A good night...at the dirt track !!

Last night, was opening night for the dirt track, located next to our outlaw dragstrip..They have had some issues (imagine that) with the lights, so it had delayed them running. My partner runs in Limited Sportsman, and we are the only Ford in class. He uses a 408W that I built .
The night starts off slow, as he draws the last starting postion. There are 10 cars in his class tonight.

Things start looking up, as in the 10 lap heat race, with some good driving and a caution or 2, he finishs Third.. Works for us..

We line up for the 20 lap feature, 2nd row, inside and they take the flag... On lap 2, while trying to take the lead, he spins in turn 2...
To the back of the field we go...Time to "get up on the wheel"..
We go back to racing, and thru a combination of great driving, a few well placed cautions and some good ole Ford horsepower,we find ourselves in 2nd place, when the last caution falls with 2 laps to go.
They take the green, and it was all she wrote. The bow tie boys had nothing for us last night !!! He drives under the leader going into turn 1 and passes him like the boy is standing still !!! Takes the white flag and cruises to our first feature win for the year !!!

We love showing the Chevy troops what this Ford can do. They all comment on how it just "sounds" different from any other car in class !!

Very cool Mike their not used to hearing real horsepower

You the man Mikey! Tell Peanut I said congratulations.

Its always fun when one of your engines does good. Happy for ya Mike.

Hell yeah it sounds different ...It's a FORD!!! Congrats Mikey!!!

56Tbird wrote:Hell yeah it sounds different ...It's a FORD!!! Congrats Mikey!!!

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Cool deal Mikey.....Keep them gm's on the run!

It's the sound of "REAL" power.

good job , but now they will f ind something to ban them Fords.

Darrin Gorham wrote:good job , but now they will f ind something to ban them Fords.

Hard to do when there are only 3 engine rules....

Iron block, Iron heads, no dry sumps

Everything else is wide open

QtrWarrior wrote:

Darrin Gorham wrote:good job , but now they will f ind something to ban them Fords.

Hard to do when there are only 3 engine rules....

Iron block, Iron heads, no dry sumps

Everything else is wide open

keep up the good work and they'll find a reason!lol. good job!

QtrWarrior wrote:Last night, was opening night for the dirt track, located next to our outlaw dragstrip..They have had some issues (imagine that) with the lights, so it had delayed them running. My partner runs in Limited Sportsman, and we are the only Ford in class. He uses a 408W that I built .
The night starts off slow, as he draws the last starting postion. There are 10 cars in his class tonight.

Things start looking up, as in the 10 lap heat race, with some good driving and a caution or 2, he finishs Third.. Works for us..

We line up for the 20 lap feature, 2nd row, inside and they take the flag... On lap 2, while trying to take the lead, he spins in turn 2...
To the back of the field we go...Time to "get up on the wheel"..
We go back to racing, and thru a combination of great driving, a few well placed cautions and some good ole Ford horsepower,we find ourselves in 2nd place, when the last caution falls with 2 laps to go.
They take the green, and it was all she wrote. The bow tie boys had nothing for us last night !!! He drives under the leader going into turn 1 and passes him like the boy is standing still !!! Takes the white flag and cruises to our first feature win for the year !!!

We love showing the Chevy troops what this Ford can do. They all comment on how it just "sounds" different from any other car in class !!

Cool story,you should of told them that different sound was FORD POWER BABY!!!

Later Mark.

Mike are the N heads?

Great job, Congrats.

IDT-572 wrote:Mike are the N heads?

Blake, They sure are

We have 2 sets.. 1 set, untouched in the ports, as per the rules at some other tracks around here..
the other set..which are on the motor... well, let's say they have been massaged..lol