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What did you do on your Front Engine Dragster TODAY?
denverflatheader:
Lynn - pretty exciting, I think you should take it for a spin around the block :)
lake_harley:
Probably the first on-the-ground trial will be at a Friday evening test-n-tune at one of the local tracks. There's another possibility that I may be able to get into another local track to do some passes in private. That would be my preference. Plan is to make a handful of passes at increasing speeds unless it does something really ignorant at some point. If some "aggressive" but not yet all out passes go well it will probably be blown all apart for paint and final touches. I know it won't be this weekend since I'll be traveling with my wife to visit family, but hoping for the following weekend....Memorial weekend.....I suppose.
Lynn
lake_harley:
My driver came by last evening. We did some carb tweaking, set the idle speed and ignition timing, got the Powerglide fluid level topped off while doing some more in-gear running on jack stands. Things seem ready to go. I made contact with a track that runs on a non-regular basis and think it might work out to have access to it sometime next week for a few 'private" test passes rather than going to the regular track on test-n-tune night. My driver is likely to be out of town with work next week so I guess I will likely have the pleasure of the car's first passes. I guarantee, they will be moderate passes at best!
Lynn
denverflatheader:
Lynn - marvelous plan if it works out, having private access to a race track for testing doesn't happen too often. I've watched your fed build here, got my fingers crossed all goes smoothly for you. For all of us here in Denver, our local track, Bandimere Speedway is closing down in October (five months away). It opened in 1958 and John Bandimere Jr. made the Track's closing announcement last month April 21st. If you have been racing at Bandimere Speedway for the past few years, you have seen the development advancing closer and closer with each passing year. Bandimere Speedway in located on the west side of Denver near the Town of Morrison, and it is in a beautiful gorgeous setting, right at the foothills leading to the Rocky Mountains, elevation 5800 feet.
I sure am going to miss Bandimere Speedway. I raced there my first time on Memorial Day 1974. It was their 1st High School Drag Race, there was maybe 20-25 of us at that first race. From our High School, it was me with my Dad's 1967 Camaro RS/SS, and one of my best friends Todd with his Dad's 1969 GTO convertible. And after all these years, both Todd and I still have our High School cars. Over the years, their High School Drag Race grew and grew, and likewise, Bandimere Speedway grew and grew and got better and better each year with plenty of racing classes and events including an NHRA National Race to attract everyone. Lots of fun times there. Alan
wideopen231:
Did the thing I do most. Spent more money on it.LOL
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