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Post by Captain Awesome on Sept 20, 2020 13:36:42 GMT -8
Nice color contrast.
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Post by n2ojoe on Sept 20, 2020 15:53:26 GMT -8
Lol, thanks for the video Rick! I spent all day unloading the trailer and camper, and finally got a chance to post. What a great weekend! So glad you made it on Friday Rick! It was COLD on Friday morning, but the first pass off the trailer against Larry Weymouth's SC360 was the most fun of the weekend! I ran a 12.722 @ 109mph. That beat Larry's pure stock AMC record from last year's 12.73. I got paired up with a '72 Trans Am 455 h.o. for the best of 3 shootout, who went 12.79 in Friday qualifying. 1st round, the T/A got the jump at .077 to my .125 reaction time, and I rode just behind his front fender all the way down track for a loss. My 12.95 to his 12.94. But he struggled with consistency and missed a shift on the next 2 passes, giving me the shootout win! Great race as usual. We NEED more AMC's at this event!
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Post by spud on Sept 20, 2020 16:32:20 GMT -8
Holy moly your flying now😀
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Post by n2ojoe on Sept 20, 2020 18:17:24 GMT -8
Thanks Spud. It ran as fast as 110.01 mph Saturday morning in testing (the temp was in the mid-upper 40 degrees) and weighed 3415 with me in it. Magic air for sure!
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Post by Captain Awesome on Sept 20, 2020 18:19:28 GMT -8
Congrats! That's some awesome times. Flying with logs.
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Post by n2ojoe on Sept 20, 2020 18:54:24 GMT -8
Thanks Capt! The AMX still has all the dumb factory 5/16" fuel line and 4300 carb. I noted Larry's Whorenet has non stock 3/8th fuel line and Edlecrap 650 cfm carb(NOT legal!), with free flow manifolds on both banks(not just left, as stock) which made me pretty proud of my junk! 😁 Yeah, tech is VERY loose these days. Makes me wanna try even harder to hurt some feelings with stock crap. My problem is still in the 60'. It went 1.91 on the 12.72 pass, but then was in the 2.02-2.10 range the rest of the race.
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Post by Captain Awesome on Sept 21, 2020 5:50:17 GMT -8
Now that is really awesome, beating someone that's "stretching" the rules.
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Post by spud on Sept 21, 2020 9:28:21 GMT -8
Lol. I figure its all relative. I reckon joe is kicking ass and a truly pure stock 70 amx back in the day couldnt pull a hi 12 no flippin way. And by the same thought a flippin sc 360 wouldn’t either so no foul. Enjoy the royal joust im sure evrryone had a swell time irregardless of who won or didnt.
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Post by n2ojoe on Sept 21, 2020 15:03:09 GMT -8
I can't argue with anything there! Although the general public assumes the cars are stock, anyone who actually reads the rules on allowed changes can clearly see that most are purpose built just for this event. My pure motivation here are the uber rich dudes that show up repeatedly with full blown cheater cars and the race promoter allows them to run because of their personal and business relations, and the stir that those impressive time slips generate. My broke dick self who builds his own engines in a 2 car attached garage showed up the previous 3 years with an average mill and was looked down on for slower timeslips. So, I caved and built what I thought could be a competitive piece to the full extent of the rules, just to prove my point of what it REALLY takes to run those numbers. Mission accomplished. It is something the internet keyboard racers will probably never understand, about a race they constantly run their mouths about but will never participate or even attend, while belittling the guys out there actually doing it. And yes we talk smack amongst ourselves with friendly grudges. At the end of the day, we really do have a "swell" time and share a few beers. Man, I can't wait until next year! 😁
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Post by Captain Awesome on Sept 21, 2020 15:13:36 GMT -8
Like the 340! Cars?
as I said 1000 times, never seen a fast one in anywhere near stock form. So I ASSume, they're cheating like mofos to run those times with those Junk Ass heads as one flow bench expert refers to them.
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Post by spud on Sept 21, 2020 15:30:48 GMT -8
Having a good time is plenty. Let the high rollers sweat about gettin a trophy.
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Post by sc397 on Sept 22, 2020 13:44:58 GMT -8
Joe touched on it a little so, I will add my $0.002 worth... I was invited to hang with some of the elite on Friday so I did along with Joe and some of our other local Buds. The host has a way way high dollar restoration shop with a couple of hundred thousand dollar Pontiac's and AMC's on the showroom. Geeze, it was amazing.. All of that is fine and I did have a good time but, it reminded me why I don't do the show car thing any more. I don't know how to put this but straight up. Billy K had drove his unrestored but nice '69 Amboat Wagon over there and I had drove the Daughter's Javelin over there as well. Not one of the elite even went over to look at or even mention anything about our junk sitting in the driveway. I don't know, to me a real AMC guy is interested in all things AMC at least enough to go have a look. Well I guess maybe that it is just me that is that way. Regardless... Congratulations to Joe! It is awesome to beat them at their own game. Hell, he could have actually drove it to the strip and won as far as I am concerned.
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Post by spud on Sept 22, 2020 15:45:44 GMT -8
Life has done odd things to my perspectives. I appreciate people for what they are, not that i look up to yhe “ greats” or look down on the less fortunate or socialy ill for we are what we make ourselves and make our choices, and we are all different and we are all valid , and part of the grand mosaic of the human race. So i see people who are diseased with the focus on wealth, and their twisted values and their endless pursuit of the false sense of being better or above the less financially fixated. I seldom find myself in their presence but when i do i take time to take it all in, and when i escape, i thank the creator for not cursing me with that tiresome illness. I have heard people choose a dog that looks like them. I say your choice in cars can tell a lot too, same as your choice in clothes. So i look at your car like i look at you. Interesting . But the more character it has the more interesting. I find spitshined people and cliche collector cars only so interesting... so i expect them to find me and my car just as tiresome.
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Post by Captain Awesome on Sept 22, 2020 18:32:35 GMT -8
They're not real Cars guys if they don't check them out. I check out all Cars. Esp if someone has been doing work to it.
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Post by 69Rebel on Sept 23, 2020 7:01:35 GMT -8
I prefer looking at the "works in progress", and ratty old beaters, at a car show more than the cars with $10,000 paint jobs and $5,000 interiors.
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