“Heads up” Track Champion Kesfi Tarkan of Turkey (not the food, the country) uses one of our 820 PRO-HP carburetors to get down the “Turkey” quarter mile. I just love saying that. Good job Kesfi and his yellow camaro.

If you read the NSCA bulletin board you were probably aware of my recent tuning trip to Puerto Rico. The event was staged as a war between the big inch American Muscle versus the Japanese turbocharged, nitrous injected and even alcohol burning imports. I was hired to tune a car driven by Axel Colon’ (Engine built by R and S Competition out of New York) and owned by Sportys Motorsports of Puerto Rico. We made several half track passes working on the interval times with a soft leave (un-prepped track) and on raceday we qualified number one and made it all the way to the final. A consistent string of 7.6 second runs pleased the fans, the car owner and the sponsor. Even the three minute (yes three minute) burn down in the final round was exciting and quite a crowd pleaser. Good job Axel you were a rock behind the wheel.

Now we’re off to Michigan: In the NMRA Bill Glidden (Gliddenracingengines.com) ran a string of 7.5 second runs only to succomb to a faulty line-lock in the final. He still cooks a heck of a steak and I want to thank all of those that attended (what was supposed to be a quaint gathering) but turned into my birthday party. Thanks for reminding me how old I am everyone.

Dan Testani was my point of focus at the NMRA event. He had the potential to make a move in the field (those blower cars are giving us fits) so I along with Steve Johnson of NOS camped out there. We all worked together and Dans times steadily improved every round despite the changing weather conditions. He qualified number 4 at 8.383 and finished up the event running a string of high 8.2 second runs and finally a 8.207 @ 170.51 which is the quickest/fastest pass by a nitrous car in the class. Hats off to Cary Chounard for that solid running powerplant.

Now its off to Cordova, Illinois and the old Mississippi: In IHRA Terry Frever with his Lukovich powerplant(Lukovichracing.com) took Top Sportsman honors (leftover race from the last event) and our IHRA Pro Stock test pilot Jerry Yeoman (Sonnys powerplant) landed in the #2 spot.

It was pretty warm in Cordova, so I was lounging in the motor home when Ed Steffey (owner of Pat Moores car) stopped by. He asked me to take a look at their program. I zipped over to their camp and saw a few things, made the changes and Moore (with Buck Racing Power) moved to the front of the Nitrous field. Qualifying number 3 behind the Hahn, Critchfield supercharged entries. A quick additional touch up and review after the run and they were set for raceday.

On raceday consistency was the key as both Yeoman and Moore could have been bracket racing, their cars were right there every pass.

Yeoman bowed out in round three in Pro Stock and Pat Moore lost to Ronnie Hood despite running a quicker E.T. The string of 6.37 second runs by Moore, all at220 mph proves the Moore driven Buck racing powerplant is a solid contender in Pro Modified.

Hats off to current IHRA P/Stock World Champion Chris Holbrook who made some moves in the right direction with his program. Unfortunately the Kaase powerplant kept improving in performance every round and Chris was left chasing a clutch setup. The 6.75 E.T. that was in that old top Sportsman car (carrying an 813 c.i. engine) never got a chance to shine. If you get Chris Holbrook on raceday you’ve got your hands full. Good Luck in New York Chris.

Oh and Tom Payn…good job buddy.

Thanks for reading…I’m going to get some much needed sleep (next week I think I’ll be in North Dakota…do they have a track there?) and thanks from all of us at Pro Systems.

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Sincerely,
Patrick James
President
PRO-SYSTEMS ONE INC.