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King of the Track at WRP

We are going to Wichita Falls, Texas today to participate in the King of the Track race for a Wally. Come down and join us!

P.S. We went to WRP to race for the King of the Track deal, and ended our day with a bit of bad luck…We went into the first round on our second tech card, and on launching the car, we sheared all five wheel studs off, loosing the left rear tire and putting the car into the wall at the staging lanes. I was not hurt (besides my feelings), but the car sustained some damage. The left front fender is dented, the front nose piece is cracked, the left rear quarter panel is dented pretty bad, and the rim is no longer usable. Apart from all of that, we are in pretty good shape. Could have been alot worse. No structurable part of the car was damaged, so we can fix the dents and repaint it and be as good as new. We are going to upgrade the wheel studs to 5/8″ studs now so that this will never happen again. Good thing it’s the end of the season. We’ll be back next year better than ever!1

Camaro makes maiden voyage at WRP

Well, we finally got our new engine back in our 79 Camaro, and took her out to Wichita Falls, TX. last night for a few shake-down passes…We had a problem with my new laptop cable, so we couldn’t make any changes to the on-board computer, so we just ran her with the old tune-up… She ran 5.71 @ 121 mph on a single 250 shot of nitrous. Not too shabby! We plan on buying a gender changer for my laptop cable and then I’ll be able to adjust the tune-up for next time. I’m certain that with a little tuning, we can get her down to 5.50’s or better. We are planning on taking her out next Saturday for the Penrod Big Money Race at Sooner Motorplex. Come what her go!!!

Latest on my 79 Camaro

We have completed the engine and have scheduled the Dyno for Monday morning. Providing that everything goes o.k., we should have the car ready to race by Friday night. Look for our Dyno results and video on this website soon!

Update!!! We have completed the Dyno and finally can say that we have found and fixed the problems that plagued us at Pinks All Out…The motor is running great (considering that we dynoed it @ 57 % humidity, raining and only 59 degrees), and we should have it installed in the Camaro by tommorrow night. o.k. already…here’s the Dynometer numbers: 800.8 horsepower with 651.8 foot pounds of torque. Max hp was gained @ 7000 rpm, while max torque was gained @ 5100 rpm. After taking the motor off of the Dyno, we discussed ways to make more horsepower, and a few things that we learned was that the oil pan currently on the motor has no windage tray and very little baffle, making the crankshaft work alot harder. A good Moroso pan would yield 50 more hp. We also found out that  a vacuum pump would have given us approximately 35 more hp. Well, we already have a vacuum pump, we just didn’t have it installed on the motor at the time we dynoed the motor, and as for the oil pan, the new Moroso pan will arrive in the morning and be installed before the engine goes in. This should give us approximately 885 horsepower on motor…then we’ll give here a little shot of nitrous and see how she likes it! A Dart intake was also suggested, but my wallet can’t stand much more right now.  After all, I still have to start working on my Vega soon and I still have to finish restoring my 68 Camaro before next year. We are planning on taking the Camaro out to Sooner Motorplex Friday night (weather permitting), for a few test hits. It’s been over a year since we ran the Camaro and I’m a little anxious! Come watch us run it. If Sooner is closed due to weather on Friday, we may go to Wichita Falls to test.