G.M. Performance Parts Duramax Diesel Top Dragster final prep for testing
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Dan Clark from Dan's diesel service is , and has been since the beginning. He has made several trips out to help.
I would have loved to drive my new car , but I hurt my knee at the fire department , and a well known diesel FC racers has been calling them and telling them I'm faking being hurt and plans on racing him . He even offered to send them pictures, and threatened to call his congressman , as I'm a federal fire fighter . By the way I was injured in front of my Battalion Chief and a pack of paramedics, and had knee surgery the first of the year.
I would have loved to drive my new car , but I hurt my knee at the fire department , and a well known diesel FC racers has been calling them and telling them I'm faking being hurt and plans on racing him . He even offered to send them pictures, and threatened to call his congressman , as I'm a federal fire fighter . By the way I was injured in front of my Battalion Chief and a pack of paramedics, and had knee surgery the first of the year.
Congratulations on getting it going. Hopefully everyone who said they would give you props when you get it going does what they said. I hope to see it run at one of our local events.
On an unrelated note, what happened to your daughters sister driving the car?
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On an unrelated note, what happened to your daughters sister driving the car?
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Jordan still has a ways to go before 1.03 60 foots. We have not run 1/4 mile yet , and no pictures or videos are allowed , we are testing at private sessions
Or hold together for 10 1/4 mile passes?
Must be magic math.
Put it down and prove it. Then receive the recognition.
More BS
Yes I'm one of the ones who cut on Greg! Just like this post he talks with nothing to back it up. I will go on ever diesel board there is and say I'm a dick and Greg is a diesel god "IF" he can produce a real time slip dated were he made a fast pass. He won't and can't! I really do think it will be fast BUT he still hasn't done it but will come on here and talk like he has. That's what I don't like about him. Love me or hate me I will tell you like it is. Talk is cheap Greg SHOW ME I'm wrong. No double talk just SHOW ME! Then I'm done.
Yes I'm one of the ones who cut on Greg! Just like this post he talks with nothing to back it up. I will go on ever diesel board there is and say I'm a dick and Greg is a diesel god "IF" he can produce a real time slip dated were he made a fast pass. He won't and can't! I really do think it will be fast BUT he still hasn't done it but will come on here and talk like he has. That's what I don't like about him. Love me or hate me I will tell you like it is. Talk is cheap Greg SHOW ME I'm wrong. No double talk just SHOW ME! Then I'm done.
same old crap from you . I am not posting pictures or videos of our testing. don't care ,and don't have any thing to prove. I have been involved in Pro diesel racing for the last 10 years and won the very first diesel Pro mod event in 2006 . so get over it , it took me a while to get to the track with this car , I race more then diesel and just had to get time and money to finish this one.
I know from your conversation with people that Know me as well your main reason for being upset with me is your worried about all of the sponsor that are rallying to back me now, they have videos. Relax there is plenty to go around. , and don't worry , 90% of the events I will be at will be NHRA and IHRA, where there will be full 32 car fields to try and weed thru.
I will be running NADM for one simple reason they have a family orientated events and are as of now the only Diesel sanctioning body. Their events are going to be diesel only events . not a Pro Mod event with a few diesels sprinkled in.
I know from your conversation with people that Know me as well your main reason for being upset with me is your worried about all of the sponsor that are rallying to back me now, they have videos. Relax there is plenty to go around. , and don't worry , 90% of the events I will be at will be NHRA and IHRA, where there will be full 32 car fields to try and weed thru.
I will be running NADM for one simple reason they have a family orientated events and are as of now the only Diesel sanctioning body. Their events are going to be diesel only events . not a Pro Mod event with a few diesels sprinkled in.
Greg, you lack a clue. The NADM is a sham. You should have seen the monkey business they pulled when they ran an event at Famoso. "Family" was more like incest than sportsmanship.
I'll give you a tip. If you want a special rule for your entry talk to them. If you don't want to bother with a qualifying pass, or you want others to make multiple qualifying necessary, they are your crew.
The Pro Mod's ran last weekend because their event got cancelled, so a limited number of entries were allowed to run. AFAIK, that is up to the track operator, not the NHRA, or NHDRA.
