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Offline Milwaukee Midget

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Re: Wilmington June Picture Post
« Reply #30 on: June 09, 2013, 01:05:48 PM »
Jim, that's a neat looking set-up for a lakester.  Sorry to hear about the dry sump.
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Re: Wilmington June Picture Post
« Reply #31 on: June 09, 2013, 03:58:08 PM »
Quote from: Das Bullet on June 09, 2013, 11:21:12 AM
Fab from scratch. We went 197 Sat Morning. Sucked some foreign material into the drysump pump. Wiped out the pump, not sure what the material was, will find out nest week.

Ooouch. Alway liked Das Bullet. neat ride.
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Re: Wilmington June Picture Post
« Reply #32 on: June 09, 2013, 04:02:40 PM »
Such a cool car... having driven a modified 1.8T street car, their success impresses me
greatly. My wife went 130.xxx in the stock 1.8T Audi, thinking it would have gone 140's
with the extra boost and bolt ons. Great job to James and the Das Bullet crew  8-)
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Re: Wilmington June Picture Post
« Reply #33 on: June 09, 2013, 04:07:38 PM »
Great picture of the Geezer Express!! Good weekend for our 17 year old "Geezer", Trever Acton - He got his B license - went 188. Back again in July to try for the "2" club. He wants a hat like the one the Charles was sporting in the lot at the Wilmington Inn.  Our thanks to all in the ECTA for another great weekend.

Geo Turner
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Re: Wilmington June Picture Post
« Reply #34 on: June 09, 2013, 04:37:15 PM »
Quote from: Graham in Aus on June 09, 2013, 10:10:56 AM
Ha! Love the Corvolvo, or is that a Volvette ?

Sleeper........  :-P

Ralph Nader's worst nightmare!  :-D :-D :-D

Bunch of racers went home yesterday! Took their red hats and ran!  :-o

Stopped early today but a good time was had by all!  :cheers: :cheers:

Posted a few pix today!
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Re: Wilmington June Picture Post
« Reply #35 on: June 09, 2013, 06:44:49 PM »
Quote from: WOODY@DDLLC on June 09, 2013, 04:37:15 PM
Stopped early today but a good time was had by all!  :cheers: :cheers:


This does not make me feel bad now.  :-D
I woke up this morning and even though it was looking to be a gorgeous day, I decided to come on back to NC.
Left at 08:30 AM and got home at 05:00 PM.

Good seeing old friends and meeting new ones!
All in all, it was a good meet!  :cheers:

Gregg
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Re: Wilmington June Picture Post
« Reply #36 on: June 09, 2013, 08:29:55 PM »
Woody - was that a Yenko Corvair, or was that a clone?

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Re: Wilmington June Picture Post
« Reply #37 on: June 09, 2013, 09:45:50 PM »
I heard someone say he built this himself. It has a Corvette V-8 in it. He was doing 160+. :-o
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Re: Wilmington June Picture Post
« Reply #38 on: June 09, 2013, 09:48:39 PM »
I saw one Corvair. Sort of cowcatcher front dam.  Spoke with the guy. Pretty much total Corvette running gear, brakes, steering column, shifter, engine, transaxle etc with engine in back.  I think he said had gone 170 something in the past. Saw him leave the line but was pushing out myself and didn't see the time but he was cooking leaving the line! Nicely engineered car best I could see.
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Re: Wilmington June Picture Post
« Reply #39 on: June 10, 2013, 06:15:11 AM »
As Jack posted, total Corvette stuff including modified frame. 8 bolts and the body comes off.
Well engineered car but I did not care for the cowcatcher air dam....To Dodge big!  :-D

Gregg
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Re: Wilmington June Picture Post
« Reply #40 on: June 10, 2013, 02:28:19 PM »
"... I did not care for the cowcatcher air dam....To Dodge big!"

Well, it could double as a very fast snowplow.... :roll:

Regards, Neil  Tucson, AZ
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Re: Wilmington June Picture Post
« Reply #41 on: June 10, 2013, 02:40:54 PM »
Quote from: manta22 on June 10, 2013, 02:28:19 PM
"... I did not care for the cowcatcher air dam....To Dodge big!"

Well, it could double as a very fast snowplow.... :roll:

Regards, Neil  Tucson, AZ

LOL  :-D  :cheers:

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Re: Wilmington June Picture Post
« Reply #42 on: June 10, 2013, 04:56:11 PM »
Quote from: geezer1 on June 09, 2013, 04:07:38 PM
Great picture of the Geezer Express!! Good weekend for our 17 year old "Geezer", Trever Acton - He got his B license - went 188. Back again in July to try for the "2" club. He wants a hat like the one the Charles was sporting in the lot at the Wilmington Inn.  Our thanks to all in the ECTA for another great weekend.

Geo Turner
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great job see you in sept
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Re: Wilmington June Picture Post
« Reply #43 on: June 10, 2013, 05:53:02 PM »
Does anyone know if Peter was able to drive the 53 Stude back to Canada?
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Re: Wilmington June Picture Post
« Reply #44 on: June 10, 2013, 06:06:47 PM »
I talked with the Corvair guy for a long time. It's a single turbo LS1 going to an automatic C5 corvette transaxle (basically he just removed the torque tube and used an adapter). His best pass was 174 before this event and I think that the efi tune may have caused the difference from improving it in June. I suggested that he try a run without the cow catcher and he actually did it - but lost about 5mph from the 170 he ran with it attached. IMO it was either all or nothing for downforce. From the pictures I took it looked like the car was pushing the front down several inches, yet without it the front created a few inches of lift.

Jim is a really nice guy and I was impressed at how much of the car he had actually built himself. It's street driven, but he traillered it down from NY for this event.
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