Monte, since your a bit tight with these ladies, I made my post just to add to some and to bait you and every time you take it, like takin a cousin to the prom.

Funny thing is, my place in the South is right by you, ya know that lil power plant on the river and I see you almost every year im there... If my health lets me I will give you a yell this spring.

Nothing about the racing or what happens is scripted. That motor was a brand new 5.0 bore space 765 with about 6 runs on it when that happened. You can't do it ALL on a car of that caliber.

Mike was new help........he was nervous and made a stupid mistake. After putting the race plugs in, he got sidetracked doing something else and forgot about the plugs.

People, even experienced ones make mistakes. At our last race of year with Buick, a guy that has been helping us for years cross threaded number 7 plug. He thought it was tight and it was only in about a thread. As soon as Chad dropped the button it blew number 7 plug out in the final. We lost the race, but were LUCKY all the fuel it was blowing out the hole on the headers didn't burn the car to the ground. I did check the wires before that run and we always fire in the pits to make sure we don't have a bad plug.......but things happen at times. If you check EVERYthing someone else does.......well you just can't do it all. I make ALL the tuning calls and look at ALL the data between runs. I can't do that AND double check what others do and neither can James

From the horses mouth....3 seconds in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-g755xqTDcU

Betting they have a better place to put the used plugs for now on.

The trans fire happened when it blew the front out of a $2500 bolt together converter. Cracked at the weld on front cover. That's just bad luck

We always put our plugs in throttle bodies too........just never forgot they were in there

I think we all understand that, and yes in reality its not cool when anyone kicks a high cost motor, but its after the fact and if it were not edgy like ive said before it would be like the nhra that so few watch.

I was waiting for someone to pull a tire out of there pocket and start chewing on it.

I race every weekend too. My junk is faster at the 1/8 then your junk is in the 1/4

I run 4.80s at 150 and will be faster this year. I'm 20 years younger then you too.

But I have respect for the effort Reaper puts into his racing program and the dedication he shows. I don't know any of those guys, but out of all the guys on the show he is the one I follow the most because of Monty and his inside info.

And I built my car from a junkyard find.

I will admit that at times James is his own worst enemy, but he also just has some crap luck. His car is as fast as ANY when it makes a clean pass, but he just can't get any decent help, plus silly mistakes and bad luck are killing him.

He was here a couple weeks ago and I drove the car. One pass it went dead rich, like it did on the show a couple times. Bad water temp sensor with intermittent problem, that was throwing the fuel table off, because it thought the motor was 30*. He had been fighting that issue but did not have enough experience to spot it in the data. I found that, but it took a while and then we shook it so hard later it shattered a rear wheel bearing and our day was done.

Wow, I think I might have cried if it was me! Deep pockets or not thats the worst way I ever heard to lose a motor.

I never saw the tranny one till I posted the link, fires are bad and if that was this year it is bad luck.

Outwardly the show looks a bit chaotic at times.

I race every weekend too. My junk is faster at the 1/8 then your junk is in the 1/4

I run 4.80s at 150 and will be faster this year. I'm 20 years younger then you too.

But I have respect for the effort Reaper puts into his racing program and the dedication he shows. I don't know any of those guys, but out of all the guys on the show he is the one I follow the most because of Monty and his inside info.

And I built my car from a junkyard find.


Don't know you and never heard of you. PLEASE honor us with some pictures of your race car so that we may know who we are talking to. Do you buy your power or do you help produce all that horsepower. The screen name doesn't ring a bell.

Thy to find the video of him blowing a stock type transmission at the track. That was real ugly and it tore up Monte's new wiring job.

ALL these guys work hard to do this deal. The filming schedule is crazy. It's hard to keep cars like this ready to race on a weekly basis and work a job to. They are making some money from it now, but for years they were going broke trying to keep up every week. They are down right now, but it's only for a few weeks and are all scrambling to make changes. We are making suspension and gearing changes on Docs car and I have the intakes from Monza and the Reaper here to make a few changes. It's always something

Shawn is humping to have the NEW Murder Nova ready and Chief has bought another car as well, since they made the no "pro-mods" move

They are making some money from it now, but for years they were going broke trying to keep up every week.

You would think a sponser might toss them a bone, but then again who knows the inner workings of things.

I been on this site longer then you. Look at the date under the screen name lol

I build my own everything. Rearends, cages, motors, trannys, fiberglass parts, you got nothing on me. I'm an ex tool maker. I can read a mic or run a CNC
one runs 4's, other runs 5's

I have never heard or seen anyone put used race spark plugs in a carb. booster at the drag races, never
Let alone on top of a throttle body
I have broken the porclyn on plugs and not known it until later, I have also installed loose spark plugs boots thinking they where on all the way until they fell off
If you race long enough you will make a mistake or two and break parts
I run air cleaners also so maybe that's just me

Bit of time lapse there............Goad wanting to pull his hair out (shaved head) when plugs went down the motor then they flash to interview about it and he has 1/2" long hair. Sorry to see for sure, stuff happens and that TV editing in action for sure.

If it bites me I'll rebuild it. I have had it sideways in the lights. It's a possibility every time I launch it.
You laughing at a racer for hurting his junk is why I called you out.
It's indy heads with a turbo. Fast as hell for a bracket motor. It's my combo, I didn't copy anyone.
Look through my pics on photo bucket, you will see nobody but me built it.
What I started with

THIS !!!!!!!!!