If the NHRA really gave a shiit about diesels, they would make rule provisions accordingly, which, they have not. There is no NHRA diesel-specific classes last I checked.
If the NADM really gave a shiit about diesel racers, they would apply all rules to equally, instead of the Good-Old-Boy / Wink-n-Nod crap.
If the NADM were a legit and family based org, they would pay the folks they owe money too....Instead of running away from being honest.
NADM is the diesel worlds ADRL...Bankrupt and owe LOTS of racers.
IMO the only real diesel ORG is one who cares about the racers first, and pays them, NHRDA.
NADM is the diesel worlds ADRL...Bankrupt and owe LOTS of racers.
IMO the only real diesel ORG is one who cares about the racers first, and pays them, NHRDA.
NHRA has classes, that we worked hard to get diesels allowed in . Top Sportsman, Top Dragster, super comp, super gas , and super street. I spent time working hard with Gale and Wally to get it in. Go race .but it might not always be there. The gas racers are sick of driving thru excessive smoke . As far as NADM , find some one that hasent been paid that had a real right to being paid . I don't see rather one lasting much longer with all of this fighting . Just be happy that we have a place to race diesel only
Fixed it for you.
Look, it's cool that you can run a diesel rail. But it's not a new thing, nor is a blown nitrous diesel competitive against a Naturally Aspirated gas car. Allowing tube chassis diesels to run against tube chassis cars is kind of like being allowed to run a bicycle at LeMans.
Truth be told, only a small fraction of diesel racing involves tube chassis cars. If your goal was to get NHRA inclusion for diesels, you probably should have started with the pickups.
I wish you all the best with your car. I truly mean that. But you will never be competitive against spark ignition vehicles. Why? Let's say your goal is to run a 7.50 index (made up number). You can build a gas car to do that for less than 1/2 what a diesel rig costs, especially if nitrous and blowers are on the table. So that racer has twice the effective build budget you do. Or, if you have the same amount into both cars, the gasser can have double the spares and crew.
But you keep boasting about how wonderful you set things up with the NHRA, and how NHRA racing is the future of diesel racing.
All I see down that path in the future is just poverty and a switch to gas.
I could be wrong but perhaps you are the one that needs to get over something that happened 8 years ago when diesel performance was "chips"?
You seem to ride on your own coattails more than anyone. I could care less how accomplished anyone is when they feel as self important to humanity as you do.
Fixed it for you.
Look, it's cool that you can run a diesel rail. But it's not a new thing, nor is a blown nitrous diesel competitive against a Naturally Aspirated gas car. Allowing tube chassis diesels to run against tube chassis cars is kind of like being allowed to run a bicycle at LeMans.
Truth be told, only a small fraction of diesel racing involves tube chassis cars. If your goal was to get NHRA inclusion for diesels, you probably should have started with the pickups.
I wish you all the best with your car. I truly mean that. But you will never be competitive against spark ignition vehicles. Why? Let's say your goal is to run a 7.50 index (made up number). You can build a gas car to do that for less than 1/2 what a diesel rig costs, especially if nitrous and blowers are on the table. So that racer has twice the effective build budget you do. Or, if you have the same amount into both cars, the gasser can have double the spares and crew.
But you keep boasting about how wonderful you set things up with the NHRA, and how NHRA racing is the future of diesel racing.
All I see down that path in the future is just poverty and a switch to gas.
you might need to look at the classes I am talking about Top Dragster is a bracket race with the 32 fastest dragsters , sometimes its really fast, and some times its not . but 7.0 will get you in 90% of the time . its a full tree eliminator , so spool up in not a problem , the Dmax is comparable in that a good Top dragster motor minimum 632 and some are up to 900 cid motors cost is around $30,000 to $75,000 . . 1100 hp will get it done most of the time , and that is flywheel number. My car weighs 1875 lbs with driver, and with the new CN block saving 240 lbs the car picks up 3 to 3 and a half tenths in ET .
The diesel engine will last longer and be more repeatable compared to Density altitude . I feel in top dragster My dragster will be deadly consistent
Top Sportsman is very similar , car