greetings from Memphis TN "Hotrod Magazine Pump Gas Drags!"

Just saying hi..

Gotta love wireless internet.

No wonder its been so quiet around here today... all of the post whores are in TN :think: j/k :D

my dads down there with the guys from 1badls1. look for the huge pontiac racing rigg. my dad will be the bald guy. tell him i say hi if u see him. the car the have there is a TT charger.

Originally posted by SSnthe10s
my dads down there with the guys from 1badls1. look for the huge pontiac racing rigg. my dad will be the bald guy. tell him i say hi if u see him. the car the have there is a TT charger. Will do!

Yes, the black Charger TT Hemi will be one fun car to watch along with the rest of the local guys who got picked. Keep the updates coming Dave. :D

Rick

Originally posted by IROC5.7TPI
No wonder its been so quiet around here today... all of the post whores are in TN :think: j/k :D

That ain't no joke it's the truth;) ;)

Racing is tonight! Friday!! Rain is on the way, for late tonight and all day Saturday. Stay posted for more updates.

awesome, get lot's of video!!!!

Here's the Unofficial results summary from Ls1tech thread http://www.ls1tech.com/forums/showthread.php?t=104716&page=5&pp=20:

10. 10.00 Brian Clarke driving a blue Nova
9. 9.99 Tom Hunsucker in a black Hemi 'Cuda
8. 9.95 Chris Johnson in a 1969 Camaro
7. 9.85 Mel Graham in a 1969 Camaro
6. 9.83 Jim Pravis in a black 1968 Hemi Charger
5. 9.76 Kevin Zasky in a black 1969 twin-turbo Hemi Charger
4. 9.70 Mike Thompson in a red S10 pickup with a 357 SBC
3. 9.58 Ray Doti in a red turbo Nova
2. 9.47 John Cunningham in a white Nova with a N/A BBC
1. 9.45 Ken Close in a 1934 Ford coupe with a BBC

The top dog was Robert Schmidt in a beautiful white '66/'67 BBC stick-shift Chevelle that averaged 9.40.

I believe these are their three run hot lap averages. So some impressive runs and driving on pump gas. Congrats to everyone that was selected for the event. Solid showing for the black 1969 twin-turbo Hemi Charger we saw up at 1BADLS1/Hardcore Motorsport last weekend. :)

Sounds like they had a great event down there. Looking forward to hearing from our local guys on their results, pics and clips.

Have a safe trip home everyone.

Rick

Originally posted by SSnthe10s
my dads down there with the guys from 1badls1. look for the huge pontiac racing rigg. my dad will be the bald guy. tell him i say hi if u see him. the car the have there is a TT charger.

THAT's the guy I was asking you about Dave. I knew he looked familiar but couldn't figure out from where. Makes sense now. I knew I had seen him at Stanton but for the life of me couldn't remember who it was.

That charger was badass. Didn't run the numbers I expected though.

For the record there was a couple guys who had some bad luck that would have made that list of results look like a joke. Ray Doughty (in the red turbo efi nova) ran a 9.12 and backed it up with a 9.08, but broke on the third run. The blue chevelle (67 I believe) was short shifting the first 2 gears and hitting third by the 300 ft mark (due to traction) and was STILL runnin 9.0x until he broke and couldn't run the third pass. There was a guy in a 68 vette with blue stripes that ran three perfect 9.1x passes, but unfortunately on the way to the track his ignition box got hot and cutout, which made him fall behind the chase vehicle. When that happened, it was a DQ, though they still let him run.

Some wild rides there. The Datsun 240z was an animal lifting the tires 4 feet in the air TWICE on the same run before crossing the center line... the 34 Ford lifting the nose high enough that his back bumper dragged and scooped rubber off the pavement, etc

What a great show!

Transamtom here hijacking Dans Computer.

Nice meeting you Mike and Dave,I had a great time,also a big thanks to Dan for letting me stay at his place.

It was also nice to run into a few people I have not seen in a while and also to meet some more people from the board.

At least they got the racing in,it would have been a huge bummer if it did not go.

OK since no one else is asking the obvious I guess I will. What did Tanner and Roman run?

Dan here--

I believe Roman was running low 11's while Taner was mid 10's on all of their runs. Very consistent, IIRC, while most of the competitors were all over the place in terms of E/T.

They were running quite respectable--- Excellent showing, clean runs.

Thanks Dan!:thumb:

Here's some pics...

http://www.sixtyninecamaro.com/images/memphis/memphis.html

Nice pics.

Well, I just got home. 2, 12 hour days of driving in 3 days. Then the day i between of teching, cruising and racing til midnight. Then a cruise back to the hotel (in my car) with the t-tops off and drink until 3:30 am last night. Yee haw.

The guy that won, Rob in the white Chevelle I think was also the most impressive car there. It was a beautiful white with a blue vinyl top. It had steel bumpers, stock bucket seats a small tach on the steering column, all steel body. Simply beautiful.

The track was awesome, awesome machines and a great time with group that went down.

Thanks guys for all of help getting my car ready.

