Helped get a Sprint car started last night...

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02 May 2017 08:46 - 02 May 2017 08:47 #760975 by Tyler
My Brother's friend runs Sprint cars, he had just finished putting a new car tougher for this season.

They had trouble getting the fuel system to prime, we had to pull it around the block several times.

Once it fired up, there were a few things to check over in the shop.

Here is a video of a 900HP methanol engine at idle.


If I knew what I was doing all the time life wouldn't be any fun.

'80 KZ650 E 700cc, dyna ignition and coils, frame up restoration, daily driver
'81 KZ1300 A3 full restoration, custom big bore pistons, 1400cc 6 cylinder super bike
"77 KZ650 B1 - Barn Find, work in progeress
"74 Yamaha DT 400 Enduro
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02 May 2017 11:48 - 02 May 2017 12:01 #760982 by KZB2 650
Replied by KZB2 650 on topic Helped get a Sprint car started last night...
Looks like a lot of fun. My uncle Lynn took me to a lot of races in Joliet Il featuring these...... probably was 10 to 13 or so...... was a lotta fun and I gotta say he was a hell of a good guy. Still go by a diner we would stop at (closed now) and can still taste the hamburger and chocolate malt.:lol: Took me to go kart races too and he was building a dual engine one till money ran out and had to sell it........ about broke my heart but he needed the money. He went to Indy quite a few times too till he got sick so he was a big race fan.

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1980 KZ750 cam, ape springs, stock clutch/ Barnett springs.
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29MM smooth bores W/ 17.5 pilots, 0-6s and 117.5 main
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02 May 2017 13:01 #760993 by Dr. Gamma
Replied by Dr. Gamma on topic Helped get a Sprint car started last night...
I have been to every type of racing there is. From Formula 1 to Showroom stock. Nothing, I repeat Nothing beats winged sprint cars on a well prepared 1/2 mile!!!! You will never see closer racing in my book. I used to hit 5 or 6 World of Outlaws races every year when I lived back in Chicagoland. Boy, I miss the now closed Santa Fe Speedway, or the Knoxville Nationals!!!!!!!

Still a big Doug Wolfgang fan!!!!!

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1976 KH400 Production Road Racer.
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03 May 2017 04:12 #761035 by bluej58
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Santa Fe Speedway was a big part of my youth, now I work in the fancy estates that sit on that spot.

We have a 1/4 mile dirt track out here ( LaSalle Speedway ) that I took my kids to to see the Outlaw sprint races a couple of times.
very exciting, they shaved 3 seconds off the late model stock cars time on a 1/4 mile :woohoo:
Nothing hooks up quicker besides dirt dragsters.

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22 May 2017 15:41 #762504 by loudhvx
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I used to sit outside Santa Fe Speedway and listen, and try to watch, the lightning rod derby races. That area was so different long ago.

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