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Trip to Cordova, popped head gasket at 115mph

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Old 05-11-2008, 08:45 PM
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Never happen, I don't need training wheels.
LOL just messing with ya Bill. I do love the wheels up pics.
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Old 05-12-2008, 07:00 AM
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The Camaro used to do the exact same thing with those wheels... they must weigh alot or something (hah hah).

They look good on there!
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Old 05-12-2008, 02:04 PM
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What hood is that ****** car looks awsome bro!
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Old 05-12-2008, 03:05 PM
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It's the VFN 4in which is more like a 5.5in lol. Thank you.
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Old 05-12-2008, 03:39 PM
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Good job driving Bro!
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Nice save...I was coming back from the slip booth and missed the entire thing...looks crazy on your youtube clip... did you have to clean your shorts afterwards?
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Congrats on the SAVE!!! and nice picture in July CAR CRAFT!!!!!!!
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2 questions

Is your hood held on with only 5 Dzus fastners?

What kind of of front bumper support do you have? The front bumper cover looked like it was moving all over the place in the video.
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DAMN! I had a simular thing a few years ago but swapped lanes. GREAT Driving job man!

Hope top see it running hard again soon!
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Old 05-13-2008, 07:40 AM
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Originally Posted by foggedz
2 questions

Is your hood held on with only 5 Dzus fastners?

What kind of of front bumper support do you have? The front bumper cover looked like it was moving all over the place in the video.
No bumper support, it had just tore on the trailor so thats why it was flopping around, and yes the hood has only 5 fastners.
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Old 05-13-2008, 07:57 AM
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**** dzus fasteners. We are doing pins this time around!
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Old 05-13-2008, 10:26 AM
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Wow, nice save. Glad to see you kept it up. Good luck getting back up again.
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Awesome save that must been a scary ride.

Congrats.
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Old 05-14-2008, 06:25 PM
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I was there and that was one hell of a save.....even the track official drove up to your pit and said that you are one hell of a driver!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMxWNkezsoE
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Old 05-18-2008, 10:56 AM
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Damn Billy boy sorry to see, but as everyone said that's some fancy driving there. Glad to see you came out of it without anything worse..
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As mentioned above, definately a nice bit of driving to save something that bad. Definately a "shorts-change" moment...

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Originally Posted by Matt D
**** dzus fasteners. We are doing pins this time around!
Good idea Bro!! I think I'm going to pin my hood too!!
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Originally Posted by Big Mike
Good idea Bro!! I think I'm going to pin my hood too!!
My Glasstek hood is held on by 6 pins, and I couldn't be happier with the setup. I hate lining up the dzus fasteners only to have to take off those to line up the ones in the back, and then do it again over and over until they are perfect. Argggg!!!!
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DAMN GOOD driving man!
Glad it wasn't any worse, but still sorry to hear you wrecked it. Hope you get it back together soon.

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Old 05-19-2008, 11:41 AM
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Thanks for the kind words guys, I got the body pieces already andd they are going to paint. Now I just have to throw the trans through the builders window.
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