Re: 163.5mph & I have the slip

[Gary Pavlovich <glpavlovich@xxxxxxx>]

Rich,

You are almost there!

Good run against the Chevy1

Gary Pavlovich
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rich Kinsley" <rlkinsley@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 10:07 PM
Subject: 163.5mph & I have the slip


> I made it to the drags tonight. My cousin was along and Steve Micks, his
> son and Paul Lenneman were also there. I had richened the secondaries
> since my last time when I had the best of 10.03@xxxxx .
> I started out with a 10.09@xxxxx and then a 10.10@xxxxx !!!!!!!!!!!!!
> Yup, that's what my timeslip says so I guess I did it :-) Maybe the G
> forces warped my brain.
>
> My next run felt very good but the board showed I did a 8.55 and I got
> no ticket to prove that :-0
>
> I was thinking I needed to lean up a bit as it was a bit less ET than
> before. I leaned it a bit via the rods and the next two runs were
> horrible! It died on me both times, I restarted and took off and got a
> 15.32@xxxxx  and  16.85@xxxxx . So you can see the top end was not bad
> but the bottom was awful. With the encouragement of Steve and his son I
> upped the rod two sizes. Then it ran a best ever time and speed of
> 10.01@xxxxx .  The best part was that I was up against a kinda nasty
> sounding/looking Chevy and I whooped him! He had a 10.10@xxxxx . Both my
> 60' and 330' were .2sec faster than his. Maybe Paul or Steve can tell us
> what model/year the Chevy was?
>
> Bottom line, it started OK, went downhill and then went to a new best. I
> still gotta get that d*** 9sec's though! I'll try to get back in 2 weeks
> and get into the 9's.
>
>
> Rich Kinsley '64 Dodge Polara 4dr 318poly w/goodies
>
>
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