GoFaster2

My goals? Have car finished by the next LSX shootout oh and running in the low 9s high 8s. Cage arrived today!!!!

AlkyIROC

I never met my 2010 goal but I'm getting closer.

It was a short, cold, wet season but I still managed to set a new personal best 3 times dropping from 9.34 to 9.214. I had 2 perfect lights on the same day but neither were during eliminations rounds and I won an event so it wasn't a total loss this season.

GMan 3MT

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Well, I did make start all 23 races this year, podium'd a few times (drop in car count) and got my first win (1st place guy was DQ'd). Beat teh Burro in championship points, 2nd vs 4th.

Unfortuanately, I had my first at fault contact this year too, last race of the season to be exact.

1BADRZ28

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Goals met with Et and weight but I did skimp and buy 35 spline gun drilled axles. I met the ET goal with less then expected, I also burned a piston after 70 passes this year. What I thought was Hellfire was not. It took a 350 hit to expose it, new piston ordered and heads and intake are off to get epoxy.

xpndbl3

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think i might meet this goal since the first and last passes for 2010 I'll make on this all new combo will be next saturday.

Keeping my fingers crossed that means no big wrenching projects all winter.

Even get to try out the 1badrz28 torque converter finally that I bought off him last winter I think

mod313

Well I did meet my bigest goal the first weekend out. Ran a 10.98 @ 119.74 (which is also highest mph it's run with the 305) in G/SA. Plans for next year are still up in the air right now.

skinny z

I managed to accomplish none of the above. I had hoped to make the last test and tune of the season but it's still a day or two from being driveable.

jbenge

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Met my ET goal for the year easily and sold the 383. I only made about 20 passes this year so I'm sure i could have gotten more out of it too. I have the LS swap started and will hopefully have it completed by spring.

DIGGLER

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may try to get it into the 8's before the end of the year! i believe i will need to swap the 3.89's out for some 3.70's though. only 2 months left in the year though, so we'll see.

Orr89RocZ

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Only got out once this year and couldnt even get back into the 9's with new converter. 10.08 and 10.17 spinning at 140mph traps... car had overheating problems all year and being in Texas with the car in PA, i couldnt get time to work on it. Also did C5 brake swap and had problems with the brakes. Couldnt stop well, but I think its due to weak booster and needs adjustable proportioning valve. Now its staying cool but has some oil leaks under boost that I cant figure out. I got to do some inspections. Oh well.
2011 goals?

AlkyIROC

Nope. No 2011 thread until January. Although for many of us, this season is over but others can still race.

radical82

Had a decent year, but tragedy within our racin' family took all the fun away.. The wife of my very good racing buddy Roger was killed in a non-racing accident.... Took all the fun out of the season, but at the same time got us all fired up to have a big season next year.....

fast82z

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Does it mean anything if I did the exact opposite of all of the above? Brand new motor lasted through some driveway tnt and 4 passes before tossing a couple rods so the unusable parts list was: crank, rods, pistons, cam, and oil pan. That ended up putting me out for about 2.5 months as well as I started the season late from not having stuff done in the spring. I didn't make it into the 9's at all, let alone 9.0's, and didn't get into the field at Pinks All Out, although I got very close. The light at the end of the tunnel though is that I got it to pull 147mph for my last few passes showing power enough to run an 8.90 e.t. at only 15psi, but I still need to work on faster spooling and traction to get the e.t. to happen.

five7kid

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Back in January, I said my goals were to get the LS1/T56 out to the track, and not embarrass myself as defending champ.

Well, I got the LS1/T56 running, made some test & tune passes (8), then in the first time trial of the first "stick shift" class race, I broke the driveshaft (stock 4th gen aluminum). Got a 3" DOM shaft fabricated, and discovered the beefed-up 10-bolt gears were toast. So, ordered a 9" for it (which required re-tubing the driveshaft), but retained the LCA ladderbar conversion set-up - it was hitting the rear end so hard, the rear tires were literally coming off the track at the hit. So, I ordered a BMR Trak Pak and installed it. Worked fine for 14 passes, on the 15th, the adjustment link on the Trak Pak broke. Turns out the mount system used by this 9" supplier allowed side-to-side movement at the TA attach point, which fatigued the adjustment link until it finally broke. In the process, the TA poked a hole in the floorpan, the new driveshaft was wiped out, the shock mount eyes were almost broken off the shocks - so I put that car in the barn. That was mid-July.

