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Looks like no one else wants to give D4 any love so I'll try this again. I will post when I can. My car has been the devil this year. I changed all the electrical in it and I'm hoping it runs ok in the morning. I blew a tire on my trailer today on the way. My daughter called while I was on the way over here telling me a dog wandered on our property and attacked our dog resulting in a trip to the vet. Always something.

I am parked way out by the scales. It's dusty as hell out here. I'm going to post some pictures and you will see that on the cars. They even have some Pro Stock teams,Pro Stock bike,Pro Mod, TAD and TAFC in the grass. They ain't happy as the saying goes. Well I worked last night then drove straight here and as of now I've been up 31 hours so I think Ill post some pics and then turn in. After round 1 Ill try to get on and give an update. Later.

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It's your time Ed!!! Get some rest.

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Thanks for taking the time to post the great pictures.
Good Luck!

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I wasn't going to run this weekend at all, but my son's boss who owns Heights Auto Haus in Houston is sponsoring me this weekend, So I would like publicly thank Mark Zastrow for doing that. Thanks again. Talk tommorow.

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Thanks for the excellent pics Ed!
Bob Rice

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Good luck Ed. Hope the car runs good. Great job with the pictures.

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Good pics, thanks Ed..... See ya tomorrow ! ! !

If you want to lend me your camera, i can take pics at the line for everyone.

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Thanks for the pictures, Ed. Good luck this weekend. Hopefully you've got all your gremlins worked out.

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First round of stock qualifying... Top Five

1. B. McClister E/SA .940 under
2. S. Pourciau B/SA .937 under
3. B. Cummins C/SA .936 under
4. V. Buchanan H/SA .925 under
5. P. Candies A/SA .874 under

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Well It still won't run. Just put Ed Wright's MSD box in it. If that doesn't work i don't know what else it could be. If your here and have any ideas please stop by and share. Again it runs perfect in pits,water and when you deck it. No power and won't turn over 7000 9n the run.

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If you run an alternator, they can cause havoc ... I assume you already changed spark plug wires ..

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I was going to say that, but I thought it was just a Mopar thing. Wasted an entire year trying to find that in my Duster. Diodes go bad, sending alternating current to the ignition system. Same deal, ran fine until it was under a load.

I've also heard of similar issues caused with a bad shift light, master cutoff switch, etc...

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I had a similar issue in 2010 with my SS Camaro. Changed everything under the sun. Igntion box, disconnected tach, plugs/wires/cap/crank trigger, ect.
Turned out to be a bad Master Disconnect Switch.

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I agree with Chuck Beach. Could be backfeeding through the alternator.

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Here we go round 2.

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Well I still have a problem. Engine does sound ok now with the new box. Had MSD make up some new wires. Left at 8800 and it pulled it down to 5000. Clutch only has two turns. So we put the clutch on zero turns and well see tommorow. If that doesn't do it were out of here. Dyno time next week. I'll post more pic tonight. Ed

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Ed,

Had similar problem once, the bottom of the intake manifold was just barely bottoming out on the block, and under load the car would not run.Idling and burnouts were fine. Intake manifold gaskets looked compressed. We happened to lay the intake on the motor without any gaskets and noticed the manifold sides were not touching the heads at all, milled some off bottom of the intake on the ends and problem was solved.

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Ed, Thanks for the great pictures. I hope you get rid of the bad luck soon. Have you checked the fuel system? If its starving for fuel it won't carry a load, but may sound fine otherwise.

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Take off the alternator belt, and do the flow test with the fuel system, now. You might find something.

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Hey Ed, sorry to hear that you are still having issues. I had a problem with my motor (wouldn't go past 6500) and it ended up being a transmission (auto) problem, as it was trying to go into 2 gears at once and wouldn't let the motor RPM. Don't know if it applies being that you are running a stick now, but who knows.
Good luck, you'll get it figured out.

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Sorry I simply didn't have time today to to get pictures or much else. We have tried everything and then some to fix our problem without success. Going to try to forget about it enjoy the races tommorow and head to the house. I'm going to pull the engine on monday and my son will dyno it. Then I will know if it's the engine or the car. I'll try to get the rest of the pictures tommorow of cars I missed.

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Looking at the Sat. plan, I think you guys gonna be late. One round stock, three rounds of ss class, throw in a super class or two, and a top dragster hit, all by 10:30, and 4 rounds of ss by 8 pm. Yall gonna be late.

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Ed thank you for all your reporting. Wish you the best of luck in finding what is wrong with your car.

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I'm sorry I wasn't a better reporter this weekend. We had trouble and we were working on the car. I left this morning and dropped the car off at my sons. Going to dyno the engine and see where were at with that and go from there. Thanks for all the advice I got. Thanks again to Ed Wright for the box and the help. Ed

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Sorry????? no reason to be Ed. Thanks for your reporting. Good luck, hope it is something inexpensive...

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Ok guys Super Stockers still in

D Baumgardner
R Baehr
T Hebert
G. Emmons
J Teuton Jr
B Candies

Stockers still in

T Emmons
K Ratcliff
B Cummings
H Gary
S Cummings
D Hulquist
D Buckner

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4th round matchups

Stock

D Buckner v D Hulquist. T Emmons v K Ratcliff S Cummings v H Gary
B Cummings gets the bye

Super Stock

B Candies v D Baumgardner. J Teuton Jr v R Baehr.
T Hebert v G Emmons.

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Ratcliff v Gary

B Cummings v Buckner

Stock. Semis

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Stock final.
H Gary vs B Cummings

Super Stock final

G Emmons vs D Baumgardner

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Stock winner. H Gary. Back to back

Super stock winner. D Baumgardner