About Me and My Car Page
Name: Chris Polley
Age: 23
Location: Fargo, North Dakota
Contact Information: E-mail:
chrisp@uslink.net
Icq: 3568645 MSN:
chrisp@uslink.net
Yahoo IM: Chris_Polley
Hobbies: Computers, Basketball, Drag Racing, Ford
Mustangs, Video Games, Snowmobiling, Jet Skiing, Hunting, Fishing etc...
Info: I moved out to Fargo, North Dakota in August of 2004.
It is quite a change from the "Lakes Area" that I was used to living in.
There is nothing but fields and farm country out here. I do enjoy the city
though. It is a lot larger with more things to do then Brainerd or Grand
Rapids (where I grew up) and there is still a drag strip near by (Interstate
Dragways). I am currently working as a Computer Help Desk
Technician at a company called
SEI. I am stuck working the
graveyard shift for now as that is one of their most busy times of the day and I
am still a fairly new employee, because of that I am looking for a different
computer job where I can work some day-time hours again. I went to college in Brainerd, Minnesota for Computer
Network Administration. I graduated from Grand Rapids High School in
Grand Rapids Minnesota in 2001.
My resume is posted here if you are interested!
The biggest news would be that I got engaged on November 12th, 2004 to Erica Jendro. The wedding date is set for September 9th, 2006. It is a little ways off yet, but it gives us a chance to get some money set aside for the wedding. She is very supportive of the Mustang, so don't worry... that isn't going anywhere.
I currently am down to just having one Ford Mustang. I sold the '95 Stang with the 3.8 liter 6 cylinder awhile back. I had an '04 Focus ZX3 with SVT rims for about a year before dumping that in favor of a '98 Ford Expedition. I figure I needed to get a tow rig so I can start towing the Mustang to the drag strip. The Expedition has the big 5.4 liter V8 and a 3.73 ring and pinion gear in it so it should be able to handle that with no problems. The remaining Mustang I do have is an '87 GT that I use for drag racing, cruising, and to get me around on the few nice weather days we have around this area. I picked up the '87 GT around 6 years ago now and it had just 23,xxx actual miles when I got it. It had been stored winters in a heated garage and driven very little. I purchased it from the original owners (whom I knew pretty well) that had all of the paperwork and the window sticker for it yet. Since I got that car, I have put a K&N filter charger kit on it (not currently on the car anymore), Flowmaster American Thunder Cat-Back exhaust, a Hypertech Chip (not currently on the car anymore), an Edelbrock "dry type" 80hp Nitrous kit, Ford Motorsport 3.73 Gears, Granatelli Motor Sport Subframe Connectors, Lakewood Driveshaft Safety Loop, a pair of BF Goodrich Drag Radials, a Kirban adjustable Fuel Pressure regulator and pressure gauge and other little misc visual things. I sent in pictures of the car when I first got it to 5.0 Mustang Magazine and it finally got in the Reader's Rides Section in the January 2001 issue. My future plans for the car include a shaker type hood scoop with a hood mounted tach and fuel pressure gauge, a new built for the strip AOD transmission, mass air conversion, ratcheting style shifter, GT-40 heads and intake and probably some more stuff after that.... =)
My Quickest 1/4 Mile Times To Date:
8-31-02 at Brainerd International Raceway - 13.445 @ 100.93 MPH
6-02-04 at Brainerd International Raceway - 13.505 @ 103.59 MPH
(Pictures of time slips coming soon - need to get access to a scanner again)
(Picture from 2000 of me and my car)