Thunder Road - Pictures

Thunder Road is the name of my 1982 Mustang LX.  It's come a long way from it's cozy black interior with a 4 cylinder engine under the hood, coupled to a 4-speed transmission!  Now it's a 900 horsepower full-race car.  Check out the specs page for full details of what's in the car.   The pictures below were compressed between 30 and 70 % and are all <100K.  I sold this car in Spring of 2006 to a very lucky guy!

front_side_good.jpg (56953 bytes) Thunder Road on the street heads_both.jpg (98756 bytes)

Cleaned and shaved heads

Jan 2002
inside_cu.jpg (49919 bytes) Inside the car, showing instrumentation pistons and rods.jpg (26099 bytes)

Re-assembled pistons and rods

Jan 2002
82stang.jpg (71718 bytes) The car before I messed with it launch.jpg (45446 bytes) The launch
pipes_left.jpg (46178 bytes) Headers, left (passenger) side bob.jpg (51144 bytes) Old guy, new car (1999)
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Broken piston, grenaded engine

July 2000

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Shrapnel from grenaded engine.  The rod bolt is 200,000 psi tensile strength (strong!). July 2000
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Born to race. I'm the kid in the box (the "cage"...)  1951

bobsgirls.jpg (18084 bytes) Membership has it's privileges!  Bob and girls. July 2001
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Fire damage, when fuel pumped out of carb at high rate  July 2001

split_hose.jpg (31981 bytes) Split fuel line that almost resulted in another engine fire.  June 2001
oil_pump2.jpg (92206 bytes) Beat up oil impeller  Sep 2001 cool_dude_crop.JPG (107101 bytes) Cool dude, June 2002
barb_test_tires.jpg (45772 bytes) My pit crew checking tires, Jun 2002    
in staging lanes.jpg (757391 bytes) In staging lanes, new hood 2002 ontrailer_lores.jpg (100582 bytes) Car on trailer, ready to race
pit_stop.jpg (877825 bytes) This is how I pit.  Just like a picnic. A pitnic... smokyburn_rearshot.jpg (661958 bytes) Why is that guy running behind my car?  Is it on fire?
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