Cascade Crew

Twilightoptics · Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2008 6:20 pm Post subject: Drag Weekend! Pictures!

Had a ton of fun this weekend. Friday hit the track. Made 11 passes. Best of 13.08@109.76. LOTS of 13.2@109 passes. Time for steeper gears and a rear that can handle it! Sick of these 2.2 60ft times.

Had some beverages and went back at it Saturday. With Brandon, Al, and Mike's help we got the Chevette road worthy. Rolled the fenders with the baseball bat. Hit the track with it. First pass was a tractionless 16.1@85. Not bad for a 3ft long shifter, quick from scratch tune, and no traction in first or second on bald tires. 2.5 60ft! LOL But hey that pass alone is a second and a half faster than a thirdgen with the same motor. The 2nd run I broke off my 3rd link on the 1-2 shift. Still ran 16.6 though! Hopefully the running gear is okay. Little re-engineering to do :O)

Pictures here.

I'll post youtube links as soon as they're done loading.

After racing we fired up the barbie and drank ALOT of tequila. Much fun!

Chevette's first run. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in3HXkzj118

DBL_TKE · Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2008 7:01 pm Post subject:

Hey look it's me in the first picture! I Saw you make some good runs. That Orange Mustang is the first GT500 we've ever come out. I saw him make a 12.7 pass Laughing

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After you left I decided to make a couple of passes. 3 of my best run's ever. Setting my PR at 15.454 at 88mph. Derek and I were going to head over to your place but I had to be somewhere at 10am the next morning. Maybe next time. I had my Prom last night so I was unable to attend Saturday night. how was the turnout at the track?

Schultzy89GTA · Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2008 7:17 pm Post subject:

Awesome job Paully. The Chevette is on her way and most impressive all of the work that has gone into it in a short period of time.

Thank you and Brandy for being the most gracious of hosts Saturday night. Was a great, drama-free time. I was quite relaxed lol.

-Schultzy

Dewey316 · Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2008 7:18 pm Post subject:

Nice Paul. You owned that volvo!

Wish I could have been there in person, as much fun as the play by play over MSN was, I would have much rather been racing and partying with you guys!

brandyland · Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2008 7:21 pm Post subject:

I think that Volvo owned itself. Laughing

Quasi-Traction · Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2008 7:42 pm Post subject:

I knew I should have come out Saturday!

Dang it!

Kage87Z · Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 2:35 pm Post subject:

Lotta cars blew up. MR 2 blew the engine to pieces at the line, vette blew a rear end out and went about 4 feet... a 3rd gen went up in a mushroom cloud after it's run... it looked cobbled together from a distance but close up, this guy is clearly trying to get a car together. (He had very wide tires sticking out so far that he had to take them off to trailer his rig... they wouldn't fit.)

The pad seems much, much stickier, and times seemed to be noticeably higher this year then last.

Good to see some crewbies there. Hopefully, I'll have mine out there reasonably soon.

Al Hasse · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 7:30 pm Post subject:

The Chevette's first run was actually better than my bone stock 305 TBI Laughing

and first gear was my only tractionless gear. That's going to be a quick car if it gets hooked up Shocked

A couple of other noteworthy 3rd gens on Saturday night...

cameron7710 · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 8:01 pm Post subject:

thats one sweet b4c

DBL_TKE · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 11:03 pm Post subject:

that B4C is owned by an ex cop, hence the X911 numbers. and D665, last time I talked to him he said he was shootin' for 9's. Do you remember what he ran? Wish I could have been there Saturday night. Although from the sound of it, I'm glad I didn't have to work.

Schultzy89GTA · Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 9:22 am Post subject:

Better late than never. Retrieved off the cell phone so apologies in advance for quality...

-Schultzy

iansane · Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 10:04 am Post subject:

Looks like some fun hijinks...

brandyland · Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 11:21 am Post subject:

Mr. Schultzy, you are a bad bad man.
But at least you stopped taking pics at a certain point in the night...... Wink

Quasi-Traction · Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 3:01 pm Post subject:

ah.

Still wishing I hadn't missed "Guido the punisher" run and the part that followed thereafter.

*shruggs*

Some nice candid pictures took by Shultz.

Al Hasse · Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 3:25 pm Post subject:

Ive got the video of this, but it was too big to put on photo-bucket. This is how to clearance a fender with a baseball bat Very Happy

blue89 · Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 7:17 am Post subject:

The 'vette is looking good! How are your reworked spindles holding up?

Demon · Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 4:17 pm Post subject:

chevymad · Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 4:43 pm Post subject:

We did a bit more then just a roll. Kinda stretched those fenders over 2"

Demon · Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 7:55 pm Post subject:

Twilightoptics · Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 6:31 am Post subject:

17x7!

I think the original wheels were something like 13x5. They were TINY