RtthIV

[Vegas69]

First off, Thank you Bill and larry again. What a awesome event.

We had some great fun at RTTHs IV. Good Friends, good times, good comrades. Unfortunately we grenaded the rear (AGAIN) on Project Prodigy on the cruise showing off for some Cameras. Nice little 7200 RPM blast, pulled second gear and capow! That car simply has way too much power for the C4 rear. That is the 3rd rear we have broke and now a completely different center is going in Prodigy after SEMA. We were disappointed as we had looked forward to competition with that one.



But we still had Project EmptyNest and had some fun. We did not enter the King of the Hill Competition because we did not drive at least 75 miles to the event. Also, a customer of mine with bad vision (67 572CI Chevelle) asked me to drive him in his car on the cruise Friday, so we did not do the cruise in EmptyNest either. So we had no chance at KOTH, but the customer having fun was more important.



At the Friday night party at Bills Toy Box Prodigy Customs bought the beer and Bill said I tried to drink it all myself, so I was hung over and late for the autocross Saturday morning! We did however get a couple autocross laps in. I am no autocross racer as evidence in the video, but we did respectable with a 38.3 time. Considering some experienced drivers were not doing that good, I was cool with that, but would have loved more laps. But ran out of time


Sunday morning at the dragstrip, we were again late, but not from a hang over this time. Had a friend in need and had to get him running which was way more important then our fun. So I got in 3 dragstrip runs before we had throttle cable issues. We could have fixed it, but after thrashing all morning on the other car, we really did not feel like screwing with it. We did get a 8.03 at only 86MPH coasting through the traps on the street tires on motor only. I think it has 7.70s? on street tires in it and 100MPH trap speeds, which will put it solidly in the 10s on the quarter based on MPH. I am sure on slicks 10s will be no problem, but I think we will be lucky to break into the 11s on the street tires. After SEMA we will try that 10 second quarter on motor.



Anyway here is a autocross video and a great burnout and subsequent throttle cable breaking on the 1 / 2 shift. Lisa did not get a chance to run, but was overheated anyway in the 90degree heat. So she will get her chance after SEMA

So anyone that did not make it, needs to be there next year.



Enjoy




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That thing hauls some aise.