Mopar World Finals Norwalk, OH Sept 12, 13, 14

[ohiorob]

the wife and I should be pulling in about 7pm Friday. looking forward to seeing everyone, this is going to be awesome

[contraption22]

Good luck to all those participating! Have fun to all those attending.
And watch out for brain freeze. See you there next year.

[minigts]

Good luck to all those participating! Have fun to all those attending.
And watch out for brain freeze. See you there next year.

You will be missed. You being Gary, Justin and Mike. We will eat 1lb for each of you, in your honor.

[contraption22]

Updates? ET's? Kills?

[csxtra]

Reeves killed two axles on Friday and Saturday.

JT made it through the weekend with no breakage and drove the car onto the trailer.

JT, Rob Pachner, and Reeves all made it through the first round of Pro on Sunday, JT was taken out in the 2nd round (there were some VERY good bracket racers there...one guy ran his dial-in EXACTLY, while others ran less than a 100th of a second of theirs), and Reeves and Rob made it through the 2nd round.

I don't know what happened after that, someone oiled down the track and delayed round 3 so I had to leave before Rob and James had a chance to run.

Great seeing everybody again, I hope everybody made it home safely!

[cordes]

Very cool that 3 TMs made it out of the first round. How many cars were running?

[ohiorob]

We had a nice variety of cars. a Daytona, Omni, Charger ,Spirit R/T and a all motor 1st gen. Neon that ran mid 12s. It was great to see everyone. as for me I lost in the 3rd round. Dialed in a 10.24 and ran a 10.242 , lost because of my poor reaction time

[Shadow]

We had a nice variety of cars. a Daytona, Omni, Charger ,Spirit R/T and a all motor 1st gen. Neon that ran mid 12s. It was great to see everyone. as for me I lost in the 3rd round. Dialed in a 10.24 and ran a 10.242 , lost because of my poor reaction time

Damn, still that's an Awesome run! Way to represent bro!

[cordes]

Damn, still that's an Awesome run! Way to represent bro!

Heck yes it is. Very nice work.

[R/T]

Great to see everyone, as usual!

And man, James had some issues ( with the car! Axles, water pump ) but we were able to all pull together and get him back on track, glad to be a part of the effort...

What Ohio Rob didn't say was he went as quick as 10.15 *on the brakes* Saturday!

What was really funny was both James and Rob BEAT RWD V8 converted Omni/Tourismos/Chargers during their first rounds....

[cordes]

10.15 on the brakes???? Holy cow!

I do love it when the FWD TMs beat the RWD conversions. I can't get enough of it really.

[85boostbox]

Man oh man. Soo many people cusping the 9.9x and yet to see it.

[contraption22]

Have the dates for next year's event been announced?

[ohiorob]

let me elaborate a little. Saturday they gave us only one time run instead of two. spun bad off the line, that never happened before. so I had no idea what to dial in at so I dialed a 10.30. caught a 1.67 60' and ran a 10.15 on the brakes, to little to late and lost. Sunday got one time run 10.242 with a 1.73 60'. thinking my 60' would improve I dialed a 10.15, got a 1.72 60' and ran a10.222. won that race because of very good r/t. next race I dialed a 10.20 got a 1.73 60' and ran a 10.25 won that race because of a very good r/t. next race I dialed in a 10.24, got a 1.72 60' and ran a 10.242 and lost because of a very bad r/t . my Charger has become very reliable and I'm working on making it consistent . no 9 second run for this guy I'm happy and content right were I'm at

[Shadow]

Those are some Awesome runs Rob! Must feel Good having a consistent low LOW 10 second FWD!

[Pat]

Have the dates for next year's event been announced?

Doesn't matter. You're busy.

[Reeves]

I suffered more failures at this event than I have in the last few years combined!

TT1 on Friday night....broke driver side axle shaft at the inner cv. Installed spare. Drank beer.
TT1 on Saturday morning....broke driver side axle shaft at the inner cv. I was out of axles. Thankfully, Brian Taranto from the Buckeye Chapter brought one from home. It was too long for my car, but we managed to shift the motor and trans over far enough to get it in.
Elim1 Saturday noon....waterpump quit on way to staging lanes and car started to overheat. Towed back to pit area, RacinTracy tapped on it with a hammer and it took off running again. Rushed back up to lanes and got the very last vehicle running in Pro. Ran 11.2 with a 10.8 dial. I lost that round, but was happy that the car made it down the track, and that was my first pass with boost by mph turned on, the new splitter, and new rear belly pan. Boost by MPH worked, but needs some fine tuning. Drank beer.
TT1 Sunday morning…aborted boost by mph just to get a good run in. As soon as I hit high boost, clutch slipped
Elim1 Sunday noon…kept dial at 10.81 but only ran low 11 because clutch slipped. Other guy broke out. Not sure why he did that…..I was far from catching him.
Elim2 Sunday afternoon…Lowered the high boost level and dialed 11.81. Other guy red lit, so I ran it all the way down with low boost and the clutch held, at about the 1000ft mark I hit the high boost button and the clutch held the new lowered boost level. Ran 11.5
Elim3 Sunday late afternoon…Waterpump quit on way to the staging lanes. Dammit. Got back to pits before it over heated and tapped on it with hammer…no luck…beat on it with hammer…no luck. Loaded up trailer and didn’t even drink a single beer.
Driving home Sunday late afternoon…got stuck in a 2 hour traffic jam due to construction. Didn’t get home till almost 1am.

[ohiorob]

James Reeves " A Series of Unfortunate Events " that would of made a great reality show. seriously I was feeling bad for you. Now that you got all that bad luck out of the way Clay City should be awesome. good luck next time out.

[ohiorob]

Mary Beth, can you post some pics please for the few of us that are not on face book.

[Keito]

I've missed this event because of my work travel, I've been in China
the last 3 years
Posting this from Guangzhou

Next year I think I'll put in for vacation for a default

The Buckeye chapter tried to have SDAC here a few years ago
but it wasn't meant to be