Tri-Five Nationals

[JT56]

Getting ready for the Tri-FIve Nationals. Looking forward to seeing some of the best Tri-Fives in the world. Who else is going?

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Sure like this car! Injection Stacks is what I wanted back in the day...very cool ride

[OLKY55]

Sure like this car! Injection Stacks is what I wanted back in the day...very cool ride

Thanks. I had wanted stack injectors since I first saw them on gassers at Beech Bend in the early 70's.

[Rick_L]

I've seen OLKY55's setup up close and heard it run. It's way cool.

[MadMooks]

Wish we could have went this year. I think they said over 2700 tri fives . Little under 100 nomads . Pretty awesome

[BamaNomad]

I just got back yesterday afternoon (and ended up in my recliner/reading/resting/sleeping) once I'd unloaded the Nomad. The '56 made it up there with no major issues (wtih the AC working!!).. but Friday evening when we started out of beech bend, the starter solenoid just 'CLICKED... dead battery! No one left had battery cables, but fortunately another trifiver was close by and volunteered to let me use his battery to start it and then we did a 'hot swap' of the cables back to my battery, which got us out of the park and to an Advance Auto Parts where I purchased a new battery. As my wife said at the time.. 'It's great that car guys are so willing to help when one has a problem!~" (that can't always be said of people in general).. Thanks Fellow Trifiver from Delaware!

The show was great... nearly 3000 cars.. many vendors... much drag racing... and TIRING! speaking of the drag racing... two cars running side by side ran equal '6 flat' 233mph runs on Saturday! (Pretty awesome)...

I bought some parts in the swap meet for both my '56 and 57 Nomads and a friend from Georgia delivered a lower left control arm to me for replacing the one I had to 'borrow' last month!

Going up I got 18.8 mpg on the 350 crate engine/edelbrock carb/intake/TCI 350 trans... using NON-ethanol fuel. Coming home (ethanol fuel) I got just under 17 mpg... I was VERY pleased with mpg going up there as I had not previously checked my mileage since installing the 3.08 rear.
I'll post some photos if anyone is interested, but I have to download them from my camera first..

Gary

[WagonCrazy]

Glad to hear the trip went well. Sounds like that show has become a destination for you guys in that region of the country. heck yes...we'd love to see some pics of the cars that caught your eye.

[smooth 56]

Well I did make it to the nationals after all. Sure had a good time looking forward to next year.

[Bluegrass Trifive]

I just got back yesterday afternoon (and ended up in my recliner/reading/resting/sleeping) once I'd unloaded the Nomad. The '56 made it up there with no major issues (wtih the AC working!!).. but Friday evening when we started out of beech bend, the starter solenoid just 'CLICKED... dead battery! No one left had battery cables, but fortunately another trifiver was close by and volunteered to let me use his battery to start it and then we did a 'hot swap' of the cables back to my battery, which got us out of the park and to an Advance Auto Parts where I purchased a new battery. As my wife said at the time.. 'It's great that car guys are so willing to help when one has a problem!~" (that can't always be said of people in general).. Thanks Fellow Trifiver from Delaware!

The show was great... nearly 3000 cars.. many vendors... much drag racing... and TIRING! speaking of the drag racing... two cars running side by side ran equal '6 flat' 233mph runs on Saturday! (Pretty awesome)...

I bought some parts in the swap meet for both my '56 and 57 Nomads and a friend from Georgia delivered a lower left control arm to me for replacing the one I had to 'borrow' last month!

Going up I got 18.8 mpg on the 350 crate engine/edelbrock carb/intake/TCI 350 trans... using NON-ethanol fuel. Coming home (ethanol fuel) I got just under 17 mpg... I was VERY pleased with mpg going up there as I had not previously checked my mileage since installing the 3.08 rear.
I'll post some photos if anyone is interested, but I have to download them from my camera first..

Gary

Here's the time slip from the 55 & 57 run. 55 is on the left. They're pretty closely matched. Both were tuned a little on the conservative side. Timeslip.jpg

[BamaNomad]

Bluegrass Trifive:

Thanks for providing the time slip detail to my posting of the speeds... I didn't see the runs, only heard them over the loudspeaker! Seeing the actual detailed timeslip is even more awesome!

[BamaNomad]

DSC01468.JPGDSC01467.JPGDSC01466.JPGDSC01465.JPGDSC01464.JPGRe pix: I had my camera set on a low/medium resolution, so they didn't come out great.. For the BEST detail car photos, SEETHEUSA's postings are the best... https://www.trifive.com/forums/showthread.php?t=176179

To give folks an idea of the size of the arena and the numbers of cars.. Here are a few broad area view photos I made from a little rise on the site..