jrcart

I sent you a PM with my phone number. If Jangy ever confirms that he is in call me and I will transfer the money. I would hate for you to go to the trouble of setting up a routing account for nothing.

rflow306

I actually disagree with that, heads up is heads up you snooze you lose.

JAYCL600

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Vic55

I have Jims info and the greenlight for transfer. Jangy where you at? Also if its the 12th of this month I wont be able to make to Vegas but I can wire it to either of you via my bank.

Id really like to be there for this one

Max.H

+1 Its all about reaction time and launching the car.

lbE55

Boy, the stakes have gotten way too high!

blackbenzz

Fixed

Tech-Tune

I wonder if both gentlemen would be willing to weigh their cars the day of the race.
I'm curious to know the weight difference.

Fast55

True enough, and my car and Jangy's might also go that fast with similar mods, but I've never had the good fortune to run on a negative DA track. I especially would like to see a 1.6X 60' time, I've never done that on a 275/18 Continental even at 22 psi.

lexaltezza

I hope this happens and hope Jrcart wins for the sole reason of shutting up some of the E55 guys who think the 63 is a joke of an engine.

rflow306

You don't need a stage 5 e55 to run low 11's or negative DA. Negative DA in South Florida is very rare.

MB_Forever

I didn't mention negative DA

However, highly negative DA can make a big difference, of a car running 11.80s to a car running 12.80s in positive DA.

alltrac

i say best out of 3 races...let be real gentlemen...1 race winner take all? Not fair. One race...any factor could come into play...with 2 out of 3 races, you have a chance to rectify the situation should something unforeseen happens.

Vic55

Will all due respect, I think the 55 guys do give kudos to the 63 boys. But with that being said, Jims 63 is like no other that any of us know about. If there are heavily modded 63's, they are not here posting.

Plus we dont see hardly, if any, 55 owners pressing the issue against BS 63's. Its always against the 211's

lbE55

LZH

WHERE'S JANGY ?????

Marcus Frost

***DISCLAIMER***
DO NOT TAKE MY POST AS FLAME BAIT, IT'S JUST DISCUSSION.

While I give full credit to Jim's car for being fast, where Jim deserves the most credit is putting the right mods together to make his car ET well and not just trap well. Truth is though, he traps between ~118 and ~121mph, and that's just not a speed outside the realm of a good headers/cooling/ecu/pulley/intake'd 55, on an equivalent tire. Now, I understand the DA for the day Jim made his passes was pretty poor, but truth be told we have DA like that here in Chicago most of the summer.

For reference, I did a 12.1 @ 118mph with my current '05, bone stock, on a day that would not have had a good DA. I will note that my '05 is one of the strongest stock cars I've seen, so I am NOT the norm. CPT has dyno'd over a dozen stock 55 cars and no one has beaten me. Adding 3mph is not unreasonable with the mods mentioned above, which I will have done hopefully soon. I'm NOT challenging Jim to a race, and I'm NOT saying the 55s are better/whatever. I'm just SAYING that Jim did a good job of getting a fast setup to hook well and it's translated to a car that does very well on the drag strip.

Jangy may very well be able to keep up with Jim's car in terms of power, but to beat him he's also going to have to put down a good launch, something that looks like Jim's got down pat. This is also assuming that Jangy's car is running right, cause god only knows that there seems to be as many 55s out there not running right as there are ones running right.

Good luck to both of you, I will say I think $10k is really silly, regardless of how deep your pockets are. You guys should take it down to $5k and donate the rest to some worthy cause, maybe to the charity of the other guy's choice. This is just a drag race, and even if one guy wins, it's not like he's not gonna be a lot faster in 6 months. We've got S600s running 10.30s for christ's sake.

Just my $.02

-m

jrcart

Jangy, we need to get this in gear if it's gonna happen. I've already contacted Vic55 and discussed transfer of funds with him. Remember, I live just outside Chicago, Mapquest says it's 1755 miles from my door to LVMS. I need to have my hauler on the road no later than 5:00a.m. Wednesday morning to ensure my driver arrives by Friday morning.

jrcart

Let me first start out by saying that Jangy set the $$$wager. Furthermore, I would not be so inclined to go to all the trouble and expense to pay one of my drivers OT plus fuel to run out to Vegas for much less than that. It's gonna cost me nearly $1000 in fuel charges round trip, plus another $1000 to pay my driver. I'll be into it for $2000.00 before we pull the car off the trailer. Jangy's only expense gonna be maybe 1.5 tanks of fuel each way, maybe $200.00 or so.

As for the donating to a charity part, I'm going to donate most of the money to Single Moms while I'm in Vegas, there are several locations in Vegas where I can make these donations, Sapphires, Spearmint Rhino, Seamless, Club Paradise, Scores and many more...now who says I'm not a nice guy I just need to check with my accountant to see if I can write off those kinds of charitable donations

Thericker

I have to go w/Jrcart on this race, sorry Jangy I think you have bitten off too much this time

I like the way you think

Enjoy the titti bars afterwards gents

JAYCL600

slight correction, 10.58 is the fastest

bobgodd

Why don't you guys quit whining and knuckle up and settle this one time.

MB_Forever

Jim, you seem to know how to party well in Vegas

It maybe worth the trip to come out there just to party with you afterwards

Thericker

+1

W211 BEAST

AMG drive out to Vegas this weekend? Maybe we can even get good prices on rooms if we all book together at the same place. I'm only half joking.