Roman

it was a hoot! the friends made the event! and of course the cars didn't hurt ;)

the track itself was awesome, but the air was $hit. oh well we all ran in the same climate.:D

my 60's were crap, as i was leaving way to hard, but no biggie, i got to run with alot of cool cars!!!


the winning car had a Jerico in it i believe, not very street friendly but a balst to hear popping gears!!!!

Wow,
What a last couple days...
Iv'e been to heaven's parking lot.
Doesn't really matter who got to be king
What an honor for the short list of people who were asked
to sit at the table of the elite, every car there
was beautiful and wicked bad ass.
Congrats to all.

PS
There was a 67 Chevelle from Alberta ( Someone verify?)
putting out enough power to run a friggin 6 I swear if
he hooked that car he would have spit out chunks of
pavement.

Nice to see everyone
Good night
Kevin

Whew
Just got in the door what a friggn show:)
That cruise was a wicked dude during the rush hour thru the burbs of Memphis. The cars where simply BADASZ, a day to remember in HOTROD history:bow:
Just silly seeing just how stong so many differant types of power combos can run, doing it on true pump gas!
"I MUST BE IN HEAVEN MAN"
this event will open the eyes of many of us gearheads during the next few months as the coverage in the rags and TV starts.

Kevin Ya that was "THE LUMP" with the blue 66/67 BBC fogger chevelle from AB, Canada...
...talk about a long haul he had!
A real cool guy, too bad he killed the motor peddeling in.

http://www.hotrod.com/eventcoverage/113_pgd/

Thanks Jeff for all the help!
to T/A Jack and Bill too!
too bad the tnt rainout kept us from havin' time
to get the tune-up right with the MSD retard not working..
the bad tranny was the "real" killer though..
I had a great time just too condensed to get it all right and
drink enough brewskis'..
soon as I get the tranny fixed I'll holler at ya..let
ya know how it runs with your new tune!
Thanks again!
Matt

Well I left Dan's at 3:30 am and got Home at 11am:(

My Opti took a crap just after the Blue Water Bridge:(

I got it restarted and limped for a while:p

Phoned the CTC Auto Club at 6:30 am got towed all the way home N/C at 8:30 am

The good news is the Opti I bought from Brandon was waiting inside my door:D :cool:

Time to get to work on the Opti install

I had a great time :D :cool:

Well it was a blast.. I already posted in another thread yesterday in the lounge.. but man was this a great time!!! I cannot wait to do something like this again.

These last few days were nothing short of amazing.

Roman and Taner :bow:

And it was nice meeting you Matt!

Tom,
That sucks that you opti went south on ya. Glad the opti was waiting for you!!
later
Brandon

wow

what an event, everything was awesome from start to finish. good thing they decided to run friday night because of the weather.

congrats to all who where invited to the event, you put on a good show

comp cams did a great job on displaying the cars and their where more than friendly on the tours

Originally posted by Brandon94Z28
Tom,
That sucks that you opti went south on ya. Glad the opti was waiting for you!!
later
Brandon

If thats the worst thing that happens this summer then I will be a lucky man.

I was having an intermitent problem a few weeks ago,and I thought I had fixed it.

But I guess it was Opti and the other small problems combined.

Good thing it was over Friday night and we travelled on Saturday:p

tid bits;)
http://www.compcams.com/Community/Events/2004PumpGasChallenge.asp

www.hotrod.com

No problem Matt I wish we hadn't got the filp off by mother nature on Thrusday. Man have your guy throw in the vac modutator while hes fixing the 3/4 pack. On a side note 320 shot on pump gas who would have dreamed it possible, thanks for letting me do the wideband work with you on the tune.
.... as always it was a pleasure to work on your BAD AZZ LT1 Transam. Be sure to e-mail me the Log data and WB data and we'll tweek where needed!!!
Lets see a 9 second 355 LT1 on pump fuel :)

on a side note this Red Nova out of New York owned by a real cool dude {Ray Doti}, small block powered single t85 turbo running 9.oh my god et's was my favroite pump gas ride. Owner built in his garage at home with his two boys and wife!
it can't get much better than this sick duce.
http://www.hotrod.com/hotrod/eventcoverage/113_pgd_75_l.jpg

Dam I just noticed my second favrote PGD car next to Ray in the pic...
...the white nova of Jim Henna. That car was so low key small tire easy to not give it a second look then he rips off high nine second passes like a frigg'n bracket car.

Jeff, that red nova was my favorite too. There's a few pics and vids in that collection of mine. I wouldn't be at all suprised if that became a feature car down the road.

Also, what's the story behind your ford-hatin jack russel? :)

My absolute favorite was the white & blue '68 Corvette with the vintage '72 Ekler's custom fiberglass rear. It had a red interior and still sported the original factory T-tops and a worked over IRS suspension with factory leaf spring! Steve (?) bought it 25 years ago from the original owner.

Too bad his MSD ignition took a little nap on the cruise to the track, resulting in the DQ. His three runs were 9.17 / 149MPH, 9.18 / 149 MPH, and 9.17 / 149.5 MPH.

