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#1
07-15-2013, 09:01 AM
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Boss Bird Lives Again!
We had the funny car out this weekend for it's first testing since last year's fire. We ran once Friday at the Kil Kare/POCI race and then returned to Kil Kare Saturday to run in between their normal weekend racers.
Total of (4) runs. First one was an intentional 330' shutoff. (3) more runs were powered past the 1/8th mile. With a verrrrry soft tuneup and dropping one cylinder, it ran a best 1/8th mile of 4.433 (compare to our best ever 4.335 1/8th mile from the 6.507 run last year). No apparent engine damage. Mike will be disassembling the engine this week to look things over. Next stop.....Norwalk  Eric
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07-15-2013, 09:05 AM
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Nothing but the best to you, awesome ride, just go for it!!
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#3
07-15-2013, 09:27 AM
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Fridays Pass was flat awesome! That thing was on a rail!
 It was great talking/working with you and your crew that day also. Glad to see you got more runs in on Saturday. Can't wait to see it run at Norwalk in a couple of weeks.
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74 GTO Bracket/Street car and another 74 for the wifey to race with! 70 GTO 400, 4 spd, #'s matching and a little to nice for me to own. Friendship is like peeing your pants..everyone can see it but only you can feel the warmth! |
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07-15-2013, 09:35 AM
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Congrats! looking forward to it!
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07-15-2013, 10:46 AM
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Eric
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#6
07-15-2013, 11:08 AM
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Eric, we got to see your 330 pass friday. AWESOME !!! Glad to see the Boss Bird back on the track. Looking forward to watching you run the Bird at Norwalk.
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07-15-2013, 11:17 AM
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 We only had about half the cars we were hoping/basing everything on. As GTO GEORGE stated in another thread, I wish more people would have came out and supported the event but its not like this hasn't happened before with prior all Pontiac race events. Kil Kare had a test and tune the night before and there were a bunch of cars (Pontiacs) there that night mixed in with their regular crowd. However, the T&T did not go good at all and there were ALOT of PO'ed people and that may have had an affect on our turnout. See ya in a couple of weeks.
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74 GTO Bracket/Street car and another 74 for the wifey to race with! 70 GTO 400, 4 spd, #'s matching and a little to nice for me to own. Friendship is like peeing your pants..everyone can see it but only you can feel the warmth! |
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07-15-2013, 11:19 AM
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That pass definitely was sweet, especially watching it from the starting line!
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74 GTO Bracket/Street car and another 74 for the wifey to race with! 70 GTO 400, 4 spd, #'s matching and a little to nice for me to own. Friendship is like peeing your pants..everyone can see it but only you can feel the warmth! |
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#9
07-15-2013, 05:28 PM
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Congrats Eric and Mike, great to see the Bird back in action!
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07-15-2013, 07:42 PM
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The Bird looked like it was on a rail and sounded awesome on the run I watched about 3pm saturday. Cant remember the numbers but it looked like you lifted about 1000 ft. mark. I do remember the number in the 1/8 being close to the Quick car qualifying. Congratulations !
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07-15-2013, 08:12 PM
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Wishing the very best to Mike and Eric. Be safe and go fast! I am confident this will be the quickest/fastest Pontiac soon and for a long time. It is just a matter of holding the loud pedal down the length of the track. 5 sec ETs coming and high top speeds too! Once this car is dialed in, it will be on top and likely stay there unless there is another car of this caliber I am not aware of.
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#12
07-15-2013, 08:52 PM
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Since we were working on the tuneup and trying to preserve the hardware, i lifted before 1000 ft every run. I expect I'll run it out the back door at Norwalk. Thanks for everyone's kind words of support.
Eric
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07-15-2013, 09:25 PM
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Congrats Eric. Any vids?
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#14
07-15-2013, 09:31 PM
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X2 on the vids!!!
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#15
07-16-2013, 07:00 AM
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Eric ,
Norwalk is special, almost all racers take it up a notch for this race........kinda like SHOWING OFF! Gets rid all of the BS........same playing field. I have other races I race at through out the year........but Norwalk (Pontiac Nationals) will always be special!! GTO George |
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07-16-2013, 08:50 AM
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Good luck the best to you guys-wish I was rich-I give some away to you guys.
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#17
07-17-2013, 09:47 AM
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Video from our 2nd run on Saturday. Not enough wheel speed for a good burnout yet, lazy tuneup, dropping one cylinder...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hTp...e_gdata_player Eric
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"Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth" noted philosopher Mike Tyson Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. “The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.” |
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#18
07-17-2013, 09:57 AM
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Hey Eric if you need a back up driver for Norwalk I'm thinking I could squeeze it in my schedule!
 GTO George |
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07-17-2013, 07:29 PM
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07-18-2013, 03:07 AM
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