skull
''SARCASM: just one of his many talents.''
nice
glad ya had fun,
if ya don't break stuff your not trying hard enough
Later
glad ya had fun,
if ya don't break stuff your not trying hard enough
Later
Tomorrow is race day !!!!!
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donsrods
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Haha, the reason I quit at 6 runs was I floated the valves on one run (I've had this engine to 7 grand before with no problems so I must have really overwound it) and on the next run my times were off, so I figured any more pushing it would not be in my best interests.
Don
Don
rainman
Rough Rodder
Very Cool!!! Thanks for posting!
Snake Farm
Ol school snake charmer!
RAT IHC
Well-known member
Thanks Don! Feel the same way about you guys as well! It's great to put a face to the name. Definately will be at Turkey Rod Run this year and hope to meet others...next up though will be the Nostalgia Drags on the weekend of 11/5&6...I'll post up some more pictures from that one as well. If anyone is going let me know.
-Troy
bob w
Still crazy after all these years!
There's a very good pic of Don (the man) sitting in staging over on the H--B site.
Handsome Devil! Fast roadster. No wonder the beach bunnys like to use his cars for photo shoots.
Handsome Devil! Fast roadster. No wonder the beach bunnys like to use his cars for photo shoots.
CR55
It's just a little surface rust!
There's a very good pic of Don (the man) sitting in staging over on the H--B site.
Handsome Devil! Fast roadster. No wonder the beach bunnys like to use his cars for photo shoots.
That and the fact that he's a famous California car builder!!!
donsrods
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I think it was the helmet that did it. Women just can't resist a guy in a crash helmet.
Don
Don
CR55
It's just a little surface rust!
The term "crash helmet" always makes me think of the phrase "here, hold my beer and watch this!"....and we all know how much women like that!!!
we all know how much women like that!!!
CR55
It's just a little surface rust!
The term "crash helmet" always makes me think of the phrase "here, hold my beer and watch this!".. and we all know how much women like that...
440shorty
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Fun
Looks like you had a blast, Don. Your roadster really moves!
Thanks for inspiring me to get busy.
440shorty
Looks like you had a blast, Don. Your roadster really moves!
Thanks for inspiring me to get busy.
440shorty
donsrods
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Thanks. I am not ashamed to say I was pretty nervous every run. Never knew what the car might do and I have never driven it that hard or fast.
When I made my first pass the other day I had the timing set where I run it on the street.......it runs good there and runs cool, so I put a mark on the distributor and block and keep it there. When I made my second pass I advanced the distributor a bit and it really liked it there. It was much stronger out of the hole and when I hit second it went to the left pretty good and smoked the tires almost all the way through second. I was turning my best times of the day. But as the day went on the car started slowing down both in mph and et. I figured I had hurt something, so I quit racing while I was ahead........I had enough fun anyway by that point.
Today I decided to go for a little ride in it to run some errands and while I was at it I decided to put the distributor back on the mark where it runs best on the street. What I found was that during the day my distributor had retarded itself quite a bit and was retarded twice as much as I had advanced it ! In my haste at the track I must have not tightened up the clamp enough and the counter rotating distributor turned itself backwards.
I set the timing back to the mark and it drove just like it always did. I kept telling Don something was wrong those last few runs because my rpms would drop from 1200 to 600 or 800 after a run, and I was thinking fuel pressure. That Cuda that beat me on one run turned a slower time than what I had been running but I just chalked it up to driver error. At least I am relieved to see nothing mechanically was my culprit.
Don
When I made my first pass the other day I had the timing set where I run it on the street.......it runs good there and runs cool, so I put a mark on the distributor and block and keep it there. When I made my second pass I advanced the distributor a bit and it really liked it there. It was much stronger out of the hole and when I hit second it went to the left pretty good and smoked the tires almost all the way through second. I was turning my best times of the day. But as the day went on the car started slowing down both in mph and et. I figured I had hurt something, so I quit racing while I was ahead........I had enough fun anyway by that point.
Today I decided to go for a little ride in it to run some errands and while I was at it I decided to put the distributor back on the mark where it runs best on the street. What I found was that during the day my distributor had retarded itself quite a bit and was retarded twice as much as I had advanced it ! In my haste at the track I must have not tightened up the clamp enough and the counter rotating distributor turned itself backwards.
I set the timing back to the mark and it drove just like it always did. I kept telling Don something was wrong those last few runs because my rpms would drop from 1200 to 600 or 800 after a run, and I was thinking fuel pressure. That Cuda that beat me on one run turned a slower time than what I had been running but I just chalked it up to driver error. At least I am relieved to see nothing mechanically was my culprit.
Don
T DRIVER
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Nice
Thats a good looken Ride , plane jane thats great
Thats a good looken Ride , plane jane thats great
