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Originally Posted by LiL Jack
I don't think a lot of you relize how hard it is to run in a heads up series racing at least once a month and testing inbetween.
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huh?
jason puts more passes on his car than all you jabber jaws put together! and takes home NHRA big boy pants honors for PONTIAC power!!
nice going jack...another tipsy doodle statement from the checkbook glory pass racer that has to lift on his 7 sec back-it-up pass... must have been a liquor store at the 660
O BTW-
robin put almost 80 passes in the low 8's on a 10" racing HEADS UP without changing the gaskets (compared to your 10)... winning 2 AZ's fastest and 1 runner up streetcar while you were drooling all over yourself to shake his hand.
as far as my dealings with hedrick,
goober nego'ed the deal for him to buy a set of used heads long, long time ago, because he couldnt come up with the $3500 needed for complete new CV top end....hmm, that should have been my first clue
at the time keefer was asking for new castings to run some big dog nitrous heads up class... but didnt want to use what he had because he burned them up by forgetting to turn on his water pump during a pass .. requiring weld repair between cylinders. i asked him if this would hold up to hedricks procharger deal.. he said "heck yeah, gaby@wilson manifolds did the repair, and ill stand behind it 100%..
so i sent them based on that glowing reccommendation... metal discoloration of repair was so obvious only helen keller wouldnt have noticed, even though hedrick has claimed here that i didnt tell him about it - REALLY?? you, a cop, didnt see that?? in return i recieve an UNSOLICITED 'advertising prospectus'... a multipage flier listing numerous reasons why i should sponsor his program.... i NEVER returned it.
almost 30 passes on steve morris' dyno in july, netting 140hp increase over his e heads was the result. morris reccomended either intercooler or switch to meth considering 300+* intake air temps w/ c16 ... in 1 ear and out the other,,, should have been my second clue
motor off the dyno and carted back to DE and in the car PDQ for norwalk. then i get the call... 'hay bud, can you bust me some cap for gas to norwalk'... third clue. first couple passes off the trailer 69 nets best pass to date...8 forty something in the heat. tenth and half better w/ as cast cv's vs best BES ported E pass ever.
THEN is when the problems started- "its hot, so im gonna adjust the carb" he said. after that... BOOM... yep, burned out the same spot keefer did... repair didnt hold. so i call keefer and relay the info... 'what now, i ask him"... well, he cut out the o ring groove on the head" ken sez "thats why it failed... hes an idiot for doing that, and im not standing behind it, that his fault!!"
the next back and forth that isnt worth the typing...
bottom line is, the buck stopped here and i sent hedrick a NEW pair to replace his keefer repaired/ failed used heads. hedrick never had any luck after that point.... even though the drool school will have you believe its all the heads fault- norwalk 2011, bad69bird admitted he put the MAIN BEARINGS in UPSIDE DOWN in his haste to jump the trailer for norwalk.
but IM the consummate idiot? right mike?
the point of this long post is 2- fold:
1. ive learned that what i classify as 'friendly help' was misconstrued as 'sponsorship' to bad69bird
2. hedrick has attempted to fund his program on the backs of others, because he doesnt have the means necessary to compete at the level he wishes.
ps. i dont come on here to tell my side of the story hardly ever, because its SOOO long... and the ending is always the same... i always get publicly slammed if the story teller dujour isnt happy.
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