Congrats W2W - First Gen III in the 6s!!
08-16-2005, 08:55 AM
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Originally Posted by S8ER95Z
Does this count? Doesnt look like a full framed 4th gen to me. Not trying to take away from the accomplishment at all but I didnt think a tube chasis car was what everyone else was using.
Denom, any Modular Mustang bodied cars in the 6s? Mihovetz was using a smaller Cougar body: http://www.accufabracing.com
08-16-2005, 04:22 PM
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Originally Posted by 00Pontiac
congrats! I would love to see a video too 
6.86 Pass http://www.w2wpowertrain.com/images_...r_6.86_run.wmv
7.43 Pass http://www.w2wpowertrain.com/images_....43_Casper.MPG
08-16-2005, 05:27 PM
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Thats hauling *** no doubt and bad *** for an ls1. But what i think is more impressive is the outlaw 10.5 cars. Look at Petty/Lynch and ToDD Moyer, they have both been bottom 6.90's 200 + "moyer 209" and thats at 3000 pds, and with a 33 10.5 W not a 33 X17...I just think that its more impressive watching a more street car go damn near the same numbers in a much harder condition..
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08-17-2005, 11:57 AM
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Originally Posted by RyanJ
Ronnie Duke's new car? The GTO? Both complete tube-frame 4-link cars. I think they both weigh pretty close to 3000lbs.
08-17-2005, 12:21 PM
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Originally Posted by ChevyGoldfinger
I just came in my pants...
LOVE the in car camera! There is no comparison to Ronnie Duke's convert. T/A to Casper. Ronnie's started as a GM production car and Casper was born from a pile of tubing. 6's are impressive nonetheless especially from 352 cubes.
08-17-2005, 12:49 PM
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Casper was born from a LT1 Z-28 production car that was totaled in a accident. It still has the stock vin number in the dash. It would be interesting to run a Carfax report on it! It did end up with some massive cutting and tube installed!! We weighed it today. 2875 with a driver.
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Originally Posted by 1fastWS6
I just came in my pants... LOVE the in car camera!
There is no comparison to Ronnie Duke's convert. T/A to Casper. Ronnie's started as a GM production car and Casper was born from a pile of tubing. 6's are impressive nonetheless especially from 352 cubes.
LOVE the in car camera! There is no comparison to Ronnie Duke's convert. T/A to Casper. Ronnie's started as a GM production car and Casper was born from a pile of tubing. 6's are impressive nonetheless especially from 352 cubes.
08-17-2005, 01:34 PM
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Originally Posted by bad0211secws6
i didnt know he had a new car.so is the gto going to be replacing the t/a?
a blue TA conv. - the one that went low eights years ago with a W2W-built combo
a black TA t-top - the one what supposedly went 7's a few months ago (bullshit) with a new "combo", but it basically is a copy of the W2W set up (intake, distributor, etc.) Impressive that it ran low eights either way though.
a full-blown tube-frame "GTO" (GTO 'glass copy-body on a tube frame cert'd with a min. weight of 2800lbs) - it went 7.1x this month with an F2R or F3R or something and some kind of LSx combo I can't remember if its C5R stuff, but it probably is.
Casper (as you read) was a 'real' car, now a tube-frame job. It has been all up in 'street car' racing for 15+ years and at one point I think it had 4 large frame turbo's before they outlawed it.
08-17-2005, 02:04 PM
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Casper was born from a LT1 Z-28 production car that was totaled in a accident. It still has the stock vin number in the dash. It would be interesting to run a Carfax report on it! It did end up with some massive cutting and tube installed!! We weighed it today. 2875 with a driver.
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08-17-2005, 05:38 PM
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In this case it was the NMCA rules at the time the car was built. All cars had to start life as a production car with vin number. It would have been cheaper to start with factory quarters and roof panel. In the late 90's they did change the rules to allow panel cars, which are lighter and can be lower to the ground.
I had built the engine to run in a tech class. When it was not able to do that, I borrowed this car from a friend to test the limits of the engine. The engine has some head gasket problems but overall has been durable. Looks like it is going to need rings, but it has all my dyno testing and runs on the first set.
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I had built the engine to run in a tech class. When it was not able to do that, I borrowed this car from a friend to test the limits of the engine. The engine has some head gasket problems but overall has been durable. Looks like it is going to need rings, but it has all my dyno testing and runs on the first set.
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Originally Posted by 1fastWS6
I stand corrected.....the cars like that always amaze me because there is such a tiny part of an original production car left. I always wonder why the owner didn't just start with a tube chassis car, but then I think of the progression of my cars and realize that sometimes they end up that way after years of trying to go faster and faster.