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I'm doomed!

-BP

As of now, the weather is looking like 55 and sunny for this Saturday. Not the best for super low ETs, but still nice and I plan to go out. If the forecast stays like that, I'd like to take the Golf and the Firebird out there. Then we can get some real numbers on the Firebird, and maybe I can get th...

After finding out about two knock sensors instead of just one, it was eating at me that we only unplugged one in our previous test. So I made my way to 32Vs place with the scanner and a plan. We quickly jacked the car up, located both knock sensors, and pulled the plugs. These each only have one wir...

Yesterday we drove the car all around trying to gather more info. The biggest problem on the scanner showed that anytime I would put the car under load, generally over 2500 rpms, it pulled ALL the timing out. Going sometimes even almost 5 degrees retarded. It should be 20 degrees or more advanced. Y...

Since we needed a new u-joint in the rear, I bought another used aluminum driveshaft and new u-joints all on eBay. I had Paul Carson do the u-joint swap to make sure we weren't missing something and those got installed on Monday. Taking his advice, we switched back to 5w30 from 10w30 to help with th...

Since the motor now has almost 85k miles, why not rebuild it... OK, there's nothing wrong with it, but this winter it's going to get this: https://www.ebay.com/itm/GM-LS-5-7L-LS1-383-Stroker-Callies-Rotating-Assembly-Kit-Balanced-11-0-1-Pistons/192816870858?epid=16016069508&hash=item2ce4c7f5ca:g...

TRP is running Saturdays in November, so there's still time to get that elusive 8 second pass. They're usually pretty good about prepping the track on those days too as there are some pretty quick cars that show up to test.

I updated your time on the list.

-BP

I know my S10 was on there with the V6 at some point and the old Caddy is on there too. But if you have something even a little common for hot rodding, it gets lost in the shuffle. Maybe I should put my Golf on there.

I can't believe your Canyon is as fast as the El Dorado. Amazing.

-BP

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-BP

No, that one is done already. It's just a chance for racers to come out and win some money one last time. So far they only have Box, No Box, motorcycle, and Jr Dragster classes. There was talk of a Street class, but haven't seen anything confirmed or denied.

-BP

They're doing a Fall Finale the weekend of the 24th, so probably not ideal timing for doing TNT. But if the weather is good enough, I'll find out if they're just doing time runs. Going to be pretty warm this Saturday.

-BP

Adios muchacho.

-BP

When I checked values of my Golf recently VS when I checked in the Spring, it has gone up over $2000. You're in a perfect scenario to sell, in that you're not replacing it.

Did the camper sell?

-BP

Updated the Golf and 442.

-BP

Today we drove the car with the fuel pressure gauge attached. Unfortunately and fortunately it has 45psi at idle and light driving, and 50psi under load. It never falls off. So we don't need a fuel pump. We checked the codes again and got a TPS code. Hoping for the best, we put a new TPS sensor in, ...