2020 Racing Reports
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12/26/20 02:34 PM
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Joined: Mar 2004
Posts: 2,475 SW Ohio
cgall
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Who got out and did some racing this year? Our season was derailed in March by the pandemic, plus my car owner Don and I both were furloughed from our jobs. I decided to retire, and Don eventually found another job. Our local track, Edgewater was being renovated, and our other track, TriState was sold last year and has been totally plowed up as a Christmas tree farm. When National Trails opened up in May, we went up there with my Duster and ran No-box at the Double Dueces. I made 10 passes but never made it out of 2nd round, but it was great to get out of hiding in the house from a questionable media-driven fear. When Edgewater opened up we pulled Don's car out of the trailer where it had been sitting for about 10 months. Last pass in 2019 was a 6.06, first pass this year was a 6.07. We ran at Edge several weekends and I was able to get more comfortable with the delay box, crosstalk, racing 4-second dragsters and so on. I never won anything but made it to 4th and 5th rounds a couple times. Our goal with his car was to get it certified, update all safety equipment, and then offer it up for sale. That mission was accomplished as the car was sold just before the Mopar Southern Nationals at Mountain Parkway. The new owner let me drive it and we had a great time until a severe storm blew up and chased us away. I got the Duster out for a couple more races in Pro at Edge before the season ended. Overall I will say that racing this year was one thing our government allowed us to do, and the tracks had good turnouts of cars and spectators.
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Re: 2020 Racing Reports
[Re: cgall]
#2864951
12/26/20 03:16 PM
12/26/20 03:16 PM
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Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 2,112 Byron, NY
W.I.N. Racing
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Ironically this was a good year racing wise (albeit I had a low threshold for success) After many years in waiting I got the truck out for its first shakedown runs and driver initiation. Didn't set the world on fire or break anything. So it was a success. We should be ready for the 2021 season.
'01 P1500, Blown/Inj BAE,/Veney ,Bruno/CS2,Dana 60 '01 Dodge 3500 S Cummins Auto, Fresh air kit, 4" Exhaust, '05 Dodge Magnum R/T - Too Much to list '60 Willys CJ5 '01 International LPX - Project,DT466, Allison '64 Plymouth Valiant, Inj 528 Hemi, 2spd
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Re: 2020 Racing Reports
[Re: cgall]
#2864955
12/26/20 03:26 PM
12/26/20 03:26 PM
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Joined: Aug 2009
Posts: 2,042 Mooresburg, Tn
'72CudaRacer
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My season, like most everyone else's, got off to a slow start, with a lot of races cancelled. At Bristol, our short season was cut even shorter, to only 6 races.I managed to win one race and finish in the top 5 in points. The race that I won, the final round was the tightest race that I've been in in a long time, with the finish line margin being .0003 sec to my side, (approx. 3/4"). (1/4 mile class, both of us was .030 & broke out by .006). I only ran at one other track, London, Ky and did well there. No wins, but 4 RU finishes in Modified (no box), including the Mopar show RU. Earned about $2500 for the season, the best season in some time. The Mopar show still stings, that makes 6 runner up finishes at Mopar shows since 2011, with no wins. Maybe, one day, I can win at a Mopar event. Still, I feel very blessed, because I can look through out the pits and see a lot of racers that would LOVE to be where I'm at. Hopefully, the 2021 season will go better for all of us!
Brian Dunnigan
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Re: 2020 Racing Reports
[Re: '72CudaRacer]
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12/26/20 04:21 PM
12/26/20 04:21 PM
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Joined: Mar 2006
Posts: 9,836 MI, usa
dvw
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Snagged a win and 1/4 final At the 1st National Trail N/SS Bash. Ran into a strange scenario where 60 ft would fall off over .10 with no apparent tire spin. Swapped converter, rebuilt the front shocks (Afco doubles) bought new rear shocks (Afco Big Gun), had the carbs completely apart, changed fuel, swapped back the original converter after servicing, moved the ladder bars. Never found the smoking gun. By September ended up having a real good outing at the US 131 NMCA race. Took out the ,#1,2,3, & 4 guys in points and won the event. Its been a pretty good run the last 8 years. Looking forward to 2021. Going to try 4150 style carbs still chasing better consistency. Doug
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Re: 2020 Racing Reports
[Re: DavidDean]
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12/26/20 05:18 PM
12/26/20 05:18 PM
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rb446
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Slow start to the season for us here in UK due to PLandemic, total new combo from mild 440, stock 727 SS/springs to a 589ci street/strip motor with built 727 4200 verter and mono'/caltracs with 10" Hoosier bias, Dana 4.10's and a driver used to 12.5 sec 1/4's. Started off with a getting used to it 11.3's@119 and with some driving practice and chassis tuning to see what the car liked we ended up with a best of 10.3's@130 with 1.43 60's (3800lb car) to date through the mufflers and driving there and home....went a few rounds in brkt wars, broke out a couple of times but all in all quite happy, car went a bit faster than I thought with the known @the line weight and the dyno hp numbers which we were 20hp off prob due to the full exhausts. Hope to be more competitive next year.
