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Originally Posted by Jim Wahl
Gary! Where have you been!!!? We have missed beating you up (verbally) here on the forum! Welcome back my friend! Jim
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Hi Jim, I'm glad you (and whoever else you felt were "verbally" beating up on me), truly did miss me...lol. Since I didn't do any stocker racing in 2013 (and for that matter since May 2012), it was to depressing for me to be here w/o being on the racing scene like you and others have been. However, as you know I got my jabs in on you guys too, so the give and take was rather nice, and I'm glad to be back.
However, I actually was here two months ago when a thread here was talking about Toyota being the "Official Car of the NHRA", and I had plenty to say about that! There's even a thread in the "Lounge" section where I had some comments for "Eddie's 66", with regards to import branded vehicles.
I had a dog in this fight though, because my Cavalier is definitely a lower class stocker. I must admit I haven't had to spend nearly as much on my stocker as many who race rwd stockers have had to, and I'm glad. Even with NHRA dropping the indexes .3 back around 2010 (?), and the altitude correction factors being changed from the way they were for Stock and Super Stock, to the super categories factor (I hope if you're on the board, that you and others will seek out bringing the old indexes and our correction factors back, Jim?), my car still is competitive enough that I had a nice showing here at the Phoenix LODRS race 2mths ago.
It's nice to mainly gas up and go (with the most thrashing I need to do on the car being it's occasional oil change). However, if I had Billy Nees's (or Woodro Josey's) smarts, and more dough, not only would I be doing more racing, but I'd be able to wring more hp out of my little V6 (Having the smarts of those well versed Like Woody in tuning an "Accel Calmap", would be a great start). Being able to find a flange kit for a 173 V6 (like the ones made for the S-10/S-15 trucks), and making my own headers for my car would be a big help as well. Having a house so I could tinker with my car would be the best help of the three though, and that's a work in progress!
Thanks for the thoughts though bud, and have fun at your racing events Jim!