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     Hootowl |
Ah! Thanks! My head was starting to hurt.  | ||
| Glitch |
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| Mr_grumpy |
Drag racing Quebec style. | ||
| Glitch |
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| Ducbsa |
Oh, great, now I'm even more depressed about my lack of talent genes, except for the gene for advanced relaxation techniques, of course. | ||
| Aesquire |
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| Aesquire |
http://jalopnik.com/do-not-get-between-two-japanes e-sumo-bots-1796278220 | ||
| Crusty |
Oh I'm glad I'm not an Oscar Meyer Wiener That is what I never want to be 'Cause if I was an Oscar Meyer Wiener There would soon be nothing left of me! | ||
| 1313 |
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| Crusty |
Damn! I wish I could be at Laguna Seca and see that! | ||
| Ourdee |
I want to drive it down through there. | ||
| Natexlh1000 |
That picture makes me unreasonably happy. | ||
| 86129squids |
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| Ourdee |
Odd how many of us know where that corner is. | ||
| Hybridmomentspass |
What's odd about it? I'd bet most motorcycle, and car, folks know where that is. or ifyouve ever played Gran Turismo etc | ||
| Aesquire |
How many here have ridden that corner? On a bicycle? I've pedaled around Watkins Glen in the middle of the night at the classic races. Got cheered by the partygoers on turn 9. | ||
| Ourdee |
Not Laguna Seca. I have pedaled the Indianapolis 500 track on a HPRA Low Racer and on a High Wheel.  | ||
| Aesquire |
Sweet! I just can't tell you how much irony this is..... | ||
| Glitch |
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| Sifo |
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| Sifo |
Sweet! I just can't tell you how much irony this is... I saw a diesel VW Beetle "rollin' coal" the other day!  | ||
| Ourdee |
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| Glitch |
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| Hughlysses |
 Also applies to TDI's. | ||
| Aesquire |
A buddy & I are planning a Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week entry. Today we are at the fantasy football stage perusing Craig's list for a candidate suitable for a thousand hard unsupported road miles and 5 days of drag racing. ( and buying lottery tickets because that's the only way to finance a really fast car ) Pickup trucks are high on the list because of ease of access to engine and availability of suspension and speed parts. The Cummins Dodge truck is high on that list because I want one.  We've also figured out we don't need to go faster than 10 seconds so we can run the lowest bracket racing class with few restrictions. We figure that we don't need to roll coal to meet our needs since to us "winning" is finishing, taking a lot of pressure off pushing the hardware to the limit. Heck, if I find a slant 6 Dart, good enough! I assure you, if we get this going, it will be funny. ( we actually found a drag El Camino perfect for a faster class and "affordable" by loose standards. Trouble was, we can't climb into the car! ( old guys with replacement parts ) So it's already a sit com. Wish we'd filmed the shoe horn sequence.  | ||
| Hootowl |
It's only the old TDIs that do that. You know, the legal ones. The new "we cheated" VW TDIs do not put out soot. They're massively cleaner than my perfectly legal one. Although, it's only carbon. | ||
| Ratbuell |
...and as we all know, "rollin' coal" is just unburned fuel. My '01 Ram / Cummins is mechanically stock other than a 4" exhaust with muffler and turbo elbow, and with only an Edge Comp box (it's a stick so I only needed the basic box, no transmission programming required) it'll pull like a freight train and the 3.54 gears let it run 110 down the highway if I need to. No drag racer by any stretch...but with the box, my Glacier Diesel mechanical lift pump (engine driven versus the stock electric failure-prone piece), and a handful of gauges to keep an eye on everything...it should easily outlast me. The Comp box allows me to tweak the "low boost fueling" ratio in five steps, on each of the five power levels. I run just the truck (no trailer) on power level 4, with LBF set on 3 I believe; it's the one that allows me a bit of a haze if I whack it before the boost comes up but still gives good power. If I leave LBF on 5 I get the gogogadget smokescreen...and can watch my fuel gauge drop in the process. Towing a trailer up the mountain, I drop the power level to 3 (or 2 if I'm extra-heavy), only because I don't know what clutch is in the truck and honestly I don't want to find out any time soon. For drag week? That's a fun gig. A buddy of mine has done it a couple times with his Viper. But another buddy has had MORE fun with the GRM Challenge - GrassRoots Motorsports does a similar gig every year and from what I remember you can only spend a sum total of dollars that match the calendar year - i.e. this year you can spend as much as $2,017 to purchase and modify your vehicle. Here's Pat's build thread: http://www.turbo-mopar.com/forums/showthread.php?51514-Pat-s-GRM-ScAries!  Here was his first year out with the car, before he made (yes...MADE) the body kit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRux6jN7ens note: if you read back in the archives on this thread, Pat is the guy I got my minivan from. | ||
| Bandm |
http://www.twincities.com/2017/06/28/hoping-for-yo utube-fame-with-prank-minnesota-woman-apparently-s hoots-boyfriend-to-death/ | ||
| Macbuell |
Darwin award nominee | ||
| Glitch |
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