who's coming for the U/SA shootout in columbus

[goinbroke2]

Originally Posted by Robert Swartz

Maybe I spoke out of turn. Have all the trucks been factored out? Still ought to be an interesting mix of cars.

Well, not a good one but the 93 f-150 with a 300 six fits U/SA but that's at 190hp! Not sure if I'd want to try that one. I had that exact truck and stock with 3.08's ran 19's I think it was. Who knows where it was on weight/etc but I'm thinking 4 -5 seconds would be pushing it.

[Adrian Pendergrass]

I have a question- maybe this room can help- I am gonna build a 59 el camino with a 305 -310 horse 348 i think it will be a neat stocker- who do I go to for the motor???

[farmco r/sa]

Originally Posted by Adrian Pendergrass

I have a question- maybe this room can help- I am gonna build a 59 el camino with a 305 -310 horse 348 i think it will be a neat stocker- who do I go to for the motor???

madcap in lakewood colorado is excellent with chevys...

[Geerhead55]

Originally Posted by farmco r/sa

madcap in lakewood colorado is excellent with small block chevys...

A 348 is not a small block,,,, its Chevy's original W motor,,, older brother of the 409.
Danny Durham

[Geerhead55]

Originally Posted by Robert Swartz

Bad thing is, it's gonna take 12's to be a player. My car (if it's ready and done by then) won't be there, yet. Timing will be the issue with our car. Do we have to pre-enter or can we pay at the gate? If we show, somebody is probably guaranteed a 1st rd win in class, imagine we'll be the slowest car there.

Tod made a comment to me the other nite though. If all these Fords show up. Shaw's Caddy made an appearance. Jack's Wagon, Billy's 1K car. Add a PU or two, plus whatever other combinations show. U/SA eliminator will look like a "Buy Here, Pay Here" car lot! On top of that could be the class with the most entries. Be like running class was 35-40 some years ago.

If I recall correctly, at the original US Classnationals, the class with the most entries was G/SA,,, Nitro Joe can probably elaborate. There were also a lot of A & B/SA cars. I'm not sure there will be more than 16 U/SAs, but you never know. It looks like Ed has put together at least 16 cars for the SS/K Shootout. My 2 cents,, see you there.
Danny Durham

[Gary Summers]

I may come if I don't go to atlanta

[Ellis V. Buth]

Originally Posted by goinbroke2

Well, not a good one but the 93 f-150 with a 300 six fits U/SA but that's at 190hp! Not sure if I'd want to try that one. I had that exact truck and stock with 3.08's ran 19's I think it was. Who knows where it was on weight/etc but I'm thinking 4 -5 seconds would be pushing it.

My stock 96 (same basic truck) with the 3.08's and a K&N filter has run a best of 18.20@70 MPH. Getting it to U/SA times would be quite a task (not even sure it would be doable), but it sounds like a fun task! Now that it is wearing out a little bit, I was starting to toy around with the idea of rebuilding it anyways...

[Alex Denysenko]

Originally Posted by Billy Nees

Well, I'll be out there with SOMETHING but I don't know if it will be a U car or if it will even be driving the rear wheels. I guess that I could bring the 1K car but that would be like bringing a bag of marshmellows to a gunfight. And then there's that whole "integrity" thing. I wouldn't want to go destroying the "integrity" of Stock Eliminator now would I? Of course I could just title and tag it and drive it out there because, ya know, it is a real car with a real VIN but that's another type of "integrity" now, isn't it?

Here here Billy
(yet another reason I like and respect you so muchI would build one of those bogus *** 350 Olds Cadillacs for U/SA, I may have lost a lot physically but I still have my integrity, meanig that I could not bring myself down low enough to that level to run something so obviously under rated and blatantly bogus no offence to the guys running them, but shame on NHRA for allowing it for so long (especially in SS) just like they did with Bob Dennis's bogus non existent 260 4 barrel Olds in U/SA until I finally presented Bruce with a copy of the GM blue print for the actual intake showing it as a DUALJET unit but how many thousands in class and qualifying dollars did that guy rob from other racers until it was finally corrected even after Al Provost and Arlen Fadley told Danny that it was bogus he still did nothing about it ;(

[JWagner]

I believe that the Seville was put in the guide with the original factory horsepower rating like many other cars were. How is that considered bogus? I sold these cars when they were new and they certainly were not fast!

[goinbroke2]

Originally Posted by Ellis V. Buth

My stock 96 (same basic truck) with the 3.08's and a K&N filter has run a best of 18.20@70 MPH. Getting it to U/SA times would be quite a task (not even sure it would be doable), but it sounds like a fun task! Now that it is wearing out a little bit, I was starting to toy around with the idea of rebuilding it anyways...

Drop it to 155hp like the carb'd one would help, but man, dropping 6 seconds? That's quite a bit, especially when your looking at a 143hp 302 sitting in the corner.... not lazy, but not crazy either! LOL!