Re: "1st Nitrous" article
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07/13/23 02:26 PM
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GY3
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I'd read that before. Pretty interesting!
I've thought about bringing this up with a local nostalgia race we attend that says, and I quote: "No Go-go juice. They Didn't have nitrous in the '60's".
Yeah, about that....
'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: "1st Nitrous" article
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07/13/23 02:34 PM
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why they always try to hide it >???  Because it's easy to hide and I tire of all the boomers that say "NiTrOus iS cHeaTinG!"
'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: "1st Nitrous" article
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07/13/23 10:19 PM
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slantzilla
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I had a buddy who was experimenting with multiple plates in the late 70s. We thought he was crazy, I guess he was ahead of his time.
"Everybody funny, now you funny too."
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Re: "1st Nitrous" article
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#3159519
07/14/23 09:05 AM
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It's only cheating if it's banned by the rule book, to paraphrase Smokey Yunick...
Lots of retired crew chiefs with stories starting to come out about it being used in NASCAR for qualifying back in the day. It sounds like it was pretty common for lesser funded teams using it to be able to "make the show".
'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: "1st Nitrous" article
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07/17/23 09:46 AM
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Brad_Haak
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Scott Shafiroff was the first person I heard about who was going pretty fast on spray back in the mid-'70s. This was either 1976 or 1977, but I was there for the night The Unknown Street Racer came to MIR. There was a magazine article shortly before the event, but I can't figure out in what magazine. The pic shown in the link above came from it, but I can't tell anything other than it was written by Al Kirschenbaum, who I know was based out of NY. I don't think Scott was I the '7s that night like Tod Mack inferred, but he gapped The Whoopee Car enough that I'm pretty sure he was well into the 8s... it wasn't even close.
2021 Challenger 6.4L Scat Pack 1320
100% stock: 1.680, 11.894 at 113.75 (DA 175 ft)
weight reduction, wheels, tires, Hellcat air box: 1.661, 11.686 at 115.97 (DA 710 ft)
1973 Challenger 452 ci street/strip [2008]
pump gas, DOT radials: 1.454, 10.523 at 126.44 (DA 514 ft)
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Re: "1st Nitrous" article
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07/18/23 07:19 PM
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keefe
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Brad I was there for that Unknown Street racer show back in the good old days. Todd Mack had some great shows at Budds Creek.
Doug Hess was the first racer with nitrous that I knew of back then before the ban.
Keefe
1971 duster twister 440, 3380#,509 M/P hyd,906's,full Exhaust,11.06@117.46 1/4,6.95@ 97.03 1/8,1.497 60ft.....
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