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Well it doesn't really matter if the rule is a done deal. Looks like something else to buy this winter. What is the next thing we are looking to change in stock?


My point exactly, no reason to buy a full size radiator. The smallest one that is absolutely needed, should be good for 20 pounds off the front end. I don't feel sorry for the guy that has to spend 500 bucks to get a radiator restored for his 50 year old car. That is the price of playing this game.

I along with others, have been trying to get a replacement cylinder head for my car for the better part of 2 years. The only answer I get from the powers at be is no time and time again. . Apparently the guys who race Pontiacs job is to maintain the integrity and spirit of our class while everybody else gets what they want. My heads cost 2500.00 for a set of cores. At least my radiator will be cheap and light.

It's too bad that guys with 40k plus race cars can't go to the Local Auto Zone and pay 150.00 for a replacement radiator. I'm sorry, I guess now you can. It's all for safety, a quicker running event, good for the economy and the environment. Every day we try to hammer another nail in the coffin of our eleminator, and make our cars closer to super stockers. Good stuff

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If you think you have to buy a new aluminum radiator to be competitive, well, it's your car.

All this rule will do is make it affordable for a guy who needs a new radiator to go buy one.

You won't be taking 20 pounds of the nose with a direct replacement aluminum radiator. You might take that much off, if you go from a full size 4 row big block copper brass radiator to a single row six cylinder aluminum radiator. Good luck finding one.

As far as your heads go, I find it amusing that you'll complain about an aluminum radiator that won't make a single HP, or make the car 0.001 faster, while complaining about not getting aluminum heads that will make it cheaper for you to go faster. I'm sure you completely fail to see the irony in that. Sort of makes it damned near impossible to feel sorry for you, too.

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Alan,
How much quicker do the plastic headlites make my car?

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lol.

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:~) I figured I would get that...Thanks

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As far as your heads go, I find it amusing that you'll complain about an aluminum radiator that won't make a single HP, or make the car 0.001 faster, while complaining about not getting aluminum heads that will make it cheaper for you to go faster. I'm sure you completely fail to see the irony in that. Sort of makes it damned near impossible to feel sorry for you, too.

No sweat Alan, your sympathy will not change the outcome, or results of my race program either way. If I was smart I would have build a 396 375 car. New billet carb, new crate motor intake, new production aluminum heads, and a dome piston that is most likely bigger than a factory piston. Now you will get a nice aluminum radiator that is cheap, and cools the engine better etc... Don't forget the racing aftermarket seats we had to buy the year before that had no affect on performance. One day we will have to tub the cars whey they fold stock up.

I just want to preserve our class for what it is. Not have so many rule changes in a short time like these days. Have a great offseason

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How much quicker did you go with the new seats you had to buy? We left the stock seats in the car, maybe we'll replace them and pick up a tenth. We aren't going to buy a new radiator either, but if you do, let me know how much you pick up. We may want to buy one.

The Quick Fuel SS780 ain't billet, and the Edelbrock Q-Jet was approved long before the Quick Fuel was even thought of.

I went to bat for the Pontiac guys to get replacement heads with Len Imbrogno and Wesley Roberson several years ago, because of friends who were struggling to find cores, and I've also asked Bruce and Danny about it 2-3 times since then.

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So Adger, were they worth 0.05?

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You sir are a pistol!!! Jim


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