Well I was told to post here and tell something about myself and my ride, Well I am the old man at the drag strip, I am retired military and started racing when I was 15, Racing motorcycle on dirt with my dads AMA card and then to the drag strip with a M/P Honda, In 1971 I started racing super stock a 1970 Camaro built and worked on ''All the time'' by the late Mickey Thompson, I gave that up in 1973 and said I was done with racing and then in 03 I saw a red SSR and fell in love with it so in 04 I got one a yellow one but after driving it what a dog, I was ashame to take people a ride so a guy said you should put a Magna Charger on this so I did and then it was fun and the guy that was tunning it said you know you should go back to the strip on a test and tune and make a few runs and it would be easier to tune, I didn't know anything about a test and tune so I went and it wasn't bad it run like a 13.80 at 101 and it was fun and didn't cost a arm and a leg, Well I hurt the tranny so I had it rebuilt and a new converter and then it was running 13.50 and I was having more fun with it than anything else so I run it every Wednesday for 3 years and added headers and then put a alky spray on it so I could run pump gas and a gallon of alky would last me about 20 or 30 runs and that got it in the 12's, A best of 12.70 for a 4880 pound truck with a LS base 5.3, It was running on the rich side so I thought I would tune the alky down and broke a piston, It just cost so much to rebuild the 5.3 the way I wanted so I got a LS6 block with a Eagle stroker crank and H rods and a set of 225 Dart heads and put that in it, Well I am writing a book so I will add my built later, Here is a video of a run before we started getting the tune and my other car a 87 Grand National
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvSfZMpBoH8
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Originally Posted by RedHeartbeat
