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Texas Mile => Texas Mile General Chat => Topic started by: fredvance on March 27, 2009, 04:45:35 PM
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They are running. Got a pretty good tailwind today and tomorrow, Back to head wind Sunday. I havent heard much. Entrophy broke somethig, dont know how bad. I am going up early in the morning, tech opens at 7:30 I think. I dont know how much time I will have but I will try to get some results.
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Good luck Fred, report back when you get a chance. -Dean
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Bill just ran 244 unfaired...come on 250 ! ! !
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ZXallen 207+
Texanzone 205+ na
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SW went 246 in the Supra, anyone know what any of the other cars went so far?
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The Duramax Mustang had some problems with blowing off intake hoses under pressure yesterday :? ---Leslie has the broom teathered in all this wind! :evil: !!!!!!!! Jon Minano said he would be running today.
Jon sorry about miss spelling your name---sparky
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Yeah, for the diesels "small boost" is 45psi. Blowing hoses off, or even blowing up intercoolers is an ongoing battle.
Were there any other diesels there? There's going to be several new ones from back East popping up in the next few months.
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Amit's twin turbo Supra 243, Tommy Bahn's Supra 232, EVOM's 996TT 231
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If someone down there can get me a full list of the runs I'll be glad to put it up here. Either post -- or email directly to me (use the icon at the right to find my addy).
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Bill Warner 254.6 MPH on a NAKED (non-faired) motorcycle. Unreal :cheers: All hail the King!! Congrats also to Fred Vance for a 202 run on his Production Busa, paid for with S/S. lol
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Amit's twin turbo Supra 243, Tommy Bahn's Supra 232, EVOM's 996TT 231
Some really good speeds comming out of Texas. :cheers:
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Amit's twin turbo Supra 243, Tommy Bahn's Supra 232, EVOM's 996TT 231
Some really good speeds coming out of Texas. :cheers:
Amazing what traction can do huh? :wink:
Congrats to all and Fred congrats on the 202 as well..just a few more mph.. :cheers:
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smooth and El miriage supercharging
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William,
We call that "November Horsepower" :cheers:
Where are the other big dog speeds...?
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John, Usually at TX, the trade winds are blowing on the nose :-( with high humidty- :x :x-this meet Mother Nature brough a Norther tail winds and nice cool dry air :-) :-)!!!!!!! ---just like any LSR endevor ---you have to be there running, with a good car or bike, and ON TUNE!!!!!!! :cheers:
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Congrats FredVance!!! WOOHOOOO!!!! Nice work!
They're haulin the mail in Texas!
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Thanks Shane, John , everybody it was an awsome weekend. Lot of big numbers, nice tailwind. What an incredible feeling to get my first 200+ time slip.
Fred
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Well deserved Fred! Deb got a 209 and change on the Busa for a Texas 200 club shirt, and Todd was working the kinks out of "the Hammer". I have a potful of pics that i will post here shortly in a new Tx Mile thread. It was a great weekend!
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Okay, lets see if this works, I am going to try to post a couple now...
still working on it :)
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(http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t183/stainless2/texas%20mile%20march%2009/IMG_0288.jpg)
Met up with some good friends!
(http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t183/stainless2/texas%20mile%20march%2009/IMG_0293.jpg)
Right after the 254 mph run
(http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t183/stainless2/texas%20mile%20march%2009/IMG_0259.jpg)
Before the 254 run
(http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t183/stainless2/texas%20mile%20march%2009/IMG_0255.jpg)
And another...
(http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t183/stainless2/texas%20mile%20march%2009/IMG_0304.jpg)
Now, where did Todd put that "Easy Button"?
(http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t183/stainless2/texas%20mile%20march%2009/IMG_0397.jpg)
Found it! And the Texas 2 Club salute follows a 209 run!
(http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t183/stainless2/texas%20mile%20march%2009/IMG_0411.jpg)
...and did I mention it was faster than Stainless 2's record? LOL
Anyway, I will post a link to an album soon on another thread...
