1979 Fairmont Drag radial/x275 project - "The Cream Dream V2.0" by tirefryin_s10 & bmxarmy

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Mike yes we are coming out this weekend. The link is on turbo forums ill have to find it.


We have been burning the midnight oil trying to get this thing together! Big thanks are needed for a pile of people but ill do a proper thank you after the weekend when we have a trophy to go with it lol

7-10-2013

Yep the gear change killed it so we are going to go back to the 3.50, we fought a few issues but overall for finishing the car 12 hours before the race and then driving 11.5 hours through the night to get to the race and we still qualified #2 and ran the second fastest Et and mph of the entire weekend on the 275 I think we did ok lol.

7-18-2013

Went down to lethbridge with the car this past weekend for
"Street machine weekend" entered the 100' shootout and won my class as well as crowd favorite:





Then we went out and had some late night fun in "Mexico"

After our last outing on the 275's we wernt happy with the way the car responded to the 3.25 so now we are going back to a 3.50 and the plan is to take the car out tomorrow for my birthday and hopefully get the car back in the 7s on a 275.

7-25-2013

Went out last Friday on the 275's again... first pass it went 8.50@168 next pass we changed some stuff and put some power in to it, launched hard carried the front end past the 60ft to a 1.30 on the rear tire and then the car went right and I had to lift. Went up for the next hit and it went right again so we have to lift the car up and see whats going on back there.

8-16-2013

87mm

We took the car to a very small backwoods track for an awesome streetcar shootout race on the 1/8 mile this past weekend and had a blast!! We ended up winning the friday night "instant green" deal and made the fastest pass of any car up there, then friday we slip n slided our way down the track to win the bonus prize for first 5 second 1/8 mile pass on a 275 or 10" slick that also qualified us towards the top of the ladder. Sunday we struggled to get down all day as did many others as the track was simply too rough and slippery to use any real power our best pass was a 5.8@124 way off for what the car is capable of. We ended up in the final against a good buddy and awesome racer and I went .001 red and he ran a picture perfect hit so we got the runner up honors and overall had a great time.

Tonight we are back on 275 drag radials and plan on making a few test hits at our local street legal event to see if we can get it down the track on a better prepped surface.

I will keep everyone posted!

8-22-2013

Thanks guys, we struggled a bit but still went 8.0@178 on the friday night street legals, I remember being the first REAL street car to break into the 8s on a friday night a couple nights ago now we are going way faster kinda funny how cars/times progress.

Gonna make a few changes and see what we can come up with.

9-5-2013

For those still intrested the car has not been responding the way we wanted this year since the change in cubic inch etc. The car is currently apart waiting for a new custom grind camshaft so we will try that and see what that does.

We have run a few 8.0@178 on the 275s but we know the car is not right and does not accelerate off the gear change like it should, hoping the new cam will help this. Also gonna start testing on the 8.5's pretty soon and hopefully get some kind of handle on them.

We have been cruising it lots on the street and seeing how far we can smoke the 275s without crashing LOL .... so far the verdict is REALLY F*CKING FAR ahah

10-14-2013

So... Sorry for the long delay between updates but between our shop and the car we have been BUSY.... this thing has been fighting us all year between rear gear changes, converter changes,camshaft changes etc but we have narrowed down our issues to leaky head gaskets that never sealed right from day 1. They never leaked water but did leak compression between cylinders.

We had been chasing some strange issues for a while and the car was doing everything "right" but just would not pull any decent mph/et....the poor leakage would explain all of that. SO the engine is apart again and we are making some changes we think will make some LARGE improvements in the way this thing has been running this year. We plan to head to the NMCA west race in Bakersfield California oct 25-27 and then leave it all down there and head over to vegas for the street car supernationals nov 14-17. Both races will be run on the 275 drag radial and with some new 72 mm turbos thanks to our awesome sponsors at Alamo Turbo.




We will try to post some more updates in the next week as we thrash like crazy to get the junk back together in time to make the 28 hour tow to the race!

10-27-2013

Well today we fought some issues but did run some new best numbers on the 275s

1.242 - 60 foots
5.0 - 1/8 mile
7.7 - 1/4 mile

Tomorrow we are gonna try and put some boost in it and see if we cant improve on them.

Pics and vids to come!

11-1-2013

Hey guys/gals here is a afew pics from last weekend in bakersfeild at the NMCA world street finals:



Here is a few sequences of the car launching:

Couple more shots from the pits etc: