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Watch my 318 Aspen Wagon race a new Ford Mustang on TV.

GTX JOHN

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You can watch my 318 Aspen Wagon race a new $200,000 Mustang @ Nevada NHRA
Nationals on NHRA TV yesterday. They also filmed interviews with the Drivers both
before and after the races as well as the race and Data. My boy says the best way to
see it at the moment is NHRA Facebook posted yesterday.

They also filmed and extended interview with me looking at the our long history with the Aspen. It will appear in NHRA National Dragster Monthly Magazine
in a month or two.

I am soon to be forced to probably to retire from racing due to Age and Health
and I would enjoy you watching us.



I must have had Stage Fright on TV = I had my worse light of the year to
my opponents .005. I then proceeded to catch my sleeve in the shifter
and shifted first to third. The only way I could of done worse was if I
had wet my pants in the Water Box on TV
 
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After my race = Watch two of my friends race two
of the nicest Mopar race cars you will ever get a chance
to see! They are great guys and happy to have as friends.
 
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Your car is pretty fast for a 318. You have got that engine humming.
Stock engine = Stock cam lift/stock carb intake/heads
AND it is the low perf version with 178/150 Valves
It has held the National record in the 11s. We have
very detuned it to keep our average low.
 
Wow even more impressive - it has got even more power! You are doing something right for sure.
Wish I knew your secret sauce combination.
 
Cheat/Cheat and be hard to BEAT!!!

Just kidding = We were torn down 3 races in a row down to
short block before I detuned it a bunch.
 
Cheat/Cheat and be hard to BEAT!!!

Just kidding = We were torn down 3 races in a row down to
short block before I detuned it a bunch.
This stuff makes class racing difficult to understand.
Every time I hear people say bracket racing sucks because the fastest car is supposed to win I think about the possibility of being torn down and what a pia it would be.
A lot of days at the track I don’t even lift my hood.
 
I can understand why there are rules. The reality is most people will bend the rules if they are smart enough - but some folks break them to win disadvantaging the guys who do not cheat.
I am not directing this comment at John it is just my opinion on what goes on at race tracks.
Racers by nature are competitive mostly, and some guys can't work out how to win without cheating.
 
I was being tongue in cheek.

I have Drag Raced/ Slalomed/Boat Raced /Motorcrossed the
last 60 years.
My #1 Son won the Baja 500 in a Trophy Truck in his class and
worked on one of the top Prostock Teams.
My #2 Son won the All Stars Drag Racing in our part of the country
and is the youngest driver to ever win a Wally at a NHRA National Race.
My dad was part owner way back in 60 is an Indy 500 car that finished 4th.
Therefore, I speak from a fair bit of experience.

One common denotator in all the venues:
The top runners in all these forms of Racing =all constantly study and interpret the rules of their
form of racing to obtain a competitive advantage and experiment constantly!
This is a fact of life since racing began.
The teardowns and technical inspections are what police the innovations.

No one like to spend the night tearing down and putting back together their race car
to be ready to race the next morning. But that is what it takes to prevent cheating and
prove your car is legitimate.

Very few have the drive to compete in a Performance Based Category at a National Level.
 
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SCCA Showroom stock B Sedan. VW Sirocco. We were allowed to balance the motor but not shave weight from all 4 rods. 1 had to be as forged. Went to a local large engine rebuilder. They had tons of rods. I weighed their whole stack and fOund the 4 lightest. Then had the other 3 balanced to the weight of the lightest. Don’t remember how many grams we saved but it sure revved quicker and was faster off the corners than the A Stock 924’s. Totally legal just time consuming. Had to use a stock cam and sprocket. Cam was retarded for smog. Took a 3 degree advanced woodruff key from a SBC and filed it down to work in the sirocco. Small changes were time consuming but it paid off. Hand made wedge plates to shim the rear wheels to give negative camber readings.
 
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