Re: Street Outlaws. Now I've seen it ALL (Reaper)
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If big boy cant take it, maybe he should be home knitting slippers.
Diferent stroke for different folks, each time I dumped a crank out of my pull tractor or even when I popped my spray motor that melted my glasses, cooked my hair I just laugh it off as part of the game because thats all it is.
Its a semi scripted tv show and for that guy, yep I gotta laugh. Hell for all we know that motor was ready to pop and it just helps the ratings.
Next time maybe between all the smack talkin someone might pay a bit more attention.
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
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Re: Street Outlaws. Now I've seen it ALL (Reaper)
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Re: Street Outlaws. Now I've seen it ALL (Reaper)
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Betting they have a better place to put the used plugs for now on.
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Re: Street Outlaws. Now I've seen it ALL (Reaper)
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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
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Re: Street Outlaws. Now I've seen it ALL (Reaper)
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Stupid mistake or not, I find it weird that any "car guy" would think it's funny for a guy to trash a 50k motor. Guess some look at things differently. When someone keeps shooting himself in the foot ya it is kinda funny. Slow down and double check things and maybe just maybe he would have better luck. Maybe this is why I choose to do 99% of the work on my car by myself because I would double check things anyway. Says the guy that totaled his only fast car. I guess that was funny to. Once you get fast you can't do it all your self. Stay slow my friend Ya ya ya. It happens to those that race 40 plus years and almost every weekends 7 months a year. How many passes do you make a year and what ET. Oh and it was just minor damage 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.
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Re: Street Outlaws. Now I've seen it ALL (Reaper)
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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.
Now I need to pin those needles, got to feel that heat Hear my motor screamin while I'm tearin up the street
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Re: Street Outlaws. Now I've seen it ALL (Reaper)
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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.
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Re: Street Outlaws. Now I've seen it ALL (Reaper)
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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. 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.
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Re: Street Outlaws. Now I've seen it ALL (Reaper)
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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
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Re: Street Outlaws. Now I've seen it ALL (Reaper)
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12/20/16 03:36 AM
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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
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Re: Street Outlaws. Now I've seen it ALL (Reaper)
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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 What the heck do you have in there a diesel??? It looks like diesel stacks up through the hood. Sorry I wouldn't have said that but you drew "first blood". I hope karma never bites you in the butt.
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Re: Street Outlaws. Now I've seen it ALL (Reaper)
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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
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Re: Street Outlaws. Now I've seen it ALL (Reaper)
[Re: Monte_Smith]
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Stupid mistake or not, I find it weird that any "car guy" would think it's funny for a guy to trash a 50k motor. Guess some look at things differently. THIS !!!!!!!!!
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