[Shortcutsleeping]

Placeholder for the whole story, but we can start with a little background.

Last year synopsis: Finished 7th in autocross, 2 seconds back (owch!), did decent in concours and blew up at the drags.

This year: We test more, apply a new theme (not flat black) and go back...and win autocross overall, 7th in concours and with rain on the drags not everyone got a run, so the drag scores were thrown out and we ended up first overall. I helped with the build and am the autocross driver.

First up, if you are just THAT bored, here is last year: http://www.witchdoctormotorsports.com/ch166.htm

Pre-event test for the car just a few weeks ago: http://www.witchdoctormotorsports.com/ch187.htm

Pre-event onboard vid: http://vimeo.com/29884138

Pre-event photos and a vid from Vorshlag: http://vorshlag.smugmug.com/Racing-Events/...7230663_BptXKm8

EVENT FOLDER AT VORSHLAG (you'd better have some time on your hands....) : http://vorshlag.smugmug.com/Racing-Events/...7634785_d3PBmv4

WDMS writeup on the event is coming...

F-body content: Our car has a 4th gen V6T5 and a clutch res from an Fbody (I think). Also, there were a few f-bodies at the event including the Concours winner, a gorgeous red firebird with flames to checkerboard paint job and an LT1 auto spraying a 150 shot.


Costas
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[hrdlydangerous]

Hey Paul. I didn't know you were on this forum. Small world. Anyway kudos on your win! It was great meeting you. For those who remember me I posted a while back about entering the Challenge. We ended up third in our '94 Trans Am behind the Vorshlag crew and Andy Nelson in his SBC powered VW. I'd like to thank rmackintosh for the optisparks and NJ Speeder for getting me hooked up with njfboa. It was a great event. Look for a feature on our car in an upcoming issue of GRM.

Matt

This post has been edited by hrdlydangerous: Oct 12 2011, 09:09 PM

[roostmeyer]

Costas,

Congrats on the results, its great that all your hard work has paid off. Just out of curiosity, what type of ET's do you think the car was capable of?

Hey Paul. I didn't know you were on this forum. Small world. Anyway kudos on your win! It was great meeting you. For those who remember me I posted a while back about entering the Challenge. We ended up third in our '94 Trans Am behind the Vorshlag crew and Andy Nelson in his SBC powered VW. I'd like to thank rmackintosh for the optisparks and NJ Speeder for getting me hooked up with njfboa. It was a great event. Look for a feature on our car in an upcoming issue of GRM.

Matt

Matt,

I've always thought a f-body could do well in the challenge, the lt1 cars are quickly becoming the red headed step child of SBC's and the prices reflect that. Do you have any details of your build?

[Shortcutsleeping]

Costas,
Congrats on the results, its great that all your hard work has paid off. Just out of curiosity, what type of ET's do you think the car was capable of?

Thanks! It was a LOT of hard work and thankfully the testing paid off.

The car should have been good for a mid to low 12 with no issues. Surely not as quick as the Circle-Track metric framed SBC bug....nor as quick as Matt's LT1 spraying. Both those cars had dedicated drag tires and we were on the autocross HooHoos.

If we go back, it will be in a different car and it will indeed have drag stickies too. We'll see.



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