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Honestly I'd replace all pistons and have rods checked, at a minimum #3 and #2.

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By 'front straight' do you mean the straight right in front of the paddock? If so, second into third gear, probably 70mph?

'Back straight' is the part with the stop lights dangling from above? We usually setup that section with a slalom. There's another straight coming off of the east most carousel headed over to tht section that I've hit 4th gear in so probably 90?

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Can't wait for the rebuild, you sir, know how to do a comeback.

Good luck.

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I know I've hit 90 on the back straight. Front in my experience has been around 70.

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Told you not to race a car that's for sale ;)

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lol!! dsm9.0's name rings true. Sucks to hear scheides, hopefully can get it back up and running at a minimal cost!

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Sorry to hear. Looks to me like a set of shelf stock HD2's, rod bearings, and a fresh set of valves. If the cylinder walls look good, you could do it like drop ins.

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We wasn't racing doe.

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Oh right, "driver education event" ;)

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If you time it, it's racing...sorry, you guys are silly not calling this racing, let's be honest here.

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Agreed 100%. It's a timed, closed course, event. It may not be wheel-to-wheel, but it's just as much racing as any other dragstrip, autocross, or HPDE.

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Do you guys utilize transponders or just stop watches? If you use transponders, then i would think it's timed.

Spaz is the only one racing out there with all those numbers and graphics like a ricer LOL

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:guns:

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Everyone knows I'm a ricer attention whore. :lol:

There was no record kept of times at the autox/speed stop. They were intended for personal/instructor use to gauge improvement. If you want to argue racing, the only racing anyone was doing was against themself.

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lolz. Scheides did not win that race.

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com...2e0948cf85.jpg

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Racing, practice, whatever. I paid cash for the car and have good health insurance :)

More appropriate update:

Head is salvagable! Not only that but it'll be cheap to fix! $725 max. The machine shop said that they might have some used valves they can use from doing upgrades in the past OR they could just do +1mm valves in the car. I opted to KISS on this one since it's an IX and there's a lot more that can be done to add power before I start throwing extra money into headwork. Should be done mid next week.

Now I just need to grow a set of balls and figure out how to successfully replace the piston in cyl3....it really needs to go.

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You checking/changing the bearings? I would. Also would replace all pistons and check rods as quoted above. Specially if selling the car.

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1400HD's actually :)

Not 100% sure yet, never done this part before; still working through the details. For sure replacing piston in #3, gotta pull it apart a little more and see what I see.

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I've done the single piston replacement in car, it was a breeze. Car worked fine after the fact.