Today kicked off early as rain is in the forecast so we are running things as quickly as possible. There will be some great racing today so stay tuned in for the latest news.
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Andy Essary is qualified third in LSX Drag Radial and we stopped by the pit this morning and talked with Pro Stock John about the car. He runs an LME 427 based on an iron LSX block with twin Precision 76 MM T-4 turbos with a Rossler 2.10 TH 400 backed by a Moser 9 inch housing. Best ET at weight is 7.25 @ 202 MPH though this weekend Andy’s best run is a 7.43 this weekend fighting the weather and a conservative front half. Dan Marks from Speed Inc. fabbed up some new exhaust with “El Toro” bullhorns for the new season. Sponsors for the team are LME (Late Model Engines) Speed Inc., and Midwest Chassis. Eric Vicary flew down this weekend to lend a hand setting up several customers’ cars this weekend and Essary’s team is happy he was able to be here this weekend.LSX All Motor competitor Judson Massingill and the SAM crew had to take one head off last night to freshen up the valve job. They took is to Fountain Race Engines in Sarasota where two SAM graduates Mike Fountain and Lee Latozke run the shop. Other than that they were just prepping the car for round one this morning.
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Jeff Heintz is driving for Terry Faust after he had some vertigo yesterday in the LSX Rumble C class. The combo is an RHS 380 inch engine with an F1-A Procharger with an RPM Transmission auto conversion making about 850 RWHP. In testing the car ran a 9.59 @ 147 but is running 10.0 as the cage is not certified for 9 second ET’s. Terry has been working on the car locally with Heintz Racing for about a year and this marks the first NMCA/LSX event with the car. The team hails from Moresville, North Carolina with Faust living in Concord.
This father and Son Race team are out of Hattiesburg, MS and running the 12 second Index and 13.50 Class. Son, Nicholas Massengale, and his 2001 Camaro has full bolt ons with a 9" rear end and T56. His best pass in this car has been 11.29 and currently holds the fastest LS1 Stock Internal record for the Camaro. Father, Dwayne Massengale, has a 2000 Camaro with full exhaust and LS6 Intake the car has run 13.31. Here Nicholas takes a loss to Rob Farley after a foul start in a G/LSX to F/LSX pairing.Chet Levay from Clearwater, Florida brough his CTSV out this weekend to compete in E/LSX Rumble and was matched up with Keith Vaughn's 04 GTO from Nashville running HLSX. Levay took the win running an 11.36 @ 107 on the E/LSX 11.00 index.
Jared Hess was paired with fellow need2speed.com member Steve Balusik in the LSX Rumble with Hess getting to leave first running the slower H index. He got an easy win after Basulik went red running an 12.59 on a 12.50 index.Derek Putnam switched it up this event and ran the LSX Rumble with his daily driven 2000 Firebird. He had a single running a 13.51 on his J/LSX 13.50 index.
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Andy Essary and Joe Dedona lwere the first pair out in Drag Radial. Dedona took the advantage on the tree but faltered and slowed to a 14.03 with his Procharged Corvette. Essary put up a 7.37 @ 192 and will face Mike Brown in round two.
Mike Meeks had a lucky round one against Anthony Manna who fouled out but still ran a 7.42 @ 194. Meeks ran a 7.83 @ 174, right in line with his qualifying ETRobert Strong faced Judson Massingill in round one of All Motor. he did his job on the tree with a .022 light but didn't have enough to stay out front of Massingill's 8.46 @ 162.
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Adam Preston and Ron Belcher were paired up in Real Street with Preston laying down an 8.57 @ 159 to ear the round win. Rodney Massengale had the single in Real Street after qualifying number one. He ran a nice 8.59 @ 158.
THomas Calabrese sent Tim Earle home early in 5th Gen Camaro in a come from behind win with G/CAM 2010 Camaro running a 12.212 @ 106 on a 12.00 index despite his poor .135 reaction time.BMR's Al Miller was running the shop car in D/CAM this weekend and faced off with Regina Puckett in round one. He was better on the tree but .21 off his 10.50 index at only 100 MPH handing over the win to Puckett.