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Scott and Ellen, THANKS for being there.
FREUD
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Congrats Fred!
Couple other pics to add:
TFA Dinner at Chinese Buffet
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Good looking Maxton Couple
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Got Busa in the 2 club
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MadMike from Iowa in the 2 club
(http://i432.photobucket.com/albums/qq48/TRNorBRN6001/PICT0267.jpg)
Karl "Entropy" Fastest N/A at the meet and fastest N/A ZX-12 at the Texas Mile 208mph
A story that makes Legends:
We had one hell of a weekend at the Texas Mile, GREAT folks (as always), UBER GREAT weather, ummm "moderately" great food (Chinese buffet in Beeville), not so great hotel (America's Inn in Beeville).
My story:
I got to the Mile with a motor which was tested tested several times on the dyno, and had a banner leakdown before bringing it to Goliad.
First pass on Fri it died and coasted to the 3/4mi marker at 9:30am WTF????
When I got back to the pits Dane showed up with some Abita beer which I needed GREATLY, thax man!!
At 10:30 Doug Meyer & I left the track, headed back to Houston to see what we could do in my garage to revive it.
At 2pm we arrived and rolled it on the lift, yanked the motor and saw the most spectacular rod bearing damage I have ever seen; the pan was full of black crinkly things, no gold here.
One rod had kicked off it's cap, knocked a cute lil hole in the cases & window in the cyl block. All rod big ends were black, mains in much better shape.
cases, rods, crank, block = junk ( Osti & Mike know exactly what bushes they will end up at) Luckily head was fine, Doug tested it
sooooo... while Doug did the forensics, i started rooting in my retired parts, normal wear parts, shop supplies collection.
found:
- offset stroker crank semi-retired with chunks outa the starter gear
- rods retired as being suspects in pistons tagging the head (prob innocent)
- 87mm pistons retired with deformed skirts, .0032-.0035 piston to cyl clearance
- cases retired as suspected of being warped
- 87mm offset cyl block with scratches from ingesting sand (was gonna send it to Millennium "someday")
- new sets of rod & main bearings, cam chain, headgasket
Doug transferred trans, shifter stuff, oil stuff, all that stuff from the trashed cases to the replacement, i prepped the new guts.
At 2am we fired it up, loaded bike and tools, quick snooze, headed out for the track at 4:50am.
Arrived back at the track at 8am, did 1st leakdown, put bike on the grid. Then Osti discovered it was leaking coolant "Water". Doug said "Barr's Leak"!!!! stat!!!!
Emergency call to #1 Son and wife still in Beeville, and 45min later the leak was gone.
Pass # 1 - wouldn't button shift; fiddled with stuff
Pass # 2 - wouldn't button shift, still got a 199.5
Doug fiddled with the Muzzy shifter, pronounced pressure regulator faulty
Osti pulled the one off his bike YAY RYAN!!!!
Pass #3 - 208.740mph WOO_HOOOOOOOOOOOO
Doug took it next and got 208.793mph
Thus Doug has made the fastest pass on a N/A Kawasaki at Texas that I know of, beat me with my own bike
I gotta say i absolutely could not have done it without Doug Meyer.
He is a fukken garage animal, works non stop, knows where everything goes, checks everything twice.
A true soft spoken gentleman, motor guru, Kawasaki expert sans pareil (sp?)
This was a VERY special weekend for me!
Karl "Entropy"
(http://i432.photobucket.com/albums/qq48/TRNorBRN6001/PICT0272.jpg)
(http://i432.photobucket.com/albums/qq48/TRNorBRN6001/PICT0067.jpg)
Bill "WildBro" Fastest Turbo bike at meet and new bike track record. The sign says it all!
(http://i432.photobucket.com/albums/qq48/TRNorBRN6001/PICT0276.jpg)
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Karl, you should take the dead aluminum parts to the salt for the save the salt thing Bo Burkdall is working.
