Hey J par! Check out this 10 year old E.T. slip I found. It mirrors yours.... almost to a "T"!
Budget racing the old nuts & bolts
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j par
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Both actually and since we both live our lives on the theory that if we didn't have bad luck I'd have no luck at all my wife goes in for surgery tomorrow on her toe next to the little pinky toe. We've tried to get it to heal for the last 6 weeks maybe 10 weeks or so and it just will not heal so we need to take it in and have it splint or plate put in to stop it and just get on. this after two complete knee Replacements last year and was just starting to walk the dogs around the block and kick that damn bed post going to bed I heard it "snap!" Life so the doc said 6 weeks back on her feet. Life goes on she's not a boo hoo'er. She was enthused and was enjoying herself a lot and was talking of being able to see herself giving it a try and using words like that and that was Cool! I still got a few more projects to do with the two-step and other things like I need some Street drag radials so we can just drive it there and drive it home and some other stuff to make it completely comfortable for her to drive. It was very well behaved off the starting line and quite Snappy on the shift and fun. I think I was running like 17 pounds of air in the back.
but she could tell it got a little floaty towards the top end. I've already been discussing the ideas of the Eighth Mile on Wednesday it's a little more expensive and it's kind of more organized for the purse but she still will hit 3rd gear just before the 8th mile.
but she could tell it got a little floaty towards the top end. I've already been discussing the ideas of the Eighth Mile on Wednesday it's a little more expensive and it's kind of more organized for the purse but she still will hit 3rd gear just before the 8th mile.
j par
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I'm hoping I can spend more time tunng the car for once! I never really had a real what you/I call a test and tune at the track. I need a driver to just sit there and be consistent so I can tweak stuff and see if anything makes any difference I've never had any chance to do that I've always just tried to get the best tune I can in the garage and found good results out on the road and never was able to take pass after pass tweak the carburetor or the timing. I'm actually looking very forward to doing that for once. Once I get done loading it on the trailer unloading it off the trailer paying for everything signing my registration getting it inspected getting in the right lane finding the right tire pressure making sure everything is kind of working it just like too much. I'm very much looking forward to playing Pit crew.
yellow rose
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That's a bummer. Having a a bad wheel is never fun. Hope the surgery goes well.
j par
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So I'm looking for some Street/strip tires for the 18×7.5 street rims. The 225 60 18's have good tread, don't do crap at the track. The slicks don't fit in the car to take to track. Plus it's a pain. I want to try some cheap used super car tires to see if its enough to hold the track. The street tires were spinning like stupid and the slicks feal like Overkill. I need to stay close to 28" tall as the 28 tall slicks and 410 gears have the motor on its last breath at the end of the 1/4 mile.
might be able to find a nice used set on CL. Perhaps a set already mounted on some rims, ya know, a bolt and go. Might be on a 15" rim or something.... but you'll get something worked out.
j par
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Been there doing that done that and regret that I resold them! Because I can't find any on Craigslist when I really need them!!!
I just really like to get a set of tires to fit these 18 inch rims. they match the front and back and I don't want yet another set of rims and tires.
Seriously a set of drag rims and tires and a set of Street rims and tires and now its third set of..... noooooo!
My poor two car garage and little metal shed out back or at the capacity. I'm a collector not a hoarder and I know the difference! LOL oh yeah I forgot about the 10x20 Costco garage on the other side of my house with the Studebaker the Goldwing the little trailer and all the other Wood and crap I can find. One more toothpick around here and I'll consider myself a hoarder no more rims and tires! LOL
I just really like to get a set of tires to fit these 18 inch rims. they match the front and back and I don't want yet another set of rims and tires.
Seriously a set of drag rims and tires and a set of Street rims and tires and now its third set of..... noooooo!
My poor two car garage and little metal shed out back or at the capacity. I'm a collector not a hoarder and I know the difference! LOL oh yeah I forgot about the 10x20 Costco garage on the other side of my house with the Studebaker the Goldwing the little trailer and all the other Wood and crap I can find. One more toothpick around here and I'll consider myself a hoarder no more rims and tires! LOL
might be able to find a nice used set on CL. Perhaps a set already mounted on some rims, ya know, a bolt and go. Might be on a 15" rim or something.... but you'll get something worked out.
Oh...no. Is there a chance I'm a hoarder?
Hmmmm......
j par
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I don't want to keep collecting and in 20 years end up like the guy around on the other side of my block. NO WAY!
