Saw this from someone who went to the Memphis race.
heard about your tough luck Andris.
Call Denny's and you'll be good as new!


If it wont load for ya, click here:
http://www.geocities.com/ric-77/memphis/twin_turbo.jpg

[This message has been edited by Guido (edited May 14, 2001).]

 

links not working

 

What happned to Andris car? was I sleeping & missed something?

any idea why the link does not work?

BW

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Because Geocities sucks. Go to http://www.geocities.com/ric-77/memphis/ .. and then type http://www.geocities.com/ric-77/memphis/twin_turbo.jpg into the address bar, and it should load. You have to load the main page before pics will load.

 

Cool, thanks, I got it to work.

Boy, now that is what i call a tight engine compartment. mighty tought to adjust the valves. i am figurin' you probably dont want to have a solid lifter cam that you have to adjust every race.

How did the car run?

BW


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I once saw a TT car that had the turbos sitting over the valve covers. it had hydraulic lifters just for that reason...on a 9.0x car iirc.

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Hey guys,
I just got back from Memphis (f-body.org natl gathering) and had a blast! I'm a top notch product tester (i.e. I can break anything!) so I broke down and bought a trailer. On the trip down, I stopped by at Art Housers (rearman.com) and had the 9" rebuilt, 3.73's tossed in, etc... Road racing was a blast, and the brake ducts worked great. The spool did not hold me back road racing or autox, so I'm hooked

Drag racing at first sucked. I was running 14.2@100, and wondering why. Doh! There was a band clamp in the way of the throttle arm, and I was only getting 2/3's throttle. That being fixed, I picked up 4 mph. Damn, still not close to the 114 I ran last fall.

Myron Cotrell (of TPIS) lent me his wide band o2 for the day, and as soon as I hit WOT, the gauge pegged below 10! I guess that explains the black smoke. We tuned it to 12.7:1, and it felt a ton stronger. Since David Houser (awesome big block third-gen from TX with the Road Tech Tubular K-member and coilovers) blew a tranny line, racing was over for the day.

Next morning, went back to the track, did a 2nd gear burnout, and clicked off a 12.993@111!!! Woo hoo!!! I finally got in the 12's Best was a 12.821@109 that day, and best mph was 113. This is running 5 lbs (instead of overboosting to 7-8 in the fall) on a stock L98 w/ super ram and 52mm tb. Not too shabby

I decided I wanted a better time, so I tried some Evil Drag Radials (only 16x8's, and I have a 9" with 35 spline axles, so everything must be good, right?) First run I didn't heat them enough, another 12.8 w/ a 2.0 60'. 2nd run I did a nice burnout, revved it to 3000, and... clanka clanka clanka! I snapped the driveshaft in the middle. There are a ton of pics floating around, I just don't have the url here at work It was twisted into 2 piece. Back on the trailer she goes! I think it's time for a Denny's nitrous ready shaft, or a metal matrix. The 1LE just can't handle it. I'll post pics soon. Later!

A.

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Both good & bad i suppose. glad that you had a good time. we look forward to more fun.

BW

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Wow thats a hell of an improvement andris!

Seems like everyone is running 12.82

I ran a 12.82 @ 112 last week
-=Jeff=- (formerly of chase racing) ran a 12.82 @ 109 in his 89 vette
some guy in the TPI forum ran a 12.82 @ 110
one guy on camaroz28.com ran a 12.82.
lol

Must be the number to run.

Sounds good andris! get that shaft fixed and get her back out there for some more track time!