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Title: Driving the EMPI dragster a driver's view... Post by: Fastbrit on July 06, 2011, 16:01:44 pm 8) 8) 8)
(http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t318/Photokernow/th_EMPIdragster2nd.jpg) (http://s163.photobucket.com/albums/t318/Photokernow/?action=view¤t=EMPIdragster2nd.mp4) Title: Re: Driving the EMPI dragster a driver's view... Post by: TexasTom on July 06, 2011, 16:30:07 pm OMG ... Now THAT is Super COOL!
Awesome, Thanks for posting KS! Title: Re: Driving the EMPI dragster a driver's view... Post by: Zόndfunke on July 06, 2011, 16:31:45 pm Keith you did a great job!
It would scare the hell out of me to take place in this little bastard! Hats off!!! It was a great moment to watch this run! [attachment=1] [attachment=2] Title: Re: Driving the EMPI dragster a driver's view... Post by: streetvw on July 06, 2011, 16:40:13 pm very cool Keith
must have been quite surreal and very cool driving a car that you saw run at the very first drag meeting you went to :o :o Title: Re: Driving the EMPI dragster a driver's view... Post by: Zach Gomulka on July 06, 2011, 16:44:24 pm Amazing... if it had cooling tins on it, I would be tempted to never turn back! ;D
Did it have the peroid correct motor in it for that pass? I would be afraid to scatter it all over the track :o Title: Re: Driving the EMPI dragster a driver's view... Post by: Donny B. on July 06, 2011, 16:46:12 pm It might be an optical illusion, but it looked to me like the right front wheel needed truing. It kinda had a wobble near the end after the run. That could get really scary....!
Title: Re: Driving the EMPI dragster a driver's view... Post by: speedwell on July 06, 2011, 16:53:18 pm awesome keith it was great seeing both runs ;)
Title: Re: Driving the EMPI dragster a driver's view... Post by: Lids on July 06, 2011, 17:04:57 pm It might be an optical illusion, but it looked to me like the right front wheel needed truing. It kinda had a wobble near the end after the run. That could get really scary....! this was the least of his problems! KS got an footage of the first run ;) Title: Re: Driving the EMPI dragster a driver's view... Post by: Rick Meredith on July 06, 2011, 17:20:43 pm That's insane! ;D
What time it it run? Title: Re: Driving the EMPI dragster a driver's view... Post by: Fastbrit on July 06, 2011, 17:43:05 pm It might be an optical illusion, but it looked to me like the right front wheel needed truing. It kinda had a wobble near the end after the run. That could get really scary....! No, you're right it was in dire need of truing, and having the spokes tightened! All part of the fun...That's insane! ;D Couldn't really keep my foot in it as the car needs going though properly, but it tripped the clocks in 13.2 secs. ;DWhat time it it run? Title: Re: Driving the EMPI dragster a driver's view... Post by: Fastbrit on July 06, 2011, 18:02:09 pm Amazing... if it had cooling tins on it, I would be tempted to never turn back! ;D 82 x 88 slipper-skirt motor with Fumio heads, IDAs and a mag plus a hand-pressurised fuel system. Pretty old school by my reckoning! :DDid it have the peroid correct motor in it for that pass? I would be afraid to scatter it all over the track :o Title: Re: Driving the EMPI dragster a driver's view... Post by: Neil Davies on July 08, 2011, 12:15:49 pm Found this on the NHRA site, posted back in May 2009!
(http://www.nhra.com/UserFiles/image/2009/News/May/porsche.jpg) Quote We've all seen dragsters with Volkswagen engines, Nissan engines, and even Subaru engines, but what about a Porsche? Long Beach, Calif.'s Doug Church fielded this cool-looking rail in the 1960s and, along with Don Garlits, Tommy Ivo, Tony Nancy, "Ohio George" Montgomery, K.S. Pittman, Ronnie Sox, Dave Strickler, and others, was part of the U.S. Drag Racing team's six-race tour to England in 1964, which was organized by British Drag Racing Association Chairman Sidney Allard and NHRA President Wally Parks. The 11-second digger is shown running at the Blackbushe Drag Fest in Hampshire Sept. 19. All of the events were run on RAF airfields. |