My dad and I went to NED today to get our last runs of the year in. It was great, mid 60's dry and the track was sticky! Only thing that sucked was everyone there was breaking so the track was shut down half the time. A kid from boston had an '04 cts-v. His dad owns a caddy dealership, so he drove it down on a dealer plate. On his first pass, he wheel hopped and broke the rear end... Track shut down for over an hour

Any way, I went 12.3 at 115 5 times with 2-12.4's at 115 and a couple 12.5-12.6's once the track got slippery.

My dad managed a 12.0 at 121

It was alot of fun, we spent half the day waiting for them to clean up the track and talking to A guy named Brent with a red Vette built by slowhawk... But he broke too.... clutch after about 5-6 passes

Only thing that sucks is, I know this was my last time to the track this year

 

Wow, Brent broke his clutch eh... did you see how it happened?

 

I ran right after him... we were just talking about it...lol He had just finished telling us he was on like his 5th clutch, and this spec 5 he had on for 3 months... The he made a pass, I ran right after him and he was sitting in the return lane... not looking super happy. He tried to drive it back, but it was gone... He let out the clutch in 1st gear and it just continued to idle...

 

awesome times tim i knew u had that low 12, u just needed a little better track to do it at. i beat if u had a tire on there u would have had high 11s without a problem. good to see ur dad finally got a good time, although with a tire that thing would be getting kicked out for not having a roll bar

 

Actually Brent didn't break the clutch,It's holding great.He broke something else in the driveline.Probly the main shaft by the way it sounds.The car is at my house-----again.Brent is the man

 

It was fun, we'll both be back next year with some new tires... I think I finished mine off today The track was better than LVD but traction was still my handycap... with a little more seat time and a set of tires I think I can find an 11 sec slip. But besides the tires, I'm done with mods to this car, I'm not even doing a cam.... Hopefully I'll have a new toy to throw $$$$ at

 

He was laughing... said he was getting his moneys worth out of AAA... your house is 96? miles from the track... just under his 100 mile maximum

 

holy ****, he is the man. i guess he keeps you busy don

 

Yes,he is funny as hell. I just answer his calls with "What did you break now" and he just laughs.

Well,since the car is here we will build up the whole driveline and possibly do the 8rib belt setup -add more boost

 

I'm already too friggin busy Well I'm off to drive this Turbo truck to work

 

good times for your vette

brent is the man!! again! atleast he can take it with a grain of salt and laugh it off.

 

Oh yeah... awsome car too, thats a great setup... I wish I could have seen on the et's. He was running it on his street tires... 11.7 at 127.X

 

and i wonder why he breaks things, because he has you giveing him ideas

 

are you sure all the valves are in one peice? and i will follow that with, you god damn lucky bastard

 

hell the best of both worlds, the fun driver and the race car. i have one of my guys looking for the car, but he said ur best bet is looking at a boneyard. i hope to be around to help u out this winter with the project, but it looks more and more like ill be seeing that car running 8s or 7s by the time i get back

 

That sucks... if you go when would you be leaving? Also, you can hold off on looking for that car, It's possible I might not need it

 

you answer to me like that as well


good times tim, good thing you went!

 

you know i was just trying to figure out who abuses and breaks there car more you or brent.

 

Thanks, I just wish I could make it back out a few more times before It goes in the garage for the winter

 

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