In the '57, the season started out fairly well. I won a race in a class I'd never done that before, then was runner-up next race. 3rd race (that wasn't rained out), when warm the 396 was making not-good noises and oil pressure was in the tank. Not making the call for the 2nd round was one of the hardest decisions I've ever made racing. Turned out to be a spun #8 rod bearing. That was late June. I tried running the LS1/T56 in all classes (and won a few rounds) until it broke.

While trying to get the other Camaro put together with an LS1/4L60E, I ran my '95 diesel truck, borrowed my son's S10, borrowed a '69 Camaro (that was cool), and managed to hang on to win a season championship in the class that I won that first race. In the class I was defending season champ, I fell one round short of making the stage (7th place) at the awards banquet. In two classes in which I finished 2nd last year, I finished 5th this year. In the class in which I finished 3rd last year, I was an also-ran. In the class I finished 6th last year, I basically quit trying after the '57 went down.

At the Division 5 ET finals, I pretty much embarrassed myself just like I did last year - in the first round gave up the strip when I didn't have to back off.

So, compared to last year, it might look like a "down" year. Certainly I busted enough stuff. But, I still have a season championship, and two other stage appearances at the awards banquet - a lot of racers are waiting for their first trip to the stage. So, all in all, I can't complain.

bowtiedude

Well since I made no real goals I achieved every one of them.
Too many other things happened this year (bad year farming too) I do have 2 fresh tractors for next year. (maybe tractor drags?)

mw66nova

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well, my season isn't quite over yet. blew my "realistic" goal of 11.3 out of the water 2nd trip out when the car went some 11.2x's. blew it away again when i went 10.9x's last weekend, and i have one more outing for the car this year where i hope to obtain the "lofty" goal of 10.8x that i put on the table back in january!!

KWIK84

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Well, I made it out twice this year, so #1 accomplished..

Performance wise, picked up and ran low 12's, found out I was having some valve spring issues, which is of little consolation after finding chunks when I took the rear end cover off last week. So instead of my plan to up the HP, it looks like I will be spending the coin on the rear end.

TB2

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Kicked *** on the drag part of my goals. Car went consistent 11.79's with the front end up about 8"!!! Best of 1.54 60ft. Ive been very happy with acheiving this with no bottle, 93 octane, and a stock short block. Put plenty of street miles on the car this summer as well. The car has proven to be very dependable. There was no time to ever Autocross it this year though. That will be a very high priority for next spring!!

IROCThe5.7L

I failed big time. The car went a best of around 13.4@106. My 60 fts were terrible because I still have the stock stall. And I was leaning out bad up top. I added fuel up top, but never got it back to the track. I'm done with the L98. I'm building a engine this winter. It will be a 383 or larger.

mw66nova

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well, i managed to make it happen this year! it's been expensive, but i did it!

-started out a little late this year. didn't get the 370 together till mid march. took it down to Jacksonville to EFI alchemy to have it tuned. 5hour ride one way. it put down a measily 367whp/337wtq. i was uber dissappointed. we took it out the next day to do some shift point tuning. the after 7 back to back pulls on the street the trans started slipping into 3rd at WOT. i loaded it up and brought it home. i was pretty bummed.
-drove the car for about 2 weeks and it developed a noise. i traced it down to a cracked flexplate. i replaced it with a TCI sfi unit. we took the car out to make a quick field test and came home broken. fried the bands in the 4l60e. i noticed a puddle of oil on the shop floor after it had cooled down for a little bit. cracked oil pan...dropped the oil pan to fix the crack, only to find all kinds of bearing material.

-took shortblock to proline to have it fixed. i didn't have the time to fix it, and with as much as we had invested in it this year, my wife OK'd the expensive refresh.

-converted it from efi to carb cause i was so disgusted with the numbers from earlier in the year

-put powerglide in from dad's car

put it all back together, ran an 11.7 soft off the hit and short shifting it. chizled it down for a while to an 11.31, then broke the planetary set in the glide.

