Friday, August 10, 2018

It Begins!



The drag car project starts. There were many ways that I could have taken the project, but I have settled on a simple old school drag car built on a budget.

To me an old school drag car is one with a stick shift, slicks, stripped of everything that is not needed, no power adder, a lumpy cam, a carb and a clean engine bay. I have been taking off the EFI parts that I will not need and selling them. I'll do the same with parts that will only slow the car down.

This will be a dedicated drag car so I can run it on Friday nights at Atlanta Dragstrip's test and tune nights. I have always wanted to drag race a car at the track so that is what the project is all about. I will also take it to parking lot show just to show something different. 

I was turned on to cars and drag racing at a parking lot show back in the late '60s when I saw my first full on drag car. That and getting a ride in a Bucket T got me building model cars and loving hot rods. I'd love it if some kid sees my drag car and gets the bug.

I have to build a workbench and move some things around because it's a tight fit working in a one car garage. I'll also have to look into getting a new LED shop light, because that 500 watt halogen does not help with the heat on a hot Georgia summer day. I'll keep it around for this winter.  :-)


Monday, April 23, 2018

An Update With A New Photo





Another photo to help show the size of the truck. It's got new silicon body mounts that are 3 inches taller than stock. I'm 6' 6" and I still have to use the running boards to get up into the truck. It is really nice being above the traffic so you can see what is going on up ahead.

Saturday, April 21, 2018

It's Here! The Big Surprise. Every race car needs a tow vehicle...



A 2005 Ford F-250 XLT Super Duty, Super Cab, four wheel drive. It has the full tow commander package and can tow up to 12,500 LBS. I'll get more photos up later. Oh, the Mustang is back in the garage...


Wednesday, April 18, 2018

Not the surprise, but some progress

The car has been outside for over a year now. For the last six months it has been under some scrub trees and looked like this:




I soaked it with the foam cannon.


Then I just used the pressure washer. No hand washing just touchless with the washer.





I believe that the crud was easy to spray off because under all that crud the car had been polished with Zanio.

https://www.zainostore.com/

I like Zaino and have used it since I got the GT back in 2008, but I'm going to give Turtle Wax Ice a try. I can get it locally so if I run out of something I can just run down to the store and get more.

The Mustang is going back into the garage and won't see the outside much so I'm sure the Turtle Wax will do the job.

I'll post again this Saturday or Sunday about the surprise!




Thursday, March 29, 2018

It's coming!

I needed a new post for 2018 so I thought I'd use this post to tease something that will help me with this project. I'll post again in a few weeks with what that thing is....