Guzzi Mark called me this morning to report on the test and tune session Friday night. Conditions were favorable and Mark set a new A/nitrous record at 10.90 then added weight to get into B class and increased the nitrous shot from 60 to 90 and lowered that record to 10.69. Today he will go back to A and try it with the 90 shot. His 60' time on the 10.69 run was 1.45 with a 6.68 eigth mile, the top end was 122MPH at 6700RPM even with his new 4.10 gears! Those are some pretty stout times, congratulations to Mark.

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You go Mark!! Woo Hoo!!! Think he has that hood bolted down good? Congrats!

Rick

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12.70 @ 104.6

VIDEO>>> PLEASE TELL ME THERE IS VIDEO!!!! CONGRATS MARK

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Girlfriend Rhonda... 66 Valiant
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WooHoooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Mark called again today. PJ won Saturday's race in a borrowed stocker. Mark went 10.57 to set a new record in A/Nitrous. Apparently his B/Nitrous record is 10.59 not .69. 9 cars Saturday, 8 today.

You have to be impressed with the performance of that Aussie head gasket! I used to think you needed o-rings and a copper gasket for high compression, maybe not.

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Just pulled in our home driveway. Dutras took 1st and 2nd today. That's a new record also. Dutras are tied for 1st in points. Another record. More to follow.

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Big congrats to the Dutras and PJ in competition.

Great JOB, Mark! I wonder if he's thinking about 9s now. Betcha he is...

Lou

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Maybe at Samoa!!!!!!

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NICE..


Congrats to all - Dutras and Guzzi's


Greg

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Wow... what a weekend!
Allen and I made it home by 11:30 last night...
The only "drama" was that the 66 Wagon / Toad towing combo, did not want to display it's tail lights (running lights) when we safety- checked before leaving the track at 8:30 PM.
30 minutes later, we had a "hot wire" feeding that circuit and were on the road, headed home.

A Big Thanks to Edd J., PJ, Bruce & Wendy P. for hosting this race and putting-up with the Dutra "squatters" that pitched camp on their pit spaces... right at the finish line.
Yes, all the SL6 KillerBee racers were well packed into a small space at this event, because it was a BIG national points race for NRHA.
Lots of racers & fast cars blasting by, all weekend long.
Super fun to watch Guzzi Mark running mid 10 second passes, like "clock-work". All the spectators also like that!

It was nice to see Allen get to the final on both days... he has had a long "dry spell" as far as winning rounds go and it looks like he shook that off.
It was also great to get a "father vs son" final with him. We have talked about that for years and it happened this weekend... and "the old man" won it !

I also made great progress getting the new K1 engine in the Lancer to "settle-down". I did change-out the Fat-Pak after Las Vegas and went back to my divided plenum H-Pak intake... Standing start, full throttle "hits" are back and so are the 1.8xx 60 ft times. (with no spray)
I still had all kinds of missing, popping and inconsistant on Saturday so we changed the spark plugs and found 2 that had super-wide gaps.
The car ran a whole bunch better with a correctly gapped set of new plugs!

This new engine still "hits-a-wall" at 6000 RPM, like it's floating the valves or bouncing the points in the distributor. (I know... get rid of the points... ) Some additional "sort-out work" is needed before our next race.

Anyway... another fun week-end of SL6 racing.
DD

Imagine what the car might do with some sort of Distributorless type ignition


Congrats again.


Greg

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Congrats!......sounds like an excellent event!

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Congrats on the win Doug! But you were not the first father son Final. My youngest son Micah and I faced off at Elk Creek last year. And guess what? The old man won there too! I guess we still have it! If we could just remember where we put it!!!

Rick

PS It really is cool racing with your kids!

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Just got home,pooped.Put 1200 miles on new truck and averaged 16.4 mpg towing,very happy.NO 9s for me,would like to get the mph record in A nitrous,I did go 123.996 with the 4.10s,so maybee with 3.91s.Congrats Doug.Guzzi Mark

Yes, congrats to Doug and to Allan as well who ran a great race against me to push me out of the competition. Great weekend all around with lots of great conversation. I would congrat Mark but I have a rule about congratulating anyone with teeth on the front of their car.