Best race EVER!! Im still shaking.. :-D

[Skyman]

Ok, excuse me if I suck at typing right now, but I'm still so pumped on adrenaline after this race I can barely type.

Heres the run down on everything...

A friend of a friend has a 79 El camino. He just spent 8k putting the engine/rear/tranny together.

Its a 388 Stroker with 12.5:1 compression, Some kind of aftermarket IRON head with 2.02" intake valve. Soild roller cam, Victor Junior intake and 750 carb. It runs on race gas, and goes out through full length headers to 2.5" exhaust.

The rear end is a full posi with 4.11's and a turbo 350 transmission with shift kit and 2800stall. It has skinny's up front with 245 radials out back on weld rims.

So the car just got 600miles on it today so he calls me up and wants to race tonight. I say ok. They come over and when I hear this thing pull up, I think OH **** ! This thing was the nastiest sounding car ever! The idle was just lopeing and snapping and crackling in between lopes. This was exhaust to wake up the whole neighborhood. I thought my car was loud!

My friend thats the only other ford guy in town is tottaly going for me, but hes begging me to put on the ET streets cuz this car is so fast, but I didn't.

Anyways, we go out to the only street to race. Some guys go to the end in a truck to mark the finish. We line em up and both deciede to go from a 5mph roll since traction isnt even possible till 3rd for both of us.

We give the nod at 5mph and he jumps it a hair before me. I slam the pedal in first and just spin to 6000rpm almost instantly. I hit second hard and start fishtailing and I fall a little more than 3/4 of a car behind him. I let off and punch it again to gain traction and I'm a full length behind. I powershift 3rd harder than I have ever before and I start pulling on him. I pull up to his door and I powershift 4th and pull dead even with him. We hold dead even all the way through 4th gear. I could look right over at him like we were siting still. It was DEAD EVEN, neither one of us inching either way. We pass the truck and hit the brakes. I look back and my ford buddy is jumping in the road hes so happy!

We went and hid for a half hour to let the cops clear and we talked. The guy was kinda irritated that my car kept up with him with my lowly 302 and 9:1 compression!!

I couldn't believe it either! I was so estactic! 12.5:1 compression 388 stroker with a solid roller cam! I mean he shifts this sob at 7100rpm!

Our friends at the end pull up and they couldn't tell who won either. They said it was so close nothing could tell. We were dead even.

If I would have had traction I could have burned him out of the hole and won the race.

My car is running soo good now like I said after I tuned it all up.

This was the best race I've ever had! The guy w/ the 388 and I are going to go in on some dyno tuning next month and do it together so it all ends well!

Skyler

P.S. Our other buddies went home on the main road and they said they saw 7 cop cars flying through town out to where we raced! This is of 10 cop cars total in our town!



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-1989 Saleen Mustang #406-
TFS Heads, E-303 Cam, Edelbrock Intake, and a whole lot more.
13.2@106mph
-Shooting for 12's and a 351 slowly in the works!

Stock-94 Integra 15.48@91mph