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East Coast Timing Association => ECTA General Chat => Topic started by: gkabbt on June 05, 2013, 06:46:43 PM
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This is a place holder for pics from Wilmington this weekend. I am driving up Thursday and will be there taking pics Friday, Saturday and Sunday and will post.
Also, anyone who has pics, please feel free to post here!
To ALL: Be Safe, Have Fun and Go Fast! :cheers:
Gregg
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Are you starting this again Gregg? You know what happend tha last time you did this :-o. Wish we could be there. Have a good time and all be safe.
Frank.
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Are you starting this again Gregg? You know what happend tha last time you did this :-o. Wish we could be there. Have a good time and all be safe.
Frank.
Yeah, I started to to put a PS at the end to say "Let the Mayhem begin" but changed my mind.....LOL!
Wish you and Amy were going.
Gregg
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Here is my photobucket link of some of today's bike and car tech inspection in Wilmington.
It was 56, foggy and overcast this morning so some of the pics are a little dark. The sun did start peeking out around 1:00 and it warmed up to 70. The forecast (for now) has tomorrow and Sunday looking spectacular!
I heard that the participant count is around 90 so that is way down from the 175 in April.....Still a good turnout! :cheers:
Studebakers are well represented with 4 Champions, 1 Avanti and a REALLY COOL flatbed that hauls the Avanti!
Midget.....Sean and the Big Bad Black Cad WEAPON is here. :-D
I hope you enjoy!
http://s947.photobucket.com/user/GKABBT/library/Wilmington%2006072013?sort=2&page=1
Gregg
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Nice pictures, nice cars.
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Yeah, what Stan said.
Mike
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Aw man, cool stuff. thanks for sharing.
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Rained all the way here ... weather broke early this morning. Bike tech went very well. Had 4 and sometimes 5 inspectors had no real line and got everyone thru quickly. Cars tech worked in a similar manner. Looking for a good day of racing tomorrow.
Joe
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What's the story on the black Caddie?
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I think it's about 40 feet long and 12 feet wide with a turbo the size of a beer keg.
just a guess. :?
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Thanks for the pictures.
Any info on the streamliner?
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What's the story on the black Caddie?
I think it's about 40 feet long and 12 feet wide with a turbo the size of a beer keg.
just a guess. :?
noboD, No story other than a VERY COOL (BIG) street driven car that runs in the 170 range and Sean is a really nice guy! Every time I see Sean I tell him that car is just so wrong but so D-A-M-N cool!
Gregg
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Thanks for the pictures.
Any info on the streamliner?
Jack,
Owner's name is Gary Silvis from here in OH and he built it himself over last winter.
It's powered by a stock N/A 1000cc Suzuki (unblown) and runs in the I class.
In April (first time out) it was in the 160 range. It's a very well thought out and executed build!
I was talking with him yesterday and he told me he is still tweaking things on the car.
This is from the ECTA April run log:
3211 - I/GS - 160.4900 - Gary Silvis - New Record: Prior 0.000 - 04/27/2013 13:26:47
Here is the pic from yesterday with the body on before tech:
(http://i947.photobucket.com/albums/ad318/GKABBT/Wilmington%2006072013/IMG_4692_zps8cd8ef3c.jpg) (http://s947.photobucket.com/user/GKABBT/media/Wilmington%2006072013/IMG_4692_zps8cd8ef3c.jpg.html)
And here are a couple of pics I took back in April with the body off:
(http://i947.photobucket.com/albums/ad318/GKABBT/Wilmington%2004262013/IMG_4537a_zps9cf95e40.jpg) (http://s947.photobucket.com/user/GKABBT/media/Wilmington%2004262013/IMG_4537a_zps9cf95e40.jpg.html)
(http://i947.photobucket.com/albums/ad318/GKABBT/Wilmington%2004262013/IMG_4537_zpsbae46c80.jpg) (http://s947.photobucket.com/user/GKABBT/media/Wilmington%2004262013/IMG_4537_zpsbae46c80.jpg.html)
Hope this helps,
Gregg
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What's the story on the black Caddie?
I think it's about 40 feet long and 12 feet wide with a turbo the size of a beer keg.
just a guess. :?
noboD, No story other than a VERY COOL (BIG) street driven car that runs in the 170 range and Sean is a really nice guy! Every time I see Sean I tell him that car is just so wrong but so D-A-M-N cool!
