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East Coast Timing Association => ECTA General Chat => Topic started by: Captthundarr on December 10, 2011, 06:12:24 PM
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Amy and I had the pleasure today to take her camaro to the local drag strip for its maiden trip down any track. Although she only made a couple of passes it was validation and educational. Earlier today I hauled the car to the front end shop for alignment and my guy did a bang up job. $49.95 + tax,money well spent. Amy reports the car runs straight and true and surprisingly smooooooth. She still has a little lern'en to do on the Z-gate shifter but she'll get there. Need a little tuning, replace "cheep" starter - don't engage correctly all of the time. She was a good girl and kept it under 100 for now. Found out that the inertial switch for the fuel pump works and that I have to move it a bit as she bumped it on her second pass and she ran out of gas on the return lane. Now that the big stuff is done and tested time to work on the details. Happy day. :-D :-D got to get ready to hit a local bar where an exband mate is playing his last gig.
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She sounds like a good student. It only gets funner with seat time. Take lots of pictures and start a scrap book and her history from now into the future, she will cherish this in a few years. :-D
:cheers:
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Half the battle is learning to drive it. You work, and adjust, and figure stuff out, and then all of a sudden, you're faced with the unimaginable spectre of driving the darned thing!
Smart move on the alignment - wish I had done that before I went to North Carolina.
Cheers to the Hubby and Wife LSW team from Swansboro!
Get ready - Ohio beckons . . . :cheers:
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LSW= Land Speed Wacing? :cheers:
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When we get our Mustang running one of the drivers will be my nephew and he can't drive a standard. Should be interesting. What class are you running? Good luck with the Camaro.
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LSW= Land Speed Wacing? :cheers:
Very Funny :cheers:
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When we get our Mustang running one of the drivers will be my nephew and he can't drive a standard. Should be interesting. What class are you running? Good luck with the Camaro.
Saltracer1 we are building the car for C/GALT. We ran her Kia Spectra for a couple of years in G/GSS while we learnt LSR until a Silverodo ate it for lunch. I didn't post a build diary as I didn't think too many folks cared to see a plain old camaro build.
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LSW= Land Speed Wacing? :cheers:
Very Funny :cheers:
wooks wike I scwewed up . . . :|
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or the birth of the wacing wabbit in the milwaakee miget
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Sounds like you guys had fun! :cheers:
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I bwame it all on Mel Bwanc. Or is it the Warner Bwothers?
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Tanks Cwis and all we wheely had a good time. Now comes the hard work of the details. lots ( not many) of little things, door window seals, inside door panels ect. Time to move the car and trailer out of the way to clean up the shop for the "thrash" detritus.
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I bwame it all on Mel Bwanc. Or is it the Warner Bwothers?
Pwobabwy the Warner Bwothers. I have some of their CDs. :cheers: Wayno
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It's always a long haul during the build, especially toward the end. The reward definitely comes the first time the car hits the track. :-D :-D :-D
Congratulations on finishing the main part of the build. Having run the car it will be much easier to do the final details. :cheers: :cheers: :cheers:
Good luck to the two of you for the 2012 season.
Pete
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Remembered I have a photobucket account and loaded some pics and videos. here we go my first attempt to link. the first pass on the shake down.
http://s47.photobucket.com/albums/f163/captthundarr/Jack%20Scratch%20Racing/?action=view¤t=M2U00309.mp4
http://s47.photobucket.com/albums/f163/captthundarr/Jack%20Scratch%20Racing/?action=view¤t=M2U00310.mp4
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Well done! Sure sounds like lsr gearing! :-D :-D :evil:
Pete
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Well done! Sure sounds like lsr gearing! :-D :-D :evil:
Pete
Dat's right :-D
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Not that it's going to be a problem again, but I thought you got your car aligned AFTER Maxton.
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Phit, we lowered the car another inch and I feel better if it goes on the rack again. Besides Amy hates a car that wonders around a little. :|
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Phit... Besides Amy hates a car that wonders around a little. :|
Better not have her drive on the salt... a little wondering why it is wandering is kinda normal
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Phit... Besides Amy hates a car that wonders around a little. :|
Better not have her drive on the salt... a little wondering why it is wandering is kinda normal
Shes from Buffalo,NY, we'll just tell her its snow. :-D :-D
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:-D :roll:
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I wunder what the rite ansser is?
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enough is enough :-)
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Almost I bet she hates her mechanic wandering around more than her car; trust me on this. My wife and I just celebrated our 35th anniversary by going out and buying new pistols.
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Ok Ok She has the masters degree and I' the dumb, cheap help (pizza and Beer, not in that order) by the way Phit she just bought her Christmas present - ANOTHER new pistol. I get to by car parts. :-D
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Just found out the the local drag strip will have test and tune /street legal drags every Saturday (weather permitting)throughout the winter, Sounds like more shake down runs are in order. Gotta love the weather in the southeast in the winter :-D :-D
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what drag strip are you running?
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Robbie,
Looks like Coastal Plains Dragway in Jacksonville.
Gregg
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i was thinking that where it was just haven't been there in awhile :-D
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Thats it, 1/8 and 1/4 mile and not a lot of folks.$20 and run till you drop. went to watch a couple of weeks ago and guys were making 10 -15 passes.