Re: The Road to Drag Week, 2016
[Re: Hemi_Joel]
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Have a safe trip Matt! See you in Columbus.
Jeff
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Re: The Road to Drag Week, 2016
[Re: Hemi_Joel]
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Just heading out from Phoenix to Tulsa. Should have left two days ago, but the pictures my brothers sent me convinced me to stay out here and work on my own stuff longer.
I'll stop over at Tulsa, regroup, help them and then leave with barely enough time to roll into National Trail, and get in the back of the tech line by 1pm.
"Just carrying on an old Family Tradition"
"Livin' in a powder keg and givin' off sparks"
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Re: The Road to Drag Week, 2016
[Re: Hemi_Joel]
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I hope you guys all have safe and uneventful trips. See you in Columbus!
[img]http://i.imgur.com/boeexFms.jpg[/img]31 Plymouth Coupe, 392 Hemi, T56 magnum RS23J71 RS27J77 RP23J71 RO23J71 WM21J8A I don't regret the things I've done. I only regret the things I didn't do. "Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something. ~ Plato"
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Re: The Road to Drag Week, 2016
[Re: Hemi_Joel]
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Have a safe trip MoparBilly, and good luck to all who's going!, I envy you...one day....
1970 'Cuda,Lime Light,499 Indy S/R's 10.70's @125,street driven ALOT! 1966 Barracuda 360,now a 5spd,Hemi Orange,Hot Rod Air, New daily driver-2003 Ram 2500 Cummins 5.9 '69 Valiant 2-dr, sleeper! New project---1938 Dodge truck, plan is a 360 with a A500, AC, Calvert rear susp., rack and pinion front with coils.
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Re: The Road to Drag Week, 2016
[Re: Hemi_Joel]
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Great post Scott! Mine is loaded and ready to go and right now I just have a bad case of the "what did I forget".
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Re: The Road to Drag Week, 2016
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Great post Scott! Mine is loaded and ready to go and right now I just have a bad case of the "what did I forget". Im guessing you forgot your carburetor
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Re: The Road to Drag Week, 2016
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09/08/16 10:22 PM
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Joel and I are in a mad thrash right now! NOTHING takes the amount of time you think. Joel had to have a drive shaft made this morning, and we have it now. We are prepared to work through the night and have the HEMI ready!
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Re: The Road to Drag Week, 2016
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Great post Scott! Mine is loaded and ready to go and right now I just have a bad case of the "what did I forget". Im guessing you forgot your carburetor Made me laugh Tony.LOL.See you hooligans in a few days.
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Re: The Road to Drag Week, 2016
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Great post Scott! Mine is loaded and ready to go and right now I just have a bad case of the "what did I forget". Im guessing you forgot your carburetor You betcha, I will have lots more adjustments to learn and make this year but they can be typed in going down the road.
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Re: The Road to Drag Week, 2016
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Joel is making sure he takes care of the important details, while his trunk monkey is actually getting something done.
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Re: The Road to Drag Week, 2016
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I should be good to go...heading down to Columbus tomorrow.
But my sense of being over-prepared has me nervous that I am overlooking something big...haha
Faster, Faster until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death...
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Re: The Road to Drag Week, 2016
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Hitting the road, see you folks tomorrow
Faster, Faster until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death...
71 Swinger - slowly collecting dust/parts 66 Belv. II - just a streetcar 88 Mustang - turbo LS beater
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Re: The Road to Drag Week, 2016
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Driving it to the event....... That's the spirit!!
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Re: The Road to Drag Week, 2016
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Well we finished everything on Joel's HEMI GTX last night around 1:00am, but the car would not fire. No spark. After about a hour of tracking down the culprit, we had spark! The HEMI lit right up, but then we had a much bigger problem. Low oil pressure. It only made 10lbs at idle and with some rpm, it could only get maybe 20lbs. Joel had ordered grooved lifters for the engine, but the block has stock non bushed lifter bores. With the cam lift, the groove is bleeding off pressure by coming out of the bore. No way we could fix it. So... It was decided at 3:00am to get Joel's HEMI GTX convertible that we took to Drag Week last year, out of storage and still make the trip.
When we picked the car up, it had a very noticeable exhaust leak. At 10:00am I made it back to Joel's and we got the car up on the hoist. I think this car still had the original gaskets in it.
With a new gasket, oil change and 4 hours of sleep we are on our way. Going to try and get through Wisconsin and Illinois tonight.
Not the Drag Week 2016 we wanted, but with Joel it will still be a fun adventure.
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Re: The Road to Drag Week, 2016
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Good luck today to all those who made it down to Columbus for Drag week. I hope all the testing goes well today and everyone has there cars ready for the start of DW tomorrow. Ill be making the trek down to Columbus in the morning and looking forward to seeing just what DW is all about. As stated in a pervious post if any member forgot anything and needs something and I can help just ask. Aaron
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Re: The Road to Drag Week, 2016
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Thanks Aaron! We are 30 miles west of Columbus now and should be at the track in almost a hour or so.
Jeff
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