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Re: HOT ROD Drag Week [Re: pittsburghracer] #2698269
09/16/19 11:34 PM
09/16/19 11:34 PM
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yeah, that's me, I was not ready with my Barracuda this year. I had to take my Chevy. It worked just fine, although I was a second behind the badass Hemi in Mike Finnegan's 55. At least I got to race next to him on his last pass where he clinched the A/Gas win.

Re: HOT ROD Drag Week [Re: n20mstr] #2698294
09/17/19 06:24 AM
09/17/19 06:24 AM
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Originally Posted by n20mstr
Originally Posted by W5DART66
The 4 week drag week build.
Car was basically a shell 4 weeks before drag week.
We finished putting it together at VMP first drive was about 7 pm that night.
Brad Bowers and I put about 8 miles on it that night and made its first pass after the rain cleared.

Then we set out to drive 1000miles in the heat on drag week.

You just don’t understand drag week until you “do it”

Our buddy tory Shellhamer did a bunch of fab work on the car in one week. (Headers in 2 days 😳)

We went on to win the class (SS SB NA)
The racing Gods rewarded our hard work with not much problems for the Craziness that is DRAGWEEK 😀👍🏻

The engine was built in 2011 for engine masters challenge.

410” we gave up 20” per the rules for small block.
Has over 150 dyno pulls and 100s of passes in my car.
Has had the cam and intake changed over the years.
But engine has not been apart from 2011.

I put a new set of valve springs on for the drag week deal.

Put a street oil pan on and pump in the pan for the drive.

We had no over drive and 28” tall tire with 4.30 gear engine was run 3500-4000 rpm all week on the 1000 + mile drive.
Super happy with the engine only thing done to engine all week was an oil change and cut/check filter.

We where shifting at 8700 rpm at the track 😉

I need a few good days of sleep to think about doing this again 😀



Fatastic effort by all, I just wish cars with cars like this got more press instead of full on pro mods without headlites......



Re: HOT ROD Drag Week [Re: LAD 524] #2698345
09/17/19 09:43 AM
09/17/19 09:43 AM
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Originally Posted by LAD 524

Fatastic effort by all, I just wish cars with cars like this got more press instead of full on pro mods without headlites......


The only full on Pro Mod on Drag Week has head lights, they get covered up when he makes a pass on the strip, then uncovered for the driving portions. It's a really press worthy car, even if it's not your bag.

There is still a decent amount of coverage of the cars that we all build and race.

Re: HOT ROD Drag Week [Re: LAD 524] #2698559
09/17/19 07:49 PM
09/17/19 07:49 PM
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Originally Posted by LAD 524
Originally Posted by n20mstr
Originally Posted by W5DART66
The 4 week drag week build.
Car was basically a shell 4 weeks before drag week.
We finished putting it together at VMP first drive was about 7 pm that night.
Brad Bowers and I put about 8 miles on it that night and made its first pass after the rain cleared.

Then we set out to drive 1000miles in the heat on drag week.

You just don’t understand drag week until you “do it”

Our buddy tory Shellhamer did a bunch of fab work on the car in one week. (Headers in 2 days 😳)

We went on to win the class (SS SB NA)
The racing Gods rewarded our hard work with not much problems for the Craziness that is DRAGWEEK 😀👍🏻

The engine was built in 2011 for engine masters challenge.

410” we gave up 20” per the rules for small block.
Has over 150 dyno pulls and 100s of passes in my car.
Has had the cam and intake changed over the years.
But engine has not been apart from 2011.

I put a new set of valve springs on for the drag week deal.

Put a street oil pan on and pump in the pan for the drive.

We had no over drive and 28” tall tire with 4.30 gear engine was run 3500-4000 rpm all week on the 1000 + mile drive.
Super happy with the engine only thing done to engine all week was an oil change and cut/check filter.

We where shifting at 8700 rpm at the track 😉

I need a few good days of sleep to think about doing this again 😀



Fatastic effort by all, I just wish cars with cars like this got more press instead of full on pro mods without headlites......



iagree......Hope drag week doesn't turn into a promod race.

Re: HOT ROD Drag Week [Re: racerx] #2698590
09/17/19 09:52 PM
09/17/19 09:52 PM
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There ended up being only two cars in the 6s by the end of the week this year, it's not a pro mod race, by a long shot. There were 300 other cars that finished, including several black primer Darts smile

Re: HOT ROD Drag Week [Re: squirrel] #2698594
09/17/19 09:59 PM
09/17/19 09:59 PM
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Had a blast on dragweek, plan to defend the title next year. Hope to make the car faster with some changes and testing . Wasn’t holding anything back was just figuring out what the car wanted and one track MIR we didn’t have a lot of fuel so we make a conservative hit to make sure it didn’t spin. Brett’s motor didn’t like my powerglide and Shiloh’s convertor had 2000 rpm fall back. But the whole set up worked really well on the street.


Brett Miller W9 cnc'd heads
STR Chassis fabraction
Re: HOT ROD Drag Week [Re: 1967dartgt] #2698626
09/18/19 12:38 AM
09/18/19 12:38 AM
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Nice job guys representing the Mopar banner!!


footbrake N/A SB 408 Scamp 10.10 @ 132 street/strip
73 Duster 340 street strip 12.79 @ 105
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