I'd rather hear reports that Osama's death was controversial/improper than to hear something like "Osama orchestrated the attack's/murder's from prison". It's unfortunate to think the world is a better place without someone but in this case I feel it truely is. I also think it was a bad mistake to put the authors real name out to the public for his and his families own safety.
That may be ok. lol. The important thing is as long as you like it. I hate those black wheels on my car so tonight I'm going to have the tires swapped to my silver wheels. They can look good black as long as you prep them very well and take your time painting them. I can help you if you like.
Even though the SES light is not on, it may have a stored code for cylinder misfire. Wouldn't hurt to go to your local parts store and have them scan for codes. Especially since it free there.
I forget about your rear end issue. If it wern't for that I'd say drive anyway, The front marks are hardly noticeable. I'm taking my car even though the paint on the door is jacked and I have those ugly black wheels on it right now.
Dial the car in around 11.60, launch like hell, catch the car half track and sit next to them unitl just before the strip, tip the gas, win light comes on, advance to next round. Sounds like a good time to me. :-)
You can see when he gets out that the steering wheel turns freely so where he had the wheel turned may me a mute point. I would agree though that he is very lucky in the way it turned out. If he had the window rolled up he would have bounced his head through it, plus the air bag deployed with the initial impact which was not enough to jar him forward so won't have any burns from it.
Looks like a marine carb with the vents that way. It's a 4160. If I'm not mistaken Jegs sells a kit to upgrade it to a 4150. If thats not what you want you can buy a new one for not a lot of money.
http://www.jegs.com/i/Holley/510/0-80559/10002/-1?parentProductId=743728
http://www.holley.com/data/Products/Technical/199R10015-1.pdf
Here is a pic of the wheels I currently have. This is a pic of the car I bought them from. The other is the same only silver. If interested I can send you a pic of each individual wheel. I do not have tires for the 18's, the fronts have a 50% remaining set of 255, 45? 17's,