Gregg
Sounds like an east coast version of Bombshell Betty, full figured and fast.
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What's the story on the black Caddie?
I think it's about 40 feet long and 12 feet wide with a turbo the size of a beer keg.
just a guess. :?
noboD, No story other than a VERY COOL (BIG) street driven car that runs in the 170 range and Sean is a really nice guy! Every time I see Sean I tell him that car is just so wrong but so D-A-M-N cool!
Gregg
Sounds like an east coast version of Bombshell Betty, full figured and fast.
Yep! and I REALLY like "full figured and fast". :-D :cheers:
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Perfect weather so far. 80* and overcast virtually no window.
Joe
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As Joe posted above, a perfect day for racing.
My pics from today are showing bikes and cars in the staging lanes and starting line this morning and then some in the pits this afternoon. There is one pic showing a roadster coming through the lights but my camera is not good enough to really get good pics of these. As I posted yesterday about the number of entries around 90 - 100, many folks were getting multiple runs as the day progressed.
Things were incident free until around 3:00 when Pete (I think that's right) Calaguiro in the 6222 LS1 Turbo C/BGALT Yellow Studebaker made his second pass. When he came into the lights and pulled his chute on this 199 run, the chute raised the rear of the car and he started into a right hand power slide. This sent him off the track, into the grass through a ditch ending him up near pit road at the short shutdown. Thankfully he did not roll. My next to the last pic shows his car after he stopped. It's not on fire, I think just steam from the radiator.
After the 6222 incident was cleaned up and we went back to racing, another minor incident occurred on the very next run. Bob Larimore in the 1123 B/GC Firebird came into the lights on a 170's pass and the throttle appeared to stick. I'm assuming that while he was dealing with what was happening he did not pull his chute until after short shutdown and just barely got the car stopped before the end of the track.
Great driving from both guys!
My FM radio did not pickup at the starting line so there were many cars and bikes that ran that I did not get speeds for. When I went down to the pits, where the radio worked great, I did hear that one of the bikes had run a 229. Sorry, don't know what the fastest car was although I do know that several were over 200.
I would like to send out kudos to Charles (Cajun Kid) Venable in the 805 C/CFALT Studebaker. He tried at Maxton and here to get over 200 and he finally did it today with a 200.982 pass. GREAT job Charles!
Sean Motes, in the 9860 AA/BGSS Big Bad Black Cad, lost his transmission on his second pass after running 178 on his first....MAJOR BUMMER! If you do not know, this thing is street driven!!!!! Man, I LOVE this car!
4-barrel Mike ----- Mike, on the second page of my Photobucket, there are 4 pics of Paul Calaguiro's E/CFALT 2.3 N/A Ranchero engine that might be of interest to you. He's got some neat stuff in there.
Sorry for the long post but it was a good day.
Here is my Photobucket link and I hope you enjoy:
http://s947.photobucket.com/user/GKABBT/library/Wilmington%2006082013?sort=2&page=1
Gregg
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Great pics, Gregg. Thanks.
Mike
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I would like to send out kudos to Charles (Cajun Kid) Venable in the 805 C/CFALT Studebaker. He tried at Maxton and here to get over 200 and he finally did it today with a 200.982 pass. GREAT job Charles!
And we will NEVER get that Subaru eating grin off his face! :-D :-D :-D
Hope to get some pix up later - if not tomorrow for sure! :cheers:
Woody
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I would like to send out kudos to Charles (Cajun Kid) Venable in the 805 C/CFALT Studebaker. He tried at Maxton and here to get over 200 and he finally did it today with a 200.982 pass. GREAT job Charles!
And we will NEVER get that Subaru eating grin off his face! :-D :-D :-D
Woody
How true and it probably did not help matters as I bowed down as he came up the return road after the run....LOL! :-D
Gregg
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Great news for the Cajun Kid! I hope he posts about it, seems a while since Charles told us all about his exploits!
Congrats! :cheers:
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Great news for the Cajun Kid! I hope he posts about it, seems a while since Charles told us all about his exploits!
Congrats! :cheers:
Graham, I was told at the last meet that Charles now posts on the ECTA's Ohio Mile Facebook page.
I don't do Facebook so I am just assuming this is true since he is no longer here.
Gregg
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Just saw Calvin Smith's (27 A/FRMR) truck and trailer come back to the hotel so I am assuming he is finished for the weekend.