Congratulations to you and Doug for your great runs with the "seconds" Loved the story... 8-)
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Congrats to all. :cheers:
Still no real details about the diesel stuff. All I could find was http://www.competitiondiesel.com/forums/showthread.php?t=51990 , which is Greg Hogue and Curtis H.
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Any of you Texas guys that have used up/junk aluminum parts get them to me before Speedweek and I will get them to Bo.
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Thanks gang! Todd & I had a blast! 209's not bad for the Scott Guthrie Racing 200mph pit/parts bike huh? :-D Never planned on actually running my bike but we had a lull in the action & thought hey, why not! Thanks to Scott Horner for the loan of the under/inner fairings for my run. ;) Todd also joined the Texas 2 club with a 206mph 4th gear data acq pull on "the hammer". We had a wonderfull time starting out the new race season with old friends. We were all blessed to be standing in our pits at the 3/4 mile to watch Bill's most Excellent top speed pass! We met him on the return road with the earned "we're not worthy" bow and following congratulations.
I just love the start of race season, don't you?
Debbie
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Karl, you should take the dead aluminum parts to the salt for the save the salt thing Bo Burkdall is working.
Congratulations to you and Doug for your great runs with the "seconds" Loved the story... 8-)
stainless,
i would LOVE to send my holed cases to Bonneville; prob a better idea than throwing them into the bushes in my "boneyard" where the mowerman is likely to run over them, eh?
I'mm get in touch with Fred Vance before he goes out to Bonneville this summer.
Thanks for the tip!
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Gary, maybe you Austin area guys could gather junk aluminum at JC's place and I can pick it up when I am there for my Bonneville tune up.
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Raw results are up.
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I love a good typo, shows my 4th run at 210+, I wish :-D. pretty sure I would remember that. It was actually 201+.
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What a great weekend! Lots of good people and many fast, safe runs. We battled issues with my Busa this time- and I killed my starter right before the weekend, but got the CBR1000 up to 193! Gotta love that tailwind... Congrats to the many new Texas Mile 200mph club members!
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Hey Leslie, who won the 1000cc contest? We all had a good chuckle when Scott shut it down at the 3/4. :evil: Geeze the poor guy looked giant on that thing & you made him ride it on the head wind day! Y'all are evil! LOL
Debbie
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Hey Leslie, who one the 1000cc contest? We all had a good chuckle when Scott shut it down at the 3/4. :evil: Geeze the poor guy looked giant on that thing & you made him ride it on the head wind day! Y'all are evil! LOL
Debbie
Leslie,
Who "won" the 1000 contest..? :wink:
Tell Al hello and see you in Bonneville. :cheers:
J
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oh so you only talk AT me when you're correcting my typing? KMA J :roll:
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oh so you only talk AT me when you're correcting my typing? KMA J :roll:
Whoa!
I say NICE stuff to you and i DON'T correct yr spelling but you still don't tell me to KYA :-(
I'm too old, huh?
Anyway, double congrats on you and Todd both getting 200mph!
Took me since 2003.
You guys come and both do it in one day
:cheers: for Debbie
:cheers: for Todd
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oh so you only talk AT me when you're correcting my typing? KMA J :roll:
Whoa!
I say NICE stuff to you and i DON'T correct yr spelling but you still don't tell me to KYA :-(
I'm too old, huh?
Anyway, double congrats on you and Todd both getting 200mph!
Took me since 2003.