Last edited by rb446; 12/27/20 12:19 PM.
1969 'Cuda 446ci, best 9.96@133.9 in 1990 1971 340 'Cuda, best 11.01@122.8 in 1987
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Re: 2020 Racing Reports
[Re: 11secdart]
#2865091
12/26/20 10:19 PM
12/26/20 10:19 PM
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Joined: Jan 2003
Posts: 20,179 Park Forest, IL
slantzilla
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I did a few big bucks races this year. Unfortunately, my luck was horrible. I made some good runs, but the other guy was usually gooder. The Twin 10's at 41 was the low point when the trans broke the front pump while pulling into staging for my 1 time run.
Hoping for better things next year.
"Everybody funny, now you funny too."
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Re: 2020 Racing Reports
[Re: slantzilla]
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12/27/20 09:18 AM
12/27/20 09:18 AM
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Posts: 8,027 Tulsa OK
Bad340fish
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I didn't race at all in 2019 and only raced about a month at the end of 2020. I fought some issues, and didn't get a new best but the car gained some weight(added the folding back seat back to the car) and I fought some 60ft problems. Overall I am happy with the performance, ran higher MPH consistently so I am happy it is making more power and I got 25 passes in and the motor didn't skip a beat. I just took it down yesterday to rewire some EFI stuff and then it's time for a cam swap.
I wanted to add some RPM range so I looked into a new cam from Comp and my Dad ended up getting me that for Christmas(Thanks Dad!). It is from Comp's new "low shock" line of lobes and the tech said it will run to whatever RPM my cylinder heads will allow. Should be interesting!
68 Barracuda Formula S 340
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Re: 2020 Racing Reports
[Re: slantzilla]
#2865179
12/27/20 10:45 AM
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J_BODY
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Decided that 20 was going to be the year I finally did an ET Finals so I decided to points race at Wild Horse Pass 4hrs away. This afforded me to pick up my dad so we could hang out. I had the bracket mill in place so we were running quite consistently in the 10.8 range. Dismal start but we ran 3 double race weekends and had gotten to 9th place when the Kung flu put a stop to things. We got up to Vegas one time before they closed. Soon the only track open was 7hrs away. The only good this brought was enough downtime to swap SLO KID, our W8 mill, back in the car. Fuel was cheap, and South Dakota didn’t shutdown so race-cation planning was put into place. Now we didn’t really want to travel that far untested, so we found that Famoso 5hrs away was open again (crazy a CA track would open and not AZ or NV). Now we’re talking August here.... the Central Valley can be a nasty hot place, but the event was a dusk till dawn deal. Now I’m not sure if you’ve ever gone out 2nd round and cracked a beer open at 3:30 am.... head hit the pillow at 5am then 6am Sunday where we grabbed 4hrs sleep before the drive home. Car worked ok and we turned some new bests in the 9.2 range. A couple weeks later we hit the road and raced 2-3 days at Oahe Speedway for Memorial Day weekend, but got an early start home due to the R word, which turned into the S word in western Wyo and it took 14 hours to go 416 miles. Quite the adventure as one does not plan for snow, ice and multiple road closures that time of year... especially a desert rat. Our last hoorah was another race in Bakersfield where we refined the art of breaking out in r2 and r4, but did run a nice 9.16 in some 1800ft DA. Our plan was to hit Vegas in December, but alas they went into shutdown again... game over. Car runs, prob going to order a Digital Delay wiring panel and switch kit in the next day or two and hopefully redo the late 90’s job. Watching the schedules to see what’s happening. Will probably pick and choose a few fun races to attend and do the SoDak loop again.
