Race Report – Commerce, GA 2012
MoparStyle Racing – Sponsor Report
April 12-15-2012 Atlanta Dragway, Commerce, GA
At the Florida race, the motor home's inverter crapped out and it took a lot of money, begging, and legwork to get it finished in time to load up the cars in time for the Atlanta race.
Big Red Ram isn't quite ready yet, so we bought the tired black Coronet (couple hundred passes on the motor) for Dallas and the Texas Whale for me. We left at 9:15AM on Wednesday the 11th and arrived at the track at 2:30am Thursday. In the morning I started the generator and it shut off 5 minutes later giving an error code 36. Whipped out the manual and it said it was a fuel issue. We knew it wasn't a filter as we change the filters after every race (the generator has 4200 hours on it), so we replaced the fuel pump with a spare we had. That didn't work so we spent hours trying new grounds and other tests/fixes — then resigned ourselves that the $695 control board is shot. Called Cummins, and they laughed about coming to the track to repair — and that maybe they could fit us in this week. We resigned ourselves that it was another week in the dark, and without heat and AC. Thursday night it got to 37 outside and 42 in the motor home. Anyway — we just sucked it up and worked through it, with the help of Doug Duell powering the chargers for the cars' batteries and allowing me to put the coffee maker in his trailer.
Friday we were suppose to have two time trials and two qualifying passes. The track got way behind with accidents, oil downs and a couple of True Street cars hosing down the track with Antifreeze. We got in a pair of Time Trials. My car ran 9.61 and 9.63 — so it looked like the 9.50 index was out and that I'd have to slow down to the 9.75 index. Dallas was pretty close to the 9.75 index with his car. There were 16 NSS cars. In the first round of qualifying Dallas did a 9.756 and was Top Qualifier. I completely screwed up the launch and was off 1/10 on the 60' — doing a 9.800. That was all she wrote for Friday.
Saturday we were suppose to do the last qualifying and at least one elimination. However they were so far behind from Friday that we instead were scheduled for the last two Qualifying passes. Everything went so smooth with the track that they gave us a bonus 4th. I managed a 9.760 — which got me 5th. Dallas didn't improve his 9.756 and was 2nd or third. However my car was spraying oil badly under the hood since the first run of the morning. Most of it was coming from the timing cover — which had the electric water pump and elephant ears ahead of it. We'd tighten the cover bolts after every round and permatexted the seams — but high RPMs would start to blow the oil again.
Sunday I had someone that wasn't close to running his number. However, one drop of oil was seen after my light burnout and another spotted hanging when they looked under to see if it was me. I was backed out, and my competitor was 3/10 too slow. ARRRRRGH! Dallas one against Bud Cochran — who also ran a c/fx car. The cars were al slow Sunday — so everyone was pulling out whatever they could. Dallas was able to remove the passenger seat and a few other pounds here and there. In the next round Dallas took out Doug Poskevitch — who was the points leader. That helped a lot of us. In the Semis Dallas lost when Kurt Neighbor had a better RT.
My mental calculations has Dallas in first with Doug Duell, Kurt Neighbor, and Doug Poskevitch within 50 points. I should be a couple 100 behind in 5th.
My car is the last one down the track in the below video.
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Video of my racing in Atlanta
The car going down the track in the video is me in the wagon.
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Word Press sites can be used as a personal blogs or a business web site; a site for a team, cause or organization; or just about anything else you've seen a web site used for. While the layout of the above sites are very similar because the author of them is the same, and he keeps them consistent so that he can more easily maintain, you really have a lot of flexibility with layout and the look & feel.
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Word Press requires the use of one of the five MySql Databases.
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While Big Kahuna Hosting will create the database and database user, install Word Press on your hosting account, and update to the most current version — it is up to the user to complete their web site. This is not for a turn-key web site.
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‘Guy goes into a bar in Louisiana where there’s a robot bartender!
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I’m My Own Grandpa
One plan evolves into another
Yesterday Dallas stopped by at 11:30AM on his Road King and wanted to know if I wanted to take a ride. I said sure and hopped on my GeezerGlide. We zig-zagged along country roads and finally came across a sign Giddings 30 miles.
Many years ago, when Dallas was small, we use to stop a cheesy Mexican Restaurant in Giddings called Jalisco on our way back from many visits with an Indian mototrcycle builder in Austin. He ultimately built 23 Indians for me.
So we stopped there for lunch. While we hadn’t been there in over 10 years — it was like going back in a time machine — nothing had changed.
While there — we got to talking about Terry — the motorcycle builder. I hadn’t seen or heard of him in 7-8 years, so we decided to continue on to Austin. We got there at about 4PM and visited with him for about an hour talking about old times.
Next thing you know we’re 4 hours from the trip back home and I’m wearing dark Polaroid prescription sunglasses — and need to get home before dark as I didn’t bring regular glasses.
Bark home at 8:30 with a sore ass, sunburned face, and a permanent blow dry hairstyle from not wearing a helmet.
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Dominators and Intake CHEAP!
Dual Dominators and Intake Setup for RB Mopar
Bolt on Big Horse Power – 2 Passes on the Carbs!
The intake and linkage is from an Indy built 540CI that I ran on my black Coronet for years. I ordered the custom built dominators from Bigs and bolted onto the Intake. Two passes later I windowed the motor when an aluminum rod decided it was time to go. The car was later converted to a Nostalgia Super Stock car for my son, and I don’t currently have a use for this type of induction.
The bases are powdercoated, the metering blocks anodized billet, the tops polished. I have over $3000 in this setup. Bolt on, hook up the accelerator cable — go kick ass.
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