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There is something seriously wrong with their tune-up! My 1320/MPH calculation shows a 112.11 MPH run as being "optimum" with an 11.77 ET! That means they "somehow" picked up 1.68 seconds. A 10.09 would seem impossible. Must be one of those toads setting off the beams at the finish line. Hope nobody squished the poor toad!

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I call it dumb luck. We went 10.29 and as I worked by Keith's car I said you will be in the 9s he said boy I don't want to do that. Good driving guess or real good luck. He is good

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Inconclusive.....so many things can go wrong, right off the top of my head....

ran out of gas/fuel pump death/filter clog?
Computer gremlin ie loss of voltage to ECU
throttle petal malfunction.....yes it happens.....
Misfire.....ie coil pack going south, valve spring lets go, dead hole.
slick puncture
window regulator malfunction causing windows to come down
opponent crossing the center line
torque convertor letting go
tranny slip
Pinion breaking
hood malfunction...
And more!

or you could be dead on.

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Sandbagging? They run their car hard and all they got was crap from most on here.
So now maybe they will help to justify all the crying.

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Many other possibilities -- charley horse in right leg- had to lift

Farted and foot came off gas ( no pun intended )

Hot dog wrapper blew thru the lights

I could go on but i'm laughing too much ...........

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Those that treat the race car like a race car don't get s**t upon...

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Farted and foot came off gas ( no pun intended )

Jack, right on, **** I bit my tongue....

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And you actually heard him say that???? Or are you relying on second hand info which might be either mistakenly interpreted, or simply wrong??? It is amazing how someone gets a fact misinterpreted, and someone else is trying to hang us on hearsay, that isn't even close to the truth. Toby misheard Keith about the weight. No big deal, until someone who wasn't even in the same conversation wants to pick a nit with us. Did you heard Keith say anything about the weight? Or are you just applying typical Democratic argument strategy, "Forget the facts and issues, just attack the person!"

We run our car like others run theirs.We take weight out when we don't need it, and we put it when we do need it. No difference there as I can list an awful lot of stockers who do the same thing. But if you actually knew our factory shipping weight (instead of relying on rumors etc..) then you would know exactly what we weigh, ad we a re a very heavy car.. We can take everything legal out of the car and still can't get down to the weight in most classes we have run.

Why are we being persecuted about running an unfair combo, when Dgal (Don) can run his fuel injected car against a flock of carbed cars from the 60's and nobody thinks that is equally unfair??

This is really funny stuff as many kettles here call us out, and ignore their own positions in the past. A mis-factored car in the past is OK, but any factor issues on the new cars is a crime against humanity...

I don't know you who were talking to in Vegas. The many fans in the stands I saw were on their feet cheering for us. And the many more who came down to meet us and get pictures with us were also cheering for us. I guess you see what you want to see and hear what you want to hear, but this (Thursday) morning in Pomona, I had dozens of folks come by the car to get a good look and get photos. We even put some of them in the car for photos, and they love it. These are fans of the car indeed. Fans like us a lot, racers might no like us, but the fans surely do, no matter what negative fictions get thrown out here.

Come by the car some time, and if I am in a good mood, I will even let you sit in it for a minute,if I am really in a good mood. And after our first qualifying run, I am in a pretty good mood. So stop by, and share a bit of racing history.

But regardless of who like us and who doesn't, get used to it folks, we (the new cars) are here to stay, and next year your cars will be treated to whole new set of rules that you aren't going to like, any more than we like them. Keep whining and crying and maybe NHRA can find a new way to punish the whiners in addition to lowering the AHFS threshold.

And to whomever called us sandbaggers, we are not sandbaggers at all. We are only doing what the other cars are doing. But to correct the facts, we use lead shot bags in our weight box, ........not sand anyway....

David
The New hemi Guy

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I guess since you are calling us out, you might as well tell the entire story. Kyle's car was in it's own class until it got properly factored and then mixed in with the carb'd cars. I know you have said in the past that you support the same for your car, but don't make it out like your factory experiment is playing by the same rules as the fuel injected cars did until they were factored properly.

Yes, the fuel injected cars had about 3 years of the wrong category, but lessons should have been learned. And for your sake, you better hope they don't put you in a FX class or something similar. The amount of money you have spent so far is a fraction of what it will cost to compete in an FX class.

Don

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Well now if Mr. Linch is this great guy then why doesn't he try doing some of this with his own money for a change. He may be a great tuner, car guy but has he done any racin lately on his own nickle. And like somebody said we run it all out, well 112 @ 10, anything is not all out!!!!