Re: NEW STREET RACE SHOW
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12/29/15 11:27 PM
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Just watched it on youtube...well, I had it playing as I was trying to be productive...ha
1. Not sure how you have a "daily driver" that rubs the tires that bad and you don't notice it. 2. Not sure how you can swap a NA/N2O carb to a blow through application, with no modifications, and have it work better. 3. If you are loosing a ton of boost, sure, throw some spray at it. 4. Race bucket mounted to some aluminum sheetmetal?
I get the whole grassroots thing, but seriously...
Good for them though. If someone wanted to make a show about me visiting my mom and making 7 second passes in my street car, I'd be all over it too I guess. I get what you`re saying and there`s Hollywood in just about everything on TV these days but although a bit back woods, it was entertaining.......
72 Dart 470 n/a BB stroker street car `THUMPER`...Check me out on FB Dominic Thumper for videos and lots of carb pics......760-900-3895.....
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Re: NEW STREET RACE SHOW
[Re: Thumperdart]
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12/30/15 01:28 AM
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These will be the guys that f______ it up for everyone.
Mopar to the bone!!!
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Re: NEW STREET RACE SHOW
[Re: Thumperdart]
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12/30/15 01:42 AM
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Interesting show, I raced my car when it was faster then those on the street. It's definitely not street outlaws. I will watch if it fits in my schedule but won't make time for it like I do for SO.
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Re: NEW STREET RACE SHOW
[Re: 1967dartgt]
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12/30/15 02:02 AM
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mphsmitch
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I loved the guy wearing the fire jacket,helmet and shorts. I was wondering about the switching the carb off the nitrous car to the blow thru turbo car.
Last edited by mphsmitch; 12/30/15 02:04 AM.
90 Dakota 408 CID R/T heads 727 trans 9.5 converter 8.8 rear Pro 275/60 drag radials [email]11.09 @120mph[/email] N/A
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Re: NEW STREET RACE SHOW
[Re: mphsmitch]
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12/30/15 02:36 AM
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I loved the guy wearing the fire jacket,helmet and shorts. I was wondering about the switching the carb off the nitrous car to the blow thru turbo car. You live in the south, it gets pretty warm down here. I see alot of people wearing shorts at the track. Not many with a jacket though.
1.33 60 ft,6.21 at 110.59 in the 1/8, pump gas small block,2950lbs,drag radials,mufflers and driven to track ...
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Re: NEW STREET RACE SHOW
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12/30/15 02:43 AM
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I wear shorts almost every week in the Summer. Then I slide into my long pants before I race.
1970 Duster Edelbrock headed 408 5.984@112.52 422 Indy headed small block 5.982@112.56 mph 9.42@138.27
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Re: NEW STREET RACE SHOW
[Re: Thumperdart]
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12/30/15 02:55 AM
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The ones i am talking about race in shorts
1.33 60 ft,6.21 at 110.59 in the 1/8, pump gas small block,2950lbs,drag radials,mufflers and driven to track ...
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Re: NEW STREET RACE SHOW
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12/30/15 03:51 AM
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What is the show actually called. Ok I just saw it. Like watching Justified without the guns.
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Re: NEW STREET RACE SHOW
[Re: StealthWedge67]
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12/30/15 04:04 AM
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While it was somewhat refreshing to see real everyday low-buck cars, reality is that I can see that by walking out to my garage. Personally, I found those guys to come across like a band of idiots. Perhaps they're not, but that's the way the show came across to me. Count me in the camp of guys that basically watched in horror with the thought that all of America is seeing this and honing their opinion on car guys.
If the producers didn't know jack about cars, then the guys in the show should have taken a little more ownership of their own brand, and demanded the show present a little more intelligent approach to things.
And for gods sake.... taking a mig welder to a tube covered in exhaust wrap.... [ Moparts Family Site - Keep it Friendly ]!? Am I the only guy that was thinking "if its cracked in one spot, you better remove that wrap and check the rest of it".
The whole thing was low rent in my book. I watched about 10 minutes of it and I'd had enough. They make car guys look like morons the way they act and speak.
Kayse can't keep up at all now. lol
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Re: NEW STREET RACE SHOW
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12/30/15 06:55 AM
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I loved the guy wearing the fire jacket,helmet and shorts. I was wondering about the switching the carb off the nitrous car to the blow thru turbo car. You live in the south, it gets pretty warm down here. I see alot of people wearing shorts at the track. Not many with a jacket though. I guess when you race at a track with no tech you can make a pass in shorts. Cant pull that off where I race.
90 Dakota 408 CID R/T heads 727 trans 9.5 converter 8.8 rear Pro 275/60 drag radials [email]11.09 @120mph[/email] N/A
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Re: NEW STREET RACE SHOW
[Re: Thumperdart]
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12/30/15 10:44 AM
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I watched about 15 minutes on you tube. Now my brain hurts. Racing on asphalt, with no prep, and your not spinning the tires. I also didn't see any roll bars/cages.
526 cubes of angry wedge, pushbutton shifted, 9 passenger killer!
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Re: NEW STREET RACE SHOW
[Re: Thumperdart]
#1979230
12/30/15 11:52 AM
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Won't last three weeks...
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Re: NEW STREET RACE SHOW
[Re: Thumperdart]
#1979297
12/30/15 01:59 PM
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I tried to watch, it was just to painful. I might give the second episode another chance. But I really can't see it lasting more than a couple of shows.
1957 Dodge truck, Snakeskin Green with a little stroker motor. 1964 Plymouth Savoy wagon ( my new project)
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Re: NEW STREET RACE SHOW
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12/30/15 02:18 PM
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I didn't watch it the whole way through yet but I will. I started watching Street Outlaws with my Son when it first came out and laughed my butt off and made comments about it every week. My Son would just look at me and laugh and say shut up DAD. He knows about my street racing 40 years ago as I told him several of the stories. Street Outlaws grew better every season and the producers stepped up "big time". Lets see were this one ends up before totally give up on them.
1970 Duster Edelbrock headed 408 5.984@112.52 422 Indy headed small block 5.982@112.56 mph 9.42@138.27
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Re: NEW STREET RACE SHOW
[Re: Thumperdart]
#1979312
12/30/15 02:40 PM
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Here's what I find interesting about the appeal of SO. I see so much NHRA bashing about how they don't show enough racing and it's become a John Force infomercial...... And yet, the way I see it ..... That the same formula as the SO. Less tech and details about the cars, more BS from farm truck and azn, more scripted confrontations........ More crap that has to do with "personalities"......that I don't care anything about. IMO, SO has not gotten any better since it started, it's just become another reality show that has almost nothing to do with reality. I watch it, but if it went away I wouldn't really care.
I realize I'm probably in the minority of most of the viewers. The way I see it is, the premis for all of these reality shows, whether it's the voice, survivor, big brother, master chef, or SO, is the same. To get the viewers to connect with the personalities on the show and become invested in them. It just doesn't work for me, which is why I don't ever watch those shows. As SO becomes more like those other shows, the less interested I am.
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Re: NEW STREET RACE SHOW
[Re: Thumperdart]
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12/30/15 02:44 PM
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The cars appeared to be dead slow. Daily drivers or not, they were SLOW. If that's all they got for street racing in that area...........they don't have much.
One of my customers has a 16 year old kid, with a 72 Nova that he drives to school. Pretty mild 406 with alum heads, runs low 7s on motor. Spray it with a 150hp kit, coming on a 1 sec out, on drag radials and it goes 5.70s. Maybe we need to take it to Chattanooga..........LOL!!! And it DOES run just as quick on the street, because dad has been wearing the locals out with it, ON the street
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