I'm a strong believer in doing what ya want with and on your own private property, but in the city to much can just be to much.
Anyways dead subject now. Found some used 235/50/18's. $120 mount and balance.
I'm a strong believer in doing what ya want with and on your own private property, but in the city to much can just be to much.
Anyways dead subject now. Found some used 235/50/18's. $120 mount and balance.
Oh...no. Is there a chance I'm a hoarder?
j par
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Well the new old street tires were better than the old old street tires,but not as good as the slicks. One thing I really liked was the heavy black wide patches the new old tires leave on the street 
j par
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Well I'm hoping to take the old nuts & bolts down to Portland International Raceway for 8th mile on Wednesday night. I'm talking the mean teen to the sportsman class and lay down the law!
Baha ha ha ha ha ha!
GO GETTEM!!!!!
j par
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Did the first oil change today. And then a cranking pressure check. I was very curious - first time valve lapping. 150 - 154 except #8 160? That #8 plug was moist as well. I don't think the rear main seal is happy. A few drops of thick clean oil on the bellhousing bottom. I'm not sweating that.
That poor 318 gets beat on at every opportunity on the 16 mile drive to the track, at the track, and all the way home. An sits there and returning to it's choppy idle as if to say- "that's all you got?!" The 904 - absolutely FLAWLESS!!
That poor 318 gets beat on at every opportunity on the 16 mile drive to the track, at the track, and all the way home. An sits there and returning to it's choppy idle as if to say- "that's all you got?!" The 904 - absolutely FLAWLESS!!
Just curious, what RPM do you shift at? I'm guessing around 5500....
j par
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I had the shift light set at 5,000 before and last night turn it up to about 54 and it seems a bit too much but it handled it no problem.
Lustle
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j par
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That would be a great contest!?
We could line our cars up side by side with my $50 budget Craigslist motor LOL and whatever motor you currently have in your car today and start them and throw a brick on the gas pedal and see who's last the longest? I'm in...
Are you?
We could line our cars up side by side with my $50 budget Craigslist motor LOL and whatever motor you currently have in your car today and start them and throw a brick on the gas pedal and see who's last the longest? I'm in...
Are you?
Lustle
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That would be a great contest!?
We could line our cars up side by side with my $50 budget Craigslist motor LOL and whatever motor you currently have in your car today and start them and throw a brick on the gas pedal and see who's last the longest? I'm in...
Are you?
YUP!
I've taken mine to 7k on the street. That's where the rev limiter is set. No valve float or any other problems. So it would just sit there and very loudly bang off the rev-limiter for however long. lol
yellow rose
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You guys are sadistic maternal fornicators lol.
No rev limiters........too easy to chip it in a comfort zone.............jpar's looking to let it all hang out
j par
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Lustle
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Psh fine. Go hard or go home I guess right? lol
j par
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Well I did suffer my typical first round lost you know where I red light break out and all that stuff LOL but I did have one moment of Glory in the third round of qualifying. Even though the time slip has dial * this was actually a heads-up race. They use the third round practice to determine the latter for the first round of eliminations so on the third you have to write a dial. Anyways it was a Mustang with the young man who brought his slicks and a jack and I was kind of surprised I took him. That was a great 60-foot for the tires that I had on, if I could do that every time I wouldn't want or need my slicks.
j par
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Wife's foot healed enough to go for some passes. Soooo, it was hot outside today so I got the car all loaded up in the garage in the cool before anything got hot then we could just get out on the road in the Wind. Everything's all loaded I go to click the lever on by the back bumper and it was already on&#^#/! $&#^! Damn it I know if I leave that on I lose about a volt a day and it's been a week and sure enough there was only three volts left on the battery. So it jumps relatively quickly no problem but I have so many electric fans and stuff and I have to do a little city driving to get out to the road that goes along the river at about 45 for most of the way usually I can turn off my fans and cruz and charge the battery, but it's so hot out that I had to leave the fans on and stuff and the battery didn't seem to want to charge completely. The car kept trying to overheat it was just at the verge of overheating constantly so I decided not to race and we just hung out at the track. There's a big car show live music barbecue thing going on right next door and we check that out too. In hindsight I probably could have raced but my wife and I agreed it was just too hot and then we have to close up the windows and put helmets on forget it, we'll try again next week.
nice 60 ft. but aren't you down 3 mph here in the 1/8 ?
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