jimbires
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Joel , you're sure taking me for a walk down memory lane . if I wasn't going to my sons today , I'd be headed to the races . it's a small world , my friend ! here's one from super chevy '93 and one from beaver springs .
How many gearheads on LRH ?
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KyCarl
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When I was younger I ran a 110" Shovelhead that would run a 1/4 mile as fast as
or faster than a LOT of cars! (most!) We burnt it up at a place called Edegewater in SW Ohio. My motor was built by Ring Racing..Happy Ring ran a Top Fuel Harley that was scary!
Now I'm back down to a '99 Fatboy but it's crisp! Watch Happy beat Bill F. here
these big bikes are awesome! 7 seconds in a quarter is pretty fast!
or faster than a LOT of cars! (most!) We burnt it up at a place called Edegewater in SW Ohio. My motor was built by Ring Racing..Happy Ring ran a Top Fuel Harley that was scary!
Now I'm back down to a '99 Fatboy but it's crisp! Watch Happy beat Bill F. here
these big bikes are awesome! 7 seconds in a quarter is pretty fast!
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BallisticsGuy
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Used to be a gearhead, still am passively. I built a Mustang to run in the Silver State Classic but life got in the way and I ended up having to sell it just after it was completed. Went from an 03' GT, gutted it, dropped in a built 5.4L 2v with ported heads, fat cams and the only set of 5.4L 2v Mustang longtubes that existed at the time and set up with 2x 175hp nitrous stages on staggered RPM window switches, 10lbs of intercooled roots supercharger boost and methanol injection. Put a Baer eradispeed brake kit on it and full Maximum Motorsports torque arm and panhard bar kit with tubular arms front and back, tubular k-member, delrin bushings and coilovers all around. With an 8 point cage and a major weld-in of frame strengthening. Add custom rear end and driveshaft and a very high tech (for the time) realtime sensor package of my own design and construction (to keep an eye on all manner of temperatures, pressures and capacities since the car was meant to run wide open for nearly 40 minutes). In the end it weighted 2900lbs and coin and made 754hp at the tires and 860lbs of torque and was singularly the most terrifying car to actually drive around I've ever contemplated owning. Rolling into the gas in 3rd gear it'd break traction on street tires. Someday I'll build another hot rod but I'd really like it to be something older and more interesting like a V8 Vega but I keep thinking a Qvale Mangusta might be a fun little git-around.
Joel Russo
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I don't have the time to race anymore..
I have a few hot rods that I enjoy burning race fuel in them on the street. Once it's in your blood, you never get rid of it.
I'll have to look for some pictures from those days/tracks. Who knows, maybe I'll find one of us together.
Another one that I ran at Englishtown, Atco, Beaver, Maple Grove, and Mason Dixon.
This girl has 15k miles..and all the go fast goodies.
TwoMore
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Do they have to be cars? although I have built a few cars, but I build Pro Sanddrag and 1/8th mile ATV engines, and have raced them for some time, and have set many world records. My best sand drag time is 3.18 seconds at 103 in 300 feet and my best 1/8 mile time is a 5.16 at 128. we are just about to go into the 4 second ET in the 1/8th.
Joel Russo
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Now that looks like fun.
More like loss of life and limb.........Now that looks like fun.
.BUT I LIKEY !!
Turbos are addictive, ain't they? Might take a bit to make them leave like you want at the track, but the boost rolling in on the street at 50mph and the rear end slowly stepping out with little ribbons of tire smoke drifting up in the rear view feels just like that scary roller coaster you rode as an 8 yr old. AAAAHHHHHI LOVE IT !
Joel Russo
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Turbos are addictive, ain't they? Might take a bit to make them leave like you want at the track, but the boost rolling in on the street at 50mph and the rear end slowly stepping out with little ribbons of tire smoke drifting up in the rear view feels just like that scary roller coaster you rode as an 8 yr old. AAAAHHHHHI LOVE IT !
Exactly...
If I were to do the motor for the Camaro over, it would be set up with a health Pro Charger. Buddy has a street '70 Chevelle with a pro charged 540 that puts 1,200 hp and change to the rear tire. Yes, I was there when we put it on the dyno. Pulls up to the gas station and fills up with Ethanol. Pulls your eyeballs to the back of your head when he rolls into it at about 60 mph... I have a picture of it on my phone, I'll throw it up here in a bit.
KyCarl
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These Turbos are all new to me I was a teenager in the 60's when displacement ruled!
Normally aspirated 396..427..426..440..and even some small blocks were fast! In my chase for inches I went with shorter pistons with longer c-rods and milled the inside bottom of my cases to swing the crank. Heads from F.D. S&S intake and carb Andrews cams and close ratio gear set.
Basically speed costs! The more you can spend the faster you can go!
Slap an old Keith Black Hemi in it and GO! Check book in hand!
Normally aspirated 396..427..426..440..and even some small blocks were fast! In my chase for inches I went with shorter pistons with longer c-rods and milled the inside bottom of my cases to swing the crank. Heads from F.D. S&S intake and carb Andrews cams and close ratio gear set.
Basically speed costs! The more you can spend the faster you can go!
Slap an old Keith Black Hemi in it and GO! Check book in hand!
Creedmoor shooter
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I wish I was a gear head......looks like alot of fun! I just can only afford one hobby at the moment and that right now is feeding my long range addiction. I do want to build my 17 ram with the 5.7 hemi at some point. Not a a drag truck but as a hot rod sleeper truck that I can pull up to a stop light and maybe suprise a car or 2 lol.
I gotta get my 72 Camaro out and get the new setup dialed in . Dang neck and back keeps me on the couch way more than I like anymore. Installed a trick stand alone knock ****** setup that I need to get dialed in before I turn the boost up. I'm running a stock bottom end LS3 and although it's pretty tough, it wont be happy at all if something gets "off" in the tune . My turbo ( Borg billet 80 with a t4 96/88 turbine) should make an easy 700 at the patch on low boost, and plenty room to turn it up. Pump 93 with a dual nozzle water/meth injection setup.
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No need to go with long rod engines to give the heads time to fill the cylinders these day. Lots of research had gone into head flow . These days, junk yard LS motors and turbos make it down right affordable to make crazy power . There's a guy on another forum I visit sometimes that's running deep 7s on a 5.3 truck engine and a pair of cheap Borg 366 turbos . Had several hundred passes on the setup the last time I checked . It's in a box body S10 . 9 sec junk yard builds are common with 150k mile LS pick and pull specials and cheap Chinese knock off turbos. Run it till it breaks, go pick up another 500.00 pull out and go have fun !
