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Date Posted: 22:22:37 07/25/03 Fri
Author: Frenchman
Subject: Chuck E Cheese was competitive, for a while anyway.
In reply to: Bryan 's message, "Chucky Chucky Chucky" on 20:30:00 07/25/03 Fri

Go easy on the poor boy. He gave it a valiant effort and was smart enough to not bet more than a grand. We did it from a rolling 50.
Race went like this. As we rolled toward the starting point at 50 mph, I glanced over to watch Chucky riding the brakes and creating several nose-dives. He kept breaking speed then recovering spooling the big hair-dryer. With my 225 hp nitrous shot in the "off" position, I laid the 2008 cfm airdoor open; At the same time, Chucky riding his brakes w/ some boost built, sprayed his nitrous to spool the big turbo. It was a perfectly executed start by both cars. X was spinning excessively "on the motor" in 2nd gear, so I short-shifted her to 3rd (still naturally aspirated). Turbo Mike was still too close for comfort and I decided to grab the toggle to unleash the juice that he'd never seen yet. The resulting power was enough for X to start pulling away. Feeling the rear-end just about swing into Chucky's driver door, X just kept applying the Meaux-headed Big Block power. At about half-track, Chucky's knees started buckling from the absurd amount of boost that Turbo Mike had dialed up and decided that it be easier to chunk the head gasket than to try to catch Frenchman's mountain on the juice and SS-747 died "a fading smoke-trail" in X's rear view mirror.
There are comments, though. The first is that Dustin's sad devotion to Chucky needs to cease. Chucky can be beat legitimately; already proved it. The second is that SS-747 is a very competitive ride and shocked me, however it is NOT making the power that X is... even when it blew; so you fools can stop with the dreaming that it was. You can also quit dreaming that it would have caught X. The only thing it did was go down in smoke as it decelerated to the side of the shoulder.
That said, I would not attempt to challenge that car with less than a 540 w/ a good shot of juice, on the street, I mean. I don't know of another car in Cenla that can pull off the same feat. Bryan C's? hmmmm, maybe. But he'll have to be at the top of his game and for God's sake he'd better not try him out of the hole.
Maybe Mike can turn the boost down just a tad and it'll make the entire pass. But you know how it is. He's got it gapped wide-ass-open when the money's on the line and sometimes that happens in a profit/loss situation.
Will X give Chucky another shot? Sure, anytime. But don't think that I'll allow X to do another blow 'em up in smoke launch as I did w/ Mr Insanity last Sunday.
Mike's cell phone call to the Frenchman during the pull home pretty much summed it up,"Frenchman, Man, How come you want to do Chucky like dat?"

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