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Re: Drag Week 2018
[Re: cudadoug]
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09/14/18 06:52 AM
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JERICOGTX
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Anyone know about this green RR? What do you want to know? I know the car very well.
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Re: Drag Week 2018
[Re: JERICOGTX]
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09/14/18 09:48 AM
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RPM headed RB stroker if I remember correctly. Gear vendor behind the 727. His brother is driving the yellow Challenger if I'm talking about the same car. Only looked at it in the trailer. Nice fellows.
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Re: Drag Week 2018
[Re: jyrki]
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09/14/18 10:21 AM
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Day 5 Commerce (Atlanta) Georgia. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4iRcX8By18 Also, they will be announcing the 2019 Drag Week schedule at 9 am Eastern time today for everyone interested, which is like everybody.
July 19th should be "Drive Like Rockford Day". R.I.P. Jimmie.
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Re: Drag Week 2018
[Re: jyrki]
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09/14/18 10:37 AM
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JERICOGTX
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RPM headed RB stroker if I remember correctly. Gear vendor behind the 727. His brother is driving the yellow Challenger if I'm talking about the same car. Only looked at it in the trailer. Nice fellows. 440, no stroker crank. Not RPM heads. 11:1 compression, roller cam, dominator. Ladder bar rear, Dana 60 with 4.56 gears. Was a KILLER bracket car for many years in Division 5, Minnesota. Joe bought it last year, and it now resides on Long Island New York.
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Re: Drag Week 2018
[Re: JERICOGTX]
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09/14/18 11:05 AM
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Dragweek Tracks for 2019:
Virginia Motorsports Park
Cecil County
Atco
Maryland
Virginia Motorsports Park
'63 Dodge 330
11.19 @ 121 mph
Pump gas, n/a, through the mufflers on street tires with 3.54's. 3,600 lbs.
10.01 @ 133mph with a 250 shot of nitrous an a splash of race gas. 1.36 60 ft. 3,700 lbs.
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Re: Drag Week 2018
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09/14/18 11:13 AM
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Dragweek Tracks for 2019:
Virginia Motorsports Park
Cecil County
Atco
Maryland
Virginia Motorsports Park Wow. That’s probably the five fastest tracks in the United States 🇺🇸
1970 Duster
Edelbrock headed 408
5.984@112.52
422 Indy headed small block
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9.42@138.27
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Re: Drag Week 2018
[Re: JERICOGTX]
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09/14/18 11:07 PM
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RPM headed RB stroker if I remember correctly. Gear vendor behind the 727. His brother is driving the yellow Challenger if I'm talking about the same car. Only looked at it in the trailer. Nice fellows. 440, no stroker crank. Not RPM heads. 11:1 compression, roller cam, dominator. Ladder bar rear, Dana 60 with 4.56 gears. Was a KILLER bracket car for many years in Division 5, Minnesota. Joe bought it last year, and it now resides on Long Island New York. Couldn't have remembered much more wrong!
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Re: Drag Week 2018
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09/18/18 01:20 AM
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Anyone know who won the spirit of drag week award?
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Re: Drag Week 2018
[Re: moparpollack]
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09/18/18 03:49 AM
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Anyone know who won the spirit of drag week award?
This one old drunk chick and some fella with green teeth. Actually, I think it was the guy who went to the hospital with heat stroke and severe sleep deprivation because he tried so hard and wouldn't give up. I can't remember his name.
[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: Drag Week 2018
[Re: JERICOGTX]
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09/18/18 09:42 AM
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RPM headed RB stroker if I remember correctly. Gear vendor behind the 727. His brother is driving the yellow Challenger if I'm talking about the same car. Only looked at it in the trailer. Nice fellows. 440, no stroker crank. Not RPM heads. 11:1 compression, roller cam, dominator. Ladder bar rear, Dana 60 with 4.56 gears. Was a KILLER bracket car for many years in Division 5, Minnesota. Joe bought it last year, and it now resides on Long Island New York. It's both sad and good to see Berry's car being used. His strategy for driving the stripe: "If in doubt, run it out." I raced him with him from 1978 on. A good racer and person.
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Re: Drag Week 2018
[Re: moparpollack]
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09/18/18 11:52 AM
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Anyone know who won the spirit of drag week award?
Sorry, I cannot remember or find the name. It was not the guy Joel is thinking of but I am sure that guy was underconsideration. I believe the car was called Attempted Murder Nova as it was blacked out. I believe the guy is a friend of Mike Finnigan as Mike accepted the award for him and stayed with him during the adventure described below. The guy broke an engine at Bristol, bought one from a local O'reilly store manager (who had to take it out of his car). Installed it overnight and hit the road. I think they hit the first checkpoint at like 5:00AM. They got to Atlanta in time to take a 20.00 run and finish Drag Week.
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Re: Drag Week 2018
[Re: JERICOGTX]
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09/18/18 05:11 PM
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Drag week 2018 was like a cross between a trip to Disneyland and the Baton death march.
Despite the extreme heat at times, it was a great drag week for me, finally getting the HemiCoupe where it belongs: on the drag strip and on the road. The car performed very well for being new and mostly unproven. Zero breakdowns. The only repair was a blown header gasket, an easy fix for my able Trunk Monkey. I came in 4th in the Hot Rod class. There was .4 seconds separating me from the winner, so it was a close race. There is a lot more in the car, I have a good to-do list for both on track and off. I just booked the rooms for 2019!
Congrats to Tom Bailey for the hard earned wins, congrats to all who won their class, and to all who finished! And thanks to Jeff (Jerico GTX) for being a Trunk Monk extraordinaire!
I have a story to tell and pictures, but I need to recover and catch up at work before I can write it.
[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: Drag Week 2018
[Re: Hemi_Joel]
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09/19/18 12:38 AM
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GY3
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Drag week 2018 was like a cross between a trip to Disneyland and the Baton death march.
Despite the extreme heat at times, it was a great drag week for me, finally getting the HemiCoupe where it belongs: on the drag strip and on the road. The car performed very well for being new and mostly unproven. Zero breakdowns. The only repair was a blown header gasket, an easy fix for my able Trunk Monkey. I came in 4th in the Hot Rod class. There was .4 seconds separating me from the winner, so it was a close race. There is a lot more in the car, I have a good to-do list for both on track and off. I just booked the rooms for 2019!
Congrats to Tom Bailey for the hard earned wins, congrats to all who won their class, and to all who finished! And thanks to Jeff (Jerico GTX) for being a Trunk Monk extraordinaire!
I have a story to tell and pictures, but I need to recover and catch up at work before I can write it. I enjoyed watching your car run all week and was cheering you on from my garage!
'63 Dodge 330
11.19 @ 121 mph
Pump gas, n/a, through the mufflers on street tires with 3.54's. 3,600 lbs.
10.01 @ 133mph with a 250 shot of nitrous an a splash of race gas. 1.36 60 ft. 3,700 lbs.
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