-i got together with Fast383 and Shagwell this summer and setup a deal for a th400 and a good quality converter. i knew the 'glide was the wrong choice, i just wanted to go racing so badly we put it in.

-got the converter/th400 in the car in late september. went back out and smashed out some 11.2's but was having carb issues.

-got the carb issues figured out, and finally had some decent air, and managed to click off my 10.85 @ 125 last weekend....which just happened to be the last weekend out for the year.


i gotta few things to cover over this winter. one is to get a real torque arm...i'm looking at the Burkhart piece really hard. the other is a new hood...and if i can swing it, a new carb.

AlkyIROC

How did you break the planetary in a glide only running low 11's? My home built 1.76 glide is still surviving transbrake launches and running low 9's. Sure it could let go at any time but for some reason it's still surviving. It's amazing at how well a glide can survive on the dragstrip.

mw66nova

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it had 19 years and thousands of passes on the build. shoot, it still has a 'glide input shaft because it was built before the turbo input shaft was an economical upgrade. i'm also running at nearly 3500lbs.

87_TA

Goal wise I am happy, my goal was to go 10.6s on motor in my firebird with
T56 trans and hit 9.70s on spray on pump gas.
I was able to hit my N/A goal very early in year, but traction kept me from my 9.7s, I did get 9.8 at end of year after tire swap and sure with more rpm on launch I could get the 9.7s.. Also sure with the new found traction I could hit 10.5 on motor if not a high 10.40 but my failure all year and obsession with 9s kept me from traying anymore.

For winter plan on swapping out intake, swapping for a SHP block that is not cracked and maybe's would be faceplate trans andget kooks 1.875 headers in favor of my 1.75s that are probably hurting my combo. With those I would look for 10.3s n/a on pump gas and 6 speed.

daverr

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Met my goal

JSTAZ28

Things pretty much stayed the same this but hoping
to go from the 11's to the 10's with new bullet going
under the hood .

mw66nova

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daverr, that looks great! did you do the work or did you outsource it? what's going to be powering that awesome looking chassis? stock style suspenion i take it...X275 or O8.5 or something similiar?

daverr

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All the chassis work is outsourced. SBC with a single T6 turbo. Yes stock style suspension. The Plan was to run the 275 drag radial Class.

heavy_chevy29

Goal was to get out with the new combo and get in the 9s

Failure was that the car never left the garage. Oh well I guess there is always next season

1BADRZ28

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Nice deal. My 25.5 will be starting this Sunday. After the "faulty piston", I shipped the heads off to get a proper port job and the engine will also be getting a new intake manifold to help out the cylinder head work. A stock Dart is about the worst intake out there. Hopefully, 60-75 more hp will be made with this work being done.

daverr

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Are you also going to get the intake manifold port matched??

Nice car btw

1BADRZ28

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Yes, it will be port matched and flowed with the heads. Rumor has it, that it doesn't need a lot of work in the plenum.

The heads are at Speier Racing in Hay's KS and hopefully I get them back in Feb. I should have the short block assembled this weekend. I just filed 1,3,5,7 rings last night. What a PITA.

Thanks for the compliment. I am putting the 25.5 just because I don't want to be called for it at the track. My plan is for 8.30's which to me is fast enough.

mw66nova

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25.5 is like what, a 12pt with a funny car cage and a few extra bars...good to 7.50, right? can a 25.5 be mild steel?

i know what you mean by 8.3's being fast enough. right now, i'd be happy with some 10.2x's, which i don't think are too far off with some suspenion upgrades and a good carb. once i'm out of school, i think an 8.5 car would be great, cause then i could easily get away with a 10pt cage.

Fast 383

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Thats why I went with the 10 point also. To me 8.50's is a great place to draw the line. I like the index around here.

1BADRZ28

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Yes, 25.5 can be mild steel or a combination of chromoly and mild steel. 25.3 needs to be all chromoly with some additional support over the 25.5. Maintaining a car becomes a nightmare after a certain ET. I enjoy racing while not spending hours looking over eveything at the track.