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Talk about pre-race, racing & post-race; good or bad.

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November 25, 2025, 11:24 AM
B KING
Talk about pre-race, racing & post-race; good or bad.
Thanks for the info, M&M!

Rubber is meeting the road for the track today & I have car maintenance to do this afternoon. This is our annual Thanksgiving Bracket Nationals event & I have 6 races to run during the event.

Tomorrow is time runs & the Geezer Gambler race. Yes, I'm old enough to enter the Geezer deal. Wink

2BKING is still racing very well but needs to tighten up a few things in strategy. Got 6 races to make it happen to close the season. Smile

Relaxing


1980 Camaro
Taking the Best Working Small Tire Shyt Box & making it Greater Than Before!
3100 lbs.
Pump Gas 436
November 26, 2025, 12:20 PM
B KING
Rubber meets the track today!

2 time runs & the geezer gambler today. Should be a relaxing/fun day. Cool

2BKING Smile

Relaxing


1980 Camaro
Taking the Best Working Small Tire Shyt Box & making it Greater Than Before!
3100 lbs.
Pump Gas 436
November 26, 2025, 04:06 PM
BTR69
Take it easy on the old dudes out there... Respect your elders... LOL


William Kilduff
1970 Barracuda
1968 Camaro X2
1968 Caprice
1964 F100
November 26, 2025, 04:43 PM
B KING
Got a 1st round win over an older elder!

2BKING Smile

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1980 Camaro
Taking the Best Working Small Tire Shyt Box & making it Greater Than Before!
3100 lbs.
Pump Gas 436
November 26, 2025, 05:43 PM
B KING
Out in the 2nd with a red, someone older than I is moving on. Cool

2BKING Smile

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1980 Camaro
Taking the Best Working Small Tire Shyt Box & making it Greater Than Before!
3100 lbs.
Pump Gas 436
November 27, 2025, 07:47 AM
B KING
qtrrcr goes to the finals of the Geezer Gambler race. Scott came up a little short but a great race. I was watching from the Duck Pond. He's definitely an old school racer & still a competitive elderly racer!

2BKING Smile

Relaxing


1980 Camaro
Taking the Best Working Small Tire Shyt Box & making it Greater Than Before!
3100 lbs.
Pump Gas 436
November 28, 2025, 10:46 AM
B KING
Thurs. was a short day with a 1st round loss. I put down a good pass but my opponent was better!

I also found another problem I was having. I forgot to put in my expansion plug in my water/methanol tank. It messes with the tune pretty good.

I gave myself the Dumbazz of the day award!

Anyway, I have two races today. Hopefully my day goes better today. Big Grin

2BKING Smile

Relaxing


1980 Camaro
Taking the Best Working Small Tire Shyt Box & making it Greater Than Before!
3100 lbs.
Pump Gas 436
November 28, 2025, 01:30 PM
B KING
1st round win against an opponent playing stupid games & he got a stupid loss.

Bad thing is I picked up a hole in a header tube. I hate exhaust leaks, they sound like shyt! We patched it up with a double layer of coke can & a couple hose clamps.

Guess I have to make a trip to REF in Kingman AZ. for a new set.

2BKING Smile

Relaxing


1980 Camaro
Taking the Best Working Small Tire Shyt Box & making it Greater Than Before!
3100 lbs.
Pump Gas 436
November 28, 2025, 09:53 PM
B KING
My son won the Sportsman Claaa with his F250!

I went out in the 5th round with a broken header tube & I think I hurt the engine also.

2BKING Smile

Relaxing


1980 Camaro
Taking the Best Working Small Tire Shyt Box & making it Greater Than Before!
3100 lbs.
Pump Gas 436
November 29, 2025, 08:05 AM
ferndaleflyer
You all are troopers. Enough bad luck for an army.
November 30, 2025, 07:07 AM
qtrrcr
BKINGs bad luck rubbed off on me Saturday also, 1st pass everything fine, 2nd pass lost .05 at 60ft. 3rd pass lost another 3 at half track. 4th pass lost 3 tenths at the finish line. Convertors gone south. I will be a crew worker today on the other two cars.
December 01, 2025, 09:12 PM
B KING
quote:
Originally posted by B KING:
My son won the Sportsman Claaa with his F250!

I went out in the 5th round with a broken header tube & I think I hurt the engine also.


Not the way I wanted to finish the season!

Fern, my son races his F250, it wasn't a substitute. He locks it 4-wheel high, goes in deep, cuts killer lights & the diesel is very consistent. He was racing well & I was doing well with an upset race car. The exhaust leak was on the O2 sensor side & was wreaking havoc with the EFI.

I really wanted to have a win with my son on the same day.

Here's the pic of the exhaust leak!

2BKING thinks the motor is fine. Smile

Relaxing




1980 Camaro
Taking the Best Working Small Tire Shyt Box & making it Greater Than Before!
3100 lbs.
Pump Gas 436
December 02, 2025, 04:53 PM
markemark
^^^^^^ Wow. Do you use an EGT?
December 02, 2025, 05:16 PM
B KING
No EGT.

I have to pull the motor the get the headers out. I'm probably going to have this set repaired & have a new identical set built. I'll have the new set ceramic coated.

2BKING Smile

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1980 Camaro
Taking the Best Working Small Tire Shyt Box & making it Greater Than Before!
3100 lbs.
Pump Gas 436
December 02, 2025, 06:02 PM
markemark
^^^^^^ Consider having an EGT bung installed on one of the primary tubes.
December 02, 2025, 06:28 PM
B KING
quote:
Originally posted by markemark:
^^^^^^ Consider having an EGT bung installed on one of the primary tubes.


What's the reasoning for this?

2BKING Smile


1980 Camaro
Taking the Best Working Small Tire Shyt Box & making it Greater Than Before!
3100 lbs.
Pump Gas 436
December 02, 2025, 07:09 PM
markemark
quote:
Originally posted by B KING:
quote:
Originally posted by markemark:
^^^^^^ Consider having an EGT bung installed on one of the primary tubes.


What's the reasoning for this?


On methanol I found the reading change interesting depending the tune-up I was running.