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talked me out of building a stock eliminator car.
kinda makes me wonder why i'd want to after all the bickering....
****e, if i was building a bracket car, i'd be done by now;)

i stare at the rambler and think why bother?
throw a 401 in it and run the stickshift deal we've got out here.....

geezz.....

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Don't get too discouraged! You and your car can be much happier at the track together.

Most of the real negative vibes can be reduced to about 3% of the actual posters. Of course, I don't count the nameless (imposters).

This can be a really great forum, but as with free speech, you have to take the good with the bad.

I bet you can get a Bogosity filter for your iphone to help out! LOL.

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Dont let em do that.....Im getting to the short strokes, start after cage and connectors in on Nov 23rd.......Nuther 2 weeks and Im good.....

Itd be harder if it was an older car, I would think, having restored a "few" but if you factor out "resto time" I dont see why its harder than a bracket car, I see it as easier....only 1 sanction body to worry about, rules are very clear, limits your "options" in a lot of areas that take a while for me to usually decide on, and the bickering here is entertainment, Ive heard tell I cant do it and dont know Jack....I need that, it motivates me and I feed on it, in the end none of it will matter make your own decisions and keep your own council, but listen to the advice even if you dont buy into all of it, always ask yourself what is someones motivation for a suggestion ? Is it to prove their knowledge, is it to see you succeed, is it to have you believe only they can do it and hence elevate themselves ? Is it to push you to a vendor who may be their friend ? Is it to guide you away from a mistake they have made and know the outcome of thus saving someone else the pain they felt, and on....60% of the time people motivations are pure, another 10 they are but theyre not your benefit, and the other 30....well those are the ones you need to learn to ignore.....people never do things without profit, profit of some sort, in some cases and good for everyone a persons concept of profit is altruistic in nature and their payment is the reward of helping others.....

Then again we may be an utter failure when it comes time to track the car, but itll be EPIC one way or another, a success of epic proportions, or a failure of epic scale, one way or another it will be epic......we dont do things half way around here....its all or nothing...lol

Just mix the coffee, 1 cup of grounds to 1 cup of water, it helps reduce the need for sleep, thus bringing the schedule back to corrected :)

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What kind of stocker are you building? A Rambler by chance? Now THAT would be different! There is a SS/J 343 Rambler in Sweden of all places. Saw a pic of it in the summer taken at a SS/S race in Sweden. Go for it!!!

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I know how you feel...I've been working on my stocker for over 7 years now, and check this site almost every day...there are a lot of bitter people out there that do most of the talking!! That being said, I have learned probably 50% of what I know about class racing from the guys on this site...And when my car's done, I'll know who NOT to pit next to!

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me?!?!?!


anyway, i ain't giving up yet...

i'm a stubborn bastid, ask my wife....oh, what do she know, she's a full blooded german..

btw, we both grew up in hastings....

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yep, 67 american 440 290/4speed natural l/s with a 4bbl 290 but i've got a 2bbl 290 for

natural O/S

funny how some of these guys will go to a lot of trouble to avoid a heads-up race.
i'm gonna be looking for one;)
that's the whole reason to do it, to have a chance at a heads-up race,otherwise it's bracket racing...

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i know how you feel, but in my first year with the 70 amc 390 combo i went 6 tenths under and didnt have a ton of money tied up ,,went a few rounds and it was reliable ,,like mentioned by reading some of the post's ist hard not to wonder why we do it, but this is the grass roots of it all ,yes rules change,people change ,times change , but the basis is still the same stockbodied cars with the size engines that they came with,the challenge is to make them run as fast as you can with the means and money that you have to do so ,some with more money then resources and some with more resources than money
i had fun my first year in stock and you will to ,,,,,,gmonde
p.s. i can set you up with the 4bbl engine for you car

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[QUOTE=tomslik;159318]talked me out of building a stock eliminator car.
kinda makes me wonder why i'd want to after all the bickering....
****e, if i was building a bracket car, i'd be done by now;)

i stare at the rambler and think why bother?

The answer to that question is personal satisfaction! If you feel that you really want to test yourself then just build it. Don't listen to us. Racers will never agree on anything! That's why the NHRA can treat us the way that they do!

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i'm pretty good on 4 bbl 290 stuff EXCEPT i'm wanting a 4bbl 290 piston to send in to a mfgr and get some approved by nhra.....
i still think ya oughta buy that american;)