UhOh boys. Looks like the forecast is rain for Sunday. I hope they push this weather back a bit because Saturday's weather would be perfect. 56* and partly cloudy for Sat and a 40% chance of showers on Sunday. Cross your fingers!!!

If anybody want's an early morning forecast FROM the Quad Cities that morning I could probably provide one. I'll be up there the day before and could probably give some of you guys an idea of what it's like before you make the long trip just to find out it's cancelled just in case.

Is there a rain date for Vicary day...I always wondered in the past.

Oh, by the way Turbo...you do have a chance of beating me (without Pete), I've got a boost leak coming from the compressor side turbo oring-I think

Oring comes in Friday, if it run like sh$t Friday when I'm at Cordova, I may try to replace the oring Sat.

I'll have Pete on tap just in case.

What's the cost to go and spectate? No way in hell Shamou's going to be ready for this one.

That I don't know. Can't be more than $5 to $10 per person if anything. If you that's stopping you from going let me know.

I don't know if any of you have been watching but Weather.com pushed the rain back to Monday. Now there's only a 20% chance of precipitation and they didn't even include rain in the forcast, just Cloudy. Woo Hoo 58* and overcast!

http://www.weather.com/weather/tenday/USIL...Link_undeclared

Sweet!

I was talking to Ron Kacir in Washburn LAst night. He said if the rain holds out he plans to bring his big Block Vega again. He also said there are a lot of the local heavy weights that are eager to go to this event. You guys remember the stretched out silver Camaro with the bug catcher sticking way out of the hood... Yeah the one that looks like a rocket going down the track. He's planning on making it too.

Hehehehe, more friends to play with!

I say you need to drag race the Shaturn since the Talon is down Marcus!!!!

Christensen from Pinks:
"I'll give you five lengths against Brett in the Camaro. Do you accept?"

If anything it will help support the fact to our members that you can still have fun without your toy car!!!

I want an 1/8 mile and you to start in the waterbox....

I accept the five cars. But I wont be driving the Saturn.

I would however like to wager that your Lt1 will not make it out of the 13's with or with-out Pete.

Ok, I'm a dumb ass... wtf is pete?

It's a nitrous system with a bottle that is small for ease of concealing it's existance or where-abouts in your car.

ok, makes sense... thanks for filling me in.

I'd like part of that wager too

You obviously haven't seen the setup on this car then!!!

State Farm is helping me dig deeper pockets lately. We'll see how well she does...

Black92, don't think you're out of the woods yet! Bring it on boys! 12.5 or bust!

I vote bust

I thought when you bought it you wanted a reliable daily driver that you could have fun in? Sounds to me like the mod bug has bitten you again.

Better keep your Cavalier for the DD turbohcar!

LT1 plus nitrous is like multiplyin power by 0. It still = zero.

Just jokin man... Don't take the rib shots too serious.

Haven't you heard the O'brien dealership commercials lately? Multiplying 0 = 2,000!!!

Don't be scared Marcus, it's just an LT1! I'll give you 10 cars in the Shaturn to make it fair with me on the juice.

Well, Cordova is closed tonight because cold and wind=unsafe driving conditions apparently...

I won't get to test of the car before Vicary Day, I guess Turbo and I will have to run heads up and see how the the sh$t flies!

Make sure you bring extra bottles to feed Pete!

OOOOhhhhhweeeee!!! This is getting exciting.

An untested tried and true 12.6 car and a land-yacht of power-adder glory shooting to land atleast faster than that. Are you reaady to rummmbbllllle!

Oooohhhh yeah!!

It's almost time. The day of reckoning is almost here!

Sunday, Sunday SUNDAY!!!!

Will 4 cyl beat eight???

Will the turbo out perform the giggle gas???

I know the answer, in 2 days so will everyone else

dude...there will be no suprises here. I just feel sorry for Turbohcar when he finds out the LT1 isn't NEARLY as fast as he wants it to be.

Surprises? Der will be no surprises boss. Just a turbo 4 wheezing at the starting line while I'm blowin him a kiss from my tailpipe! I think you'll be surprised. I've had a few of my fellow F-bod friends say this car is definitely a FACTORY FREAK without the giggle gas! FF Camaro!!! Woot woot!

It shall be very close I fear. Thus the reason I've placed a rather large bet with my booky on the black car.......

Evidently I've got friends from other forums coming too.

