That actually made me laugh outloud

Chuck, just want to give kudos for the job you did announcing the Curt George event over the weekend. You may have missed your calling.

You did all the right things....put names and faces to the various cars, called the race as it was happening. Good announcers CAN make drag racing much more spectator friendly, and can help a track promote the local heros and draw some spectators.

My good friends "ThunderLungs" Jon Lunberg, who is a legend, and George Nye of York US30 have done this for years.

Again, good job.

Tony

Steve, thank you for the kind words. I tried not to embarrass myself, or anyone else, and have some fun. There was some awesome racing going on. I don't know if I'll ever forget Lonnie Smith in the Ram taking on his dad's Dart. About .004 apart on the tree, Lonnie with a 7 second head start, dragging the brakes, reeling his dad in, they both go dead on, .002 MOV for dad Larry.

Also have to give some shout outs - pretty cool to see Bruce Bowman and Nick Bowman in the final, of the Bowman Performance Pro class, with Nick getting the win. Tim Bowman was driving Bill Ward's Belvedere in the Hemi class, and in the final was just red, .0007 I think?

Thanks chuck that was awesome man!!! great weekend!!! and yes dad was -.0007 red

awesome weekend!

Cadaschmuck did you get your car finished yet

congrats to ron boyce for taking home some of beaver bob's money this past weekend.
winning the little beaver race sat. night.
pretty cool watching it pick the front up and carrying it past the 60' and putting it down almost as soft as it came up.

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yes sir...its done! me and kev were double classing it this weekend at the mopar race...breaking it in haha

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Tony Fagnilli:
yeah, you're right. I love you man.[/QUOTE

Love you to.

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Originally posted by ChuckT:
Get a room, homos.

Now Chuckles.

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Originally posted by Mark Romeo:
Shelby, I see no real need for the 3rd bolt. I bought a Jegs mini-starter, the one they have for like 119.99 on the racers discount, program. Now mine is a straight pattern starter so you would have to drill (or tap the existing) the 3rd hole. Knock on wood, I have had great luck from mine. I don't think you will have a problem with the Powermaster though. What gauge wire do you have going to the starter? Also, is your block grounded to the battery?

Hi, Mark,

Thanks for the insight Mark, Well I drilled and tapped a third hole this past weekend off, and now I can use 3 bolts, I hope my problems are over, I have a heavy cable running to the Neg battery post that bolts to the frame near the front motor plate, but I was thinking of putting a small wire right to the starter. I got 6 races out of the last Proform, 3 total all from summit, they told me they had a high return on these starters and I didnt see them in the new catalog, I think they quit selling them. But I think we got it figured out, I had a 2 bolt stagered bolt starter mount system, but this weekend I drilled and tapped a 3rd hole in my block to accept the regular bolt, or straight bolt pattern sbc starters, and Summit has been great also, they gave me a deal on a Powermaster Mini Starter after 3 ProForm mini starters failed in less than a few races apiece, thay they replaced, for they old starter and 48.00 with free shipping a hat and a tee shirt!! lol. But this 430 stroker sbc engine is rated at 14:1 compression and is hard to turn over, even with a MSD timing retarder box (starter saver) lol . What was happening is the starter would kick away from the flywheel, or move, and change the adjustment of the starter gear to the flywheel and would get stuck or jammed, and would not return to kick in and fail, I am thinking heat also from my header tube, 1 was close. So now I am running all 3 bolts in the mount and all kinds of heat wrap on my headers to keep the starter cool. I even took the time to pull the header off and cut the one tube and bend it away from the starter and re mig welded it, away from the starter to keep away the heat from the header tube, and wrapped it good with heat tape and wrapped the starter with a heat shield, So we will see this sat if it worked out.. This new Powermaster starter lists at 311.00 the Proforms were 211.00 so lets see?

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Originally posted by MattCadamore:
yes sir...its done! me and kev were double classing it this weekend at the mopar race...breaking it in haha

How did the beast run?

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Originally posted by Balaska347:

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Originally posted by MattCadamore:
yes sir...its done! me and kev were double classing it this weekend at the mopar race...breaking it in haha

How did the beast run?

Fast!!! (when tuned up) has to go slower till he gets the roll bar in.

I just talked to Cadaschmuck and thats what I hear. That little car runs pretty good. Hopefully with a converter that works I can atleast hang on to his coat tails

haha thanks guys...i was more than impressed with the car...still some left in it too...but i need a cage badly now haha like i said mike...the converter is a big part to a good running car. cam and converter should be the last two pieces bought while building a car. your car will be nipping at my heals in no time!

Buy a CVR starter. I've had the same one for almost 10 years now and it's still running strong. You know what that means? I said something so it will fail next week, LOL.

Where have you been Joey I have seen or heard from you?

Hey Tony, hoping you see this by tonight...

When are your qualifying sessions in TS? The schedule on NHRA.com doesn't say. We'll be there Friday at 8:30am, hope to get to see you guys run.

http://www.nhra.com/UserFiles/.../NO1run_schedule.pdf

We won't get to see TD/TS qualifying Chuck, they will be completing that today pending weather of course. According to the schedule above.

Thanks Mark. I hope Gino and Tony qualify so we can cheer them on.