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10.04 & 136 dangling the drivers front wheel for probably 30 feet for Monte Alban
The new hood and its lightness did it obviously
The new hood and its lightness did it obviously
My son wanted a new hood (Sunoco hood) for his '86 Regal. He has wanted a Glasstek hood. He asked me about how close Glasstek was to Byron Dragway and was wondering if we might be able to pick it up during Drag Week to save the $280 of shipping and handling. Then he asked if I wanted a hood as well and mentioned he'd buy it for me if we could get them picked up, implying no shipping. So two hoods shipped would be $1560, but two hoods picked would be $900 that includes the friends and family discount of he was buying two at the same time. All of this took place more than 3 months ago because that is how backed up they were to get the hoods made.
I told him 'no troubles, we/re building a trailer so I'll make some type of system to mount the hoods on top of the trailer. Which I did - I used an extra hood latch we had and welded it to a 1x1 square tube that I bolted onto the top of trailer and also made a bracket that would accept hood hinges for the rear of the Regal hood (MC and Regal hoods do not have the same mounting locations and hood hinges.) Then we were planning on attaching the two hoods together via bubble wrap and shrink wrap. This is where te plan went to hell in a hand basket. I overlooked the hood design and there was no way to get the two secured to each other. This resulted in an immediate conundrum. My solution was why don't we install the MC hood on my car and then shrink wrap the Regal hood to my stock original hood. At this point my son asked me f I wanted the old hood. 'Hmmm, we have at least 5 spare hoods at home, do I want 6 - no'. We gave it to the people at Glasstek and they promptly disposed of it in the meta dumpster.
Now we have to get the new hood mounted. It requires fitment (clearancing.) The guys at Glasstek jumped into action and spent an hour getting the hood to fit on the car. It needs hood pins or some type of securement on the front corners, hence the reason for tape in the pics in the videos.
The result s one hood on top of the trailer and one hood on the car and one to never be heard from again (it was crappy, so no one flip out about me throwing one out.)
Because the original hood had my 'Powered by Miller Lite decal on it, I figured I better pay homage to the source of some my inspiration
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Today's racing. I was a little disappointed, not entirely. I t was wreck fest, and two of them were really bad. One a rollover of a 6 second car and the other a heavy frontal impact. There was another as well. All of the wrecks took place in a group of 20 consecutive cars to run - so tons of delays in the middle of the afternoon.
Monte Alban was looking promising on the 1st hit - 10.041 with room to grow. So I cranked up the launch boost and timing and got more aggressive on the big end. Whatever I did, didn't work. I was slower through the 60', 330' and 1/8 and only ran a 10.15.
So no 9 for me this week. I was silly in my approach to the whole week because of my certification, but live and learn. Next time I'll show up ready to cert to the correct time and have more track time on it. This is the downside - bummed that I ran a 10.041.
The upside is 1150 miles pulling a 1000lb+ trailer at times to 80 mph. Monte Alban and Jetski worked phenomenally. I left some really nice roastey smokey trailer burnouts over the last couple of days - I couldn't be happier. And the best part of Drag Week - the people - absolutely no doubt. People that love cars, racing and the camaraderie. I still love the pic of vanrah - so glad we had a conversation and get together. Same goes for 81cutlass - look forward to the next get together.
Now onto analyzing datalogs and figuring why things went they way they did!!
Monte Alban was looking promising on the 1st hit - 10.041 with room to grow. So I cranked up the launch boost and timing and got more aggressive on the big end. Whatever I did, didn't work. I was slower through the 60', 330' and 1/8 and only ran a 10.15.
So no 9 for me this week. I was silly in my approach to the whole week because of my certification, but live and learn. Next time I'll show up ready to cert to the correct time and have more track time on it. This is the downside - bummed that I ran a 10.041.
The upside is 1150 miles pulling a 1000lb+ trailer at times to 80 mph. Monte Alban and Jetski worked phenomenally. I left some really nice roastey smokey trailer burnouts over the last couple of days - I couldn't be happier. And the best part of Drag Week - the people - absolutely no doubt. People that love cars, racing and the camaraderie. I still love the pic of vanrah - so glad we had a conversation and get together. Same goes for 81cutlass - look forward to the next get together.
Now onto analyzing datalogs and figuring why things went they way they did!!
Now that's a good little side adventure story for Drag Week. Congrats on the excellent work and a pretty seamless journey.
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