Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

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Went to Key West last week.
I have never felt so poor as I did when we motored by this:
Rick Hendrick’s yacht, just look how small his little tender boat is(that salt water rig was not small)!
I’ll always be a “poor”!🤣🤣🤣
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Men and boys, and the cost of their toys. Let's see if he takes it out anywhere these days due to the fuel costs.

I would not want any such thing. Certainly not for transportation. Now, maybe a S76-B chopper to get around FL a little easier? :D
 
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I don’t see many of these on the road anymore. This one appears to be original but still in halfway decent shape. The rare ones I do see are typically either full rebuild/restore or junked out.

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Stationed with a guy that had a mid-70s. Not much to look at, primer gray, missing trim a few dents, but more than one 5.0, IROC, Vette, etc was embarrassed.
 
Men and boys, and the cost of their toys. Let's see if he takes it out anywhere these days due to the fuel costs.

I would not want any such thing. Certainly not for transportation. Now, maybe a S76-B chopper to get around FL a little easier? :D
Some of you guy's have never suffered a real loss... Hendricks would give it all up to get these 10 people back.
 
Stationed with a guy that had a mid-70s. Not much to look at, primer gray, missing trim a few dents, but more than one 5.0, IROC, Vette, etc was embarrassed.

Back in '74, I was driving on the innerstate in a '72 Z-28, idling along at 135, minding my own bidness. An El Camino motored past me, I'd guess 140 or 145. So I dialed it up to 155 and re-passed him and he gave me a thumbs-up. Good thing since my top end was ~165.
 
Back in '74, I was driving on the innerstate in a '72 Z-28, idling along at 135, minding my own bidness. An El Camino motored past me, I'd guess 140 or 145. So I dialed it up to 155 and re-passed him and he gave me a thumbs-up. Good thing since my top end was ~165.
Quick question.

What upgrades did you do to the Z?

Factory top speed /redline in a 72 was about 130 and i think in 72 they changed the Speedo from a max of 155 to 130.

I could be wrong ….as my memory is shitting the bed lol.
 
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Quick question.

What upgrades did you do to the Z?

Factory top speed /redline in a 72 was about 130 and i think in 72 they changed the Speedo from a max of 155 to 130.

I could be wrong ….as my memory is shitting the bed lol.

Balanced and blueprinted at Wayne County Speed Shop. I had to eat cheap for 2 years to pay for that, but I also worked part of it off wrenching for them. 11:1 pistons. Duntov cam and valve springs they used in the Donahue 302s, Headman comp headers, extensive suspension mods to lower front about 1.5" and rear about 1". Accel dual point set up by Wayne County - big help above 7K rpm. I fully tweeked the Holley 780. Wayne County modded the heads, swapped valves and modded the intake runners. Many little TRW mods like tunable advance timing chain, Vette 360 degree air cleaner. Electric fuel pump. I got a high capacity oil pan and a large radiator from a guy that worked for Donahue. I used the Chevy Corvair turbo mufflers which helped the torque curve below 4500 rpm and sounded pretty damn good. Our local Chevy parts manager had wrenched for Donahue and he knew a bazillion minor mods, like ways to cut weight. Koni shocks, BF Goodrich T/A radials.

I used the tach as a speedo after the speedo topped out. It was fine at 9,000 rpm after the B&B. Well, at least I never blew it up. I had a Mallory rev limiter. Stock 3.73 rear axle. 12.62 @ 117 at St. Louis International. I was a damn fool for letting it go but decided to race motorcycles and couldn't afford both. Well, all three including women.
 
Balanced and blueprinted at Wayne County Speed Shop. I had to eat cheap for 2 years to pay for that, but I also worked part of it off wrenching for them. 11:1 pistons. Duntov cam and valve springs they used in the Donahue 302s, Headman comp headers, extensive suspension mods to lower front about 1.5" and rear about 1". Accel dual point set up by Wayne County - big help above 7K rpm. I fully tweeked the Holley 780. Wayne County modded the heads, swapped valves and modded the intake runners. Many little TRW mods like tunable advance timing chain, Vette 360 degree air cleaner. Electric fuel pump. I got a high capacity oil pan and a large radiator from a guy that worked for Donahue. I used the Chevy Corvair turbo mufflers which helped the torque curve below 4500 rpm and sounded pretty damn good. Our local Chevy parts manager had wrenched for Donahue and he knew a bazillion minor mods, like ways to cut weight. Koni shocks, BF Goodrich T/A radials.

I used the tach as a speedo after the speedo topped out. It was fine at 9,000 rpm after the B&B. Well, at least I never blew it up. I had a Mallory rev limiter. Stock 3.73 rear axle. 12.62 @ 117 at St. Louis International. I was a damn fool for letting it go but decided to race motorcycles and couldn't afford both. Well, all three including women.
Wayne County Speed Shop
Isn't that the shop cheating with nitrous in NHRA Pro Stock in the early 90s?
And if memory serves me correctly they were allegedly cocaine dealers and cocaine heads.
 
Wayne County Speed Shop
Isn't that the shop cheating with nitrous in NHRA Pro Stock in the early 90s?
And if memory serves me correctly they were allegedly cocaine dealers and cocaine heads.

Yes on nitrous cheats. Sneaky fuckers, they were. They would have put their own mothers on the street corner to shave a tenth of a second. Really good guys to get to know though. Total wrench nerds. I never saw any coke there, but we'd crack brewskis in the shop. The NHRA pit explosion kinda pissed on their parade. Got banned for that. Then all hell broke loose and they never recovered. But they would fight like the devil to improve the power curve or the reliability of a tune. I learned alot about carbs, injectors and setup. Combined with the Donahue suspension mods, that Z was a killer road car.
 
I really want to see an Accel dual point distributor run 7000+ RPM.
I will pay $50k CASH for one that is still using points and able to run an engine at 9000 RPM.

Back in the day, when I worked on that shit, every day, all day, the only fix for that shit was to throw out one set of points and run single.
It was either that or swap in a Pertronix magnetic pickup and be done with it.
Yes, I had a SUN distributor blueprinting machine. You put the distributor on it, plug in the wires and vacuum, and spin the distributor to test point bounce, mechanical and vac curves and tweak them for whatever setup's best performance.
I have never seen points run 8k rpm reliably, hell 6k is iffy.
 
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I don't hate anyone your words I choose not to associate with them
It’s still stupid as fuck, you’re a grown man. If you’re butthurt about some shit decades ago that more than likely didn’t hurt you personally there’s something wrong with you lol. You also had to make the bitch fit public so everyone’s knows you’re up on your high horse.

I don’t dislike you, just think the post and feelings you have about something like racing are dumb.

“I’m not going to talk to you because you knew some people *crosses arms and scowls*
 
It’s still stupid as fuck, you’re a grown man. If you’re butthurt about some shit decades ago that more than likely didn’t hurt you personally there’s something wrong with you lol. You also had to make the bitch fit public so everyone’s knows you’re up on your high horse.

I don’t dislike you, just think the post and feeling you have about something like racing are dumb.
Talk about calling the kettle black.
 
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Talk about calling the kettle black.
No, I have zero people ignored. Also there’s a difference between calling someone out on their bullshit and starting some bullshit with a post like “I don’t like you or you’re car...ignore.” If I did that we would be a pot and kettle, but that’s not the case.

I imagined a little kid “hmmmpfing” pouting and crossing their arms reading it though which made me laugh lol. Stop being butt hurt over stupid shit from 25-30 years ago. You don’t be hard pressed to find a winning race team that doesn’t cheat at some point...that’s why they win.