(copied and pasted from z28.com)


Eat that Black 92!!!

no one wants to take on the little 6 cyl grand am.. runs 15.4s.. lol
i am bring a friend with a mustand that ran 13.9s w.o first gear..
well he has first gear now and slicks..
lol
see u guys on sunday!( i will be hung over.. i am celebratin my b-day onsaturday.. i dont think i will avge .006 again.. )

No body said that Black92 or any 14b DSM was the fastest... You know that Brett, we don't have to re-educate you do we?

But IMHO Black92's car will beat all stock LT1's and most mildly modified LT1's. I know from experience... It used to happen on a regular basis. What does that have to do with racing a purpose built '81 drag Camaro with an Allston rear half? I have no idea.

Ok guys, I know its posted earlier in the thread but where is everyone meeting to cruise up there? Me and some buddies are leaving from Pekin and would like to catch up to you guys.

look one post under this one

so how far down the interstate is kickapoo

Honestly Marcus, I have no idea.

It's pretty much just lame come-back for the e-jabs we're throwing. That and I though it would be cool to announce this guy was going to be there because I always enjoy a car that can stand on the back wheels.

PM sent Marcus.

How quick we forget the power of AWD off the line....I have a feeling your f-body will not be pulling 1.7 60'!!! I predict at least a .3 lead at the 60' mark, and at least .75 at the top end.

Factory freak or not, I'm glad at least you'll make some money from your booky!

As far as your buddies 81 drag Camaro, glad to hear he's coming. I've got alot of Chevy blood left in my veins, he'll be full to watch.

Results??????

Awesome day for spectating except it was colder than the forecasted 62 degrees. A terrible day for most of the racers and two in particular.

Black_92 continues to impress me by driving there, turning great numbers and then driving home. My best 1/8 mile time was 8.039 at around 86mph with a 1.713 60 ft. I seen at least one of his that was quicker than that if not more. Good job man!

And yes, all the racers had to run no more than the eighth mile after a horrendous crash over a gaurd rail by an 8 second Mustang! I'm not kidding. It was the wildest thing I've ever seen in person. We looked over this car pretty thoroughly before he ran and it was SET UP. Super charger, air-to-water, fully customized, fully computerized, fuel cell, and ice cell in the trunk. parachute, cage, 5-point harness... the works. We were guessing a 50k dollar car.

We intnentionally watched his run because we knew it would be good. Well it was and it wasn't. He had MAD power, pulled the wheels and seemed to lose traction, got out of it, back into it and he was shooting down the track. Near the end he let out of it and BLIPPED the throttle while going nearly 130mph... In the blink of an eye the car turn 90 degrees to the left and shot over the left gaurd rail in a (No $hit) Dukes of Hazzard looking jump with dirt/debri comming off the bottom just like the TV jumps!!!! He landed behind a hill I couldn't see past, then it was just huge plumes of dirt clouds as you heard the engine full boar on, before he came to a rest.

The poor guy was a driver for the owner of the car. He missed death on the spot by about 6" I was told because the car was stopped by a light pole in the roof of the car right behind the driver. For about two hours they cut the guy out of the cage and life flighted him to the hospital. The car was mangled to oblivion as you might imagine. The driver was said to be talking and able to move his fingers and toes. WOW! Hope he's ok. ...And I don't want an 8 or 9 second car anymore!

A girl went down at the starting line on her crotch rocket later. I didn't see it but seen her laying like a wet rag between her bike and the gaurd rail after ward. They finally got her up and they took her out in the ambulance. Whew!

Then about 7-10 cars broke axles or drive shafts. Rear ends were turned to soup. radiators and suspensions were blown out. Corvettes spilling transmissions, Monte Carlos tossing belts and killing engines... It was a bad day for most cars.

Let's see...oh yeah, Turbo needs to bring Pete or somebody next time, he got smoked!

If Turbo gives me his car number I can post the race results between us.


As far as the day went. A kid flipped a quick Mustang out of the track into one of the lightpoles at the top end. I beleive the driver was Ok, but was life flighted out of the track. Shut the track down for 1-2 hours, we had to run 1/8 mile from then on due to guardrail damage.

The rest of the day was vehicle carnage also. I'd say at least 15 cars broke. They had 5 break at the line IN A ROW!!

