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aceofvernons · 2 months

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thank you for tagging me @cheolism <33

this will get put under a 'read more' after the first parts because this is going to be a bit long. thanks again for the tag jupie <333

taglist: @dalkyeom @seokmins @vcrnons and anyone else who wants to do it! no pressure <3

who is your favorite group(s)?

seventeen, tomorrow x together, and stray kids!

when did you discover them?

seventeen: november 2021 txt: ~april 2022 (<- does not fully remember) stray kids: august 2023

which member sparked your interest?

seventeen: hoshi! his insane energy and bright personality got me first, but then i saw the rest of his skills and got super impressed txt: hueningkai! he's just really soft and squishy and as an avid plushie collector myself i respect him so much stray kids: felix! he's adorable. he's got the freckles. he's a memelord. his voice is at the bottom of the ocean. come on.

who was your first bias?

seventeen: scoups! i loved his energy so much and also he's just super cool. well, now i know he's also a massive bbg but he still resides fondly in my heart txt: yeonjun! well, once you get past the massive denial phase i had over him. i'm pretty sure i was going 'ohi like them all equally!' and then vehemently deny any and all feelings i had for him. oops. i gave up on fighting it though stray kids: chan! i got exposed to meme videos of him first so there was no chance of me not liking him. he's cute, he's goofy, he gets bullied by everyone else as the long suffering dad/leader of the group, it's great

who is your current bias?

seventeen: vernon! he is also my brand for this blog. no one has me more down bad-atrocious-abysmal-astronomical for just some dude than he does. he's a walking meme. his expressions are either at 0 or 100 and i swear there's no in between. he casually does the most random things possible and is completely unbothered by it. he's winning the idgaf war. his fashion sense is questionable and his selfie skills are nonexistent. i love him anyways. i am fondly looking at the photocard i have of him on my desk. there's something wrong with me but at least i'm funny about it txt: still yeonjun. the denial phase over him has unfortunately massively endeared me to him. he's silly, he's cute, he's endearing, his forays into fashion are interesting to me. (looks at the croc boots he wore once) (the squidward walking noises he made while wearing them really sells it ngl) stray kids: also still chan. he's a dork!!! he's silly!!!! he's so so kind it makes my heart ache sometimes. he's also jacked but what's bigger than his boobs butt arms? his heart. at the end of the day he's a silly goose no matter what he does

why are they your current bias?

oh i monologued too hard about my beloveds and answered the this question in the last one. oops. time to add even more seventeen: vernon's just absolutely hilarious. he's a walking meme machine. his expressions are insane when he's not being an unbothered king. the way he laughs is so silly!! i love it!!! he has a really unique perspective on the world that i really appreciate. i wish i could be a chill about things as he is. txt: yeonjun is so sweet and silly but he's also really kind too. i appreciate his humility a lot because he didn't let his natural talents make him complacent. i'm only slightly emotional about the fact that his mom calls him her healing </3 like that's so cute what stray kids: once again!! silly! goofy! incredibly kind!!! massive dork!!! at the end of the day he's just a silly goose!!! but also everything he does just blows me away, what can't he do besides eat spicy food and not get bullied by the rest of the group?

who is your bias wrecker?

seventeen: considering that vernon is my ultimate bias, i surprisingly have no bias wreckers for svt specifically. though hoshi is a somewhat close second txt: taehyun! the feelings i have for him o(-< stray kids: HAN JISUNG. WHY WON'T HE LET ME LIVE. i'm hopelessly enamored with a squishy little guy who's so incredibly committed to the bit. call him the bit the way i'm committed to h-

which member are you currently obsessing over that's not your bias/bias wrecker?

seventeen: i'm back at it again with having dino feelings txt: hyuka!!! he's just so so cute stray kids: i'm still trying to figure out how felix is an actual person. he's so cute but his voice is so ??????

what are some of your favorite songs?

hardest question for this entire thing ngl seventeen: super, fire, lean on me, a-teen, back 2 back, fallin' flower, ash, i wish, fear, home;run, and lilili yabbay! txt: anti-romantic, 0x1=love song, loser=lover, growing pain, our summer, blue hour, we lost the summer, devil by the window, sugar riush ride, and fairy of shampoo! stray kids: chronosaurus is my #1 most played song is this anything. but also lalalala, red lights, freeze, venom, maniac, s-class, get lit, cheese, secret secret, easy, back door, leave, silent cry, and super board!

have you ever been to one of their concerts?

seventeen: be the sun- august, 2022 txt: act: sweet mirage- may, 2023 stray kids: not yet :(

#xan.txt #tag games #half the reason why this is so long is because of my insistence on spacing between blocks of text. hard to read for me otherwise

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itsworn · 6 years

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Turbocharging pioneer “Bad Brad” Brand applies his racecar knowledge to a 1,500rwhp 1993 SVT Cobra

Turbocharging is an extensive part of today’s outlaw drag racing world, enabling the upper echelon racecars to accelerate to over 200 mph in just 3.7-seconds on eighth-mile drag race courses. Turbochargers in drag racing might date back to the ‘60s, however it only went mainstream around the turn of the century and has been going strong ever since.

