Event Coverage Official 2016 Meltdown Drags Thread - What are you doing to get ready?

9's... in the '56!?!? Holy crap...that would be one mad mouse motor! Really like that car.

 

We are about 3150-3175 with me in the seat, about 35-40 lbs.less with Marc. The side windows are 1/4 plexi, the front and rear are original, and the next to go. I'm gonna get lexan front and rear from Pro Glass, that ought to get us down to 3100 with me. Quain said when he built Shannon's car, the stock deck lid (which we also have currently). Was surprisingly heavy, so I'm thinking a glass deck lid would get me to 3050 or less. The doors are steel, but heavily gutted, so I'm not sure how much we'd save with glass doors. My goal for now is 3000 with me. We would like to strip the car sooner or later and repaint it as its wearing all its paint & primer jobs (8-9 layers!) since day 1. The thing is probably wearing over 100lbs. of paint!

 

That makes me feel good about where I'll be at. It started as a street car that would also see the track sometime. Now the tables have turned. The car will be a little heavy. Because how I built it. But I will have lexan side glass, and a glass trunk lid. Going forward I'll save weight where I can. The car won't be painted this year, but when I do paint it I'll put the proglass front and back windows in. First motor will be low buck and mild to get used to the car. Second motor I'm planning in my head should get me In the nines.

 

I forgot to mention, the cage is steel, as are the ladder bars and mounts, which look like something off an old locomotive. Quain and I have talked, and at some point, either he, or my nephew who owns J Ed Horton Race Cars, will change all that to chromoly. I'm going to lengthen the ladder bars, and since we have coil over rear shocks, we have take the springs off the shock and give them their own mounts per SEG rule. Probably loose another 75lbs. there. If I could get down to 2900 with me, I think we can make enough steam to run 9.0's-9 teens.

 

That would be awesome. My cage is steel to. Same with the ladder bars and mounts. It's too late now. I'll have fun with this car throw some more power at it, but won't sweat the weight. I have a 30 model a coupe that I think will get the full treatment tube chassis that looks vintage radiator in the back. Moon tank up front. Blown small block. Then weight wouldn't be an issue with that car. Maybe do hot rod drag week with it. But that's a decade away. If I lived in the south then I would try to conform to the south east gasser rules. My car does minus the blower, but with how Much I have into that stuff it's staying.

 

For those of you who haven't met Ric and Marc...they look like twins, same height, body type, etc....Ric's mouth is just that big!

 

Shots fired!!!![emoji379][emoji15]

 

Good to see that the old Ford Fart made it home from the Waffle house.

 

For those of you who haven't met Eric & Jeff, Eric is the one who's right arm suffers from shiftturrets syndrome, Jeff is the one who you see in Toys R Us commercials, oh and a few Lane Bryant catalogs from the mid 90's.

 

Aaaaaaaand.........IT BEGINS.

Muaaaahahahahahaaaaaaaa.....!!!![emoji1]

 

and I was gonna ask if Ric was dieting...

 

I was hibernating in my big mouth.

 

Now the gloves come off punches are thrown. (this is the best part)

 

I'm covered in semi gloss Krylon dust! I forgot what a good time it is spray painting the underside of your car, while getting covered in over spray. Even better, we have an attached garage, so your lucky to get a can or two laid on before the ole lady comes out complaining that its stinking the house up too. Gonna be nice having a detached garage, and big work shop away from the house.

 

Found this 1957 Chevy Gasser project on Craigslist in McHenry IL... From pics it needs some love, but it looks like old school gasser... Maybe someone's looking for a project... Jimbo

 

This car has been for sale for a few years Seen it at a swap meet years ago when it was running and complete as found Since then it has been parted out Still a great start for some one to build

 

Spy photos of the new Quick N Dirty Yesterday's Chili Eater

 

Now that is HEMI porn if I ever seen any.

 

Also found this pic off the Web where it was s lil more together...

 

Big Jim,

You have to ask Eric about that car...I do love the name of "the money runner"

 

Whoa Dog Patch. You must be asking Santa for a new sock at this point

 

(Spoken in my best Yoda voice) Hmmm.., the young Pad wan challenges his Jedi master, does he. This does not bode well for Sick n Dirty. Administer a hard lesson for this insolence I must, hmmmm.

 

Hope to be a tow rig coming to a track near you.
Not making any promises about the car on the trailer. I t may not fit the bill but is going in the shanty town shop for some tender lovin care.

 

Humpy Hemi sat in a block, humpty Hemi got shagged in a sock. All the Dogs Homies, and even the Dogs chick, couldn't get Humpty Hemi.., to run with the Child and her mouthpiece Ric.

 

Its going to be a long cold winter if the Humpty Dumpty rhymes are all Ric has left in his bag.

 

So sorry Tony! I was watching a documentary yesterday about the extinction of whales, and fell asleep. I was woken by my kids huddled around my phone giggling. I had no idea they were taking shots at you man.

 

Ric post up a pic of that flat top piston you built for Yesterday's Baby Boomer.

 

And God said, let there be light.., pistons and rods for Yesterdays' Child..,

 

.., with lots of yummy compression, too beat the naysayers' to a pulp with..,

 

PS. Sorry Tony, no wussy flat tops in this engine build.