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Silly Bowl DQ (43) (8,875)
Posted By Jim Gardner
It is my understanding they dqed the engine. Not...
12/25/21, 5:24 PM
It is my understanding they dqed the engine. Not the car. "Its not a midget engine" was the explanation. I suppose if he wanted (and had more than 3 weeks notice) to shove an Esslinger, Subaru, or...
Silly Bowl DQ (43) (8,875)
Posted By Jim Gardner
That car has always had a torque tube and drive...
12/22/21, 12:26 AM
That car has always had a torque tube and drive shaft. It is a full midget frame with the pickups adjusted for the smaller tires.

It's a cool car that had no business being outlawed except the...
Lightning Sprints VS. 305 Sprints (6) (2,716)
Posted By Jim Gardner
Re: Lightning Sprints VS. 305 Sprints
8/6/18, 2:46 PM
Call Andy Bradley 812-345-3946 in Bloomington. Builds both, races both, sells cars and parts for both, owns the lighting sprint series in Indiana, Etc...
Eating Crow for Sammy Swindell (21) (5,058)
Posted By Jim Gardner
Re: Eating Crow for Sammy Swindell
7/30/18, 6:40 PM
They're the industry standard in winged racing so....... that doesn't make any sense. At all. That's the argument you've resorted to?
Bridgeport 5/8 (44) (8,807)
Posted By Jim Gardner
I'm convinced Big Game Hunter is david mitchell's...
6/19/18, 12:06 PM
I'm convinced Big Game Hunter is david mitchell's burner account.
Lawrenceburg ... (15) (5,220)
Posted By Jim Gardner
Your first post was before hot laps Saturday and...
6/4/18, 12:54 PM
Your first post was before hot laps Saturday and your last post suggests that you saw the sign Friday night when you arrived. Something tells me you had some time to figure out a plan that would work...
305 (5) (2,062)
Posted By Jim Gardner
Still have that Krietz DVD set?
3/4/18, 2:29 AM
Still have that Krietz DVD set?
Parts for DLH chassis (5) (2,027)
Posted By Jim Gardner
Re: Parts for DLH chassis
2/20/18, 12:26 PM
Mark, that car takes a standard M&W right rear arm, and I used a bailey RR arm and flipped it upside down for the left rear to get the offset (to clear the brake rotor) and length to work. Get a...
Race ready sprint car w/spares (3) (2,717)
Posted By Jim Gardner
Price and location please
9/30/17, 6:07 PM
Price and location please
Tony Stewart (48) (12,756)
Posted By Jim Gardner
Re: Tony Stewart
8/31/17, 11:28 AM
Stewart fields winged cars instead of non-winged for the same reason Kahne does; winged cars make more financial sense.
Question about passing points (9) (2,420)
Posted By Jim Gardner
Passing points isn't overly complicated. They're...
7/16/17, 10:41 AM
Passing points isn't overly complicated. They're preliminary races, average fans can understand "every pass means points."

I believe chili bowl, powri and such classify starting position based on...
Racers MIA 2 (20) (6,752)
Posted By Jim Gardner
Kevin Chambers now fields an MMSA mini sprint for...
7/14/17, 7:01 PM
Kevin Chambers now fields an MMSA mini sprint for his daughter Cindy.
Looking for a D2 or Lighting (3) (1,615)
Posted By Jim Gardner
I've got a 2011 dlh race ready for $7000. Its...
7/10/17, 12:24 AM
I've got a 2011 dlh race ready for $7000. Its over at the Hoosier Speed shop in Bloomington.
Advice on where to start (4) (1,779)
Posted By Jim Gardner
Re: Advice on where to start
6/23/17, 10:08 AM
Get in touch with Andy Bradley out of Bloomington. He runs the series that races in southern Indiana and owns a speed shop. He'll shoot you straight and get you pointed in the right direction.
...
Montpelier (47) (14,940)
Posted By Jim Gardner
Re: Montpelier
6/7/17, 9:58 AM
You want to cut the legs out from under the one track in the state that runs midgets regularly because they whiffed on track prep one time? Sounds like a better way to grow the sport. Come on man.
looking 1000cc (4) (1,968)
Posted By Jim Gardner
Re: looking 1000cc
5/9/17, 10:42 AM
Not particularly if you have the universal engine mounts and a motorplate.
looking 1000cc (4) (1,968)
Posted By Jim Gardner
Re: looking 1000cc
5/8/17, 7:58 PM
Contact Andy Bradley at Hoosier Speed. Has engines and any part you need.
812-345-3946
lightning sprint chain questio (4) (1,847)
Posted By Jim Gardner
Some guys run them and some run master links. If...
3/24/17, 11:47 PM
Some guys run them and some run master links. If your chain is bound up you've got issues elsewhere. Just make certain the clip is running the correct direction.
Job in Indiana wanted (22) (11,107)
Posted By Jim Gardner
Re: Job in Indiana wanted
3/16/17, 10:59 PM
IU has an open position if you have basketball coaching experience.
2017 MMSA Schedule (4) (2,055)
Posted By Jim Gardner
Point fund.
3/15/17, 8:36 PM
Point fund.
Midget Motors (114) (37,761)
Posted By Jim Gardner
Legends cars have to run some 1970s technology...
3/3/17, 9:53 AM
Legends cars have to run some 1970s technology air cooled Yamaha that you have to buy through 600 racing at about 3x market value. Turned sideways with a clutch and driveshaft. It works for them. The...
2 Questions 1 more serious then the other. (13) (4,852)
Posted By Jim Gardner
Re: 2 Questions 1 more serious then the other.
3/2/17, 5:52 PM
Assuming that you could design some header system that would make all of the tube lengths the same, you would be altering the back pressure compared to running a single header/muffler combo. Plus...
class versus no class (12) (5,907)
Posted By Jim Gardner
Re: class versus no class
1/15/17, 3:47 PM
DD threw, not the dirtiest slider of all time- but also not the cleanest, and knocked Sammy's front end over towards the wall and Sammy stopped and went to the tail. Then a few laps later for the...
Chili Bowl Stream for $2.99 (14) (4,647)
Posted By Jim Gardner
Judging by some of the social media garbage I've...
1/14/17, 6:01 PM
Judging by some of the social media garbage I've read all week that's still too expensive for many "race fans"
Chili Bowl PPV Feed (19) (5,665)
Posted By Jim Gardner
Re: Chili Bowl PPV Feed
1/11/17, 8:59 AM
Racin Boys goes to audio only for the Cs, Bs, and A Saturday. They had some issues last night- plenty of people fumed on twitter and they (at least on my end) got it fixed. Hopefully they figured out...