(http://i947.photobucket.com/albums/ad318/GKABBT/Wilmington%2006082013/IMG_4781_zps49df9ed5.jpg) (http://s947.photobucket.com/user/GKABBT/media/Wilmington%2006082013/IMG_4781_zps49df9ed5.jpg.html)
I SWEAR, I think I could fit at least 3 or 4 Rampages into that trailer!.....DANG, that sucker is long! :-D
Gregg
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Thanks Gregg.
Go to hear Charles busting the deuce.
BR
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Nice going Charles!!. I spoke with him after his first pass which was 195 and change. He was a bit disappointed as had added about an 80 shot of N20 on his not set up for it motor (ie not optimized) but felt that after getting the gears hot a second run might be better. He has been chasing the number so again, Congratulations!!
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Some pix:
https://picasaweb.google.com/111053800401265205999/OhioMile060813?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCLiMuK_Ay5_ENA&feat=directlink
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Nice set of pictures Woody! Thank-you. :-D :-D :-D
Pete
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Ha! Love the Corvolvo, or is that a Volvette ?
Sleeper........ :-P
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Woody - regarding the "Das Bullet" tank.
Looks like he's running an IRS and the front suspension looks like it was lifted from some sports racer.
Or was that fabbed from scratch?
Have fun today, boys and girls!
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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.
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Jim, that's a neat looking set-up for a lakester. Sorry to hear about the dry sump.
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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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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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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
For the Geezers
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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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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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Woody - was that a Yenko Corvair, or was that a clone?
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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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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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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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"... 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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"... 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:
Gregg
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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
For the Geezers
great job see you in sept
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Does anyone know if Peter was able to drive the 53 Stude back to Canada?
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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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I wonder where he got that adapter?
Regards, Neil Tucson, AZ
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Does anyone know if Peter was able to drive the 53 Stude back to Canada?
unfortunately, it is not drivable.
says he will be back in the spring.
franey
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I saw Peter's car on Paul's trailer Saturday evening at the hotel. Not sure where they were staying but it was in between the Hampton and H. I. E.
I wanted to go look at it Sunday morning but they were already gone. Made me wonder how Paul was going to get the Ranchero back to Canada.
Maybe he left it in Wilmington so it will be here for him in July? :?
Gregg
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Peter's Stude is still in Wilmington, it was loaded on the trailer and taken to the car wash to blow all the antifreeze ( hole in the rad ) and mud, dirt and grass off the car, and back to the track on sunday morning to load my 3 cylinder ( lost a cylinder ) Ranchero and took Peter and the Ranchero home...Paul..
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Thanks for clearing that up, Paul.
How much damage was done to Peter's car? I was at the mile when he came through and saw everything.
Seemed to be doing fairly OK with the slide in the grass until he hit the ditch.....and D-A-M-N it was a hard hit!
Are you coming back in July with the Ranchero?
Gregg
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Don't really know how much damage, right fender pushed back into the door, and a dent in the hood where the rad was pushed back into it...as far as July for me, I hope so, may have to sleeve one cylinder, but we'll see...Paul..
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Don't really know how much damage, right fender pushed back into the door, and a dent in the hood where the rad was pushed back into it...as far as July for me, I hope so, may have to sleeve one cylinder, but we'll see...Paul..
Thanks again for the update of both Peter's and your cars (or truck in your case..... :-D).
I'll be on the lookout for you in July! Good luck.
Gregg
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Brother Lou at www.Bonnevillestories.com just sent me a 2 min clip of our weekend of fun at the Ohio mile. :cheers:
Both Iron Head & Alloy Gray Ghost Projects.
http://youtu.be/eouLZXEWLuk
See yaz next time
Jimbo
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Now that's what I'm talking about.
One heck of a job U. Jimbo . That Iron Head was talking the talk, sounded great.
Rouse
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Woooo Hoooo thats Bad Azzzz. :cheers:Wish we were there
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Thanks guys - That ole 74 Iron Head has been a labor of love for 12 years. Got its name cause it was one day away from being parted out, and was dead, flat tires & all, leaning up against the side of the guys garage. That's why I can totally appreciate what Truckedup and partner did. So the Gray Ghost lives on to run with the wind again.
Are we havin fun or what ! :cheers:
Jimbo
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Those bikes look and sound great! Nice job, Jim!