I ended up running a 7.92 @ 88.5 in the 1/8 mile. New personal best I beleive that's about a 12.4-12.5 in the quarter.

pix of the stang

The pictures of this incident have been taken down at the request of Cordova Dragway and the driver's family. Thank's for your understanding.

DSMCentral

Thanks Mits! I didn't even see you there...

I wasn't there, I barrowed the pix from CSS

Ahhh...cool. Where are they? I couldn't find anything on CSS about yesterday's events.

Wow! That absolutely sucks. It sounds like the injured drivers were okay though, so thats good. lI'm glad Black92 got some good runs in and stayed together.

Damn that sux, atleast no one was hurt!

521 was my race number.

I made two runs about a half hour apart. It was quite on the cold side yesterday and there were so many people, I thought it wise to get a couple runs and get outta there. My first I lined up against a Ford Contour, having no idea what I was going to run. The second pass was against Black92 and that's when the chick went down on the bike.

I ran a 9.01@78mph on the first and a 9.09@78mph on the second. Both had sub-par .5xx reaction times and pulling 2.0 60ft times, which I think are pretty good considering stock suspension and street tires.

I googled an 1/8th mile calculator and found that the 9.01 pass would have equated to a 14.09 1/4mile pass if I had arrived early enough.
http://www.wallaceracing.com/eigth-to-quarter-conversion.php

BUT, I did make a sub 12.5 pass there Mr. Blackbadarse92!!! No one ever said anything about how long the track had to be.

All in all a good time. The girlfriend said it was like watching Pinks but without the talking in between. I've got video of both runs so if I can find a way to upload it to the net I will.

Well according to your calculator, my 7.92 come out to a 12.43 quarter

Well our showdown came down like this

Black 92 / Turbo
r/t .310 / .553
60' 1.714 / 2.089
330' 5.127 / 5.937
1/8 7.920 / 9.098
MPH 88.5 / 78.06

You just happen to be there for my best run of the day

I was pretty close on my prediction!

All in good fun, get Pete hook up and we'll go again!
I'll be there this coming Friday if you feel lucky.

Nate, I'm glad I stayed together also. Watching all those car break and sitting in a DSM can make you pretty nervous!

Right there at the 1/8th mile mark I looked up thinking to myself "man he's like 10 cars in front of me!!!". I'll need to see if I can upload the video so everyone can watch as you whoop my pooper!

So, I guess this friendly competition does help pressure you to make better runs... yep, you can thank me later. J/K

I was just glad to see someone that I knew since I got there so late (around 1:30). I was quite surprised by their effective tech session they did on my car. The kid gave me a tech card and said, "fill it out and you're good to go". I guess my car looked pretty slow because he wasn't worried about it. They gave me a discount at the gate because I got there late. $20 for 2 good runs wasn't so bad I guess. I'll post my better run later.

BTW, those runs were with about 50lbs of luggage in the back of the car. Annie wouldn't let me take anything out of the car because of all the people there. She was afraid someone was going to steal it all and since I hadn't seen anybody I knew, I figured it was best. Hopefully next year I get some 1/4 times!

Competition does help!

I'd like a copy of the video if you do have it, the wife was videoing but let before that run.

Tech is usally pretty lax at the end of the year at Cordova. Unless you have wheelly bar or something!

My wife was a little freaked out when she saw all my stuff sitting in the pits unattended also. I've never had an issue, but you never know I guess.

If I can figure out how to upload it to a CD or to the Net I'll definitely give you a copy. A friend of mine and I are working on a movie and I think some of the footage may be used it in. I'll keep you updated with that.

I am glad to hear all the drivers that wrecked are OK! That must have been some sight when the mustang wrecked. Does anyone have video of the day?

Real good to see Black92 is wooping on those f-bodies! lol!

Tazz from Cordova Dragway called me today. (Good guy) The family of the driver involved in the Mustang accident requested that the pictures of the car be taken off of the public forums. I respect that, and I have no problem complying. So I have removed those pictures. Please do not post those again for the family's sake.

Tazz also filled me in on a couple other details that I didn't have first hand knowledge of. The actual time it took to extract the driver from the caged Mustang, was about 37 minutes from the time the ambulances were sent out. That is pretty impressive! The actual down time from the point the Mustang wrecked to the time 1/8 mile passes were started up, was about 70 minutes. So they handled an extreme issue in a very timely and proffesional manner.

Hat's off the Cordova Dragway.

Any word for sure if he's ok?