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I put my new license plate sticker on and drove it into town to pick up dinner tonight. It's running well, headlights work good, both low/high beam. I'm pretty happy at the moment.

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It's not done-done. I still cant get the rear most header bolt in, even on the lift. I think the gasket might be slightly intruding on the hole. But I took it for a short test drive last night anyway! I put in 5 gallons of gas and went to the grocery store. It sounds good, it ...

I pulled screenshots from the videos that Scott has taken of the car launching at all the tracks. All except Maple Grove have a sign in the middle with the track name, so it's cool. I'm gonna get a frame for each year. Gwen and I looked the other night after dinner, but couldnt find one we liked ...

The registration for Drag Week 2026 opens this Saturday, Feb 21st. This year's event is primarily in Illinois. Day 4, while in MIssouri, looks to be just over the river from Illinois.

Day 0/1 Route 66 Raceway, Joilet, IL
Day 2 Byron Dragway, Byron, IL
Day 3 Cordova Raceway, Cordova, IL
Day 4 World ...

I finally made some progress on my Vette. I got the passenger side header gasket swapped out. I can't get to the rear bolt on the #8 exhaust port, so I'll have to try from underneath.

I bought new Stage 8 fasteners for the headers. They have a little 3/16 hex socket in the middle of the bolt which ...

Its super cool to see one of the projects return under a new owner.

I made a stop at Fred's on Saturday to drop off the scales and found these guys fixin' on Paul's Dana 44, getting it ready to be swapped in the car.

Yeah, once I started putting them all together, it was pretty cool. Actually, all of them are just screen captures from the videos that Scott took.

I need to get some similar shots at Thompson and 42. I have a pretty well-traveled race car!

-Dave

Drag Week 2025

After 2 years worth of Drag Week, I got a collection of pics with all the track names..

Drag Week 2024

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Maliboost ...

I'm a couple days late here, but that is sooo cool! It's a videogame car, I can't wait to see it in person.

Basement Paul wrote: Wed Dec 17, 2025 8:24 am You keep the spare hardware next to the spare intake manifolds??

-BP

Why yes, yes i do! Haha

I bought a Dell Optiplex 5050 on ebay with an Intel i7-7700 CPU (4 cores, 3.6GHz), 8GB RAM and no hard-drive/SSD for $125/shipped. I think it was new in 2017, and this board will support a whopping 64GB of RAM. This setup should offer a huge increase of performance while also using a lot less ...

It's migration time, again. If you follow technology news at all, Broadcom bought VMWare a year or so back and made a publicly stated goal of locking in their 500 biggest clients, and screwing everyone else with HUGE license increases. Basically designed to make smaller customers go away. Even ...

Welcome to Tiresmoke! That pinion angle was a mess, yikes. Looks like a solid truck, though. This is gonna be your daily?

-Dave