five7kid

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First, this pic:




60' and ET's were best it's done. Getting a little rear end squat, about an inch judging by this photo. LCA's are in the middle hole (I need to try the bottom hole again sometime and see how it goes - didn't seem to like the bottom hole with the Jegster).

I first tried running this Stick Shift class in 2010, kept breaking things. Last year I didn't break (although the Jegster torque arm didn't survive the winter), but couldn't seem to keep from doing something dumb - pulling the shifter out of first on the launch, stuff like that. Red lights have been a real problem (I've only been "beaten" once recently). Saturday I managed to keep them all green for a change. Had to go through a fellow 3rd gen/LS'r in the 3rd round, but that's racing.

At the end of the day, had one of these:

1gary

Congrats

mw66nova

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man that looks like a lot of fun. i wish i had the guts to do a stick car....just can't see slowing down at this point unless i did a whole 'nother car, and to put a stick in this car would be expensive to keep parts alive...

ZONES89RS

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As brutally consistant as I have been, I'm probably an idiot for not trying a stick class.

Good job sir! Congrats, and way to represent the third gen community!

five7kid

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It is a lot of fun. I've wanted to race in that class for years, just didn't have a car for it. This car is a little slower than the LS1/4L60E car, but it sure doesn't fell like it at the hit! It also is a lot more business-like with the S&W torque arm than it used to be, so it doesn't bang me around like it did before. As for consistency, in the first round I put a "4" on my dial-in against a car that is 3 seconds and 30 MPH faster than me. I whopped the throttle in the lights as he seemed too far back, good thing I did because I should have dialed a hun under what I did. I was pretty much able to either run the time or have the light to make up the difference.

If you look back in previous posts, I won a different class with this car when I went out for an earlier stick shift race back in late May. In that case, I hadn't even made up my mind whether to run the other class until I pulled up to the gate to pay entry fee. Kinda glad I did decide to run them both. That class is mostly automatic cars, so it was pretty sweet taking them all out by the end of the day. (I was season champ in that class in '09, but I'm not running it regularly this year.)

This trophy is almost as sweet as winning a Wally. Well, not quite, of course, but I've wanted this more than I've wanted the Wallys. The win moved me up from 11th place to 4th place in season points (out of 37 going for points), about 3 rounds behind 1st place. We have two more races this Saturday and Sunday, with a couple more before the end of the season in October.

My next task is getting DOT slicks on it for Friday night, because that race series requires DOT tires; running in a different class last Friday night with the slicks I normally run on the LS1/4L60E car was a disaster. I'm running this car in the non-stick shift classes right now because my son's S10 Blazer with LS1 clone is down with a broken harmonic damper that took out the crank. He's running the LS1/4L60E car until he can get the Blazer running again.