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Re: DW 2016 line up is out
« Reply #15 on: July 22, 2016, 12:40:38 PM »
It is set up with a dual fuel system to run gasoline on the street and NITROMETANE on the track! Coolest drag week effort ever, IMHO! (no offense to the esteemed Professor Brown, but how do you compete with a fuel altered for coolness?)

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« Reply #16 on: July 22, 2016, 12:49:27 PM »
Hmm, I wonder how he cools that thing with no radiator? Maybe he just drives a 1/4 mile at a time?
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Re: DW 2016 line up is out
« Reply #17 on: July 22, 2016, 01:12:58 PM »
There is a radiator with electric fans in the trunk. It looks in the picture like he does not have the cooling system hooked up to the engine yet.

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« Reply #18 on: July 22, 2016, 02:19:08 PM »
Doug, one of the cool things with Dragweek is observing the ingenuity involved with adapting what is really ( for the faster rides ) a racecar, for the road trip. And not just some weenie 30 lap fairgrounds cruise either. Then for the next year you get to read from the internet peanut gallery how "They aren't really street cars", and you'll come on and say "Yes they are, I was there!" and they will come back with ( insert Dr. Evil voice from Austin Powers here ) "Riiiight" LOL.
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Re: DW 2016 line up is out
« Reply #19 on: July 22, 2016, 03:10:17 PM »
If I wasn't too chicken to run in the sixes, I'd build a 65 Comet, flip top style like Jack Chrisman's old car, with a blown SOHC on nitro.  Run nitro at the track, and methanol or E85 between the tracks on the street.  Mechanical fuel injection system on the track, EFI on the street.  I think it would be do-able and far and away the most outrageous Drag Week car ever.  But it will never happens; 8s are fast enough for me  ;D
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Re: DW 2016 line up is out
« Reply #20 on: July 22, 2016, 03:15:52 PM »
'Atta boy, Professor, put the FE into unlimited! If you build it, I'm sure you can find someone crazy enough to drive it down the track, and you can be the owner/trunck monkey. Like Terzich did with the Camaro in 2007.

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Re: DW 2016 line up is out
« Reply #21 on: July 22, 2016, 03:39:03 PM »
There is a radiator with electric fans in the trunk. It looks in the picture like he does not have the cooling system hooked up to the engine yet.

It must be a monster radiator that catches some major air from somewhere, to cool that thing. I see all the louvers in the trunk. To help cool it, I'd think he'd be running methanol instead of gas. Can't wait to see it!

Doug, one of the cool things with Dragweek is observing the ingenuity involved with adapting what is really ( for the faster rides ) a racecar, for the road trip. And not just some weenie 30 lap fairgrounds cruise either. Then for the next year you get to read from the internet peanut gallery how "They aren't really street cars", and you'll come on and say "Yes they are, I was there!" and they will come back with ( insert Dr. Evil voice from Austin Powers here ) "Riiiight" LOL.

That's one of the things we're most looking forward to. Lutz and Bailey are really fast, but Larson has class and is fast. I was trying today to explain to somebody how they can drive 3000hp on the street, but it's more like 1500 on the street, until they unleash the full potential. They just didn't get it, but they're not really up on the technology in these cars. Can't say I'm a huge fan of the actual cars, they just go way beyond what I'm really interested in, but what they do with them is amazing!

I don't believe I'd want to run 6's either, unless it was in the 1/8th, but that sounds like a cool fricken idea, Jay! That flip top was one of my all time favorites! 8)
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'69 R-code Mach 1, 427 MR, 2x4, Jerico, 4.30 Locker
'70 F-350 390
'55 Ford Customline 2dr
'37 Ford Coupe