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Nuke-Evolution : Looking Forward to 2010 - Racing with Friends & Family |
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The “Speed Merchants” AA/FD owned by Brad Green and driven by David Pace will be racing against Dan and Joanie Russell's “Nitemare” AA/FD driven by Dan Russell on August 29-30 at Mid America Motorplex just south of Omaha, Nebraska. The Geezer Hot Rod Show & Go will host gassers, altereds, a car show and swap meet. For more info and directions go to http://www.midamericamotorplex.com.
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Since the 1956 Modified/Outlaw is in the shop for some repairs, and since the Nitemare AA/FD was at home in the trailer (Cedar Falls Raceway has cut back the number of AA/FD to 2!!??) I was in “no big hurry” to get to the track. Traci and I headed north to Waterloo to do some shopping (I am looking for a Blackberry Storm).
We finally arrived at the track around noon, signed the waivers and parked the truck over in the nitro pits. My plan for the day was just to hang out and take it easy. Right away I noticed that the Orange Crate was not in the pit so it must have just made a pass. I soon found out that Dale & Radar wanted to make a 100’ test pass to see how things were going to work out.
I hung out and pretty soon everyone showed up and started servicing the car. While everything was being checked out and reassembled (no significant issues) I hung out in the basement of the trailer with Radar discussing some upcoming plans for the 1956 Modified/Outlaw…
Before long Dale’s crew had the Crate ready to fire as I merely hung out giving a hand here and there as needed. We lit the car off on methanol, built some temperature, checked for leaks and then shut it down. Dale had a pretty good tuneup in it and I was skeptical about the track’s ability to take it. (I kept this to myself though… He was right of course… the track did hold it…)
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Well, since it has been a week since the big event I figured I had better get a report out on the ‘net…
Friday afternoon Tiffany, Brittany and I went to Montezuma to pickup the engine hoist, special leveling bracket to remove the engine, and small engine stand. My youngest brother had loaned some of these parts out to his friends so Dad and I had to go and repo them. While out and about we had to make a couple sales calls for B & B Tree Service…
By the time we got all of the shop tools loaded and back on the road it was nearly dark. My daughters and I unloaded all of the tools in the Skunk Works and headed inside. I was not feeling the greatest as I could feel an impending migraine headache. Saturday AM (early) Traci & Brittany had to go to statewide softball tournaments while Tiffany & I slept in. By mid morning we were both ready to head to Montezuma to catch up with my parents. We were all going to head down to the Drag List Nationals. Needless to say after the problems I had last weekend, we weren’t too enthused about going to the track. We got to Monte a little after 12 noon and I decided to take some migraine medicine, ice-pack my neck and take a power-nap.
Two hours later I was awake and things were a lot better. We proceeded to get ready and headed for the track. Once there I met up with Bill Pratt and the Drag List gang near the Nitro Funny Car pits.
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This update starts at 4:00 AM Saturday morning on 7-11… This was the first day I was to get the good ol’ Hot Rod out for testing so far this year. My schedule has been heavy on work/family stuff and light on racing this year. Aside from working in the shop, it has been a lean year trackside.
Due to oil-burning issues the Hot Rod has been suffering for the last 2 seasons, earlier this year I pulled the intake off the engine and discovered that we had a small leakage on the intake gaskets. I ASSumed (I know…I Know) that this was the problem for my oil-smoked exhaust problems and promptly ordered a custom set of intake gaskets from SCE Gaskets. I reassembled the Big Block. Dan, Joanie and I lit it off at the undisclosed Skunk Works facility. The engine responded well to our timing and barrel valve adjustments. All was looking good. Tiffany and I hot-lashed the valves and buttoned up the top-end of the engine.
We proceeded getting the Hot Rod ready for testing for an upcoming match race by installing the dual parachutes, fire bottles, and related hardware. Thanks to Dan, Brittany and Tiffany for their help on this as we barely made all of the upgrades prior to our 07/11 testing.
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Nuke-Evolution : Bru Racing Skunk Works - Nitrous Bottle Filling Service |
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Bru Racing Skunk Works is pleased to announce that we now how the ability to fill nitrous bottles.
I am using the Nitrous Master Transfer System and the Nitrous Master Pro Scale. This system ensures that you have cold-filtered, liquid nitrous in your bottle sold by weight and not pressure. The Pro Scale is accurate to +/-0.001 lbs.
Currently filling bottles out of our Central Iowa location, we may offer trackside service at a later date.
ericdavidbru@yahoo.com
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The Hot Rod can be seen at the top of page 35 in the 2009 MSD Catalog.
Download your copy today: 2009 MSD Catalog
Outlaw Eric
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