Floydsbuick
09-25-2004, 10:23 PM
Flashlight drags were held tonight in Zelionople PA. Right at the liitle airport. Great event! I love good ole fashioned street racing. Tonights track length was probably slighty longer than an 1/8 mile (This factors in later). O were to start. My first run was against a stout 66 Mustang. I left well, but it was pretty quick. I especially enjoyed how my throttle hung wide open!!! Something went funky in the cable. I fought with it all night. I pivoted the throttle bracket to ease some binding. Next race was against my friends 350 Olds powered S-10. I smoked him good, but he'd get some revenge. I raced him again next and decided to leave a hair late. ( I like a close race) Well.....I did that and never caught him. That Olds sure had a full head of steam going on! But alas, it turns out the throttle bracket was now hitting the secondary linkage on the carb. A check revealed that the secondarys were opening halfway! Some bending later and I took the Olds to school. Now I decide to mix it up with a tough sounding 5.0. Without bragging to much, I was fierce off the line tonight. And that off-the-line toughness yielded me a dead even finsh with the quicker 5.0. We went another round and he left with me that time. Yeah, I lost. But not by much. SOOOOOOOO.........By now its 9:45pm. I got time for one more race. Everyone who isn't paired up hangs on the return road looking for a race. Some dudes with a LT1 Z 28 (96?) yell to me for a run. OK, I thought, what the heck. The LT1s are fast stock. I know darn well they are faster than me. But I've been working on the car** lately, and I think I may have a shot. On the approach road it starts to occur to me that this distance is shorter than last event. Now I wonder, can I get to the line with two gears instead of hitting third? You see, my third gear is 1-to-1 since my trans is an OD. That leaves me with a disadvantage. The spread between second and third is huge. I think of all this by the time I'm staged. And one more thing...I don't give a crap how hard this A833 is to shift, my right foot is staying planted! The flashlight is lit, and I'm gone like yesterday! I pull second so hard I thought for sure I'd be picking up parts. I see the finish line and glance at the tach. 5000 rpm with a few lengths to go. My theory works as I nail third only after I pass the line. The LT1 is two car lengths back! My home brewed second rate piece of crap $2000 car has sent one bad-ass musclecar packing! The LT1 driver tells me my car is bad! (Good Bad). Somebody help me now, my head has swelled to extra large proportions. The clock says I may get one more race in, but I say naw. I've come home dissapointed a few times to many,. Tonight I'll come home a winner..............Large head and all :laugh:
**5AM 800 cfm quadrajet re-rebuild to prepare for the event. New top with those extra squirters behind the choke plate. Still has off idle roughness, but its making the power. Special thanks to Smartin!!
**5AM 800 cfm quadrajet re-rebuild to prepare for the event. New top with those extra squirters behind the choke plate. Still has off idle roughness, but its making the power. Special thanks to Smartin!!