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Post by bubbanoz on Jul 1, 2013 22:31:07 GMT -5
took a road trip with pararailer up to the scorpion kings lair and brought home a couple of twin 73 400 tk's.    going to try to have em ready for willow river |
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Post by pararailer on Jul 2, 2013 17:33:08 GMT -5
Both have great compression and spark. Notice the walbro floater carb. It shouldnt take much to get em going.
That was a fun day! I learned alot.
Thanks again Palo
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Post by obj1 on Jul 2, 2013 22:42:17 GMT -5
Careful boys. That racing bug likes to bite hard. I can tell you where it will lead. Cant wait to see you out there. Here is our schedule. July 27th in Three Lakes Wi. Aug. 2nd-3rd Willow River MN. Aug. 23rd Princeton MN. Sept. 14th-15th Eagle River Wi. Sept. 28th Duluth MN. Sept. 29th Wausau Wi. Oct. 6th Friendship WI. And we are going to try to fit in the race near Hurley Wi also. We are working hard to be ready. Starting to test soon.
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Post by pararailer on Jul 3, 2013 22:31:02 GMT -5
bummed out. found out Bubbanozes sled is a 440. We're going to have to find another 400. Lookin forward to run in the 400 class.
I dropped about 15-20 lbs off my fat ass this summer. hope it helps get me down the track a little faster!!
We are talkin about going to a race in or around Pequot lakes instead of the BS at Duluth.
We will definatly be at Princeton.
Scorp11, you should get out there with us.
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Post by bubbanoz on Jul 6, 2013 9:37:20 GMT -5
Yeh I've already been biten and I can see where it leads by looking at you guys. I dont see anything wrong with it.  . Cant wait to race with you guys! Went out to palos place and picked up a 400 yesterday. Hes only an hour away from my cabin. Bummer! I'd like to be ready for willow river but thats guna take some work. Definitely be at Princeton. And I agree with pararailer that the BS at Duluth was to much. Theres a good race in brainerd on Sept. 14. I went to watch last year and it looks like a nice track. I have a question about the classes. In Princeton it looks like 400 and 440 race together. Am I reading it right? |
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Post by obj1 on Jul 7, 2013 20:02:09 GMT -5
Princeton and Willow use letter classes. The 400's mostly run "F" class. 400 range whips are bumped into "E". The 440 super stingers run "E".
The 79' and 80' TK's are in "D" stock and that is a very tough class. Mercury twisters and Rupp nitros. We had 4 tk's there last year and didn't make the final! In my opinion, the TK's should run with the super stingers in "E". You can find a link to the letter class info on the rum river outlaw site. if you cant find it call me. 715-248-7395.
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Post by bubbanoz on Jul 7, 2013 21:49:20 GMT -5
ok I get it. so the aluminum chassis goes up a class. and I think your right about the tks. they had the 440 supers running with the tks in Duluth last year. my super was doing pretty good against them. just as long as I get to race pararailer and kick his butt, all is good.
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Post by pararailer on Jul 9, 2013 21:16:07 GMT -5
OK bubbanoz, thats it, GAME ON!! yer goin down!!
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Post by scorpionlilwhip on Jul 11, 2013 0:22:00 GMT -5
The 340 TK's will run in the F class, and the Whip 400 is a F class sled as well
we will be focusing on our F class sleds next year in our location, we have 3 Whip 400's(one with electric start), 2 TK 340's, '74 Super Stinger 400, '72 Stinger II 400, '71 Stinger III 440, and a '76 Massey Cyclone 340.
Our biggest issue will be getting enough drivers and trailer space to move the sleds, right now we can only move 3 to the races, and will likely focus on the Moose Jaw race, and may consider the Earl Grey race.
So when we decide, we will be taking the 3 quickest of out F class sleds, also track conditions may determine what we take, packed snow or ice, we only have 2 set up to handle ice (no grass here, for some reason only a handful of people are interested in grass)
WE would love to race on Grass here, but there are no current races set up, and when they did have one they went the I,II,II,IV classes, that was 3 years ago for vintage, we did not race, but probably should have as it was only a 500 foot race, and nothing was really set up for grass, all sliders. there is a chance that Richard of the Roll-o-flex reunion might be talked into setting up a grass race next year for the reunion(roll-o-flex are good for grass as well, that flexion suspension is very similar to the para rail) , if that is the case, we will flood it with Scorpions, it is also close enough we can shuttle sleds back and forth, the only limiting factor then would be drivers
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Post by obj1 on Jul 12, 2013 14:58:58 GMT -5
Roger and i tested most of the fleet last night. Found a few issues but for the most part there all running good. we'll test again before Three Lakes WI on the 27th.
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Post by pararailer on Jul 13, 2013 19:53:18 GMT -5
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Post by pararailer on Jul 14, 2013 10:41:23 GMT -5
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Post by obj1 on Jul 16, 2013 22:41:31 GMT -5
We needed a 400cc sled to try and run with pararailer and bubanoz so I had this engine I got with a sled from pararailer. Thought we should take it apart and make sure its all "stock". ya know he likes to mod everything!   |
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Post by pararailer on Jul 18, 2013 11:24:30 GMT -5
 O no, Obj1's gonna be runnin one too! May as well not even show up! That 400 was a screamer when I ran it. Hope it's still a good one. |
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Post by obj1 on Jul 18, 2013 15:24:27 GMT -5
yep screamer! key word in your sentence is WAS! Craig Matthys ran it in a WT this winter and blew it up. He has been hard on engines! He says he hates rockwell/jlo/cuyuna however he does have the most trophys and dosent complain about them when he's kissin the trophy girl! We'll get it back running though. See ya on the grass!!
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Post by bubbanoz on Jul 21, 2013 21:43:42 GMT -5
got my 400 put together today. finish timing tomorrow.  guna tear up some grass! |
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Post by obj1 on Jul 21, 2013 22:08:02 GMT -5
Looks good bubbanoz. Just got back from testing. Still have some issues to work out for the weekend. (3 Lakes WI. N.V.S.R.S). Just my daughter Ashley this weekend. No Craig, Bailey, Erin Or Roger.
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Post by bubbanoz on Jul 23, 2013 22:03:17 GMT -5
pararailer came over and helped me get it into a roller. THANKS BRO!! should be able to test this weekend.   |
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Post by obj1 on Jul 24, 2013 11:57:53 GMT -5
That a way Bubbanoz. Build'er light and wind'er tight!
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Post by pararailer on Jul 26, 2013 0:31:51 GMT -5
Summer time scorpions! best time to build em.
Interesting track in that one.
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. Cant wait to race with you guys! Went out to palos place and picked up a 400 yesterday. Hes only an hour away from my cabin. Bummer! I'd like to be ready for willow river but thats guna take some work. Definitely be at Princeton. And I agree with pararailer that the BS at Duluth was to much. Theres a good race in brainerd on Sept. 14. I went to watch last year and it looks like a nice track. I have a question about the classes. In Princeton it looks like 400 and 440 race together. Am I reading it right?
