Re: Anybody ever say."I am going as fast as i want to"
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04/15/09 09:43 PM
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No I drive it in the back door.
dude, that is just wrong, you must rephrase, immediately!!!!!!
It's all in the mind of the beholder,,,,you been hanging around with Fred WAY too much.
no fred doesnt talk to me like that, only BG!! well getting back to the post, after this last motor going in the 65 dodge, i think i should have plenty to deal with. hoping to go 8.65 on a 10.5 tire is more than enough
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Re: Anybody ever say."I am going as fast as i want to"
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Wow Chris, Pick up 6 tenths. must be one heck of a motor.Good luck with your goal...jim
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Re: Anybody ever say."I am going as fast as i want to"
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Wow Chris, Pick up 6 tenths. must be one heck of a motor.Good luck with your goal...jim
should get me right where i want to be, dont think ill want to go any faster.8.65 from 9.22 this is a completely different combo,using all the best parts and tricks i can come up with.
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Re: Anybody ever say."I am going as fast as i want to"
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Wow Chris, Pick up 6 tenths. must be one heck of a motor.Good luck with your goal...jim
poppaj, i m really looking forward to hearing your numbers. its getting close, i bet your going to fly as well!
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Re: Anybody ever say."I am going as fast as i want to"
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04/16/09 12:18 AM
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NO I am not....I want, need and am actively looking for a lighter car so I can go faster. Have even entertained a couple of offers(roller) in the past few weeks and if the numbers were to get to where I feel they need to be for a car like the one I have I will sell and move on.
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Re: Anybody ever say."I am going as fast as i want to"
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04/16/09 12:31 AM
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This is a discussion my brothers and I have been kicking around a great deal lately. With the tightening economy, and NHRA's raising of all the fees necessary to maintain sub 10.00 cars, I'm really wishing I had rebuilt my 10.00 @ 133 combo, rather than stepping up to a bigger engine!! The nice thing about my old combo was that I could fly over the 9.99 radar, but could hit the bottle and dip in the 8's when the desire hit, and truthfully, only about once a year was enough to satisfy the go-fast demon! I'll be the first to admit that I want to go faster than my 8.92-149 best...I'm just not sure It's worth the money I'm spending to get there!! The plan right now is to assemble the 514 Indy-1 combo, strut the Challenger, and build new headers. I'm 44 years old, and this is the last time I'm going to spend money for more performance...I'm figuring 9.0's or so on motor, some mid to low 8's on squeeze. The thing is, the faster you get, the more it seems like work, and I'm not talking about between round maintenance, I'm talking about ending up with a car that becomes dependant on track conditions, a handfull on marginal tracks..that's ok if you're just going for a timeslip, but if you're bracket or index racing, it's no fun.
Eventually the Challenger will leave, and I'll be happy with the smallblock 62 Valiant, it's running 10.90's now, but if I can get it to mid 10's with all the street equipment on, and then a little system for kicks, I'll be perfectly content.
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Re: Anybody ever say."I am going as fast as i want to"
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10's hit some 9's now ...... Im ready for some 8's
Never fast enuff
Yeah Rick, Im hopin for those #'s this year also!
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Re: Anybody ever say."I am going as fast as i want to"
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for now low 10's are gonna have to do, just too expensive, id like to go faster just to feel it, mabey someday
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Re: Anybody ever say."I am going as fast as i want to"
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04/16/09 09:14 AM
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I did and tried to slow my car down over the winter. I got the car to run 9.45 at 144mph, it felt great and safe but I think that is pushing it for a heavy back-half car. I also let my wife drive it a lot so that's in the back if my mind. So I traded a fully ported set of heads for some out of the box head and went from a roller cam to a flat tappet trying to slow it down to 9.90s in good weather and 10.0s all year round. But it only slowed it down about 3 tenths, it's been 9.78 at 139mph so far.
But that was for my car. This year I'm driving a 7.90 dragster for a guy so it wasn't that I didn't want to go faster I just felts I was running to fast for my car.
This weekend I'll be putting the motor into my wife's car and I'm a little concerned that it will be too fast. 318 stroker, 390cid, Edelbrock and the car doesn't have a roll bar so I'm hoping it will run 12.00 but I have a feeling it will run 11.50s or better.
But it's cheaper and easier to slow them down.
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