Welp, got in just shy of 4am this morning (Sunday), got a few hours of sleep, then spent the day with the family. Had around 72 cars and AWESOME weather in Stanton. Barometer wasn't anything to write home about, but that's racin'. Lots of cool cars, as usual, and well worth the 1600+ miles of driving. The Canucks were out in force, and as usual it was a riot a minute hangin' with those guys! Got to meet Pete's family as well as Marlin's, so now I can put some faces to the stories!
The top 8 cars were either Mopar or Chevrolet, with JJ (#1), Pete (#3), and I (#7) representing the Chevys. JJ went an 11.99@118(mph?), Pete went 12.20@114(mph?), and I went
[email protected], but all 3 of us won our shootouts. I believe Casey went some 13.4s in the 'Scayne, and even let Marlin play backseat driver on one of his passes! Benoit's LT-1 'Vette went 12.52@111!
Jimi Day and David Chamberlain from Imagine Motorsports showed up, and we got to visit for a quite a while about what projects they had in the shop, future projects, all about the HR454SS, the Inciner8tor, and the rest of the cool stuff they got going.
I gotta thank Big Dog and John for helping me wrench on the car, and for the "go-fast" advice. Wish we'd had more time to "tinker", but the *real* race cars
were breathing down our necks wanting onto the track.
I also made a couple of pulls on a chassis dyno...the ole yellow submarine made a respectable 416rwhp at 6400rpms! I would have thought the manifolds would have kept the peak under 6k, but dynos generally don't lie.
The R3 Stude put down 365rwhp, and managed a 12.85 not long after that. A big THANKS to Steve Clay (269-420-0875) for lettin' us spin up the dyno!