We used up all of our $ going to pahrump. Only to get screwed at the payout window. Sparky looked good down there.

bluebyu wrote on 11/25/06 at 9:05am:


Next your going to tell me our new EW prototype car looks like a posse car...

these are my prototypes. trying to find out which nose and side board works best. the bodies are the white enamal baked steel.

No they did not dwindle to 6 cars. We ran the points deal at Tulare and had a high of 24 cars and low of 14 during that season. The reason it went away was that the promoter was having problems with his paychecks. Then he went to a special shows only type format, no weekly races in any class. You mention Hanford and Santa Maria and their tightness years ago re: rules, thats great, but that was then. The rules at the Open Shows in the Southern part of the state have gotten away from the steel body requirements at the Open Shows. If Tom allowed a QC in a S/S that's too bad as I know of zero tracks that will allow a QC in a S/S. Tom had the only show that I know of that did not have/enforce a weight rule. The 3rd place car at Imperial this last weekend was DQ for weighing in at 2989. Personally we don't care that Antioch's or Petaluma's  Open Shows don't allow aluminum or fiberglass bodies. The rules they use in both regular races and their "Open Races" are written so that we are not legal anyway.

I agree Billy. It's not the weight, we all have to be at 3,000 lbs. It's the ease of pounding the aluminum back flat and the biggest deal, not having to deal with the painting issues. We went white like Darrell just because of the painting deal.

We ran against several LLM's at Fallon with coil-overs, and they all were among the ( 3D & 72 ) victim's.

Don't forget to remind them to move the motor back foreward to the stock location, leave the Brinn at home, and then bring em on.

Maybe after we have a clear winner we should vote on the guidelines set in place with an aluminum body.  That's were it gets a little sticky..

it doesnt have a full clip or I would.  I thought we've done quite a bit to make sure you cant run a 3 link.

Hey Sparky, you should have gone to Imperial. 40 cars showed up and there were, at the most, 8 leaf spring cars. I saw 4 links, 3 links, 5 coil setups and Z links. You would have been in 7th heaven    The LLM that used to run at Chow would be low tech compared to some of the Southern Cal cars. Take out their QC and get rid of the wide 5's and they would have been a run of the mill car. At this point it really does not matter to us what is decided on the aluminum vs. steel body thing, but nobody is going to convince me that an aluminum body all of a sudden turns your car into a LLM. That is a pipe dream.

In my humble opinion- I doubt SMS would agree to Aluminum bodies.

he was that night.