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Posted: 1/16/2020 11:46:42 AM EDT

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wowz!!! Talk about turning up the heat!!

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Posted: 1/16/2020 11:50:49 AM EDT

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wowz!!! Talk about turning up the heat!!

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Call it stepping up the game a little

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Posted: 1/16/2020 6:02:09 PM EDT

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That rail looks almost turn-key!

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Posted: 1/16/2020 6:58:09 PM EDT

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Originally Posted By KB7DX:
That rail looks almost turn-key!

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It's because it is

Old guy wants it gone.
Im sure it needs a re cert

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Posted: 1/16/2020 9:58:38 PM EDT

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It pulled the front wheels off the ground at one point

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Posted: 1/16/2020 10:15:12 PM EDT

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Looks like it's been certified at one point

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Posted: 1/16/2020 10:58:10 PM EDT

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@ch3no2

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Posted: 1/17/2020 2:24:04 PM EDT

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No shit?
COOL

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Posted: 1/17/2020 5:59:56 PM EDT

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Road trip in the AM

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Posted: 1/17/2020 6:22:55 PM EDT

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Very cool. How much of a pain in the butt is it to recertif?

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Posted: 1/17/2020 7:04:42 PM EDT

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Originally Posted By IllardSuggins:

Very cool. How much of a pain in the butt is it to recertif?

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It has 1 year left but it isn't hard

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Posted: 1/17/2020 8:11:03 PM EDT

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IROC vs RAIL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMCJ6NzCflU

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Posted: 1/18/2020 3:26:08 PM EDT

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How easy is it to get plates and make it street legal?

Remembering the scene from Hollywood Knights and "the rail job"..

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Posted: 1/18/2020 4:34:53 PM EDT

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How easy is it to get plates and make it street legal?

Remembering the scene from Hollywood Knights and "the rail job"..

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Hahaha

Need headlights and brake lights

hmmmmm

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Posted: 1/18/2020 4:38:07 PM EDT

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And we're home
Windy as hell today and having the car loaded the way it is made for an interesting ride home

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Posted: 1/18/2020 7:42:03 PM EDT

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Posted: 1/18/2020 10:19:15 PM EDT

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Congrats! I see a DD box. Was it being throttle stopped for class purposes

or basic traction control? What's it's best pass?

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Posted: 1/19/2020 9:33:17 AM EDT

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Congrats! I see a DD box. Was it being throttle stopped for class purposes

or basic traction control? What's it's best pass?

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Not throttle stopped as far as I know.
I think the best pass was an 8.40 IIRC.

They did some changes and made it slower so I need to try and get it back.

The story on this car:
Its been sitting for a few years "winterized". The guy bought it for his son who is a dirt track racer and didn't really like it from my understanding. Dad raced it also but was a door car guy for the most part.

They put a deeper first gear/planetary in the powerglide and a higher gear and that slowed it down.

I have a little work to do to get it going. Install a new starter, install a new converter (current one doesn't work well with this setup), get a new battery and update a few safety items: seat belts, flexplate and scatter shield for the powerglide.

I work a PT job at a race parts store

I did not go wrong by buying this at all. The trailer is worth at least half of what I bought the operation for.

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Posted: 1/19/2020 9:47:44 AM EDT

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Posted: 1/19/2020 11:11:25 AM EDT

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DUDE !!!

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Posted: 1/19/2020 11:36:08 AM EDT

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DUDE !!!

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Right?

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Posted: 1/19/2020 11:53:22 AM EDT

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For fuck's sake. It is possessive. For the sake of fuck.

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Posted: 1/19/2020 12:23:38 PM EDT

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I know where you're coming from, I used to work at Jegs.

Much of my paycheck went right back to the store.

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Posted: 1/19/2020 12:31:28 PM EDT

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I know where you're coming from, I used to work at Jegs.

Much of my paycheck went right back to the store.

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That's pretty awesome.

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Posted: 1/19/2020 11:00:44 PM EDT

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When I’m done with this Toyota, bring the S10 by and leave it with me for a month or two. I’ll have it scootin past that rail

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Posted: 1/20/2020 10:38:42 PM EDT

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Originally Posted By johnnypantz:

When I'm done with this Toyota, bring the S10 by and leave it with me for a month or two. I'll have it scootin past that rail

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Posted: 1/21/2020 2:21:00 AM EDT

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This thread needs a new title.

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Posted: 1/21/2020 8:13:54 AM EDT

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We'll get back to the S10
Single digit temps and snow make it hard to get motivated.
I need to get it to the dyno sometime soon.

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Posted: 1/24/2020 7:52:09 PM EDT

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It's alive!!

New dragster

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Md9AZ7Ncu4A

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Posted: 1/27/2020 3:54:09 PM EDT

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Sounds healthy!

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Posted: 1/30/2020 8:00:42 PM EDT

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So, ran into some ugliness

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Posted: 1/30/2020 8:01:59 PM EDT

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Got some new parts and made it pretty

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And now it sounds much better

January 30, 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Jo6gd-sas0

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Posted: 1/31/2020 6:42:03 PM EDT

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To my trained ear. Don't trust cylinder 2 , why would you want to second

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Posted: 2/2/2020 1:34:14 PM EDT

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Updating the SFI parts

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Posted: 2/6/2020 9:02:33 PM EDT

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We need new parts. Damnit

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Posted: 2/6/2020 9:11:43 PM EDT

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@Dagger41

Got the flexplate shield and transmission shield on today.

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Posted: 2/6/2020 9:12:38 PM EDT

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The "driveshaft"

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Posted: 2/7/2020 10:51:29 AM EDT

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Originally Posted By VRMN8R:
@Dagger41

Got the flexplate shield and transmission shield on today.

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Nice !

Was that coupler a bit of a struggle ?

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Posted: 2/7/2020 10:59:15 AM EDT

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Nice !

Was that coupler a bit of a struggle ?

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A little since there isn't a lot of room but, not terrible

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Posted: 2/7/2020 9:17:37 PM EDT

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I will pay for intake gaskets.

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Posted: 2/7/2020 9:19:35 PM EDT

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Pull lifters , I assume roller cam . Inspection brother

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Posted: 2/7/2020 9:55:01 PM EDT

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Pull lifters , I assume roller cam . Inspection brother

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You can tell it's a roller by the way it idles.

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Posted: 2/10/2020 8:57:00 PM EDT

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Posted: 2/12/2020 9:11:37 PM EDT

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Poor little S10 sitting all lonely and neglected.

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Posted: 2/12/2020 10:22:05 PM EDT

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Yep, wanna see more s10 love.

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Posted: 4/13/2020 12:06:14 AM EDT

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how is this in my feed, bookmarks but not active?

Shit!

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Posted: 4/18/2020 7:02:45 PM EDT

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Tagged...can't believe I didn't see this earlier.

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Posted: 4/18/2020 7:46:40 PM EDT

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Me too. Awesome thread.

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Posted: 4/20/2020 12:21:27 AM EDT

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Awesome. So much awesome here OP. Thanks for taking the time to share!

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Posted: 4/27/2020 6:50:56 AM EDT

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Sorry I've been away from this thread a while.
The race track will be opening up this next weekend and I'm taking the dragster up to make some passes to get my IHRA license.

My sewer line decided it needed attention most of Easter Sunday and that turned into a 10K replacement so getting the S10 dyno tuned will have to wait a while.

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