NHRA Nationals at Maple Grove Raceway

[Salvatore]

you are right. I talked with him on Sunday and the cars did slow up some especially by then.

[J Giermanski]

I am Stan's son James. Just to set the story straight, we did screw up a bit. We cut a coil off the front springs to lower the car over the winter. It wasn't a problem until now. Dad DID NOT LOCK THE BRAKES, he may have been a little harder than usual, but in 18 years of running the car it is not his style to lock them up. The tires hit the fenderwells and it got ugly. He straightened it out and no harm was down to either car. We know we have a front end issue now and it WILL be corrected over the winter. That being said we are back in good graces with NHRA and will continue trying to set the F/SA record. The car is an all steal '68 Camaro 327/275 powerglide car. It has a Q-jet, iron 1.94 heads and a .390/.410 lift hyd cam. It has been as fast as 10.72@120+ Really cool to see my dad and the car talked about here. Come see us at Atco, E-town, MP or any of the killer Division 1 tracks next year.

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

Nice! Love seeing that car, and all of the stockers, running so well at the Grove.

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[Chevy454]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: J Giermanski</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I am Stan's son James. Just to set the story straight, we did screw up a bit. We cut a coil off the front springs to lower the car over the winter. It wasn't a problem until now. Dad DID NOT LOCK THE BRAKES, he may have been a little harder than usual, but in 18 years of running the car it is not his style to lock them up. The tires hit the fenderwells and it got ugly. He straightened it out and no harm was down to either car. We know we have a front end issue now and it WILL be corrected over the winter. That being said we are back in good graces with NHRA and will continue trying to set the F/SA record. The car is an all steal '68 Camaro 327/275 powerglide car. It has a Q-jet, iron 1.94 heads and a .390/.410 lift hyd cam. It has been as fast as 10.72@120+ Really cool to see my dad and the car talked about here. Come see us at Atco, E-town, MP or any of the killer Division 1 tracks next year.</div></div>
Whoa, that coulda been a lot worse! I'm glad to hear that's all that became of it...keep doin' what you're doin'! [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/beers.gif[/img] [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/burnout.gif[/img]

[J Giermanski]

Update! The Camaro is just about ready. Discovered that we had 3 broken teeth on the ring gear so the rear was rebuilt along with the normal winter upgrades. Also dad bought an A/B/C/SA '70 steel head 402 Nova, really nice car. I am going to take over running the Camaro and he has the wheel on the Nova. Looking forward to a great year.

[Salvatore]

Whats you car numbers? I will look you up. Sam

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

Awesome! Can't wait to see you guys running at the Grove.

Is the Nova silver - will he put some Deuce stripes on it? [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/naughty.gif[/img]

[Salvatore]

STOP with the Yenko stuff M. Chevy did build other cars ya know! HA!

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

You forget what site you're on my friend! [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/naughty.gif[/img] Plus, if it weren't for that silver deuce he bought new I never would have met these guys! [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/biggthumpup.gif[/img]

[J Giermanski]

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