upgrades to do 1) couple more chassis bars 2) fab my own frame connectors 3) mini tub 4) DANA  5) fix toe pattern 6) RMS upper arms & strut rods to name a few 
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