They lost the match, but won the respect of the entire drag racing community with that gonzo, anarchic attempt to win a $1,000 purse. Despite the frenzied thrash, Sorokin expertly cut a gatejob that was sharp as a switchblade, and he was scarfing up asphalt in a discombobulatory pell-mell fashion until the backfiring mill detonated and went kablooey at the top end. For the half-dead 392's swan song, they dosed the remaining seven-cylinders on 99 percent, fired it up, and Sork staged the discordant, vibrating, wounded machine like nothing was out of the ordinary. They turned the car on its side, jammed the piston all the way to the top of the bore, removed the connecting rod, taped the crank journal and wrapped it with a hose clamp, taped cardboard over the gouge on the inside of the block to keep it from hemorrhaging oil, and threw the pan back on. But rather than pack it in, our heroes improvised. It was the only bullet in their inventory, and until that moment, "it lived like Methuselah," according to Sorokin. During a semifinal heat, the boys had blown the side out of the block. The biggest test of Sorokin's mettle transpired during the '65 UDRA meet at Fontana. We'd just screw it up, it's better just to leave it alone.' And this guy is like, 'What the f*** is this all about?' In the last round we got the mouthiest of the bunch, Bobby Vodnick, and we beat him and left 'em all shaking their heads." By about the third round one of these East Coast hitters said, 'Damn, don't you guys ever work on that thing?' We said, 'N-o-o, we don't work on it because we really don't know that much about it. Man, you guys are good!' They didn't know what to think of all that. We go over and watch these guys, and we'd say, 'Man, you guys sure are smart you guys know how to work on these things and everything. We said, 'We'll push right past the pits, and we'll put it right back in line, and we'll get out the skateboards, and we'll go torture 'em in their pit area.' So we did that-fortunately we didn't break any lifters or anything," Jobe remembers. We'll come down and pick up the car at the other end, and while Mike and his girlfriend pack the parachutes, we'll service the thing.' We could service the whole thing in about five minutes. It was about an hour's drive to Fontana from Santa Monica, and we were talking and riding along and thinking, 'What should we do today? Let's not work on the car. "They were all puttin' the mouth on us in the press, saying what they were going to do to us West Coast guys. All the bad guys from back East were gonna show up," he says. 040 over, 750cfm Holley carb, 565 lift cam, mild head work, 3-angle valve job, headers, full 2 1/2 to 2 1/4 exhaust, stock suspension, 325 bhp to the wheels on dyno.Jobe remembers a particular Sunday afternoon race at Fontana. ![]() Transmission: 4-speed close ratio toploader Note that the time slip reports kilometers per hour. Modifications: bigger tires, headers and a 3-inch exhaust system. ![]() Modifications: aluminum PI intake, Holley 800cfm double pumper, Accel dual point distributor, Crane 312-H (hydraulic) cam with Crane lifters and Ford 427 adjustable rocker arms, Hooker headers with 1 3/4" primary tubes with a 3" collector (car would have run better with a 2 inch tube), Lakewood traction bars. Tires: 10 1/2 x 28 1/2 M&H Racemaster 330 compound slicks Modifications: None (stock transmission, stock exhaust). If you're interested in drag strip results reported in magazine articles over the years please check out the books and articles page. Finally, your car must be registered to have results posted here. It would also be nice to know the environmental conditions (temperature, humidity, etc.) under which the run was made. I won't post anything if you don't provide this info, and I won't post any results without a time slip to document the results. Paper copies can be sent using info found on the registry contact page.īefore I can post your results I need to understand some thing about your car: what year is it, and what kind of modifications (if any) it was sporting for the run. Please send image files via email to the address below, but please try to keep the size of the file as small as possible. You can send me either an image file copy of your time slip, or a clear photocopy. Results for both 1/8 mile runs and 1/4 mile runs are both appreciated. Have you ever wondered just how fast your car might really be in the quarter mile? Guess no more - take it to your local drag strip and find out! Once you know for sure I'll gladly post your results and a copy of your time slip, and we'll confirm how our cars really measure up.
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