Final Results
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Mike Brown and Michael Meeks met up in the LSX Drag Radial final with Brown having the advantage with a series of low seven second runs and a 7.12 @ 199 in the semi final over Essary. Brown left first and looked to be on a good run while Meeks left soft and shut it down very early. Meeks told me that he forgot to arm the nitrous system before staging the car while doing the winner photos. Brown clicked it early for the go ahead win. Team SAM vs. Team Baskin in the final of LSX All Motor with both cars locked at the hit with matching .074 reaction times. Down track Greg DeLaney edged ahead just getting to the stripe first by .032 seconds. Delaney's 8.444 @ 160.43 bested Judson Massingill's 8.472 @ 159.23 MPH run.
Thomas Calabrese took home the win in 5th GEN Camaro over Ronnie Hackelton with a 12.102 @ 105.43 on a 12.0 G/CAM index to Hackelton's 10.188 @ 136 who runs C/CAM 10.00 index. Thomas and Shawn Calabrese is a father and son team out of Rochester, NY. since 2007 and have run every LS event with NMCA and the Holley Fest since. This car was built 2 years ago from the showroom floor with a cam and converter change. They have seven event wins with this car since they started racing it.Derek Putnam waded through 5 rounds of racing in the LSX Rumble to come out the winner over Brian Palcisko. Both racers were in J/LSX making it a heads up final round on a 13.50 index. Palcisko left first but was .650 over allowing Putnam time to get by and jab the brakes to scrub off some ET at the stripe. His 13.602 @ just 96.44 MPH was good for the event win for the Gainesville, Florida resident.
Adam Preston had a go ahead win after Rodney Massengale went .025 red in his 2001 Corvette. Preston is the 2012 Champion and the car is tuned by Adam's brother Issac Preston, they will debut a new engine combo at Commerce in two weeks for the All Star race and plan to switch to a boosted combo for 2014 from the NOS Nitrous system they run now.
Saturday is final qualifying for all classes and there are some nice and fast cars here this weekend. Quite a few racers double entered today in the Tremek true Street class and Drag Radial and All Motor having some very good runs.
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This 5th Generation Camaro out of Michigan driven by "Jungle" Jim Clark and owned by Bob Phelps is running on a hurt motor in the NMCA 5th Gen class. Their best pass to date with this setup was 10.22 at 123 up at Milan Dragway. They will be pulling the motor after this race. They are curently running an LS9 with Lingenfelter intake, throttle body and smaller pulleys for extra boost. They run a modified Blueprinted Tremec Transmission with Tubular Front K Member, Solid Axles and 9" Rear End.Ebony - Has an N/A setup with 408 motor with 356 Transmission and 12 bolt rear end. Best Past to date 9.68 Ivory - Has a N/A 427 motor with 400 Transmission and 9" Rear End. Best Pass to date 9.66. Both cars have full OEM Interior and are foot braking running C Class in the LSX Rumble.Chuck Stefarski out of Brunswick, OH and his Pontiac Transam has BBK Headers with Magnaflow Exhaust as well as LS6 Intak, Arlid, and rear gear.This car has run 12.71 at 108.70 at last years NMCA/NMRA LSX Shootout at Indy.
Mike Brown jumped way out front in Drag Radial improving eight tenths to a 7.092 @ 199.60 MPH taking overt the top spot from Essary, who also improved from a 7.60 to 7.43 @ 190.
The order of All Motor is unchanged after two rounds with DeLaney and Massingill improving in ET. DeLaney is just ahead with an 8.376 @ 160 to Massingill’s 8.391 @ 162.
Judson Massingill stepped up the SAM 1999 Camaro despite this crooked launch.
Ronnie Hackelton proudly wears the number 3 this year after a good finish for the year end points in 2012. He has low ET and high MPH in 5th Gen Camaro running C/CAM.
Thomas Calabrese is closest to his index with a 12.032 for G/CAM. He runs this 2010 Camaro SS out of Victor, New York.
