Green LUV truck boys from Bitburg

Hello,

Just getting onto this board and figured and hoped that some good discussions could evolve here. We race the Green Chevy LUV truck and are mostly at Bitburg other than our season opener at Chambley. We would like to get into some racing at some other tracks. Brackets, Footbrake classes where deep staging is allowed. We would like to see what options are available. Hello to anyone we know from the track.

We would also like to see some people MAN UP and race, hot lapping between runs and quit polishing their trailer queens.

Cheers,
Alex

Best ET 10.95
Best 60 1.46
Best MPH 119.58

Hi Alex !
Benni here, track announcer all over germany and sometimes in Bitburg.....:wink:
Hello and "Welcome here" in the virtual pits.
"Bracket racing where deep staging is allowed" ?
Well, this rules out "Super Street 10.90", which is raced at MZA Luckau and Drachten / NL.

BUT :
At both these tracks there will be E.T. Bracket in 2009.

There is a thread runnig here, from which I stole :
" Everything covered from 6.00 and up:
Super Pro ET 6.00/8,99 sec
Pro ET 9.00/11.99 sec
Streetmachine ET 12.00 sec and slower
Super Comp 8.90 index
Super Gas 9.90 index
Super Street 10.90 index "
Thread here :New classes at Drachten 2009
More info about Drachten at www.explosion.nl .

Info about MZA Luckau can be found at www.mza-luckau.com ,
but the 2009 Race Date is not announced yet, but will be around the 4th of July weekend.
Pro ET and SuPro ET will be on the list.
There also is a test & tune weekend, usually end of April.
Pro ET also has a section here and their own homepage.

Do you plan any modifications for the LUVed one ?
Are you sure to pass german DMSB tech inspections ?
Maybe Udo Becker can tell you, he checks the cars at Bitburg regularly,
and also knows a bit or two about what´s OK and what not.

Have a nice Off-Season ( it´s shorter than it looks now....:D ) ,
Benni

Hello Benni and thanks for the welcome. Also thank you for the information you provided in your last post.

Not planning any modifications to the LUV over the winter. Simply going to clean up some of the wiring and get some things "dress right dress." Only thing we have to look at is possibly replacing the rear leaf springs. The 1979 stock 4 cylinder springs are a little tired and have lost some of their arc. During the course of the next season we may try another set of cylinderheads that we've been meaning to throw on the 385.

We'll have to look at the DMSB tech inspection you speak of. Is there an online link to the requirements? I can't fathom that they are more strict than NHRA class rules. The truck has a full cage, driveshaft loop, one piece solid axles with studs, and will get a window net and battery cut off this winter.

It was nice meeting you and talking to you in Bitburg.

Cheers,
Alex

Hi Alex.
Nice to " see" you here.
Hope you feel good.
For DMSB rules look at the left side " Forenliste" , and click to dmsb,
you find all the rules for racing in germany.
See you
greets
Bernd

Hi Alex,

welcome on "board"

Here the link from "DMSB" for tecnical details

http://www.dmsb.de/downloads/669/Tei...stimmungen.pdf

It´s in german :(

We are the guy´s with the Jeep Pickup

Greets
Til

Hello Bernd and thanks again for the beers! We had fun that evening. I'll check out the super duper rules.

Hope they aren't "over engineered".

Cheers,
Alex

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We are the guy´s with the Jeep Pickup

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Hello Til,

I'll figure out the rules. I can read German and speak it, just can't type worth shit.

WE WERE LOOKING TO RACE YOU A FEW TIMES!!!! Lets make that happen next time out.

Pickup vs. Pickup

Thanks again for letting us borrow that 17mm socket!

Cheers,
Alex

Hi Alex and welcome on this board!

Hope to see you next year in Bitburg.

best regards

Jens (the german mopar buddy of Cory! ;)

Oh you rember :thumb:

We´ll do it

Greets Til

Welcome Alex and have fun on board.
It's great to see another PU at the track.
I hope you get your head around the rules and regulations and we can see more from U and the PU at the tracks.

Cheers, Merlin(R)

PS I'm the one with the red 41' Ford you pulled back this year in April when we had the tranny probs. Thx again and CU :thumb:

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PS I'm the one with the red 41' Ford you pulled back this year in April when we had the tranny probs. Thx again and CU :thumb:

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Thanks for the welcome. No problem for the tow. We've been towed back a few times ourselves by other friendly racers, so we are happy to help when we can. Very nice truck BTW.

Hallo

This year at Drachten they still had the blue light on , so no deep staging and curtesy staging .I don't know why and if they have it next year .

Udo

DMSB and NHRA rules should be pretty much the same, as they both ought to use FIA rules as their base ...

Welcome Alex,

You kicked my ass on the last Race Sunday at Bitburg. :bawling:

Nice wheelie! :thumb: I thought your Truck is called
JUNKYARD DAWG :)

I'm the guy with the blue S 10 PU.

See you next year

Cheers
Jochen

Hello Jochen,

The truck is the JUNKYARD DAWG because it is mosly built out of parts from junk cars. :wink:

The model is however a Chevrolet LUV truck. LUV = Light Utility Vehicle.

Keep working on the truck. Gettin' them to hook is fun. :camper:

Hope to meet up next year.

Cheers,
Alex

Hi Alex,
welcome onboard!

Am I right that you are running a BBF in your truck ?

€dit: Sorry i overlooked that 385 in your first post! 429 or 460 cui? What heads are you using right now?


Tim

Hello Tim,

No Ford motor in the Chevrolet!

It's a pump gas SBC, 350 ci stroker .040 over.
Cylinderheads are Trick Flow 23 degree
10.5:1 compression with SpeedPro Hypereutectic pistons
SCAT cast crank
Stock crankbolts
Stock rods
ARP rod bolts
Harold Brookshire solid lifter cam
Comp Cams Magnum roller rockers
Lunati valve springs
Carter 120gph mechanical fuel pump
Edelbrock Performer RPM dual plane intake
4150 750 cfm carb
Cloyes Roller timing chain
Redneck converter

Hello Alex,

You have a private message :).

Nice that the Luv Truck gets faster and faster.

Michael

Ok I'm sorry :spank: I thought of a 385series BBF :runaway:

Looks like a pretty strong running small block

Good Luck!

Tim

I Like your Truck...

http://dragstripper.smugmug.com/phot...40_TK2hN-M.jpg

http://dragstripper.smugmug.com/phot...83_k2GCV-M.jpg

cheers
Markus

Hello Markus,

Nice pictures.

Cheers,
Alex

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Looks like a pretty strong running small block

Good Luck!

Tim

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Tim,

Thanks, it runs okay but we think there is a lot more potential in the truck without race gas, hose, fiberglass fenders, lexan windows, etc. Working on the whole combination a little to try to get a few more horses out of it and improve traction. Most importantly we want to bring the 60 foot times down more to better the ET. The mph shows that if we hooked a little better that we could run quicker.

Cheers,
Alex

You sure came a long way ...

http://1on1-motorsports.de/meetings/...it06-04227.jpg

Pic from 04 ... ;)

Thanks Garry for the reminder. The old 13 second days with an ill functioning combination!