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Old 08-30-2004, 05:33 AM
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Default ANyone see Ronnie Dukes new car?

he showed up at the transam nationals in a new ride.
a black T-top transam that looked similair to his convertable.

6.0 block, 6.0 heads, 408 CI, lunati internals, fast system, fast intake, intercooler set up like his last, ATI, not sure if it was an F1 or F2. coil packs, not distrubiter like his convertable. nitrous.

no track times yet, guess they just got it running, dynoed around 800rwhp (with out n20), looking to run nines in that one, while the converable there trying to get 7's
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anyone got pics, i didnt have my camrea.
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Very cool car, kinda like an economy version of the convertible. I think it was an F1R but I'm not sure. No pics either. Its kinda pathetic how in that show they focus more on cleanliness than engineering. I was happy to sneak out with a trophy this year (and that car was in my class).
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good to see you placed.
i saw your car there, at the show and cruise in, but not you.
my TA was at the cruise in, got 'er done, it was the blue one with the duck tape for the intake bellows.



talked to one guy there and he said hardcore can build you one of those for $80k
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I heard about that. A good friend of mine was there and described it but isnt around the scene enough to know who these guys are so didnt know it was Duke. Sounded like them the way he described it.

Im trying to find some pics from the nats, but so far nothing.
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Seen it he had that car at Thunder..... it was his other black TA. I have pics of it at the house..... it was a 8 rib setup with a D1-SC made by Kurt at W2W.... ran a 10.80 on juice wieghing 4000lbs.... it had a big stereo in it right... rollbar and nitrous bottle sitting in the rear pas. side seat???
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yup seen that car at TR shootout. he brought both cars at that shootout. as always nothing spared expense wise.
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Had to clean up the thead a little. Lets just keep it on topic and talk about the car.

thanks
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Pics here of the black T/A:

http://community.webshots.com/album/181588987GgFKAC/5
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is is dukes first car not an ls1 base car, the vert that is. it has a distributor? correct? or am i missing somethin
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The vert had been converted to a distributor drive by W2W. You can get one from them. Or, GMPP might start carring one from a company called WAR. They were displaying them at PRI last year. Very trick distributor integrated into the water pump housing somehow.
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Originally Posted by smokinHawk
good to see you placed.
i saw your car there, at the show and cruise in, but not you.
my TA was at the cruise in, got 'er done, it was the blue one with the duck tape for the intake bellows.
Good to see your up and running. It almost feels like your driving a new car after your car has been down for awhile.
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Yep yep... that'd be the car that Ronnie drives... as far as I know he didn't drive the Vert much. Kurt, where ya at???
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That car isnt"new" he's had it for a few years.
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I talked to him for awhile and asked him about the FAST intake and if he had problems with the intake? He said no we've had it to 13psi so far and it had a F1R blower head unit with a cog set up on it. Said they wanted this car to run 9.0's and the vert will be out soon, 400 hp more and 400 lbs lighter than when it ran 8.5's.
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Should be interesting to see the new setup
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The pics of that car look good. Ronnie never drove the convertible at the track, that was my job. The car in the pics is a TA that he drove at Thunder last year with a D1SC with 8 rib drive. By the pics it looks to have a copy of the drive we did for the convertible on it with a F1RSC.

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Yep yep... that'd be the car that Ronnie drives... as far as I know he didn't drive the Vert much. Kurt, where ya at???
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I guess Ron Has plenty of $$$$ the green!
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what wheels does he have on these cars??
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Thats a nice clean setup.


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