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Re: 2020 Racing Reports.
[Re: cgall]
#2865218
12/27/20 12:32 PM
12/27/20 12:32 PM
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Joined: Jan 2003
Posts: 3,050 Bowling Green, KY
cudaboy
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I hadn't made a pass in 18 years and when everything was getting postponed/cancelled, I thought it might be 19 years.
I finally got out for the first time in May.
By the end of the season, I had been out 14 times to 6 different tracks racing my slow, stock Magnum SRT.
I won some money at ChallengerFest and at MoParty and after the last outing my car drove into the garage under its own power,
My wife and I had a lot of fun and are looking forward to next year. Hopefully the car will be a little faster come April.
Dennis
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Re: 2020 Racing Reports
[Re: cgall]
#2865234
12/27/20 01:01 PM
12/27/20 01:01 PM
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Joined: Oct 2003
Posts: 1,134 OHIO THE HEART OF IT ALL
64hemi330sedan
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well no wins again this year. got a couple quarters and finally made it to the dave duell classic race. i am thankful that i got to race as much as i did. thanks to ryan goodin/ national trails for putting on the n/ss bash races and my local track kile-kare for staying open so we could race. i hope 2021 will get back normal and i can race more. good luck to everyone in 2021.
Last edited by 64hemi330sedan; 12/27/20 01:03 PM.
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Re: 2020 Racing Reports
[Re: cgall]
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12/27/20 05:51 PM
12/27/20 05:51 PM
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Joined: Jan 2003
Posts: 5,989 Anoka County, MN
Leigh
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2010 to 2016, I had zero disposable income. One outing in 2017, car slowed down.5. Then, I needed 2 knee surgeries within 18 months. I pulled the engine, had new springs and dyno (630 @6800 - 535 @5200). Freshened the 727, found a crack in rear case. Finally found a good core, cleaned deburred and machined all the recipe items. Finally got it finished late September, including a freshened up Lenny converter with new diode, stator and turbine combination. My stuff is scattered in 3 locations. Drug it all to my tiny townhome garage...... then it snowed 7”. No heat, can’t use the engine hoist with the door open. Finally got it finished with a new alternator, crank trigger, 70 and up water pump complete with new aluminum radiator and all new pulleys. Also, new fuel pump, prefilter and fuel lines. Back into the trailer and started. Sounds as good as usual. Next is new front coil overs, revalve the rear coil overs and 4 new trailer tires. 2021 here I come!
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Re: 2020 Racing Reports
[Re: Leigh]
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12/28/20 02:40 AM
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StealthWedge67
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I ran a somewhat abbreviated season. A couple of the races I normally run were cancelled and the points series at my track was shortened slightly. Ended up finishing in a decent position and qualified for ETFinals and ROC, but at the last minute the D6 ET Finals were moved to Boise (500+ miles away), and with world finals cancelled I opted to not make the trip.
Plenty of changes for me currently under way on LemonWedge. Looking forward to ‘21.
LemonWedge - Street heavy / Strip ready - 11.07 @ 120
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Re: 2020 Racing Reports
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#2865630
12/28/20 11:21 AM
12/28/20 11:21 AM
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Posts: 4,674 Wichita
GY3
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A lot of stuff got canceled this year, but we did get in some good passes and chased e.t. at the end of the season.
I did win the 11.50 index at our local nostalgia race.
The high point was running a 10.01 @ 133 mph the same way I drive it on the street save for a splash of race gas in the tank just to be safe. I usually run 91 octane.
New tires for next season are already on the car and hopefully we can get that 9.xx in 2021.
'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: 2020 Racing Reports
[Re: GY3]
#2865677
12/28/20 01:41 PM
12/28/20 01:41 PM
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Posts: 4,980 new jersey usa
11secdart
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Some nice early B bodies on here, I really like the 64 Belvidere, and the 63 and 65 Dodges !!! Some of you guys did really well !!! Congrats !!!
Last edited by 11secdart; 12/29/20 10:01 AM.
68 Dart 410 / 904 92 D150 original owner 21 Ram 1500 Quad Cab, Big Horn , Hemi ,4x4 23 Audi Q5 16 Honda HRV
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