Originally Posted by Alan Roehrich (Post 265884)

Michael, last weekend at Bowling Green, they had a really nice two car all aluminum open trailer, that just had Michael Beard written all over, it on display. :D

Originally Posted by Michael Beard (Post 265881)

Update: You can actually win a final round with a slow car, as long as it's not a FWD. ;)

Billy Nees won the Gamblers race at Beaver Springs yesterday. I swear you could almost detect a smile...

http://www.beaversprings.com/2011/index.1300.jpg

More pics and race report at www.beaversprings.com

Originally Posted by Michael Beard (Post 265727)

I just wanted to verify that you can't win with a slow car.




.... but you can Runner-Up! :D

Had a great weekend with the Turismo at the IHRA Pro-Am at Dunn-Benson, falling to World Champ Richard Alford in the finals. Ran back to back .91's in qualifying, and it was heading for .93's and .94's all day today until it grew legs in the finals. ;)

Had a fairly productive test session with the new Super Stock combination in the Volare, too. 10 runs under our belt, picked it up .22 and 5 mph from start to finish, and we already know a bunch more things we need to do. Overall, felt like we didn't do too bad for complete EFI newbies. Thanks to Southland Speed, Sloan Racing Engines, and the large number of people who were kind enough to let us tickle their brains. Oh yeah, Richard got me 2nd round of Super Stock, too. :rolleyes: Great job as always, bud!

Originally Posted by Billy Nees (Post 265803)

Dwight, I've been in a couple of interesting discussions recently with old friends who happen to have "expensive" Stockers which could be pointing at a trend. Over breakfast with friend #1, he asks me how inexpensively I could build a lower classed Stocker for him because he's "afraid of breaking his E/F/G Stocker because it's too expensive to fix". I told him 5 grand if he could find a body, he's thinking about it but he'd like to sell his $$$ Stocker first. Friend #2 wants to know if he can borrow one of my cars so that he can race more often because his D/E/F Stocker requires lots of maintainance and he's afraid of taking an AHFS hit.
It seems to me ( in my own little world), I'm sorry to say, that the majority of people that are interested in lower classed Stockers are no longer looking for a competitive advantage or even a place to hide. They want something for nothing that they don't have to work on, spend money on or maintain but they can race the wheels off of.
I've always said that "I'll help anybody that will help themselves" and I'm proud to be able to say that I've helped a couple of young men get a start and do things in this sport that I'll never be able to do but they had the "drive and work ethic" to advance themselves beyond what I could teach them. I run into people all of the time who tell me how "great" they are and if only I could "give them a car" they could be killers.
Oh well, I guess to end I should just say Stockers can still be built for a minimum investment but a lot of work and if anyone would like my help,"I'll help anybody that will help themselves". BTW if you're a dreamer or a slacker, don't waste my time.
(Friends #1 and #2 let me know what you want to do, you're friends)

Originally Posted by Michael Beard (Post 265849)

Hey, the Turismo's for sale. (just not ON sale) :rolleyes: "Proven R/U!" ;) (err, proven winner...) There's probably half a second in the thing if somebody bothered to work on it and spend a couple of bucks. I just choose to run it in bracket mode for the most part. Only reason it's for sale in the first place is that I can't afford a bigger truck & trailer combination to field two cars. (although I'll be doing the 'make two trips' stunt a couple more times this year to get both cars to the track, at closer venues) Throw a 19.5" tire on the front for gear ratio (or if you could make a 4.30 gearset), have Jim Bailey at Finished REM & Cryo all the transmission internals, and a couple other little tricks, and it would *fly*. I just have my hands full with the big car, that's all.

Tid bit of trivia: Didn't put gas in the Turismo all weekend. Think I used a jug and a half in the Volare. :eek: You can AFFORD to race the Turismo! :D You get great mileage towing such a light car, too. ...just sayin'!

Worst bulb of the weekend in the little car was an .042, and I knew I blew that one. The other .040 was from getting on the converter late - my bad.. Three 'teens, an .02x and an .03x. I'd say it's drivable!

While there are some challenges to slow cars, you can also turn your "disadvantage" into an advantage. I'll leave it at that for now....

Oh, Dennis or Artie, I've still got one 20x8-14 M/T slick with not too awful many runs on it.

Originally Posted by Michael Beard (Post 265881)

Update: You can actually win a final round with a slow car, as long as it's not a FWD. ;)

Billy Nees won the Gamblers race at Beaver Springs yesterday. I swear you could almost detect a smile...

http://www.beaversprings.com/2011/index.1300.jpg

More pics and race report at www.beaversprings.com

Originally Posted by GarysZ24 (Post 266245)

One more of those slicks, and I'd be interested in talking to you and anyone else who has them Michael...well said on the other parts!!!

Originally Posted by Dennis P Chapman (Post 266252)

There hard to find Gary.