That's right, I'm getting out of drag racing for the time being. Life changes and unfortunately I have to send the car down the road. Please email me if you have any interest or tell someone that might be. If there is not enough info on this site for you or you are interested, email me with a number that I can reach you at or I will send you my number if that is more comfortable for you.Our best pass last year was a 9.72 @ 135mph. We had some pretty bad luck at the beginning of last year, but now everything is straightened out, and we are on the right track. We've only made a couple dozen passes last season on the fresh motor, and had some transmission problems (see below), which are now fixed, but we've run consistent 9.72 in the heat of the day without alot of tuning so far. We are hoping to make a few nitrous passes this year with our two stage Top Gun Nitrous system, but because the car is up for sale, we just want to be conservative with everything that we have. We are really impressed with the carbs and the advantages of using alcohol. Patrick over at Pro Systems did a great job on converting the carbs as well as excellent after sale service.
Transmission Update:
Well I have quite the story to tell about our transmission adventures. This spring when I decided to go with the powerglide transmission, I did a ton of research trying to find the best transmission without putting myself in the poorhouse. I talked with Gene at Liberty Performance (Liberty, IL 217-593-6000) about building a transmission for my combination. Gene was very knowledgeable and had everything that I wanted at an unbelievably low price. We received the transmission in the spring of 2000 and installed it into the Mustang, we were very disappointed when a few things didn't quite work out in the transmission, come to find out it was a miscommunication between parties. So we decided have a "friend" go through it and "fix" our problem instead of sending it off to Liberty to save money.
We made about 3 passes with the car before first gear was gone. So this time we made the trip to Liberty to have Gene take a look at the glide and fix the problem. Once he opened the transmission, to our disappointment, our "friend" had stolen almost all of the good parts!! Gene went through and replaced every missing part and rebuilt the tranny without costing us a dime. Since then the tranny has worked flawless and our only regret is that we didn't take it back to Gene the first time. I understand that sometimes mistakes are made, but Gene went above and beyond to make sure that his name and reputation were not tainted, but more importantly that his customer was taken care of. We are extremely impressed by Gene and Liberty Performance and would recommend him to anyone.
