The Elephant In The Room: unloading the load from a B-body.

[fullmetaljacket]

It has a better weld now than the factory.
Doug

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Doug. You're hard on stuff. LOL.

 

[Badvert65]

If they were, we would hear more about them by now, I would think.

I was just curious. You hear of so many special titanium race parts but I haven't heard about titanium pushrods. I wonder what the disadvantages might be (aside from cost).

 

[fullmetaljacket]

I was just curious. You hear of so many special titanium race parts but I haven't heard about titanium pushrods. I wonder what the disadvantages might be (aside from cost).

If anyone would be running them, it would be the pro-stock or Top fuel guys.

 

[fullmetaljacket]

This is second of two images that I have of the car in action at the Mopar Action invitational at Maple Grove.
I pumped up the floor jack a little higher to get more air underneath the front wheels for this picture (LOL) in which
Hemi-itis took.

 

[dvw]

I had to put a 4x4 on end above the floor jack for this one.
Doug

 

[fullmetaljacket]

I had to put a 4x4 on end above the floor jack for this one.
Doug

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Are you sure there aren't two thin line tempered steel cables anchored to the bridge tower that are holding the car up by the front tip of the fenders for this photo opt? LOL.

 

[fullmetaljacket]

This says it all of what this thread is about.
Mike Buckel of The Ramchargers fame said: "If you're really innovating, it's fun"

 

[padam]

In the 90’s me and a bunch of guys I worked with raced together. We all had slow cars.

Our lead man was a real jerkoff. He used to crew for his brother who had a pretty fast Camaro. It was a lot faster than our cars (probably 10 sec.) He would strut around bragging about it but it wasn’t even his.

One day he brought in a framed picture of the Camaro pulling the wheels way up at the track and propped it up on his work bench.

When he wasn’t looking one of the guys drew a wrecker with hook in the Camaro on the picture glass. I still chuckle when I think about it.

 

[fullmetaljacket]

In the 90’s me and a bunch of guys I worked with raced together. We all had slow cars.

Our lead man was a real jerkoff. He used to crew for his brother who had a pretty fast Camaro. It was a lot faster than our cars (probably 10 sec.) He would strut around bragging about it but it wasn’t even his.

One day he brought in a framed picture of the Camaro pulling the wheels way up at the track and propped it up on his work bench.

When he wasn’t looking one of the guys drew a wrecker with hook in the Camaro on the picture glass. I still chuckle when I think about it.

I had a lot of fun with my buddies when we were all going a lot slower and within 100th's and 10ths of each other. Driving there and back with Trophy's in the rear seat was the hallmark moments.
Miss those days and NIGHTS and especially the deceiving $h!t talking chats (LOL) we would all have with each other while knowing that we were holding our cars close to our chests for the events later that evening.
I still can drive to a reasonably close track, but wait........... there aren't any left anymore.

 

[Dodge 330]

Some weights to ponder: The Trickflow 240 heads weigh 5 lbs. more each than 440Source Stealth heads. The Trickflow Track Heat intake weighs 5 lbs. less than a Holley Street Dominator.

 

[fullmetaljacket]

Some weights to ponder: The Trickflow 240 heads weigh 5 lbs. more each than 440Source Stealth heads. The Trickflow Track Heat intake weighs 5 lbs. less than a Holley Street Dominator.

Yes, heads and intakes will differ in weight for a variety of reasons, but a heavier type might perform better and outweigh the difference. Even carbs can be funny as I found my new thumper carb was a full 2 lbs + lighter than my last one.

 

[Dodge 330]

I had a lot of fun with my buddies when we were all going a lot slower and within 100th's and 10ths of each other. Driving there and back with Trophy's in the rear seat was the hallmark moments.
Miss those days and NIGHTS and especially the deceiving $h!t talking chats (LOL) we would all have with each other while knowing that we were holding our cars close to our chests for the events later that evening.
I still can drive to a reasonably close track, but wait........... there aren't any left anymore.

I have a couple of friends/neighbors that we all go to the track together, hang out and help each other. Both of them got into the 10's about a year ago on the same day. It was really cool to celebrate those achievements and everyone went home with a smile on their face! I got my 9.90 pass running side by side with my buddy's Chevelle.

We all have wildly different combos but they all seem to be close. The good kind of neighborhood race wars!

 

[fullmetaljacket]

I have a couple of friends/neighbors that we all go to the track together, hang out and help each other. Both of them got into the 10's about a year ago on the same day. It was really cool to celebrate those achievements and everyone went home with a smile on their face! I got my 9.90 pass running side by side with my buddy's Chevelle.

We all have wildly different combos but they all seem to be close. The good kind of neighborhood race wars!

The break throughs are the real fun as apposed to the break downs, but there's where you get to know who are your friends.

I once followed a friend from the track after one day of racing and told him to take it easy going home with those M/T ET Streets being that it had started to drizzle. Low and behold, he was going too fast on a gradual turn on the freeway and went into dreadful spin and crash. I witnessed the whole thing front row seats and all from my own car. I laid up my car (an unmarked 83' Dodge Police package) to block him with the bubblegum lights flashing so that no one else would come plowing into him on that blind curve.
My aluminum front bumper brackets on his car survived a direct hit to the concrete divider somehow. I still don't know how they didn't bend or collapse all together, but his steel front fender skirt had an outward bulge in it. I WAS SO FREAKIN' MAD AT HIM, but glad that he was okay even though he was shaken up (about his car) LOL.
Anyway, we got the car limping out of there in a hurry and we both learned and earned two lessons that day.

*Don't rush with stickies in the rain, They're sticky in the dry, but not in the wet. Layup under an overpass or just get off the roadway and wait the weather out. Better than waiting for the wrecker.

*Most importantly, friends stick it out with you.
Funny enough, he's alive and well, but he hasn't called me in a few years. That BUM. LOL.