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Rich Biebel · 03-08-2010, 07:17 PM

In 1980 I began racing a 1969 Camaro I had built at home. I planned to just bracket race it but got talked into racing it as a SS/JA. I started out running over the index a couple tenths usually. We made various changes trying to pick up the performance. I had an intake manifold extensively modifed and hoped it would pick the car up a tenth or better. I had to attend a WCS event just to be eligible to enter the SummerNationals coming in July. The intake was not done untill the friday of the last event I could enter to get in for the Summers.....Cayuga....I bolted the intake on and must have been messing with my carb. I piled stuff in my pickup and got my 13 year old son with me....This is an 8 hour or better ride from my home in NJ.......I drove all night....took a nap.....got there just as Greg X was about to close tech....filed out my tech card, got my credit.....Started to unload the car and get ready to race it.....Had to set the timing.......Started it up and was warming it up and doing the timing and heard some evil sounds.....motor even shook......

Well in my haste to leave the night before I must have been messing with my Q-Jet and forgot to tighten the base srcews.......guess where a couple ended up!!! Tha'ts right they were stuck to the top of a piston and I discovered that after I pulled a head after finding a smashed sparkplug......It also cracked the block......SOoooooo I packed up found a motel...had something to eat and a few beers......Stopped at Niagra Falls the next day to show my son the awesome power of that place and headed home......Oh and we got caught in a wicked hail storm as we got thru Syracuse and it was easily the scariest weather event I was ever exposed to......I thought we were gonners......and my son could easily back me up on that one even after all these years.....

Got new pistons...sleeved the block.....made it to the Summers...got dumped in Rd 1 of class......car was still slow.......Back in that era SS/JA was one of the most populated classes......Charlie Taylor.....Jim Boburka.....I lost to Freddy Krawiec......The best cars went around 11.20 or a little faster....Charlie Taylor was the fastest usually...........

03-08-2010, 07:17 PM	#16
Rich Biebel VIP Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Northern New Jersey suburbs Posts: 2,315 Likes: 25 Liked 544 Times in 213 Posts	Re: Forgettable Racing Stories In 1980 I began racing a 1969 Camaro I had built at home. I planned to just bracket race it but got talked into racing it as a SS/JA. I started out running over the index a couple tenths usually. We made various changes trying to pick up the performance. I had an intake manifold extensively modifed and hoped it would pick the car up a tenth or better. I had to attend a WCS event just to be eligible to enter the SummerNationals coming in July. The intake was not done untill the friday of the last event I could enter to get in for the Summers.....Cayuga....I bolted the intake on and must have been messing with my carb. I piled stuff in my pickup and got my 13 year old son with me....This is an 8 hour or better ride from my home in NJ.......I drove all night....took a nap.....got there just as Greg X was about to close tech....filed out my tech card, got my credit.....Started to unload the car and get ready to race it.....Had to set the timing.......Started it up and was warming it up and doing the timing and heard some evil sounds.....motor even shook...... Well in my haste to leave the night before I must have been messing with my Q-Jet and forgot to tighten the base srcews.......guess where a couple ended up!!! Tha'ts right they were stuck to the top of a piston and I discovered that after I pulled a head after finding a smashed sparkplug......It also cracked the block......SOoooooo I packed up found a motel...had something to eat and a few beers......Stopped at Niagra Falls the next day to show my son the awesome power of that place and headed home......Oh and we got caught in a wicked hail storm as we got thru Syracuse and it was easily the scariest weather event I was ever exposed to......I thought we were gonners......and my son could easily back me up on that one even after all these years..... Got new pistons...sleeved the block.....made it to the Summers...got dumped in Rd 1 of class......car was still slow.......Back in that era SS/JA was one of the most populated classes......Charlie Taylor.....Jim Boburka.....I lost to Freddy Krawiec......The best cars went around 11.20 or a little faster....Charlie Taylor was the fastest usually........... __________________ Rich Biebel S/C 1479 Stock 147R Last edited by Rich Biebel; 03-08-2010 at 08:15 PM.