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Engine: 406 sbc, dart iron ea
It crazy
Its crazy to me how much money people have in their racing program. Im just a regular guy enjoyin what im doin. What is really insane is how much they have in junior programs!
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Engine: 84 firebird
Transmission: 400 turbo and a 350 turbo
Axle/Gears: 12 bolt ,4.11 but moving to 4.30
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yea no kidding,we got my son in to junior racing back in the day because it was cheap i thought.lol,by the 4th year we had been through 3 cars ,the last one i had $12,ooo into,and that wasnt counting all the extra parts and spare engine .the motor alone is 5500 dollars.cheaper just to run my firebird.
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Engine: 406 sbc, dart iron ea
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Yea but had a fun day at the track anyway. Car went 7.55 in first tt. After dark second tt went 7.50. First round I put 7.49 on the dial. I went .520 on the tree ran dead on with a 4 lifting a few feet out. second round I went down a number on the dial and went .533 and ran a 7.51 running out the back door. I couldn catch the other car. He went .506 on the tree and ran 3 off. Oh well thats racing. The kid I beat first rd bought back and took home the big check. Car mph was 95 all day. Had fun first time runnin 1/8th mile and man it happens alot faster! You got makin decisions early.
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Car: 1984 Z28
Engine: Alky 360
Transmission: TH400, Freakshow 9.5"
Axle/Gears: 9" 4.71
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Yea but had a fun day at the track anyway. Car went 7.55 in first tt. After dark second tt went 7.50. First round I put 7.49 on the dial. I went .520 on the tree ran dead on with a 4 lifting a few feet out. second round I went down a number on the dial and went .533 and ran a 7.51 running out the back door. I couldn catch the other car. He went .506 on the tree and ran 3 off. Oh well thats racing. The kid I beat first rd bought back and took home the big check. Car mph was 95 all day. Had fun first time runnin 1/8th mile and man it happens alot faster! You got makin decisions early.
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Engine: 406 sbc, dart iron ea
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yea I kno. I built the car to run 12.0 and I didn put a cage in it. well brought it to the track and It ran some 11.4x. that's 32 degree timing shiftin at 5k. so now that I have a little more timin in it it will run under that 11.49 every pass. so now that I have a 5600 rev limiter in shift at 4750 and leave at 2k it will run mid 11.5 to 11.6 at 122mph. oh yea I only have 3.42 gear in a ten bolt. 60's are 1.78 1.79. I got one more track trip wed night then its coming apart for the cage. I bought a s&w 8 point kit. but hell I love havin the mph. im bracket racing and most of it is in the quarter so I love the 122 at 11.60. it sneaks up on a lot of cars fast.
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