HemiSam

That Z car is a stunner. Loved them for a long time. Learned how to drive a stick in my brother's '72 240Z 4-speed and then bought and drove a '78 280Z 5-speed in college. Sold it sadly with 140K miles, 81K of them mine. Fortunately, I just purchased a '78 280Z 4-speed to teach my 16-yr old how to drive a stick. It should arrive in the next day or so. I'm stoked. Attended the Texas Mile this weekend. My favorite event ever...the standing mile. Weather was bad but we got a few really cool things out of it. First time the standing mile has been run at night that I'm aware of and the cars running Sunday got a tremendous tailwind once the rain blew through and the track was dried. There was a 280ZX with a Chevy small block (I believe) running about 170mph. Pretty cool. HS

That 240Z is slick and I'm particularly curious about the Dodge Challenger. Looks like a road race car. Great pics as usual...thank you for sharing! HS Nice work! I don't know what you're running. My experience is a good drag radial with an automatic car is best. I did better with slicks when it's stick shift...more forgiving if you break the tire (i.e. wheel spin). A slick will engage the track again whereas the DR's will have a lot more difficulty recovering. A slick does lend itself to a bit more wheel hop, though, on my car so the half shafts (axles) should be up to the task. Best of luck. HS

Thanks, VPI. It started life as a stick car weighing just short of 4100lbs w/o driver. They're basically 4-door parts cars by Chrysler where the frame was chopped 4" to produce the Challenger. She's a big girl and it makes for some unusual things like the longest input shaft on the trans and a shift mechanism set back far creating weaknesses I've found the limits of over the last 6 years. It's gone through a lot of iterations...a 10-pt cage and a bunch of other crap...some of it dropped a few pounds but mostly I've added through add'l fluids, proper big brakes, all the TT bits, big ass 4L80E trans and a Ford 9" rear to handle the power, etc... Here is the car the first time it ran 9's in the quarter. It was near you at VMP (I've never seen quarter mile track prep at a private event like that other than the few times I ran her in Virginia). I ditched the manual sadly as I was twisting RPM built Tremecs from input shaft to output shaft. We learned a lot that day...I had to lift to get the auto to shift relying on the OEM rpm signal. Plumbing is under the car. It was 3" custom piping which made for a very tight fit given the block is pretty good size (406 CI). Currently working on installing a nifty integrated kit that will have the oiling for the TT's and a good bit of the piping integrated into the K-member. You can see a bit of it here along with the mid-plate that's going in. HS

Car weighs ~4500lbs. Moderate boost pass (11-12psi). Royal Purple Raceway during 1/4 mile test and tune trying to iron a few things out before the standing mile event the car is built for. Street legal....sat/nav and AC still in the big girl. Don't have the heart to gut her to run an 8 sec pass. HS

Love it! What does she run in the 1/4 mile and what does she weigh? HS

and then there's all the leftover mula for booze. I need my booze...purely for medicinal purposes. Helluva deal. HS

You have expensive tastes...LOL. Seriously, several years in South America converted me. Saves me a few bucks for this audio crack habit too... HS

If the conclusions from the experiment were to ring true for the majority of potential buyers, Gungnir $850 vs Ygg $2300. Major saving that could be used towards other pursuits like my neverending appetite for proper rum... HS

Cool little Sunbeam Tiger. The blue on the Audi with what I believe are HRE wheels...very nice. Thanks for sharing. HS

Very cool experiment. Thanks for going through the trouble of sharing the findings. HS

This is going to be very interesting for me to read about, TMoney. Especially the USB angle as supposedly the onboard USB in the ygg is supposedly the cat's arse. Good stuff. HS

Great photos. Thanks for sharing. The restomod Camaro looks great. There are so many here, both restored and restomod, I quit turning my head. I enjoy seeing something a bit more unusual....like a restomod wagon. Love the idea of going to the strip and banging out a 9 sec pass in a sleeper wagon.... HS

Those are some great shots. Love the old Charger and the air cooled Porsche. HS

What guzziguy said. I use different levels of polishes (more coarse to finner in series depending on nature of issue) from Griot's. I cannot recommend brake cleaner. It may dull your paint and it will fog plastic in my experience. I have a friend that swears by charcoal starter....a petroleum based product, but I have never tried that personally. Just watch to make sure you're not down past the foreign paint and down into some primer native to the vehicle's paint Good luck. HS PS i have had some joy with a microfibre cloth and rubbing alcohol on my boy's vehicle.

I agree...that salamander rack is super nice. HS

Very nice. They do not come with a cord. HS

Been very pleased with my ygg, feeding both my estat and dynamic rigs. It took some days to get there, but once it settled in I've not once second guessed the purchase decision. Hope all works out well for you, TMoney. HS

Yes...I lived in South America four years. Agree with your points but I obviously didn't make mine well. It was the execution by the bartender in question. It was a superb cocktail...not my first one. I imbibe. There was one other drink I would argue was made with as much love and skill and that was at the Palliser Hotel in Calgary. A Canadian Old Fashioned made with maple syrup and exeptional Canadian whiskey. The woman was an artist. Cheers HS

Negative camber.... A bit of negative camber is great for a road course. That crap hurts to look at. HS

the negative camber hurts to look at.... HS

I was in Peru last week and had an old-school cocktail (pisco sour...pisco is a South American brandy for those that have not tried it) at a hotel in the Sacred Valley. The use of bitters and nutmeg and the presentation was spectacular. I expect the rejuvenation of old school bartending spurred by Mr. Petraske influenced that experience. RIP, sir. My liver salutes you... HS

Yes, Leve. I found the cooper o-ringed gaskets to be too much work...leaked too often in my application. I push a bit of boost through a 406 C.I. motor. HS Those are some great pics, VPI. Particularly like the shot of the Cobra knock-off, aftermarket...whatever they're referred to as these days. HS

Some work done on my heads HS

God bless America....RIP, Ms. Craig. Flashbacks from my youth. HS

The KGST is easy to live with while putting out quite a bit of mojo (400v swing) in a relatively small package. Runs pretty darn cool too...thanks to Geoff. I haven't run it any longer than 12 or so hours straight, but I'm pretty confident it could wrong longer w/o drama given how well the temps are managed. At the moment I'm listening to Duane Allman - an Anthology....Loan Me a Dime is the tune which he plays with Boz Scaggs. All kinds of goodness. Song just rolled and now it's Dave Meniketti's - On the Blue Side; song: Until the Next Time. I'm sippin' rum and smiling after a looooong day... HS