Re: Wooo Hooo!!!!!!(drag racing -long)

From: Richard A Pyburn (rap777@juno.com)
Date: Sun Feb 07 1999 - 19:30:55 EST


Alan, I thought you were sayin the computer was canceling out all your
mods. Damn nice times! Congrats and look forward to seeing that beast
blast Sealy in March.

Richard in SA

On Sat, 06 Feb 1999 17:10:36 -0600 Alan Short <ashort@flash.net> writes:
>Well, Swede and I made it to the Motorplex today. I can hardly
>contain
>myself, the results far exceeded my expectations. My times are now:
>Run #1. We'll call this one some good news and some bad news.
>I was super stoked to run and left my tranny in 2nd and hit the rev
>limiter, totally blowing my own sage advice. Got the slip and
>WHAT???14.785 @ 91.07!!! hitting the limiter and fumbling the shift!
>
>Run #2. Fool proof run, O/D off and in drive. By now the place is
>PACKED
>and it's taking a lot longer to get thru staging, so make it RIGHT!
>RT .853 (sorry but safe)- 3rd & last run. it took about
>an
>hour to get to
>60' 2.068 - the front of staging and while
>in
>line a T-Type
>330 5.901 - Buick challenges me to a race.
>I
>know they're
>1/8 9.147 - fast, but I'm cocky now so I
>say
>OK.
>1000 11.954 -------
>1/4........14.334 @ 94.67 - 3rd run. My 14.283 @ 94.58
>
>to his 14.130
>------------------------------- @ 101.18. He just barely nicked me
>going
>thru the traps. Here's the breakdown of that race:
> My R/T His T-Type
>RT .797 RT .852
>60' 2.031 60' 2.296
>330 5.858 330' 6.106
>1/8 9.104 1/8 9.220
>1000' 11.907 1000' 11.883
>1/4 14.283 @ 94.58 14.130 @ 101.18
>
>One hell of a race! What I'd give for some top end! Anyway, I am so
>pumped I just can't sit still, I think I'll be grinning in my sleep
>tonight! I just had to share this with the dml because many of you
>are
>part of the reason that I finally cracked the 14 barrier and joined
>the
>ranks of the faster '98-'99 set. I wish you all the same luck, it's
>been
>a long, fun road. Alan S.
>

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