[Billy Nees]

Well, I guess that I'll consider this my final report. It's been almost 9 months and a bunch of fun and aggravation but the UTI4U1K car did manage to perform as advertised. It went under the NHRA index(barely) for under a thousand bucks and with the addition of an 8" converter has, as of now gone almost 4 tenths under.

The Epilogue
I went to the Lee Sherman race this past weekend with the 1K car and had great conditions and lots of time to BS with old friends and meet some new ones. I decided to stop playing with my Frankenstein Dual Jet and put the stock carb back on and try and drive the car and that worked out pretty well. I made a few changes to the stock carb on Saturday at the T+T and finally was able to get the car and the driver into the same happy place.
Sunday morning came around with some real ego massaging air and the car managed to put together a great grouping of runs with a best of a 14.47 at almost 91 MPH and a 1.863 60'. The car was right on what I thought it should have run until the driver went red. And that pretty much ends the year and draws the curtain on UTI4U1K.
If there was a "wish list" for the car, it would include a professionally done trans and an 8.5 rear so that I could give it more gear. Oh and some more time to try and get the Dual-Jet perfected. Knowing that it could be a viable combo, it could definitely pick up with a good shortblock and reversing the pistons. But those are all things that can be done during the course of a couple of off seasons without killing a budget.
I hope that this little exercise has given at least a few people some good reasons to think and, more importantly, some good reasons to act. Stock Eliminator on a strict budget can still be done, even in the 21ST Century! It's all just good old fashioned Hot Rodding! Just don't let the "Zombies" eat your brains!
The End?


OBTW, Vic Guilmino and I just might be playing with a really different Stocker this winter.
Stay tuned for project "The Great White What?"