The Grand National vs. Mustang wars of the mid 1990s certainly contributed to the mystique and effectiveness, after all if the snail-shaped boost maker could make a V-6 powerplant produce over 1,000hp at the time, then the potential on a V-8 would be even greater. Some daring Mustang racers dabbled in turbos for the better part of the 1990s with some successes. The community, however, took a big step into that world in the early 2000s and the drag racing landscape has never been the same since that evolutionary era.

One of the early pioneers of a turbocharged combination was “Bad Brad” Brand, or Triple B as some call him, of Atlanta Chassis Dyno. He quickly worked his way through the small-tire ranks of NMRA and the former Fun Ford Weekend series with a 1993 Mustang LX notchback. First with a supercharged engine, Brand began knocking down low 8-second runs on true 10.5-inch slicks in 1999. The accomplished tuner and car builder would take a major leap when he ditched the blower in favor of a turbocharger in 2000.

It isn’t a dyno queen, it is a cruiser! Brad Brand’s racing accomplishments prove that if he wanted a race car then he would just build another one.

A fortified Tremec six-speed transmission ensures Brand’s street car is fun, because throwing an automatic into the Cobra would just send him down the road of a 7-second race car.

“I was tired of the blower belts,” recalled Brand. Racing applications in the early years relied on cogged belt drives instead of today’s more efficient and effective gear-drive units. He continued, “It drove me insane when the belt would break in the middle of a run.” He added a single turbo that measured 101mm and he never looked back.

By the early 2000s, the black coupe transitioned into Outlaw 10.5 trim with a back-half chassis. Armed with a stroked Windsor engine that wore a set of Trick Flow High Port cylinder heads, Brand rowed the gears of a Liberty Equalizer five-speed clutchless transmission and applied the power to a set of 33×10.5W tires. He had epic battles against the likes of Tim Lynch, Billy Glidden, and many others as the fight for Outlaw 10.5 supremacy was contested nearly weekly at dragstrips across the Southeast.

Brand ultimately became the first person to run 200 mph in Outlaw 10.5, a mark that wouldn’t be touched for over a year. He was the king of speed and blazed a trail for many to follow with turbochargers.

Brand’s semi-professional drag racing career brought him to Pro Modified drag racing, once again setting the standard on Mickey Thompson 10.5W tires. Like the 200 mph mark, Brand became the first racer to run a 5-second elapsed time on 10.5W tires. He has had a been-there, done-that kind of racing career and Brand stepped away from the sport to concentrate on family and business.

The itch, however, for cool and fast cars never faded from Georgia-resident. “I have always had fast street cars and I wanted to build something to go fast but drive it to work during the week,” Brand shared. His latest whip, a 1993 SVT Cobra, could be one of the wildest street cars we’ve come across as it mixes cutting-edge racecar technology in a street car that looks stock.

The clean Fox-body era Cobra doesn’t look like much from the outside, a set of polished wheels and flawless factory paint indicate it is a well-loved classic Mustang. One peek under the hood, however, and the entire story dramatically changes. “I took what I learned in racing and applied it to this car,” explained Brand of his twin turbocharged 302.

That’s 1,500rwhp staring back at you. On pump gas Brand’s 368ci powerplant still cranks out 900-1,000rwhp at just 15 psi of boost.

The result is a Cobra that pegs the dyno at his Atlanta Chassis Dyno shop at 1,500rwhp with the engine seeing 32-33 psi of boost and consuming a large volume of VP Racing Fuels Q16 gasoline. On the pump gas tune, Brand said the car still cranks out 900-1,000rwhp at 15 psi. All the dyno results are through a Tremec Magnum XL six-speed that was highly modified by American Powertrain and a custom RAM triple-disc clutch.

He rattled off a list of tricks employed in the Cobra with the electronic controls being at the top of it. Using a Big Stuff 3 engine management system, the Cobra benefits from a traction control strategy that was derived from his 4,000hp Pro Mod on 10.5s. Without it, the 1,500rwhp combination can destroy the Nitto 555R drag radials—in fourth gear! The Big Stuff 3 also maintains control over the three 450lph fuel pumps. A primary 450lph pump feeds fuel to the engine under normal driving conditions and Brand has the other two pumps coming on-line as the boost increases.

