My race car pics....

[NXcoupe]

Well, finally got a way to host pics and get them up here for y'all to see. I am in Afghanistan currently, working for the military, army in particular. I started on this car as a dd, 4cyl black on black coupe. I love this car. It looked like crap for years before it became what you see here today. I really like racing it and didn't want to see it sit and rot while I was gone, so I have a friend of mine driving it and my buddy Matt S crewing for it. The driver's name is Matt Johnson, and he is 5th in points currently in NMRA real street. These pics are of me driving it last year, and us having too much traction and no more suspension adjustments. It's a long story, here are pics. It sucked for et, but really was great for getting my car out there, been in six magazine articles so far, only one mentions my name, but who cares, I can say my car was in a mag!!!!

Enjoy!
this first one is from Joliet IL, Rt 66 dragway last year.

These next ones are from Bowling Greene KY, NMRA world finals last year in October. It came off of all four wheels and then came down on the left rear, and darted towards the wall, I let out of it instantly and it came down hard, but didn't hit the wall, and only caused minor damage. We fixed the wheel with a ten pound bar bell weight, a 2X4 and a sledge in my friend Bruce Hemminger's trailer. Then went out for the next round.

These next ones are from the next round. I was expecting it this time, and shifted into second as soon as I felt it going up, it still came up high but just more controlled and stayed on the two rear wheels.

 

[NXcoupe]

Ok, these next ones are from the stands, and you can see the photographer that took the previous shots of my second pass in the foreground. It also gives a better feel for how long the wheelstand was, I passed the 60ft marker on the rear tires. Still went a 1.40 60ft!

 

[red95r]

that is bad ass man. very nice. always wondered how people avoided damage when their 2 front tires came of the ground.

 

[NXcoupe]

Ok, these are a different angle of the second pass. One of the two photographers in the other pics took these. You can see the front tire come up in third gear, pretty cool.

 

[NXcoupe]

that is bad ass man. very nice. always wondered how people avoided damage when their 2 front tires came of the ground.

Thanks man, I appreciate it. Usually it comes down gentley as the chassis catches up to the accelleration, and it just sets down. These were not normal for me or the car. Was not expecting this dramatic of a launch. It has since toned down some, but we are working on finding that happy medium.

 

[CruizinKev]

woooooohooooooo nice man!!!!!!!! omg!!! :headbang:

 

[NXcoupe]

This is one of the magazine pictures. I was in 5.0 in the NMRA fan program inside the mag. It was also in MM&FF as the title page background for a tubular front end install article. Funny thing is, my K member is a UPR and the article was installing a Granatelli I think. lol. That pic, if I can find it I will post it, shows three wheels off the ground, and it was on it's way UP, not down. So all four came off after that pic.

 

[NXcoupe]

Here are some pics of the paintwork. I have more at home, but it's just of the car before and during. These are of the car as he was buffing and finishing it up. He does excellent graphics and artwork. He's insane when it comes to painting things, just an artist. I was really lucky he did this for me. We are good friends, we worked on a car for the TV show PINKS! together. It was a work of love for our friend Vinny who passed away unexpectedly with a heart attack, he was only 38. but that is another story.

 

[Crone]

Hell yea!! Badass car man!! I remeber seeing it in mm&ff!

 

[navarro98gt]

WOW! What kind of power does it put down??

 

[97blackout]

Beautiful, you have any videos? I would love to see a vid of one of those launches.

 

[NXcoupe]

Well, there was a great on on stangTV. If you go to their site, look for bowling green 08 and go to the vid that has Real Street in it. Also my car is doing that first wheelstand for the opening of the video coverage of the event. Pretty cool stuff, I really needed that last year, just made it worth all I had to go through to get the car out last year. thanks everyone. I will post up some older videos, just have to figure out how to do it.

 

[NXcoupe]

Ok, from three years ago, car was really hooking. Made some changes and it just really liked it a lot. I wasn't running it out the full track, this is a very short track as far as shut down. I was really just wanting to get the launch down, best was a 1.33 that night. Wish we could get it back to this but keep the same level of power I have now. Hope this works!
http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=-3701747444140118640

 

[NXcoupe]

Ok, this was the week before and the first launch caught me by surprise, liked to crap my pants. So the next one we went all the way tight on the shocks, then the third one came back to 8 I think, then next week(the first video I posted), we set it at 7 and it was perfect. These are strange adjustable front struts.
http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=1150941516027175589

 

[NXcoupe]

And this is pretty cool, this is an in car video I made from two years ago, pretty neat, forgot about this till I started searching. It's at TriState near Hamilton, OH. Kind of a podunk track, but as you can see it hooked for me. I was trying out a synchronized trans a TKO 600 and the lower first gear ratio affected the wheelies just a tad bit. lol. Enjoy!
http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=5062974529367102617

 

[US Soldier(stang 98)]

dude your race car is bad ass man. its cars like yours is why im doing mine.

 

[NXcoupe]

Ok, so more on that last video. I forgot about the details till I watched it again. In Cincy, we have a local board known as Stangbangerz. Every year the owner of the board would get together the top 12 fastest cars on the board and get them all to come and battle it out and he called it the dirty dozen shootout. Well, there were a lot more than 12 cars showed, most were vying to get on to the dozen and get the bragging rights and a sticker, which I proudly still run on my car. Well, the last run was my long time buddy Chad. You can tell I am a bit competitive by the light I cut, you can see it green while the car is in the air. I won, but the engine came apart later putting it into the trailer, I was having lean issues all day long, and later found out the injectors were at 100%. Been nice if I would have paid the blood money and got the darn data logging software with my PMS, better yet it would have been nice if it came with it. Anyway, it was a fun day I made it into the dozen and so did Chad, and I got to run Chad and beat him this time! It was fun, hope you enjoyed the videos.

 

[NXcoupe]

dude your race car is bad ass man. its cars like yours is why im doing mine.

thanks man. It's comments like these that make it worth it. I really appreciate it.

 

[US Soldier(stang 98)]

are you with the ARMY in Afghanistan bro? i just came home 4 weeks ago from Afghanistan i was up in the khoust province

 

[NXcoupe]

I work for SOCOM. I maintain equipment for SF teams, 2 of them. I am in the south west of Kandahar, near Bastion. Most everything I see and do is classified. It kind of sucks, but kind of cool all in the same. Thanks for your service man. I do what I can over here.