Im laying claim to that title for now based on posting the second fastest 1/4 mile time at the Fall Brawl (12.997) after Jay, who is still Houston's fastest thirdgen. Come on Tristan, Eric, Kevin, Barry and Zap, come and get me!!.

Actually I was surprised as everyone else that my car ran more than .4 sec faster than ever. This was due to removing the cats and installing a cutout, running smaller tires on the rear, cooler weather, and removing the AC. I think it was equal parts cutout and cool weather.

 

Yeah, the weather helped a lot, I think at least 4 of us set new personal bests in our current cars, as I predicted we may. But Larry, you are definately dialed in! I don't know your other passes, but you and I paired off first, and I broke out with a personal best of 14.52 on a 14.60 dial. You toasted me on the tree (my .2623), and chased me down at the finish line. Dude, you were only .0087 off your 13.00 dial. I'm thinking you've been spending more time at the track than we know! But I'll back you on your claim for now

 

I took out the larry but just barely, i had to chase him and stay barely infront which was hard considering how good his car was rolling on the big end

 

I had to leave before the final, but was truly impressed at at the 13.008
pass. CONGRATS!!! Hopefully that will squelch some of the chest-thumping
chatter we've endured the past several mo's.

PS. I can't do anything about the turnout, but I for one, had a jolly good
time, and a Texas Size thanks to ZAP for all the hassle involved in getting
it set-up!!!

kk

 

enjoy it while you can Larry, i am taking 2nd after my car is fixed

 

The title should be Houston's fastest "street driven" thirdgen. (or second fastest)

 

Well come on! Thats really my motivation for making this post, to spur some good natured competition and interest in racing. Im not really into chest thumping, although maybe that sounds like Mel Gibson or Michael Richards saying they are not racist.

I may have a little suprise up my sleeve by the time your car is ready

Let me know when you are ready and we can run out to Sealy and race, since we both live in the Katy area.
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Well true, I guess it's like saying the Cardinals are the best team in baseball because they won the "World Series". Really its kind of a limited little world. Im sure there are probably really fast thirdgens in Houston that we don't even know about. Hopefully they will read this and come out to the next meet and prove it.

 

I may have something to say about that!

Does that mean no cars that show up on trailers?

 

Well, we have let cars that show up on trailers, that are in drag strip trim (slicks on--headers open-etc) run for the "title"--if we know for a fact, they are street driven--such as yours and Jay, and Darrel (406Z)--the stipulation was that if anybody questioned the ability to be street driven, that we would go for a 10 mile ride--if it does not complete the cruise it is not legal for the "street driven" title. If it does --it is!

So far there has never been a challenge! everbody knows that the several cars that have shown up on trailers (Jay--Darrel-- can't think of anybody that has shown up on a trailer) are in fact, street legal and street driven.
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Well, let's see here--since we are making claims about fastest this or fastest that--how can I get in on this action. HHMMM........

How about Houston's fastest DAILY DRIVER!

As far as I know- nobody except Chris and Larry Dunlap's son--Max, AlDixie uses their car as their daily driver.

So, do I get that title?

 

Mine will be a daily driver even though I work 1/8th mile from where I live, guess it depends if I want to walk or not

 

Hah! Home to Work in under 8 Seconds....I thought I was the only one able to do that! (shipboard).

 

Well Crap--there goes that one!

 

ILL DAILY DRIVE MINE, IM ONLY A 1/2 MILE FROM WORK

 

Double crap--now I've got no chance

 

Hey Daniel--did U guys get the flexplate replaced and your car back on the road?

Do any other damage?

 

Hopefully it will be done by sunday, they are going to check the a.c., and also try to get the speedo & tach working.

 

How about a rear view mirror? Those 18 wheelers get angry when U whip out in front of them like that!!--LOL

 

, yeah sorry about that, i am usually a very good driver. rear view mirror is next plus replacing all the purple and bubbled window tint

 

See how you do at this link:

http://www.gmacinsurance.com/SafeDriving/2006/test.asp

I got one wrong

 

ZAP-> <-Me, i passed the test but I won't tell my score

 

"Scored" 90%, but had no answers wrong. Stupid marketing people.....
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Daniel, are you running yet?





YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED

 

sTUPID aKK SOFTWARE..

Daniel, are you running today?

 

Not yet, but i will let everybody know.

 

Daniel's car is up and running like a ***** cat, now we have to take that dash apart and run the tach wire direct to the tach

 

i am going to pic it up in an hour

 

I am now, but have to wait til i put some miles on the motor before i push the pedal to the floor. It seems to be running smoother than before & i just replaced the window tint and ordered more parts already . Man, my wallet hurts

 

Im glad to hear it daniel

 

Rear View Mirror?

 

you know it!

 

Larry - congratulations! glad to see you're running good. haven't been around the board much lately since I've been away to school again and haven't had my car with me. just got home yesterday and have a lot of work ahead of me on the car (rearend, t-top weatherstripping, suspension bushings, window motor, etc.)

Normally I'd be more than happy to head out to the track but I need to lay off the heavy footing for the near future. Kinda hard to pay the price of admission for lots of racing (broken parts) when its hard enough to pay for school. One of these days though I'll get back out to the track and meets with y'all.

 

Thanks man!!. Nice to hear from you again, everyone was wondering what you were doing. I hope you can come to the next meet whenever that may be. Missed having your car around as something to aim at beating, you know, like I always like playing with a Tennis player guy who is better than me because it brings my game up too.

Hello and Merry Christmas to you and your family.

L

 

Are you guys talking about bracket racing?I hope you are talking about straight 1/4 mile times, i want to see how i stack up when i get a transmission that will hold up, i am not into bracket racing.

 

heads-up only

 

why does he say 12.90? I am not trying to be an a hole but perhaps that is just the quickest to show up? I am really into street leagal speed and would like to claim real street @ www.hotrodgossip.com so i will atleast need to run around 7.90 1/8 mile index.

 

12.90's --1/4 mile times!

 

Im not much into bracket racing either, although we did bracket race at the last meet at Sealy. The race I ran against Zap was a perfect example. I got a pretty good jump on him at the line with a 13.0 dial in time. He decided to give up and just ease down the track and maybe I would break out. I thought his car broke. Now this would not be a good stategy with a wise bracket racer since all I would have to do would be ease off and just stay ahead of him. But noooooooooo, I stay on it all the way and when I get to the timeslip booth, the lady hands me the yellow paper meaning that I lost. I thought WTF, did I red light? No, you broke out. So then I was really happy because I know I broke 13 seconds for the first time. Like I said before I was 1000 times happier running in the 12s than winning that race.

ACtually I was comparing my best time to all other time slips, which is how we decided who was Houston's fastest thirdgen the first meet as well. I much prefer awarding the "title" to the car that wins a heads up, round robin race, since anything can happen in a race.

 

heads up round robin sounds good to me

 

Hey Zapp whats your 1/4 ?

Hey everyone


Rob

 

Well, got the 383 running, pulls hard for the fact that i am still stuck with a 2.73 rear gear, i think a 3.73 or 3.90 i will be deep in the 12s, i will let you guys know what happens...

 

It sounds like you and I should run against eachother some time

 

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