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Old Oct 20, 2010 | 10:26 AM
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Originally Posted by Fartpipe
The pipestir is a little beat down right now with his project not going forward like it should. Gonna be putting in some REALLY long days here coming tomorrow doing the up at 5:30am work till 5ish and drive 1.5hrs to go work on the car at a friends garage on my back till 12-1pm... Then do it all over again Friday and maybe saturday morning.... Then i have a big dyno day, cookout, mexican mile racing event I set up for this saturday thats gonna be fun but everythings coming down on the pipestir pretty hard here lately.
You sound like my 6 year old .
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Old Oct 20, 2010 | 12:17 PM
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i saw those passes. to bad we didnt get a black car side by side 9's after the index racing was over i need to be humbled. probably better we didnt **** off the track people. going atco next tues 26 to see if i can get the 9
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Old Oct 20, 2010 | 01:40 PM
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Originally Posted by robz
I took some shakedown passes with some of the new minor mods. Best pass was 9.7@127. Best mph was 145+. This puts me back to about where I was last year. There's still alot of tuning to do. My goal right now is to go faster than previous.
Wow,a 9.7 @ 127 you must have been out of it the 1000' mark. That 145 mph pass with things going right on the bottom end of the strip would equate to a much better ET than 9.7. All in all things do sound promising.
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Old Oct 22, 2010 | 01:57 AM
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Originally Posted by 98vettedave
Wow,a 9.7 @ 127 you must have been out of it the 1000' mark. That 145 mph pass with things going right on the bottom end of the strip would equate to a much better ET than 9.7. All in all things do sound promising.
We all know that eventually all of Robs hard work, research and persistence will certainly pay off... Rob z is a get it done kinda guy...
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