Thread: Move over John Force, I'm going racing !

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Memo to self: Put the street tires back on, drive it out of the hole, then smoke em the rest of the way.

Don

Originally Posted by Itoldyouso

Memo to self: Put the street tires back on, drive it out of the hole, then smoke em the rest of the way.

Don

No way!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I've got a pair of 10.5 wide, 15" that have been in the softener a time or two....You could sure borrow them!!!! What bolt patter do you need??? I'd even mount them up for you on some lightweight wheels! Don't pamper it, pound on it!!!!! Life's too short to be taken slowly,,,,,.......

Maybe next time, Dave. This time I just want to make a few passes without killing myself or the car.

Don

Only a few more days until the Billetproof Drags (Sunday the 23rd) and I am just about ready. I bought a helmet from Summit and I haven't had one on in lots of years, feels really odd. I have been wearing it around the house a little to get used to looking out of the smoked lense, it really is freaking the cats out, they don't know what to make of me.

I took the roadster to a local gas station the other day and filled up with non ethanol 90 octane, and dumped in some 104+ booster. Felt pretty good on the way home, but I found I had a little leak in my radiator, and I didn't want to put any coolant on the strip, so I took it off and went to a radiator shop today with it. No sin on this radiator, it is a custom made one I had the Brassworks build over 20 years ago, and it shakes pretty badly from the rough idle, so it has been patched a few times over the past 20 odd years I have had it. I am going to have PRC make me an aluminum one sometime in the Spring.

While I had the time I pulled the valve covers and readjusted all the valves and fabbed up another return spring for my primary carb. I also got the seatbelt installed and tightened up all the nuts and bolts on the whole car. All I have to do now is reinstall the radiator, grille shell and headlights, and I am pretty much ready for Sunday. Don is going to tow me up to Lakeland, but Dan has to work, so he won't be going.

If it goes ok I will do a YouTube and post it here when I get back. I had a little helper tonight, one of the stray cats we feed has started coming into the shop and has his own towel to take a nap on. He's a cool little guy and if we didn't already have two at home we would adopt him.

Don