Final Qualifying Results
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Anthony Manna improved the front half in the final session knocking a tenth off his ET with a 7.364 @ 194.63. Manna lives in Elkgrove, Illinois and runs a turbocharged 434 ci inch engine in his 98 Camaro in Drag Radial.Greg DeLaney led qualifying all weekend for team Baskin in All Motor. The order remains unchanged from round two.
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Some LS racers did well in Tremec True Street today. Ont he left is Steve Balusik from Tarpon Springs who was featured here on Friday. He was late getting ready and wasn't able to hook up his nitrous. He improvised and short shifted the car while stuck with the timing set for the nitrous system and would up with a 12.00 average and the category win. Pictured right is Need2speed.com's founder Chris Brazel aka HAVOC He runs a 383 LSX from WCR with a plate kit and took the 9 second catagory with a 9.83 average.
The 2013 Chevy Performance LSX Challenge series kicks off this weekend in Bradenton, Florida, and we’ll be bringing you updates and photos all weekend long! This event marks the first of four races this year, the Challenge’s second full season. Three heads-up classes and two index categories will battle it out on the dragstrip, and the quickest and fastest LS-powered cars and trucks in the country will be on-hand to see how high the bar can be raised for Chevy performance.
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Mike Meeks and his 5th Generation LSx Camaro has added water injection to the killer setup. Water Injection cools the combustion chambers up to 200 degrees opening up the tuning window significantly. By making this single addition they are able to kick the timing to 10* rather than their normal 12*. A 1/4 mile pass only takes approximately 3 ounces of water. He skipped testing and the first run this weekend will be in LSx Drag Radial qualifying.
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Steve Balusik is running this1965 Buick Skylark based out of Tarpon Springs, Florida with an LQ9 LS style engine he sourced from a Caddy Escalade in a junkyard. The 364 ci engine has been swapped to a carburetor with an Edlebrock Victor Jr. Intake and 950 CFM Holley. The factory heads were CNC ported by Texas Speed with valve actuation from a custom grind hydraulic roller cam from EPS. Steve purchased the car bone stock and replaced the front and rear suspension with 1971 parts and rear housing and a TH200 overdrive transmission from a Grand National. His best run is a 10.29 on nitrous though he will be running the 11.00 Index in the LSX Rumble as well as Tremek True Street.
This 430 Cube Nitrous Corvette C5 with Powerglide is out of Indiana and running NMCA Real Street class. Driving it this weekend is Rodney Massengale and the owner is Al Brodback. Pictured right. Ron Belcher out of Lexington is running Real Street with his nitrous sprayed 427 cubic inch motor with a Powerglide transmission. Pictured left.Ebony and Ivory in the pits. This pair of Trans Am's are waiting to get some runs in before qualifying in what's looking to be a good turnout of LSx cars here this weekend.
Round One Qualifying Results
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Andy Essary put his 2002 trans Am on the pole in LSX Drag Radial with a 7.482 @ 190.11 a nice run for the Lombard, Illinois based racer.Anthony Manna brought his 1998 Camaro down from Elkgrove, Illinois for LSX Drag Radial. His 7.60 @ 163 was good for second of four cars today.
Rodney Massengale leads LSX Real Street with an 8.566 @ 159.15 MPH ahead of Ron Belcher.
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Greg Delaney put the Baskin Racing 2010 Camaro on the pole in All Motor with a clean 8.432 @ 164.32 besting Judson Massingill's School of Automotive Machinists 99 Camaro and Robert Strong's Monte Carlo. NMCA regular Rob Farley brough the familliar Corvette down from Old Bridge, New Jersey to compete in the LSX Rumble running an 11.64 on the 11.50 Index. Just a little more power tomorrow should have him dialed in.Derek Putnam brough his daily driver out to run the Rumble as the engine in his "Boulevard Boost" Nova isn't quite finished up.
The 2013 Chevy Performance LSX Challenge series kicks off this weekend in Bradenton, Florida, and we’ll be bringing you updates and photos all weekend long! This event marks the first of four races this year, the Challenge’s second full season. Three heads-up classes and two index categories will battle it out on the dragstrip, and the quickest and fastest LS-powered cars and trucks in the country will be on-hand to see how high the bar can be raised for Chevy performance.