The engine itself is relatively mild as it displaces 368ci thanks to an 8.2-inch deck block that has 4.125-inch bores and a billet crankshaft with a 3.450-inch stroke. The AFR 185 cylinder heads help keep the torque high and the boost coming quickly thanks to the smaller ports. The head gaskets are copper and Brand added O-ring grooves to the block and cylinder heads, another racecar trick to keep the cylinder pressure from pushing the gaskets out. The camshaft is an aggressive solid-roller stick, but he uses a set of hydraulic roller lifters to keep maintenance to a minimum.

A pair of Precision Turbo 62mm turbochargers feed air into a custom air-to-air intercooler. It cranks out 15 psi when Brand drives the car on the street and utilizes pump gas. Things get exciting when the race fuel is mixed into the fuel tank and the boost is increased to 33 psi.

He often gets asked the question of what will it run? He hasn’t had the Cobra on track with the new twin turbo setup. But he managed to push the older combination, which made 1,000rwhp, as quick as 10.00 at 157 mph. Though he has resisted putting in an automatic for fear of escalating the daily driver into a race car as he tends to lose self-control when it comes to drag racing. He concluded, “If I wanted another race car, then I’d build one. I just want a street car, so I am going to keep the stick in it.” That is not to say Brand isn’t considering jumping back into the drag racing world, he just doesn’t want to cut up his street car to do so.

Despite the street car status, Brand did hint that he might get out to the NMRA World Finals and make some runs in the Tremec Stick Shift Shootout just to see how quick he could run. But for now, if you run into a Cobra in the Georgia area, just wave hello to a turbocharged legend and know that there is over 20 years of record-breaking experience hidden under the sheetmetal.

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aceofvernons · 1 year

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ult group question game

rules: answer the questions based on your ult group

i was tagged by the ever wonderful @momobani ty for the tag <333 i am. unfortunately guilty of being a solo stan so seventeen is my default ✌️😔

tagging @seokmins @junkissed-replies @nu-replies @minghao-s @caratonce @dalkyeom @chogiwapadada and anyone else who wants to do it!!!

who was your first bias?

it was s.coups! i still like him a lot (and i love all the other members don't worry), but i could never be as insane about him as some of my friends who are stans.

2. who is your bias now?

it's vernon. like, if you take 5 seconds to look at my blog, being INSANE about him is sort of (really) my brand LMAO

3. what was the first MV you watched from them?

ooh, that's a really good question. i'd have to say home;run? it's also the song that got me into seventeen in the first place, so it definitely has a close place in my heart <3

4. what's your favorite MV?

oh, now that's a REALLY good question. i think it's the one for oh my!, i love svt's darker concepts a lot but i tend to favor their cuter or lighter ones and it's so delightful as well.

5. if you could listen to one song for the rest of your life, what would it be?

i think it would be home? it's such a soft song and also interesting enough that i think it would keep me hooked. 6. who would you want to see them collab with?

*sweats in solo stan* i uh, do not know. i only listen to the music of other groups casually so i don't really know enough about other groups </333 7. what MV concept do you want to see them do?

i mentioned this before but i love the cuter/lighter ones they do! it would be so fun to see them do a playful one again, let them have fun with it and be the absolute chaos men they are <3

8. have you ever had a dream with any of the members in it?

oh this is hilarious because i do have a few from time to time, but most of them fade EXCEPT for one. i had a dream that i was fighting with mingyu for a pint of seventeen themed ice cream and you know, i was doing pretty good considering that this man is twice my size and is HELLA buff. it's a classic case of an immovable object (mingyu) vs an unstoppable force (me).

9. if you could spend a day with one member, who would it be and what would you do?

extremely predictable of me, but i'd love to hang out with vernon! just chat, hang out, get some food, i think he would he a really cool person to talk to. i'd love to get a better understanding of his perspective of the world, since we're both the kinds of people who like to broaden our horizons and understand other people more.

10. which member do you think you'd get along best with?

i think it would be hoshi!! his high energy would rub off on me and we would both be a pair of chaotic menaces with not a single brain cell between us <33

11. which member do you think you would argue with?

maybe not *argue* but someone i think i could see myself having fun banter with seungkwan, he really reminds me of my irl childhood best friend and we need to be the fruitiest people in the room or else (/j)

12. if you had to choose one member to scroll through your tumblr, who would it be?

yet another good question because i'm really a fairly private person and the thought of having one of them look through my blog makes me want to throw myself out a window. but! i'm letting minghao do it because he is the least likely to care. if he doesn't know me then he hopefully won't judge me too hard.

#tag games #'why are you a solo stan' you see a fairly major aspect about me is that i can't focus on more than one thing at a time #and i sure have tried trust me #anyways. ✌️*vanishes*

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