Re: Cayuga/St. Thomas race (was: Dakota questions)

From: Lynn Pedersen (davewaco@sympatico.ca)
Date: Mon Feb 07 2000 - 19:37:50 EST


Hi Jon, I guess it's time to install my 92 Magnum manifolds, (and 2 1/4
dual exhaust) and my 2500 stall SMR torque converter. Darn it, they look
so good in my Mopar Room!!! HOT TIP --- I hear Bob Tom is looking at
410 gears. Should be a blast. But you do have a 15% advantage. Dont miss
a shift!!! See you soon. EH!!! Dave Waco

Jon Steiger wrote:
>
> On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Bob Tom wrote:
>
> > At 12:22 PM 2/7/00 -0500, you wrote:
> > >Hi! Bob, My 91 Dak brochure has 4X4 V8 CCs. What are you up to now?
> > >How about You, Me, and the Boss Man Jon having a 3 way dance, heads-up
> > >racing at Cayuga on a Street Race Friday Night? Sounds like fun, EH!!!
> > > Dave Waco
> [...]
> > A heads-up amongst the three of us (and any other interested Daksters)
> > would be great! There was a fellow up from the Buffalo area on the
> > last day of the track with a '99(?) pretty stripped RC Ram with a 360.
> > He used to run at Cayuga many years ago and his son has a '97 318 Dak.
> > We ran a heads-up after we both went out in the elimination rounds.
> > I was lucky enough to edge him at the line by a couple of hundredths
> > because I had to get off the pedal twice to get it to shift into
> > third and the fact that I had a .517 reaction time (was pumped).
> >
> > According to the present owner of St. Thomas Dragway,
> > Fri. nights are also when the local R/Ters around the London, Ont.
> > area have their get-togethers as well. He says a couple run 14.8x
> > and 14.9x with the rest in low to mid 15s.
> >
> > Maybe Jon can trailer up with his Ram now. Hope to have a few
> > new small additions so that I can just be competitive.
>
> Yepper, sounds like fun to me. :-) One of the reasons I got
> the Ram was so I could race my Dak at places outside of my AAA towing
> range, like Cayuga. :-) Assuming I can keep from blowing up my
> engine with a missed shift, it would be fun to show those R/Ts what
> we yankees can afford to do since we don't have to pay a 15% tax on
> everything along with customs broker fees. ;-)
>
> -Jon-
>
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