Finally some nice weather

Looks like sunny with 0 percent chance of rain tomorrow. Guess where I'll be.....Muncie. Bout time the rain backed off, I was getting so sick of it. I would think there is gonna be a good amount of racers there being that the weather was so crappy the last few weeks.

Good luck down there tomorrow. I should be back on the road in about a week. And will be at muncie on the 9th for the friday night races.;)

Ill be there the 9th also.......we should caravan down. Duey was telling me you hadnt even got your tranny shipped yet.....have you gotten it by now?

It is suppose to be here the end of this week or the beginning of next week.:rolleyes:

What'd you end up running last night Mark?

I ran it 7 times.....worst was a 13.877 best was a 13.830 at 101.56 mph talk about consistency ehh? I think with a little more practice and if I remove my pass. seat again ( had it in last night) I can hit 13.7xx with this setup. Last night was the busiest by far I have ever seen muncie......were talking cars backed up 50 feet outside of the staging lanes.....oh and one downside to last night was that I friggin scratched the paint and took it off near the bottom of my back bumper....I backed into a wooden pole with a sign on it, it was really dark and I couldnt see it with my windows up with my tint.......but oh well life goes on.

those times aren't bad at all. I think I'm gonna order my 3.73s tomorrow and have them put on next week. I hope to get off work so I can go down on the 9th with you and Dan. I probably end up taking a half day and leaving at 5.

cool......your gonna be one quick mofo.......If you dont mind me asking though....what made you start modding your car, seems like last year you didnt give a dang about your car and going fast....now in friggin 1 or 2 months time you done blew by me.

All it took was goin to muncie one time and I was hooked. I thought workin on these cars was gonna be rough but I started helpin Dan and found it was pretty easy. So I bought a few mods and now I'm hooked.

cool cool......I think I'm gonna go get a quote on gears and install from epp tomorrow. To make things interesting with your mods now and the addition of gears (no nitrous!) vs my car in its current state with gears heads up on the 9th for 20 bucks. I'm not talking about who gets the best et....its about et and reaction time....overall best time wins (first guy at the line) So what do ya say......are ya down? ;) :p :D Basically what it will come down to is if headers or tires are more important. This is all based on if I do get my gears in and retuned pcm done by the 9th though. Just a little friendly wager.

dude are you serious? can I take out my seats and stuff too?

I'll take winner on motor, for $50. Seriously I'll hold the money and watch at the line.

Originally posted by MarkyMark
cool cool......I think I'm gonna go get a quote on gears and install from epp tomorrow. To make things interesting with your mods now and the addition of gears (no nitrous!) vs my car in its current state with gears heads up on the 9th for 20 bucks. I'm not talking about who gets the best et....its about et and reaction time....overall best time wins (first guy at the line) So what do ya say......are ya down? ;) :p :D Basically what it will come down to is if headers or tires are more important. This is all based on if I do get my gears in and retuned pcm done by the 9th though. Just a little friendly wager.

Mark-
I would avoid EPP like the plague! I have many reasons! I would try to find somebody else to install those gears for you.

I will be ging down next Wed, the 30th. Anybody else?

Originally posted by Ponyhntr
Mark-
I would avoid EPP like the plague! I have many reasons! I would try to find somebody else to install those gears for you.

Who should I go to then??? I have no clue who would do a good job. Are they bad on their installs or what?


Duey: yea im serious, take out whatever you want....just dont do it drag race stripped completely style
:eek: :D

Dan: Errrr.....I'll have to say no to that one......I dont think I would stand a chance in hell against you...your gonna be 12's easy all motor I would think....me......13.5 or better is all I'm really hoping for.

I was told a place in New Haven does a really nice job, but I forget the name. I will try to find out for you. If we ever talk, I'll tell you why to avoid EPP, but I'm not going to bash them publicly. Just avoid them!

