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Old 11-07-2014, 11:21 AM
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Which one of you are dragging bumper? (Vid inside)

At about 1:30 in the video, a camaro stages then nothing but air! Anybody know the car, or specs on it?


oh and theirs a nice built corvette
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he has a lot of ironing out to do with the vette.
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Yes, yes they do. Especially his launch.
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Re: Which one of you are dragging bumper? (Vid inside)

I don't have any external video, just some in car footage of seeing the sky. Dragged the bumper, pushed one fender into the tire slightly. You can hear the tire rubbing on the fender near the end of the track after I shut the engine off.

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Just a small one you say? How did the oil pan hold up?
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Re: Which one of you are dragging bumper? (Vid inside)

My oil pan was fine. There was a minor dent at the front of the pan but it didn't even make contact with the oil pickup tube. My belly pan took some scrapes. Lots of black marks on the underside but it already had lots of black marks from other wheelies. I was under power when the front end came down so it didn't come crashing down hard enough to bottom out the front suspension. The headers didn't even take any damage and they sit low.

The oil warning light came on when I came down because the pump shaft disengaged from the distributor. The oil accumulator still provided enough pressure to lube the bearings for a short while. I scuffed some bearings but other than that, no other engine damage. A distributor with an adjustable collar fixed the pump drive issue by allowing the distributor to sit lower.
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Re: Which one of you are dragging bumper? (Vid inside)

i'm glad that guy is going to a glide....that's a good example of "more money than sense".
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Driver mod you say?? Haha
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