Andy,
How many pounds of boost & what type of nitro set up?
I remember seeing the turbo & manifold sitting in your
Dad's garage, so I have a slight idea where it might be
at the moment. Hmm motor & turbo from Dad's garage... free.
Low cost racing at it's best.
Tom
Andy Cost wrote:
> I'm happy to report that Tetanus took on all comers and smoked them at the
> drag strip tonight. I wasn't racing against the big block drag cars, just the
> "import" guys. The honda boys were making fun of my spitfire until I ran my
> first pass. They quickly came over and found out that that ugly old car
> wasn't a spitfire after all. I asked them to go easy on my antique and really
> played up the fact that I only had about $1000 invested so far. That really
> got thier fires burning. One guy was particularly talking trash so I baited
> him into a grudge match. Tetanus and I ran a 10.55 to his measley 11.36. He
> came to my pit making excuses about how fast he used to be and talking about
> future modifications. I tried to get him to come to the autocross this
> Sunday. The guy wised up pretty fast and said he would be buisy that day.
> It was a good evening and I learned how fast my little car really is. No more
> bench racing for me. I've got time slips now.
>
> Andy
>
> BTW- My best time of the night was 10.356. Not too shabby for an antique.
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