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Old Aug 17, 2004 | 11:12 PM
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Default Almost eights this weekend!!

Havn't had much time to get on here the last couple of weeks....Heres whats been happening with my old 71 smallblock,,Last Friday took her to the strip with the two stage on it!!! Well I brought her up to 4,000 , let her fly and then all I could see was blue sky. I just about put her on the bumper let off it came down and got into it again and she pulled another,,That was it for me ....after cleaning out the seat, I took it home and put some wheelie bars on ...Saturday we took her to a street shootout meet near Lexington Ky and laid down a 9.04 at 148 then backed it up with a 9.03 at 149....won the super street class easily....My setup is 71 vette 3,000 lbs, 427 smallblock ,,it was on 10.5 inch wide ET streets through the muffs 100 juice on a progressive snitz controller for the first stage and 100 juice on the second stage comeing in 4 seconds down the line..Im sure, and we will be trying it soon, if we go to 10.5 w slicks and bring second stage in sooner we will see 8.80's at 150 or so....then after this old guy gets over that we are going to a 300 shot for mid eights,,,big fun ..got to get to Englishtown this fall..............Jerry
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Old Aug 17, 2004 | 11:52 PM
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Wow - that is flying for a dual 100 shot, nice tuning work After I get my old ElCamino dialed in I want to play with N2O - wonder what a two stage like yours would do on the 496

Thomas
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Old Aug 18, 2004 | 07:44 AM
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Congrats on the great showing. Hope to see that beast at the pro 8 soon
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Old Aug 18, 2004 | 11:37 AM
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Jerry what kind of rearend are you running in that thing?

Awesome times dude
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Old Aug 18, 2004 | 06:46 PM
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Way to go Jerry. You are "the real McCoy". Sorry, had to do it.
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Old Aug 18, 2004 | 11:05 PM
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Originally Posted by REDGAR
Way to go Jerry. You are "the real McCoy". Sorry, had to do it.
Now your starting to sound like "Nick" up in the tower...
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Old Aug 18, 2004 | 11:52 PM
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Originally Posted by JerryMcCoy
Havn't had much time to get on here the last couple of weeks....Heres whats been happening with my old 71 smallblock,,Last Friday took her to the strip with the two stage on it!!! Well I brought her up to 4,000 , let her fly and then all I could see was blue sky. I just about put her on the bumper let off it came down and got into it again and she pulled another,,That was it for me ....after cleaning out the seat, I took it home and put some wheelie bars on ...Saturday we took her to a street shootout meet near Lexington Ky and laid down a 9.04 at 148 then backed it up with a 9.03 at 149....won the super street class easily....My setup is 71 vette 3,000 lbs, 427 smallblock ,,it was on 10.5 inch wide ET streets through the muffs 100 juice on a progressive snitz controller for the first stage and 100 juice on the second stage comeing in 4 seconds down the line..Im sure, and we will be trying it soon, if we go to 10.5 w slicks and bring second stage in sooner we will see 8.80's at 150 or so....then after this old guy gets over that we are going to a 300 shot for mid eights,,,big fun ..got to get to Englishtown this fall..............Jerry
maybe for the last pro 8 we can get enough cars to hold the field to 9 seconds to qualify - something like a preview for a tuner shootout next spring.
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Old Aug 19, 2004 | 10:05 AM
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Thanks for the great responce guys. We will be coming to the Oct. 23 race so you guys can see her in person...she has 427 cubes, dart block with 14 degree pro heads, 400 trans, Aerospace brakes, Modular 9" rearend, and much more...12.5 compression , about 800 hp on motor, 4.10 gears....Street Driven alot with Drag- radials,,Hooks nicely............Jerry
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Man that is just plain flyin
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