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Forgot about that little tale, always a smile maker! You get much action out in those hills?
 
In the BURG there are ricers around bun a city type setting it is not to safe.
Your right , the closer you get to cities the harder it is to find safe spots . Back in the day when I lived close to Boston , for the main ( and the biggest ) spot . I used to travel about a half hour or so just to get there and that was with two fours and 4:30's in the back . I was lucky though because I had two good buddies that lived about 5 min's away from the spot . So if I needed to do something to the car , I could just go there . Here where I live now , I've got one or two spots that isn't to , to far away . But I have to wait until late night to get anything done .
 
lol , Don't feel bad I do the same thing except I call it test and tuning . :D What's kind of hard for me is that these days I don't go out or stay out to late anymore like I used to . So it's hard to find a spot to even run a quick full test hit during the day time . It's tough getting old . lol
 
I can go almost any direction out of town, stop, and hit it as hard as I want. I don't have to worry about much.
 
I just saw a coming attraction for the new Street Outlaws . It actually looked like Kyle Kelly might have two cars now and one look's more like a built street racer then a Pro Mod .
 
Getting back to Porsche. When I live in good ole' NY LI, I owned a 88 Jeep Cherokee 2wd 2dr. I was living out in Hampton Bays that's part of the famed Hampton's and, my shop was between Bridgehampton and East Hampton about a 30-45 min. ride from my house. Hampton Bays is where all the poor people lived out there, you know the gardeners, roofers,etc.. It's nickname was Harlem Bays. Anyway 2 roads in to South Hampton then 1 road the rest of the way out. Well I was on my way home and I got to this light where it was a nice long straight in the 2 lane area and, this idiot pulls up next to me in his new Boxster and rev's it up a couple times so, I'm like laughing to myself since I had just put this motor together, I zero decked it, ported the crap out of head, stepped up the cam as big as I could and, a few other things, had a 2800 stall, full shift kit, and a 3.73 gear. Plus a true dual exhaust, no cat and header. I was that dark silver and rust. So I thought why not I dropped into low brought the motor up to about 3G and let it loose when the yellow on the cross light had just went out, You know sometime's you can see the other light, well this was one of them, meanwhile this dork is just reving it up and down. I jumped out to 2-2.5 cars on him. the closest he ever got was maybe a car length before the next light I'd say about half mile to .750 mile. It was early fall during the week at I'd say 6-7pm so no other cars lucky me. I just laughed when he pulled up next to me, out loud this time, and made my turn.
 
Yah got to love it when something like that happens . Heck , most of my test hit's last year where unplanned just like that . Would be coming back from a cruise or a car show and someone that "thought" they where all that would pull up next to me , hear the way the Warlock idles and then try something . One of the funniest ones was with an Import . I was sitting at a light waiting for it to go green and this god ugly Import pulls up next to me . This guy looked like he had all the Fast and the Furious films memorized . It had the giant wing , ground affects , big tires with no sidewall , gaudy paint job , the whole nine yards . As he's pulling up he's riding the clutch reving the crap out of his lil engine and then comes to a stop beside me and look's over all tough looking and keeps hitting the gas .I just looked over at him and shook my head in discussed and then looked straight as I just popped the throttle once . Just a quick five grand rev.. As the other light was changing to red he brings up his RPM's to what sounded like the max . I just sat there at idle keeping an eye on the light . The second the light went green , I let off the brake and then shifted thru the gears at about 2800 ( which is the way I drive normally ) and as I was pulling away from him farther and farther I could hear that lil Import motor screaming as he was going thru every single gear he had just trying to keep up or catch up to me . I don't think that guy was to happy that , that ole black Dodge truck did that to his high dollar neon sign he was driving . To me it was just a leisurely cruise down the road . :cool:
 
Bear, you should maybe go a little taller with that rear tire, will slow the tire and, a little more moving mass easier to get it to hook. Just a thought, I'm a tall tire guy. I used some n50 protrac's with a 72 firebird formula and, I never was ever to get it to hook until I went with a taller tire.
 
Bear, you should maybe go a little taller with that rear tire, will slow the tire and, a little more moving mass easier to get it to hook. Just a thought, I'm a tall tire guy. I used some n50 protrac's with a 72 firebird formula and, I never was ever to get it to hook until I went with a taller tire.
I hear yah . That's been the plan . The reason why I put the tires that are on it now , Is because I put the shorter rear end in it sooner then I expected and the 60's that I had on it sit to far in and just plain look lost . I had these wheels and tires on hand and I changed the compound (Made them stickier) so they would grab better . My plan was or is , is to run a pair of Sportsman's in the back . Something around 29"/31" tall and about 15"/17" wide . With the same rim's . I would have them already but I lost my winter job last minute and I haven't had the cash to get them yet . It's kind of slowed down my progress on any of the work I had planned for the Warlock while its' down for the winter .
 
wow 15-17" wide you can fit those underneath on a stepside. I'm looking at 12-13" to go bigger I'd have to mini tub, which is what I may do. Hey check out coker tire they have some real weird sized tire's.
 
A lot of it depends on the wheel your running as well as the offset and don't forget I no-longer have the stock length rear axle . I think there might be a picture of it in my build thread , I can't remember . The tires that are on it now are only about 11"/12" wide . I don't remember off the top of my head . But with the chrome reverse wheels I have on it right now I can fit a Sportsman 16.5 with just a lil tweak on the inner fender . So that's about what tire I plan on putting on for now and I figure by the time I need another set after that I'll have moved the inner fenders inward so that I can get another set of rims and then go with an even bigger tire the next time around . I'm just trying to decide if I should go just inside the leaf springs or go just inside the frame .
 
If your interested , here's the link to my build thread . I "think" the rear end is in there . I supposed I should have checked . lol 1979 Dodge Warlock
 
Getting back to Porsche. When I live in good ole' NY LI, I owned a 88 Jeep Cherokee 2wd 2dr. I was living out in Hampton Bays that's part of the famed Hampton's and, my shop was between Bridgehampton and East Hampton about a 30-45 min. ride from my house. Hampton Bays is where all the poor people lived out there, you know the gardeners, roofers,etc.. It's nickname was Harlem Bays. Anyway 2 roads in to South Hampton then 1 road the rest of the way out. Well I was on my way home and I got to this light where it was a nice long straight in the 2 lane area and, this idiot pulls up next to me in his new Boxster and rev's it up a couple times so, I'm like laughing to myself since I had just put this motor together, I zero decked it, ported the crap out of head, stepped up the cam as big as I could and, a few other things, had a 2800 stall, full shift kit, and a 3.73 gear. Plus a true dual exhaust, no cat and header. I was that dark silver and rust. So I thought why not I dropped into low brought the motor up to about 3G and let it loose when the yellow on the cross light had just went out, You know sometime's you can see the other light, well this was one of them, meanwhile this dork is just reving it up and down. I jumped out to 2-2.5 cars on him. the closest he ever got was maybe a car length before the next light I'd say about half mile to .750 mile. It was early fall during the week at I'd say 6-7pm so no other cars lucky me. I just laughed when he pulled up next to me, out loud this time, and made my turn.
am I know exactly where you were! Small world. We used to have a house in Noyack, miss it alot.
 
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