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First off this Grt "house car ride" is basically Grt gives you a chassis to use and that's it. No motors, no hauler, no financial support other than a chassis. While a free chassis is nice, it's funny to hear people say house car ride like it's all Grt's stuff and a huge loss to lose it.
Ditto. Culp brought everything to the table other than 1 chassis. I'm surprised they made this decision based off of the results from Florida. Lot of guys struggle down there.
I may have a bad memory but I don't recall culp chassis jumping. He was in a pierce car for quite a while that he won several big regional races in along with 2 gumbo nationals and the pelican. He is good friends with Tyler Erb so I cant say im real surprised to see him got to the XR1 after how strong Erb has been at speedweeks.
I may have a bad memory but I don't recall culp chassis jumping. He was in a pierce car for quite a while that he won several big regional races in along with 2 gumbo nationals and the pelican. He is good friends with Tyler Erb so I cant say im real surprised to see him got to the XR1 after how strong Erb has been at speedweeks.
Exactly what I thought when I seen this. He did have a black diamond around about the time Erb had his, and only ran it a few times then sold it. He had it and the pierce car at the same time, then later got a pierce platinum car after the black diamond sold.
Best of luck to Timmy this year. I look for him to be better in the rocket.
I don't know how this would work out but what does everybody think about putting Chris Ferguson in the GRT house car? If anybody can put GRT back on the map it is him.
Originally posted by Phillip Michael KnightView Post
I don't know how this would work out but what does everybody think about putting Chris Ferguson in the GRT house car? If anybody can put GRT back on the map it is him.
They run well in IMCA cause the frame mounting locations are moved/cheated up. They got busted for it once but i'm pretty sure they are back at it again. GRT is a huge gimmick seller, every week something "new" and "trick" they are trying to sell you. Last person i saw go fast in a late model was Randy Weaver.
Care to explain? If they are back at it how haven't they been caught this time? Just curious not calling bull(not a nice word)(not a nice word)(not a nice word)(not a nice word)
KWD, you should try that once more. What now? I think you are asking who's time and who's money was wasted.
Am I in the ballpark?
Yes spot on lol sorry was at work was typing and wipe in the other hand.
Originally posted by slmcrewchief99
A waste of time and money from both parties as well as sponsor money. Look how much it cost just to go to Speedweeks. All trying to resurrect the dead (GRT). They are as far behind as Rayburn is. You don't catch up with just 1 team and dang sure won't do it in a few short months. I know they want to sell some cars. That's all good but its not "just" the chassis. It's shocks, springs, front end geometry, and a list of other things. Go to the track with lots of help, tires and your shock guy. Test, test, test, test, test. Go back to the shop if the car isn't right. Move some 4 bar brackets for instance. Change the front end. Go to the track and test, test, test, test. Then test some more. Do you get my drift. KWD. They can stick to the Mods and will be just fine. They are making plenty of cars. I'm not knocking either party. I know them both. It's a shame it didn't work. But for someone on the outside looking in and being around this a day or 2, many of us knew it was a bust from the start. Simply because of what it takes to make these cars fast. It takes a he11 of a lot of time and hard work...........
Again. Stick a fork in it. It's done.....
Thanks for sharing, that let see the whole picture then what I was looking at. Trying wrap my head around why can't Joe put a top-notch late model chassis like GRT once did. Is it they can't get good engineer to redesign the classic mechanic to balance everything out and simplify for race team understand how setup the car. Or is Joe to hard headed and stuck in the pass to make the right mechanic changes to have a top-notch chassis like they once had before?
A waste of time and money from both parties as well as sponsor money. Look how much it cost just to go to Speedweeks. All trying to resurrect the dead (GRT). They are as far behind as Rayburn is. You don't catch up with just 1 team and dang sure won't do it in a few short months. I know they want to sell some cars. That's all good but its not "just" the chassis. It's shocks, springs, front end geometry, and a list of other things. Go to the track with lots of help, tires and your shock guy. Test, test, test, test, test. Go back to the shop if the car isn't right. Move some 4 bar brackets for instance. Change the front end. Go to the track and test, test, test, test. Then test some more. Do you get my drift. KWD. They can stick to the Mods and will be just fine. They are making plenty of cars. I'm not knocking either party. I know them both. It's a shame it didn't work. But for someone on the outside looking in and being around this a day or 2, many of us knew it was a bust from the start. Simply because of what it takes to make these cars fast. It takes a he11 of a lot of time and hard work...........
Again. Stick a fork in it. It's done.....
It's all about the money. If Joe wanted to spend millions upon millions, he could be on top again..... just as anyone else could.
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