When are we all going to meet up soon? The trans should be here this week and back in the car by next weekend.:D

I dont think I am gonna be able to have my gears installed and retuned before the 9th now......First off I have to find out how I'm gonna send in my pcm, because my car is a daily driver and I cant leave it sit for too long with no computer, second I need to find a good shop that will do a quality install, third I need to find a place to get the gears and install kit from......I actually ordered them from thunderracing.com, but they said the gears were backordered until august so I cancelled that one. But I'm still down to go the 9th and I will shoot for 13.7 for sure....I got my helmet ordered ( they told me I needed one last time I was there, but I lied sorta and told em I was runnin a little slower and they let me go) so anyways..............oh and does anyone know of any place to get my car weighed locally, I would like to see how much my car is weighing.

Had kind of a hang up on my gears too. I was gonna order them but I found a killer deal on a diff too. So now I have to wait till I have the money for both. I'm gonna have the n2o hooked up though so I'll shoot for high 12s

Originally posted by dirtybird96
Had kind of a hang up on my gears too. I was gonna order them but I found a killer deal on a diff too. So now I have to wait till I have the money for both. I'm gonna have the n2o hooked up though so I'll shoot for high 12s

Nice....I think you should get 12's, how big of a shot are you spraying? I would go the nitrous route, but i just couldnt afford to rebuild an engine or tranny right now. I'm actually getting a little hesitant about the gears, because 3.73 plus good traction (my dr's) and the rearend could blow...so I dont know.

Mark-check out SLP-they have Motive gears-very good quality. The same company makes the stock gears. slpeng.com Also, I was told Ft. Wayne transmission has installed gears before, and did a nice job. I would call some different tranny shops-they might be able to do it.

I'm gonna run a 100 shot. I figure if the motor goes I'll just rebuild it this winter. If my tranny goes its still under warranty so no prob there either. I wouldn't worry about the rear end, from what I've read they usually hold up unless you have a lot of HP, just look at Dans DRs, cam, and n20 still no problems.

Auto's and 10 bolts work alright together. Mark you should be fine for a while with the gears. Ask Joe at hire's on Lime where to get the gears done, i'm sure he knows a good place or person.

josh: actually I really wanna get some motive gears, but I have a series 2 carrier which needs a thicker gear, and I think the motive are series 3 only (at least that is all I have seen)

Hey Mark, I was looking for ya yesterday. My buddy got 2nd place last night. He ran a best of 11.85 @ 116 last night. I still haven't gotten any of my cars there but I did get my fuel pump changed on the '86 and I found a cracked brake rotor.

Originally posted by Jubba
Hey Mark, I was looking for ya yesterday. My buddy got 2nd place last night. He ran a best of 11.85 @ 116 last night. I still haven't gotten any of my cars there but I did get my fuel pump changed on the '86 and I found a cracked brake rotor.

Hey, I didnt end up making it....was too tired from work and just didnt feel like driving down... thats cool he got 2nd place he is getting pretty good at it. Good luck on getting 1 of your cars to the track, I know I'll be at muncie the 9th ( you have to work right?), but I may come on some wednesdays, just depends. It gets kinda expensive if I go every week though because I have to fill up the car with gas, pay 15 bucks to get in, and then I usually spend 5 or so bucks on food.....not to mention the wear on my new tires.....dangit I need to get some salad shooters so badly. Well see ya around.

Yeah, I understand about the $$. Yeah, I have to work on Fridays. I work 3rd shift Thurs-Sun 8P-8A. I'll let ya know when I get some times on my car.

Originally posted by MarkyMark
josh: actually I really wanna get some motive gears, but I have a series 2 carrier which needs a thicker gear, and I think the motive are series 3 only (at least that is all I have seen)

Well, I don't know if they have anymore, but SLP used to sell take-out Zexel diffs from the LS1 cars (not the HD ones). You used to be able to pick them up for $99. Those would be a 3-series carrier. Then you would be able to run the Motive Gears.