Steve keep telling me I needed to start a thread, but I wanted to wait until I started making progress so I had things to post. Plus I had a lot of research to do before I jumped into the project, I like to research the hell out of stuff before I actually start.
Here is a picture of my Old mans car, this was from a few weeks ago when it was still nice out and I drove it to church.
It is nothing to fancy, 455 Buick motor, turbo 400 & a 12 bolt. It is pump gas, flat tappet camed, iron headed simple combination. It has run 11.20's in good air.
My car is still in the TLC faze. I got it back together early this year and had to make the decision to sit out the season and finish the body work, or say paint be damned and go racing. You can clearly see which path I took. I honestly have almost no pictures of my car, but this is from earlier in the season when I lucked my way to the winners circle in pro. I am the guy in the white shirt, the guy in the black shirt is my best friend/crew chief/racing friend/partner in crime.
My car has a 5.3 LS engine in it, it is a stock short block with a cam. I drive it back at forth to the track and beat the crap out of the poor thing. I am not sure how many passes I made this season, but it was over a hundred. Our foot brake program has a 12.00 cap and that is what my car is set up for. It runs a lot of 12.2x and has got 11.9x in good air. I am really happy with how well the LS runs for how little I did to it and how seldom it makes me work on it.
The Ferguson situation is one that has us worried, and hopefully it does not effect us or the shop to much or it will put a major stop to my project. It really breaks my heart to see Ferguson being broadcast world wide in this light. I love Ferguson and still hang out there regularly when I am not at work. I hope they get it resolved and save the community.