Teching in question.
 

I am trying to get my stocker teched in the morning at the Columbus divisional race so I can get a grade point. I just finished my cylinder head up and am installing it now. I dont think I am even going to attempt to make a pass this weekend. As a matter of fact its just a little 4 cylinder street car with tags and insurance etc, and I think Im just going to drive it from Cincy. Its at best a 13 second car for the time being, and all the usual stuff is factory such as belts, batter hold down yadda. My question regarding tech is, do I need to have the points number or any other stickers etc? Any other last minute tips?

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you need to have your nhra competition number and member number ,and any saftey equipt that pretains to your class you run gmonde

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there was a new white drag pak stocker right in front of me getting teched in with no numbers or class stickers on the window. i'm sure he had them, but they were not on the window yet. (in columbus)

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Im good to go on all credentials. Its a 14 second car... I dont think there is any safety stuff to worry about hahah. I was talking to someone at national trail early about something different and I briefly mentioned the situation about teching in. He ran it by Jay, and told me before I even go to tech to just go see Jay in room 103. Maybe they will just collect my money an go if I dont make a pass haha.

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Maybe NHRA wil just give out grading points and start keeping all of the win, runner up and round money for themselves if all racers start thinking this way. It seems that grade points is one reason why some wont run a combo race or an IHRA event.

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A current certified helmet is required in all cars in Stock.

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Why is it important to you to get a grade point ??

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I was their with my little 4 cyclinder Topaz running in EF/S . I thought you may come. I also run 2 Quad 4 engines in Stock and Super Stock. Ron Seibenick 3139 NHRA.

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Yea Yeah I get your point.


My helmet is overkill for this car lol



The Big Go of Course!



Yeah I know who you are. I had a last minute parts debacle. Could of been avoided. I just flat out missed the fact a vendor didnt ship something I needed. Im a one man show working one full time job, doing sales for a friends company on the side, efi tuning and porting on the side for others, building an unconventional stocker, in the midst of laying the ground work to lease the engine machine shop I used to work at, and trying to get laid here or there ha. I wont beat myself up too bad for my own stuff. It will be so much easier if everything works out the way it could and I get to ditch the day jobs sooner than later. It would be nice to only have my own car to worry about after hours lol.

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You are joking.......RIGHT ??

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Why would you say that? He wants to run Indy.

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With a street car ???
And no grade points about a month befoew Indy ?
NO chance of even qualifying ?

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Yes. It has tags, insurance and working lights. All things that wouldn't be too far of a stretch for a lot of stockers. Fortunately for me I think I can meet my goals with valve spring pressure, and valve seat widths that I can put miles on the car. I'd like to someday have a comp car I could drive on the street. Unfortunately even i'm not that optimistic. But ya never know.

Last year the quota was not met till August 15th. 1 Grade point was sufficient. Also last year I researched the prior decade of Indy in Stock Eliminator, and I believe that 180 cars had not been met for a lot of the years. Of course I am not certain if the quota was met earlier (at a higher level grade point) and there were withrdrawls that nobody took.

Well. If it were easy everyone would be doing it. Racing is hard. Anything can happen to the best driver, tuner, engine builder etc. However i'm not building a car that I don't think is capable of qualifying at all.

And to further sum up all of the above. It is significantly harder to net the results you are looking for by giving up. I have some pretty lofty goals. I know that. Hopefully I have a lot of years left to learn as a tuner, engine builder, driver, competitor, friend etc... And while I may not be known in the class racing community too well, I feel I have the experience necessary to do what I intend on doing.

Thanks for the vote of confidence however :)

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Good luck !

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Yep, it will take a heck of a lot more than valve springs and narrow valve seats. Won't even be close. I had no idea.

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I like your attitude. Give er hell.

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You misread that. My point was there is nothing to elaborate about those items, so I am able to put miles on the car. Also i'm wrong wheel drive so its not like I have options to put an outlandish ear in the car.

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What makes you rocket scientists so sure. He can't do what he wants? You all beat up on "Drooze" And now his car flys (the main change was the ECU).
But in all fairness it's already been done.
I drove from NY to Orlando qualified number 1 then went to Gainesville classified 3 classes down and qualified 5th. Then drove back home and got 21 mpg traveling

I was just checking my messages. And had to reply to this one.

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Yes it can be done...................How you doing Art...............Good luck Jimmy.

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Thanks guys. That's the exact spirit i'm trying to capture here. You don't see enough of those type of stories these days.

Dennis, I just wish you would re set the B record so I had something to work for haha.

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Will see Jimmy maybe in the fall when its cooler.

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Well, I hope you can pull it off. Don't be too disappointed if you can't.

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As you know I didn't make it to Columbus. However, I'm just outside of Grand Rapids on the way to Stanton. Had 0 intentions of making a pass. But if there is enough time ill take the car out on the streets and get my afrs dialed in and see if I can't get all the pump gas out of it. I didn't bring slicks tho :/

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Thanks Art for pointing that out.

I was having a Deja Vu moment as I read the posts...

We were in Altanta, and I was teched in with the Drag Pak. Drooze needed another point, since I had two and he only had one. As you can tell, we were a little compettive.

So Drooze took my boat of a Pacifica that we had driven down to the track at Altanta just to get his second grade point. We knew he didnt need to actually go down the track, and that teching in was sufficient, but he never misssed the opportunity to go down the track.

After that run, where he spun off the line, and then ended up going 24 seconds and some change, he told me was just stiing back, and listening to my Neil Diamond CD while he ran. He was so excited about his time slip... he ws showing it to everyone.

You go Jimi!

Sometimes when you march to a different beat. It is really all of the others who are out of step.

David
The New Hemi Guy

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All teched in :)
Thank you David.

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Good job Jimi,

Hope to see you at Indy...

David
The New Hemi Guy

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I talked to Keith Lynch earlier, he is running the Mega Maniac with our spare motor up in Stanton since we grenaded the killer motor in columbus, (number 8 qualifier with our spare motor... not too bad. But wait until we get the next big horse engine built and ready for Indy)

..... but he told he saw you teching in up there...

See Jimi, I am keeping an eye on, and expecting you to make it.

David
The New Hemi Guy

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I saw him. I didn't know he knew who I was. Of course I got a lot of funny looks anyway haha. I would of said hi, but I wasn't very social today. On top of the hustle to do all my own machine work, assemble, and install it all by myself in less than desireable conditions, drive all night etc... I think I have strep throat. A friend had it, and I seem to have all the miserable symptoms. I crashed in the truck and barely talked to anyone all day. I'm. On the way home now. Have to work tomorrow :( I'm hopefully about to finalize leasing the engine machine shop I used to work at... So hopefully that will make it easier to make it to the track.

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2 days a way till 1 grade pointers can get in Indy and there is still ~110 spots left!

Maybe I should actually make a pass in the car before Im even concerned with Indy hahaha.

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Might be a good idea.