whoops, sorry yeah a typo on my part, I'll fix it hopefully before you see it again...

 

New best for me at the shootout also.


Tony Shepherd 9.43 @ 143.08 , 93 Z28 , 396 LT1, AFR 227, 3450lbs, Nitrous Outlet fogger.



My best mph of the day was 144.65 I believe. Now its time to turn it up a little and get some better air. 4000 DA sucks! Track temp was 137*.

Had a blast at the shootout!

 

glad you were able to get the car back together for the trip out, I updated your times...

 

ya if you would, its a 385 now

Brady Matysek(roadtrip120)-11.07@128.3, 94 Z28 M6, 385 LT4, Dart CNC Pro 1, Solid roller, 3240 lbs , 3000ft DA

 

thx for updating the time....but can I be moved up the list also

 

what, you want me to move it too, gees aren''t you needy...

J/K I was doing a few when I did yours I must have just forgot, I will put you in the righ spot...

 

thx.....can't let Ellis think he is faster than me

 

then your lucky I took that "x" out of your time when I put you ahead of him...

 

i was just curious if toms bolt on lt1 record was for sure with stock untouched heads, stock lt1 cam, and a stock lt1 intake manifold? fighting with some guys on another board about this, they all swear that he had ported heads and a cam with a carb intake and a carb?? just trying to find out the truth so i can shut these guys up lol?

 

In talking to Tom through PM, and also looking at his sig I can answer most of this but not all. Yes, he beat my bolt-on only record with a carb setup and then the guys on here and other forums gave him a lot of crap for it. From what he told us, the heads were stock, the intake was a stock GM replacement dual plane and the carb. After everyone gave him all the crap for it, he put the fuel injection stuff back on it and ran within .02 of his best carb run. Now again I have not inspected his car, and the things I post on here are true to the best of my knowlege, but anyone can lie I just do my best to look through the numbers and question the things that look a little off. And none of Tom's stuff from our conversations looked off at least as far as the 1/4 performance. If you want to know about his combo, feel free to PM him...

 

I would have been totally embarrassed if I had ported heads/special cam and other things of that nature and only had 11.40's/50's to show for it! I emphasized my efforts in getting the car to roll easier and launch quicker, my car is a little heavier than John's but it out 60-footed him almost by a 10th.

I followed the "rules" and when the car was running slower than the old record people had no issue with me running the items I did but when a person told me and I quote "Your junk will NEVER run as quick as Shon's (previous record holder)" it inspired me to try harder.

Once I did it the crying started, so at the end of the year I pulled it into the dyno shop, put the FI backon, then learned how to program/tune the car. The car spent countless chassis dyno passes tweaking the areas I felt important and with some good air it ran what it ran.

During that time I tried 4 different gear ratios, 4 different convertors, a ton of suspension pieces/settings and tested often and hopefully that means something somewhere to somebody.

 

Having been around the drag racing scene for over 20 years i don't doubt your stock motor for one second. People forget that the motor is only one part of the equation. The chassis is 50% of the ET. You obviously worked your *** off to get the ENTIRE combo perfect. The clues you talk about when you say that you worked on getting your car rolling easier, shows me that you concentrated on a lot of things that most guys have no idea about. Front brakes, rear brakes, wheel alignment, pinion angles, etc...small stuff like that all adds up huge.

Give a casual car enthusiast a 400rwhp LT1 car, and he'll run a 12.00@115
Give a stock eliminator racer a 400rwhp LT1 car, and he'll run a 10.00@120

 

thanks for the answer tom, in no way did i dought what you did with the car i just wanted to find out what was up so i could inform my friends about the truth about your car and to not listen to all the internet bs there hear. thanks again man an seriously i meant nothing by asking such a question.

 

Kevin LaBelle- 13.82 @ 100mph 95 Z/28 A4 with 2.73's all stock except for Lingenfelter CAI and Magnaflow CB.

 

update le2 383,custom solid roller,th350,carbed super victor,nitrous,all bolt-ons,3500lbs 9.94@137

 

Updated jakesz28 and 383racecar and added KLaBZ28

 

YEAAA KEVOOO U MADE THE LIST! lol

yea tom's record is crazy, very hard to beat. but def 100% true and accurate IMO. i only wish i had the $$ and access to a dyno! it must of been a lot of work. and tom deserved the record after all that!

 

Mike O'Conner-(1/8th) 7.52 @ 91.89 mph 1.68-60' 96 Z28 PB-lvl2-A4, SS3600 Bolt-ons/Nano-50 Shot/full weight

 

Works for me man... Congrats on a solid set up and laying down the determination and effort (not to mention the CASH) to get it done.

One of the things I've learned in my 49 years is that no matter what you do, SOMEONE is going to bitch...

ROFL... give you a non-drag racing example...

10 or 12 years ago I went on the road and became a Fiber-contractor, which had me on the road, solo, 40+ weeks out of the year... in fairly short order I burned through the hangin' with the boys after work to drink and swap lies, and joined a gym to get back into shape and just clear the head.

Well, that soon became an obsession and in the span of a year, I dropped 7 inches off my waistline, added 12" to my arms and was pushing over 400 lbs on the bench... in my late 30s... I had the abs, chest and glutes of a 20 year old... Sadly, I still had my face... but hey... that's life.

Well at one point I took a trip to my home town and ran across the usual suspects from the day and while I had expected them all to say what a bad *** I was... not ONE of those people said a WORD... accept for one comment which implied I was on steroids... which I wasn't; but it didn't matter...

ROFL... which was in contrast to all of the crap they had managed to utter over the years, when I was packin' on the gut...

The point being that people do what they do for THEIR reasons... if they admitted how sharp I looked, then they'd have to admit, to THEMSELVES why THEY didn't do what it takes to DO IT! And if you expect 'everyone' to actually praise all your hard work; you're going to be disappointed most of the time.

So screw'em... If breaking records was easy, no one would care; you did what it took to DO IT and that just frags some people's egos.

Congrats, again... on a job well done and don't let the ****** get ya down.

 

Can I get a small bump up on the P/A list John? Thanks.

Z-RATED94-10.75@125mph, bolt ons, LE heads, Joe O. 222/226 cam, 140shot, stock shortblock, trans and 10 bolt.