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Yep, that's him. Like Pete, he's there every year, and is one of the major players at the PS races. Very tough, and usually very consistent, although Pete seemed to fluster him this weekend! It was nice to see 2 "Certified Stock" cars being the 2 fastest qualifiers.

I still chuckle every time Pete mentions that "premature accleration" thing...[img]/ubbthreads/images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

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Rob/Pete;
I remember a small pic in mag from like 20 years ago when Karakashian's 6PAK was the record holder in NHRA, along with Mino's firebird. I guess Bob K. rebuilt his engine to 'Certified Spec's'?

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Yeah, his engine is right at the limits of NHRA specs, which are largely factory specs, with the exception of deck height and chamber size...or at least that's true with the Chevrolets.

It's odd you should bring up Mino's Firebird...he recently sold it to Dan Jansen (PSMCDR organizer) who built an engine for it and cleaned it up and sold it, and the the car showed up this weekend running mid 12s!!!!

I didn't get to run a Stude at all this year...too bad, as this is a year would have been really close, as the brown car ran a best ever 13.03 and my best ET was a 13.06! Last year there was less than a tenth seperating all of our runs...combined.

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Rob,
How do they let the Stude run when the charger was basically an over the counter option? Does that mean a '69 Z28 with crossram could run?

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This is from memory, but there were actually a few Studes that got them from the factory, so they could go racing. Similar to some of Chevrolets ventures (ZL-1, L-88, etc.). I honestly don't know a tremendous amount, but they must be legit, because Bob/Dan are pretty picky about what's legal and what's not.

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I thought it was a dealer installed option, I think I remember reading that in the MCR article. Or maybe that brown bagger Stude was assembled with R3 parts purchased over-the-counter.

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"That LS6 isnt like ours. Cant see light under the wheels. The back wheels that is. Right Rob......"
Jonathan

He would have gotten light under the front tires if the hood flapper was open................. [img]/ubbthreads/images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
I agree with Mr70, very nice photo for us Chevelle guys!

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Actually, that is a non-cowl, dual snorkel, auto/column car, that ran 12.50s[img]/ubbthreads/images/icons/shocked.gif[/img]! One of Jansen's several early '70s auto/column A-bodies, and they ALL seem to haul @ss!

As for the "daylight under the tires", little bro was referring to the slight wheelhop problem I had with our LS-6. It was TERRIBLY violent to say the least. This seems to be a common problem with 4-speed A-bodies, particularly the '70+ cars. Any ideas on how to fix it? I've got to figure out a way to hook my '69 when it's done.

Re: R3 Studes
 

M:

Got the following email from one of my Stude contacts:

R2 and R3 engine packages with superchargers were both factory option packages. R1 was the normally aspirated
"Avanti" engine. R2 had a blower feeding into the four barrel. R3 had the blower feeding into a pressure box containing the four barrel carb. There were a lot of R1's, quite a large number of R2's and I believe, from memory, only nine factory R3's (eight in Avantis and one in a Lark-type body-still exists).

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Rob - for your wheel hop...
Easiest non-invasive fix would be an air bag inside the pass-side rear spring. Also you could swap your rear upper and lower control arms with boxed trailing arms and poly bushings. Or you could bolt on Lakewood traction bars. Or a control arm relocation (no-hop) kit which changes the instant center. My '65 Chevelle (boxed arms, no-hop kit) raises up front and rear when I launch.
-Seattle Sam