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We had a great turnout of tri five chevys for this event, in fact a great turnout in general for the event as several hundred cars made for a full day of racing! DACC had 6 cars representing the Tri Fivers, with a successful day overall for the group with several round wins! Thomas McGee had the worse luck of the day when his nitrous small block twisted the driveshaft and broke a yoke on his stock rear... other than that everyone had a great time .. photos below ...

A super turnout of muscle cars made for a great sunny October day of drag racing as evident of this shot of the staging lanes of cars waiting their turn on the quarter mile!

Tom Walker's trailer serves as Camp DACC at most TMCCC events

Dennis Gormley and his '55 has been the quickest of the DACC bunch recently, here he prepares to make a pass on the Motorplex quarter mile

While Dennis went out in Round 1, he did accomplish one goal for the weekend and that was to run in the 10's with his 3600 lb '55 Chevy, his 1st round loss produced a 10.91 ET @122 MPH !!

Tom McGee joined the group at this event with his beautiful '55 Bel Air 4 dr Sedan, he ran very well with low 13 second ET's but ...

you can't see it very well but a four wheeler is towing Tom back to Camp DACC after breaking a yoke and twisting a drive shaft at the top end

Nitrous plus a stock yoke gets this - Driveshaft = Spaghetti

plus it gets a very PO'd driver!

Tom Walker and his '57 Bel Air went out in R1 with some performance issues but is determined to make the final race in Kennedale with a better set up!

I advanced to Round 2 before losing in my '56 Corvette

Alan Strong made a nice showing by getting to Round 2 also before losing in his '57

The best showing of the bunch was Larry Rollow who advance to Round 3 before losing with his '57 210 Sedan

Here Larry is doing his best to put away a new corvette with a low 14 second ET !

It was a great day of racing for DACC in Ennis!

57boxman · Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 10:15 pm Post subject:

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jaspermaggie · Bel Air Joined: 29 Jan 2006 Posts: 146

This is Tom. Had a chace to go under the car today. The transmishion is cracked hanging on converter, distributor is broken, yoke on rear is broken and drive shaft is gone. As a joke I think I will send it to Dennies drive shaft and ask them to fix it.

57boxman · Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 4:41 pm Post subject:

Ouch! Not only ouch but Damn!
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LDRollow · Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 5:22 pm Post subject:

Sorry to hear of the difficulities. Hopefully you can get it all repaired soon without too much green changing hands.

jaspermaggie · Bel Air Joined: 29 Jan 2006 Posts: 146

the car will will probably sit for years. I just don't have the money looking at $2-4000

Larry Epperson · Bel Air Joined: 05 Dec 2006 Posts: 300 Location: Dallas

Tom,
Transmission, Drive Shaft, Distributor & Torgue Converter approx. $1K I don't know about the yoke, just depends on rest of 3rd member.
We don't want you down for years!
Larry

jaspermaggie · Bel Air Joined: 29 Jan 2006 Posts: 146

Well the car is making 420 on the motor and 520ish on nitrous. I cant just put any trans in even if I don't use nitrous (good idea). As far as the rear it was a stock 55 with richmond gears. I am not sure of it's situation. It turnes ok but I noticed the tiers actualy moved on the rims.

If I am lucky
Trans and converter $1000 have no core
drive shaft 400
rear explorer conversion 800-1000 ford 9 1900-2300
distributor 200. I have all mallory.
this is doing all the work (I don't mind) and if the bottom end on my motor is ok.

Larry Epperson · Bel Air Joined: 05 Dec 2006 Posts: 300 Location: Dallas

I had my trans case replaced for $250.00 using all my gears plates etc. 'case only' replacement. $321 for a heavy duty drive-shaft and check-at JEGS they have a dist for $90(you might b able to replace that Mallory for less than you think). I think you can get a powerful trans. closer to 500 but you'll have to check. Call Phoenix in Weatherford or I can check with the guy who replaced my case. He has built some pretty strong trans for racing.

It all depends on what you want.

jaspermaggie · Bel Air Joined: 29 Jan 2006 Posts: 146

I will check. I think the trans is shot inside. It took some of the splines out of the trans.