Street Wheelers This Weekend

[Alberta_ZR1]

It's that time of year again for the best damn car show ever.....Street Wheelers legendary Street Machine week-end.

Friday is cruise night - massive cruise of the town. I'm not sure how many cars but I have heard people say the numbers exceeds 1500 cars.

Saturday is 100ft shot out - A decent day of drag racing and some of the horsepower that turns out is amazing

Sunday is the big show and shine!!

I finally have a sweet ride to tour the show and shine with this year!!

Is there any other members heading to this event this week-end??

If you live too far away, you at least have to check out the site and view the pictures from past years. Also there is a good pile of YouTube vid's posted of the 100' shot out from past years....

http://www.streetwheelers.com

[flyin ryan]

Not going but have a bunch of customers there. Was playing around with the idea of hopping in the Zed (Canadian section :mrgreen:) & boot down but i'm too busy trying to finish up my customer engines for the summer. You notice these two customers of mine there?

http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee142/flyinryan_ZR1/IMG00206.jpg

[flyin ryan]

Looks like we did O.K. :-D. Don't get no better than 1st!

http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee142/flyinryan_ZR1/Streetmachineweekend2010.jpg

[Alberta_ZR1]

I did see that Camaro there. What size of motor is in that thing??

[Alberta_ZR1]

I grabbed a pile of pictures from the show. I was going to maybe a post a few of the real show stoppers that were there, do you know if this forum approves of pictures being posted of other people's cars? There were some gorgeous cars there!

[Alberta_ZR1]

Alright cool.

Well I probably got carried away with the camera as always, so I'll try to post the ones that caught my eye or are just different! There wasn't any neat looking Corvette's, a few vehicles with Corvette power plants, but that's about it...

http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk135/tbishup/Street%20Wheelers%202010/IMG_0493.jpg

http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk135/tbishup/Street%20Wheelers%202010/IMG_0505.jpg

http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk135/tbishup/Street%20Wheelers%202010/IMG_0504.jpg

http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk135/tbishup/Street%20Wheelers%202010/IMG_0496.jpg

http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk135/tbishup/Street%20Wheelers%202010/IMG_0495.jpg

http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk135/tbishup/Street%20Wheelers%202010/IMG_0507.jpg

[Alberta_ZR1]

http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk135/tbishup/Street%20Wheelers%202010/IMG_0502.jpg

http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk135/tbishup/Street%20Wheelers%202010/IMG_0540.jpg

http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk135/tbishup/Street%20Wheelers%202010/IMG_0499.jpg

Ya! That's a Chevette. I couldn't get a better picture because people were glued to this car. Go figure....

http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk135/tbishup/Street%20Wheelers%202010/IMG_0537.jpg

http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk135/tbishup/Street%20Wheelers%202010/IMG_0534.jpg

I see a LS2 under there....

http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk135/tbishup/Street%20Wheelers%202010/IMG_0535.jpg

[Alberta_ZR1]

And this one :icon_scra

I will leave it for you to decide on.....my expression was about as good as the guy in the second picture....

http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk135/tbishup/Street%20Wheelers%202010/IMG_0522.jpg

http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk135/tbishup/Street%20Wheelers%202010/IMG_0525.jpg

[flyin ryan]

Ya', 100 foot drag races in small(er) towns all over Alberta. It's actually gotten a fairly strong following the past 4-5 years.

The Camaro has an all alum. 604, naturally aspirated on pump gas, over 900 HP. This pic is when we were mocking it up in the car.

http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee142/flyinryan_ZR1/IMG00012.jpg

[flyin ryan]

My guys are text-ing me as I write this, they are out street racing on the out-skirts of town. Pretty quiet on a Sunday night, lot of open area too...

[Alberta_ZR1]

It would be fun to see the pictures Alberta_ZR1

What is a 100 foot dash award? A 100 ft drag race?

Ryan...what do you have under the hood? Any under the hood pictures?

If Ryan doesn't mind, I grabbed one of under the hood...he might have a few better ones as this one isn't the greatest.

http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk135/tbishup/Street%20Wheelers%202010/IMG_0521.jpg

[Alberta_ZR1]

hahaha you beat me to it Ryan!

604 - we were wondering what size that thing was. It looked perfect sitting in there!

[flyin ryan]

No problem Alberta_ZR1, Your pic is better than mine, LOL, I have some better ones but was struggling to find them quickly. You guys like the hose clamps on it...? :D

[flyin ryan]

Gates actually makes them, Just like heat shrink....only a little more serious.

The Camaro hooks O.K., but not great. Leaf spring car with 28"x10" tire...But that isn't the reason it doesn't hook great, he has way too much 1st gear & too much rear gear. Thats O.K., I'll be getting my Stingray out shortly & hand him his A**...Chances are then he'll listen to me :cool:...Maybe, LOL.

[flyin ryan]

I've just been informed the Camaro calfed his CSR electric water pump, changing out to his spare right now...I wasn't kidding, they're hittin' it out on the Hi-Way this minute. Kind of a tradition with Street Wheeler's weekend...Boys will be boys :o

[Alberta_ZR1]

This was my first year attending and I would love to go with some serious HP to play with people afterwards. One of the guys I work with used to go and had won the 100' shoot out and I believe he left the 100's undefeated. He was the runner up in Edmonton back in 2001 for the pro-street class with an 8.969 @ 151.33mph

His is the Camaro

http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk135/tbishup/GF.jpg

[flyin ryan]

Why didn't you say you helped Grant Flag!? LOL. What's he doing these days...?

[Alberta_ZR1]

Why didn't you say you helped Grant Flag!? LOL. What's he doing these days...?

I didn't get to help Grant with any of his horsepower. He's just told me lots of stories and showed me lots of pictures here at work. I kind of wondered if you would know Grant since he was quite involved in the drag racing scene.

Grant's doing good though.

[flyin ryan]

I didn't get to help Grant with any of his horsepower. He's just told me lots of stories and showed me lots of pictures here at work. I kind of wondered if you would know Grant since he was quite involved in the drag racing scene.

Grant's doing good though.I've got some video of Grant leaving the starting line in Calgary in the early 2000's I think, I was there with my car. Think he broke a driveshaft...??? Haven't watched the video for years, I seem to recall he went up pretty hard &....came down harder!, LOL. I've done it myself so I can laugh....Grant actually went to high school with one of my good friends/customers in Medicine Hat too...