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[DanWA]

Great work Tiny!

[Litre8]

Great time Tiny, the Gods were smiling upon you!

[Tiny]

Chezel: Thanks mate! but no thanks!! It's taken me too long to get to where it is to sell It would have to be a SERIOUSLY ridiculous offer to make me think about it!

Thanks Dan

That they were Howard!! it all came together well!

[dattoman]

I think us shaking the cobwebs out of it while I was there really helped.... lol

Congrats mate

Bettered my old hatch 11.78 @ 118 .... bastard

[ToRunYa]

so is simmo still allowed to drive it at the wsid private day??!?

[HSVGTS]

I�ve got a feeling there�s more to come yet���.. You�re probably working on it at this very moment. Congratulations �Hoon�, I love Holden Muscle cars, keep going����regards

[MRLXSS]

Congrats man!!!! AWESOME STUFF!!!! Your faster than your Chev brother down here now! LOL

[Tiny]

Thanks Neil! - 118Mph shows alot more potential that your ET showed though!! Hopefully i'll see the 118Mph one of these days ;P

Emma: Umm i've actually got to find that out!! I'll talk with ANDRA about it because technically i've gotto be licenced to race the car now! (Dang Nabbit! - dont really want to pay for simmo to get her ANDRA licence! then she'll want to race it instead of me! Muahaha!)

I hope so pete Whoever said "I'll be happy with 11.7s..." was dreaming or just a liar! LOL! - I'm going to toy with different tyre heights ( now that the radials are buggered.. it's a good chance!), and eventually try some diff gears.... but yeah.. not MAJOR dollars are scheduled on it!

Thanks Matty Yeah i cant believe it hey! I've been chasing my Chev Brother for a long time now, so let's see how long it takes him to come back to regain the crown!!

It feels great to run your PB... but what is it with ALWAYS WANTING MORE!! LOL!

Thanks everyone

[ToRunYa]

thats a bit ruff rob! not gonna let simmo drive AND u called me Emma! LOL ure askin for a slap around the... kneecaps. (so cant jump high enough to reach ya ears!) HAHAHHAAA

[Tiny]

Hey Denis! - Thanks mate Bit more tuning ( Now i wish i kept the 4.11s i got from you!) and mid-low 11s should be in the bag (Not bad for a heavy car and heavier driver!)

Sorry em

[Tiny]

John! Thanks for the offer mate! I *MIGHT* take you up on that some time!!

We took the car for a cruise today.... 300Kms.... 75 Litres............

We met at Uncle Leos Liverpool, Drive down through Bowral and to the Robertson Pie Shop for Brekky, then down to the Illawarra Fly Treetop walk!
What a spectacular day!

We then went down to geroa to the geroa fishos club for a feed (which was reasonable.. but nothing to write home about), and then cruised home!!

If i tried that with the 4.11s... I'd be stuffed! BUT... if i want the time... I'm going to have to bite the bullet!

Thanks again John!

[Tiny]

Thanks heaps John!

I hear what you're saying mate!

We took the car for a cruise to the Illawarra Fly Treetop Walk last weekend which was a 300Km round trip...

Even with the 3.7s in it... it was a borderline pig to drive!

I drove it to work today (needed to), and she's running a bit rough, so i think it's time to rip off the rocker covers, Check tappets and give it an oil change and thorough check over before the drag day.

THat's the No 1 problem with the car.... i do both! And i dont want to sacrifice streetability for ET! ( But i *AM* thinking about it to see what she's capable of!)

Thanks again for the offer mate, I really appreciate it!

[Tiny]

Hi Guys!

I Just received an awesome little parcel in the post from Wot179, He was going through some old photos and came across a picture of TINY back somewhere around 1990-1992 at summernats!

He was kind enough to send me the picture and it really was interesting to me!

Thanks again WOT179, It's really appreciated mate!

Here's the "BEFORE" picture (and well and truly before!!)

[Tiny]

Christ... I Just realised that i also hadnt updated this since we ran the 11.66 @115Mph ( Well.. that was MY time...) Simone ran an 11.60@115Mph!

Wow.. it's been a while!

I think i need to organise another drag day sometime soon

Cheers!

[orangeLJ]

That photo is obviously before you owned it?

Might be just me, but I didnt think you were old enought to have a car at the nats in the early 90s?, I figure you would have been about 10-12 then?

[LXCHEV]

LOVING the Summernats photo!

[Tiny]

Yeah that's a *LONG* time before i owned it!
I bought the car in march 1999 and only drove it for a few months before i decided to pull it off the road for "a little work"...
10 years later... well.. you've all seen the "after pics"

The things i can pick from the photo:

CHV-400 Plates - still on hold from the RTA
No numberplate surrounds when i bought it
No tunnel ram and twin predators (Unfortunately!!!)
Summernats is still full of bogans.
No MSD mounted on the firewall in that photo - was there when i bought the car however!
It's running a throttle linkage setup rather than a pull cable.. when i bought the car it was a (buggered!!) cable
Interior is the same
Wheels are the same
Summernats is *still* full of bogans.
Lights cut into the inner guards are still there but i removed the lenses and just have been too lazy to put them back.. ( bloody 5w wedge base globes... why bother!!)
Grille and headlight guards now painted aluminium colour.
Alloy cage has been replaced with steel half cage.

And.... I think the summernats is STILL full of VB drinking Bogans!

But what a great picture

Thanks for the comments guys

[Tiny]

Gday Craig!

Thanks mate, I love getting out in teh car as often as i can, but lately it has been not very often!!

I'm DYING for some racing, so i think i'll get out to a wednesday night meet again when the weather cools off a little

Cheers mate!