If he hadn't been disqualified during the cruise, he's have beat the fastest time by over two tenths! The car was oh, so subtle, yet oh, so sweet! Virtually no wheels-up, just a straight & hard launch off the line, then jam on the nitrous at the sixty-foot mark to drive the MPH through the roof!


We've posted more about the PGD at this thread. (http://www.michiganspeed.com/Speedforum/index.php?showtopic=3071&view=findpost&p=27684)

FYI....
The Pump Gas Drags coverage will be in the August issue, on sale July 6.
...in HOT ROD of course :)

Whew
Just got in the door what a friggn show:)
That cruise was a wicked dude during the rush hour thru the burbs of Memphis. The cars where simply BADASZ, a day to remember in HOTROD history:bow:
Just silly seeing just how stong so many differant types of power combos can run, doing it on true pump gas!
"I MUST BE IN HEAVEN MAN"
this event will open the eyes of many of us gearheads during the next few months as the coverage in the rags and TV starts.

Kevin Ya that was "THE LUMP" with the blue 66/67 BBC fogger chevelle from AB, Canada...
...talk about a long haul he had!
A real cool guy, too bad he killed the motor peddeling in.

http://www.hotrod.com/eventcoverage/113_pgd/




I KNOW I'm reviving and old thread but I'm new here and my ears were burning! Thanks for the good words (6 months ago LOL) - hope to see you guys in memphis this year if I can get the car back together in time AND get invited.

I have added considerable horsepower, taken hundreds of pounds of weight out, made it more streetable, and added much more tire and EFI.

www.lumpracing.com

feel free to post on the mi/canadian forum from time to time, keep me posted :)

I KNOW I'm reviving and old thread but I'm new here and my ears were burning! Thanks for the good words (6 months ago LOL) - hope to see you guys in memphis this year if I can get the car back together in time AND get invited.

I have added considerable horsepower, taken hundreds of pounds of weight out, made it more streetable, and added much more tire and EFI.

www.lumpracing.com

Hey Ryan,
I was really happy to see you made the cover after everything
you'd been thru.

In case you don't remember me .......and I've told this story to more
than a few of my friends.

We were drinking beer at the awards ceremony

"Dude I just blew up a 30k motor"

"Look on the brightside your gonna be in Hot Rod magazine"

"Do you really think so?"

"You trapped 156 blowing the tires everywhere you'll be in."

BIG smile......1 beer and 90 seconds later

"Dude I just blew up a 30k motor"


Congrats on the cover and I hear youv'e been invited back :bow:

Kevin

Hey Taner and Kevin!

The cover was nice but I have gotten over both the glamour and also the agony of defeat and have moved on LOL. Not like it was the first engine I hurt and definately not the last.

Kevin, WHERE did you hear I've been invited back LOL I haven't applied yet. I'm still working on my application. I should have it JB welded together and ready for the mailbox in a week or so.

I've got a lot of work to do - I have been slack but I kicked myself into gear about a week ago and have been working on it every night. I'm a little intimidated by the EFI (at first) but once I get it on the dyno and off again in one piece I'll be ok with it.

I can't make the same mistakes twice - I have bigger tarz and wheelie barz now, better shocks and I have 4340 bar stock .220" wall wrist pins and a lighter rotating now so it should be good to go. I would also run more than one stage shotgun blast of nitrous this time, up to 3 smaller guns that I can select from on the fly.

WOW Ryan, I wish I could see you run THAT combo - I still love replaying your videos on my hard drive... I'll be there the week before the PGD trying out my own "new combo" at the NFME event.

p.s. You inspired me to aquire my own "A" body but I am not sure where I'm going to go with it yet. http://www.ws6transam.org/f85/olds.jpg

Hey Taner and Kevin!

The cover was nice but I have gotten over both the glamour and also the agony of defeat and have moved on LOL. Not like it was the first engine I hurt and definately not the last.

Kevin, WHERE did you hear I've been invited back LOL I haven't applied yet. I'm still working on my application. I should have it JB welded together and ready for the mailbox in a week or so.

I've got a lot of work to do - I have been slack but I kicked myself into gear about a week ago and have been working on it every night. I'm a little intimidated by the EFI (at first) but once I get it on the dyno and off again in one piece I'll be ok with it.

I can't make the same mistakes twice - I have bigger tarz and wheelie barz now, better shocks and I have 4340 bar stock .220" wall wrist pins and a lighter rotating now so it should be good to go. I would also run more than one stage shotgun blast of nitrous this time, up to 3 smaller guns that I can select from on the fly.

lol! 3 stages!! you are one crazy bastard! gotta love this ****! i am just trying to make everything fit around my sheetmetal intake, not an easy chore by any means! if you don't go down to memphis, tell you know of another canadian willing to go down in another blue car :D

Sheet metal intake? Deja vu - I just bought a used sheet metal intake with 4 throttle bodies on it - split dominator style. I am getting some annular fogger bungs installed in it by my friend in memphis (hotrodsolutions.net) and should have it in my hands next week. Also, another friend is making me some custom billet CNC throttle bodies that will much nicer than these and say "Lump Racing" on them.

www.lumpracing.com