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Front Engine Dragsters / Re: which direction to go with FED

« on: June 18, 2013, 10:04:54 AM »

Hotrodhoodlum: Central Illinois Dragway in Havana Illinois has a nostalgia race twice a year. You would be welcome to run with the NQSA. We run four races a year. 4.99 is the slowest dial . No delay box. Contact me with a PM if you are interested.

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Matt Shaff's Engine Shop / Re: How big of a supercharger?

« on: June 10, 2013, 08:10:14 PM »

Nitrous not allowed ?

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Matt Shaff's Engine Shop / Re: How big of a supercharger?

« on: June 06, 2013, 08:51:17 AM »

Two of the group I run with are blown SBC. They both claim to make about 1200 hp. I am making 640 injected. I was told they started with 6-71s and went to 8-71s with better manifolds and really didn't see much difference. A 300hp goal should be an easy one to attain.

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Roo Man's Room / Re: Chassis building to a Spec.

« on: May 31, 2013, 03:43:24 PM »

How slow is slow enough?

NHRA rulebook 4:11 under roll cage heading says 9.99 or 135mph or faster

http://www.nhra.com/UserFiles/file/General_Regulations.pdf

Thanks Tyler.

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Roo Man's Room / Re: Chassis building to a Spec.

« on: May 31, 2013, 01:09:03 PM »

I am racing a FED with a current 6.0 certification. It was built to SFI 2.2B . Now a 2.4C. It might meet the 2.2C spec. but I'm real sure we won't be running in the 5s.

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Roo Man's Room / Re: Chassis building to a Spec.

« on: May 31, 2013, 10:35:01 AM »

How slow is slow enough?

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Roo Man's Room / Chassis building to a Spec.

« on: May 30, 2013, 02:21:32 PM »

As I read some of the chassis being built or modified, I don't see a reference to a SFI spec. or possibly another standard. Am I mistaken or are there a good percentage of builds that never get inspected? Is it only sanction tracks that require a current chassis cert. ? I would think even a non-sanctioned contest should have to meet some requirement for insurance reasons. Just curious. George

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Front Engine Dragsters / Re: Bowling Green HRR

« on: May 29, 2013, 09:11:30 AM »

We will be there. Helping another racer.

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Altereds / Re: Bowling Green HRR

« on: May 28, 2013, 08:18:22 AM »

Several of us are going but were not taking a car. Probably hang with the Walden group.

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Front Engine Dragsters / Re: New FED coming out, maybe?

« on: May 28, 2013, 03:10:10 AM »

Yea, I thought so. I'm about 35 miles west of his place.

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Front Engine Dragsters / Re: New FED coming out, maybe?

« on: May 27, 2013, 02:15:43 PM »

This is Chuck Baird of Custom Auto Body in Assumption Illinois?

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Matt Shaff's Engine Shop / Re: Compression Question

« on: May 26, 2013, 10:50:50 AM »

We improved our 355 cid SBC last year from 11.6:1 to 13.4:1 . With a new custom cam , some intake port work and a complete race rebuild gained 40 hp.

We haven't seen a great deal of on track improvement yet. We ran a 5.10 et @ 136 Friday.

My advice is to build a 400+ cid engine. You don't have to get wild to make 600 hp on injected alky.

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Events / Re: Spring Nostalgia Race @ Central Illinois Dragway. Havana Illinois. May 25th

« on: May 26, 2013, 08:54:26 AM »

Rain out . 

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Front Engine Dragsters / Re: What did you do on your Front Engine Dragster TODAY?

« on: May 25, 2013, 07:55:19 PM »

Spring Nostalgia race at Central Illinois Dragway have been canceled.    RAIN!

 Friday's Test and tune resulted in our car running a best of 1.10 60' 5.10 et @ 136 mph.

We got invited to a match race at Cameron MO. next Saturday. Three runs with the blower cars. 

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Spud Miller's Cave / Re: Small amount of nitro or m5

« on: May 20, 2013, 04:32:32 AM »

I played with some M5 late last year and it didn't show any improvement over my " cheap stuff".