You guys come and both do it in one day
:cheers: for Debbie
:cheers: for Todd
Awww I'm so sorry Karl after you butter me up making me the MC porn queen & all! I have a special place marked for you, remind me next time I see you! :-D
Oh & thanks on the congrats, and you totally rocked this weekend! :cheers:
Debbie
PS: For those of you that don't know me well enough, anytime ya get a KMA out of me I guarantee it's facetious in nature & not mean! LOL ( I can just feel the oooOOOoo she's ticked & she's not! LOL 8-) )
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She's a woman and can change her mind in a nano second. :roll:
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She's a woman and can change her mind in a nano second. :roll:
my wife doesn't wait that long :-D
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Awww I'm so sorry Karl after you butter me up making me the MC porn queen & all! I have a special place marked for you, remind me next time I see you! :-D
Didn't you mean to refer to yourself as the MC PINUP queen & all LOL :-D
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Pinup? trust me, no! :-o
Karl, I can't believe I didn't get the chance to meet your wife! Anyone that's been with you forever has to be both a saint & a riot! :-D
We'll have to try to do better on the socializing if we make it out there again! :wink:
Debbie
PS: Not changing my mind, merely clarifying my intentions! lol After a reread I realized it probably didn't come across the way I meant it! Guess I should have used the :-P instead of the :roll: :-D
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Al won the !000cc shootout, fair and square! I went 192... and the next day Al went 193. Scott would've done better if he hadn't shut down at the 3/4. Too funny! OOPS! That bike is so fun to ride.
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Great job Al! It sure looked fun to ride! Well except maybe for when Scott was on it, then it just looked like he was riding a thong! :-o Well ok, it WAS amusing for US to watch! LOL
See ya on the salt! ;)
Debbie
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Glad I could contribute to y'all's entertainment in the Lone Star state.
There was mention that someone thought the Circus was in town. Something about a clown with big feet on a mini-bike acting the fool. As they say...sometimes the truth hurts! :cry:
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Bill Warner 254.6 MPH on a NAKED (non-faired) motorcycle. Unreal :cheers: All hail the King!! Congrats also to Fred Vance for a 202 run on his Production Busa, paid for with S/S. lol
WILD BILL WAY TO GO! :cheers:
I THINK I NEED A NEW RACEBIKE :-o?
CONGRATES 2 ALL :cheers:!!!!
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[I THINK I NEED A NEW RACEBIKE :-o?
SKaz, check with Jason, he might still have a 250 MPH scooter for sale... I'll bet he'd take $25K and your VRod for it... :-o
or $22.5K without the trade... :roll: :|
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[I THINK I NEED A NEW RACEBIKE :-o?
SKaz, check with Jason, he might still have a 250 MPH scooter for sale... I'll be he'd take $25K and your VRod for it... :-o
or $22.5K without the trade... :roll: :|
SSS,
Funny you say that :|! I just called him and it;s now not for sale :-(.
I just might have another Ringer,but it;s gonna take a Miracle or 2?
I just want to go as Fast as I can, and get my AA on a Bike and Car,
Records are AWESOME BUT I want to rewrite the history books :cheers:!
Hows your Rockets comming along? 8-)
THANKS,
p.s Sponsors needed
www.superkazracing.com................
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[I THINK I NEED A NEW RACEBIKE :-o?
SKaz, check with Jason, he might still have a 250 MPH scooter for sale... I'll be he'd take $25K and your VRod for it... :-o
or $22.5K without the trade... :roll: :|
SSS,
Funny you say that :|! I just called him and it;s now not for sale :-(.
I just might have another Ringer,but it;s gonna take a Miracle or 2?
I just want to go as Fast as I can, and get my AA on a Bike and Car,
Records are AWESOME BUT I want to rewrite the history books :cheers:!
Hows your Rockets comming along? 8-)
THANKS,
p.s Sponsors needed
www.superracing.com................
Kaz,
I think you might have meant www.superkazracing.com ?
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Glad I could contribute to y'all's entertainment in the Lone Star state.
There was mention that someone thought the Circus was in town. Something about a clown with big feet on a mini-bike acting the fool. As they say...sometimes the truth hurts! :cry:
Hey you were the one hanging out in the circus tent all weekend!!! (http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p224/DahMurf/Smileys/poke.gif)
awww poor baby. (http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p224/DahMurf/Smileys/hug.gif) Now go dust off all of your 2 club certificates to make yourself feel better! ;)
:D
Debbie