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May 4, 2011 | 12:26 PM

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Pro Stock John

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Awesome! Anyone remember the fairmont wagon from TX with nitrous? These are my two all-time favorite LS sleepers.

May 4, 2011 | 12:44 PM

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Justin, need to find you some "svt" emblems to toss on it.

You're gonna have every high schooler borrowing their G'ma's LTD before long!

May 4, 2011 | 01:07 PM

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Freaking Sweet !! I love it !!

May 4, 2011 | 01:25 PM

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now that is just sick awesome! update us with some new pictures (if you don't mind)

you think it will hold up?

May 4, 2011 | 01:49 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Pro Stock John

Awesome! Anyone remember the fairmont wagon from TX with nitrous? These are my two all-time favorite LS sleepers.

I remember one of that car's first passes (I think it was anyway).....no cage in Denton (with N/T on the window of course)....all beat up looking. Freakin runs what looked like 6.7x almost on the bumper at launch. Tech went WTF? and he said This time I'll keep it off the bottle LOL.

May 4, 2011 | 04:54 PM

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Originally Posted by ZL1Killa

now that is just sick awesome! update us with some new pictures (if you don't mind)

you think it will hold up?

he hasn't even leaned on it hard yet. Can't wait to see what it does turned up

May 4, 2011 | 05:41 PM

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very nice

May 4, 2011 | 05:53 PM

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can we get more pics?

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May 4, 2011 | 08:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Pro Stock John

Awesome! Anyone remember the fairmont wagon from TX with nitrous? These are my two all-time favorite LS sleepers.

I got straight worked by that Fairmont at a red light going to the Thunder race one year! And he had 4 people in the car!

May 4, 2011 | 08:52 PM

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very nice, I will look twice when lined up against a fairmont now.

May 4, 2011 | 09:14 PM

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Send me some pics to john@motorsports-media.com and I'll send to some of magazine folks I know, we can talk about which mags in email.

Any idea how much boost? 18?

May 4, 2011 | 09:37 PM

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Very cool build!!! I had a buddy with one a looong time ago with a pretty hot motor setup in it. He used to drag people all the time with it! Not as bad as you would though!

May 4, 2011 | 09:45 PM

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I'd LOVE to go on drag week, but being that this is my daily driver I'm not going to put a 8.50 cage in it and make it all 8.50 legal. 1100 miles isn't a problem, I put ~500 miles on it from Friday to Sunday last weekend.

Justin, 11.40 index race it in the daily driver class (11.0 or 12.0), then do a banzai pass once in a while at well prepped tracks

Atomic 6, will be good to see you guys again.

May 4, 2011 | 10:34 PM

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All of the interior accessories were a nice touch too! lol

May 4, 2011 | 11:07 PM

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video or ban!!!

May 4, 2011 | 11:32 PM

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Originally Posted by ZL1Killa

now that is just sick awesome! update us with some new pictures (if you don't mind)

you think it will hold up?

It's a stock motor so of course I know it'll let go sometime, but I consider it fairly reliable at this power level. I cut open the oil filter every oil change, just waiting to see bearing material from the thrust bearing, I think it will be the first thing to go. The key is a good tuneup in making these live and I think the E85 helps! If I was that scared of it I wouldn't have drove it 3hrs from home last weekend to race it, ended up driving right around 500 miles total in just the weekend!

I don't have a lot of pictures of the car yet. Here is one with my street tires on it before I got the 10 holes...

Also a few more from the track...

Yes that is a fear this ford plate...

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he hasn't even leaned on it hard yet. Can't wait to see what it does turned up

I really do think it has another 100rwhp in it with it turned up.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pro Stock John

Send me some pics to john@motorsports-media.com and I'll send to some of magazine folks I know, we can talk about which mags in email.

Any idea how much boost? 18?

I didn't watch the boost gauge, but should've been right around 17.5lbs(datalog won't show as it's only 2 bar, 3 bar is going in very soon!) On the street we have had it cutout open and on 20lbs before, it was MOVING then. I'll send ya an email later tonight, I'd like to get some more passes on it and better pics before it goes in a magazine.

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Justin, 11.40 index race it in the daily driver class (11.0 or 12.0), then do a banzai pass once in a while at well prepped tracks

Atomic 6, will be good to see you guys again.

I've thought about doing that, I'll have to see if I have time off work also when it comes closer.

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All of the interior accessories were a nice touch too! lol

Thanks, I'm sure most people would never guess it has 6 gauges, one of which has 6 things on it(mph/rpm/timing/coolant temp/trip/IAT), all hidden and NONE in the vents. Being a DD, I didn't want to block off the vents at all! Also gotta have the lucky hat!

I'll throw up a few interior pics(sorry they are blurry, just ran down in the garage at work and took them real quick with the camera phone)....

May 5, 2011 | 12:06 AM

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Sick I was confused when I first saw the engine pic.

May 5, 2011 | 10:59 AM

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that's awesome!

May 6, 2011 | 01:22 AM

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Love the plate lol! I can only imagen what that thing does to vettes, and murdercycles from a roll... What track let you run without a bar? I will drive a few hrs to be able to run my truck somewhere without hastle.

May 6, 2011 | 01:36 AM

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This was in Wichita, but it was for the true street shootout which is why I don't think they said anything to me, otherwise something will probably get said for going that fast without a roll bar.

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