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August 27, 2003 Mopac Street
Shootout
The final Mopac Shootout is up this weekend at MRP
and it will be the first race of the 
year for THE "Rock 101" (2003 version) Canso
ownerd and driven by Glen Braid. Here is a couple pictures of the
car as they do the FINAL touches on the stealth version (unpainted)
of what has to be THE coolest Pro Street Car ever to come out of the
North West. The new ride is 700-1000 lbs lighter (they have a pool
on the final weight of the new ride). The goal this weekend is to
get a bunch of easy soft laps in on Friday and Friday night, and then
be a little more aggressive on Saturday and Sunday. They hope the
car will be somewhere between .3-.6 quicker than last year based on
a similar tune-up on the tried and true 380 inch blown mouse.
August 5, 2003
Fastest Streetcar Shootout results: Bud Park, Edmonton
(Courtesy Jim Bell, JB Power Centre)
Special Note to
the upcoming August 24th Street Legal Event: NB: Pro Street - Super
Street- Real Street classes will not be run at our
Aug.24th event due to lack of competitors at our previous events.
We have
replaced these classes with what we believe to be two new exciting
classes
that will bring out more competitors and provide our race fans with
an exciting
show. The Canada West Door Slammer class at our July 20th 2003 event
put on an excellent, highly competitive show. We decided to expand
on this format and provide a more level playing field for our competitors
by developing a class for cars with power adders and cars that are
naturally aspired ( all motor) cars. Our thought process was that
running a Power adder car typically requires a higher between rounds
maintenance program. Also Power adder cars tend to be more violent
and trickier to drive than all motor cars. The handicap spread between
the quickest cars and the required qualifying ET is similar for both
Outlaw Pro and Pro Sportsman. Opening up the class to
door cars that can run a 9:50 or quicker should bring a lot of new
cars into this class.
Prize money payouts & additional class info will
be established and posted by Aug.8th on the www.jbspowercentre.com/shootout.html
site under the Fastest Streetcar new class section.
Both classes will compete on a 4/10ths Pro Tree handicap start will
similar rules to the Canada West Doorslammers.
Here are the two new classes:
Outlaw Pro
High 6's at over 190 MPH .The quickest and fastest class in Fastest
Street Car class.
Chevy II's- Camaro's - Mopar Hemi's - Supercharged & Turbo Mustangs
are just
some of the ultra quick cars you will see in this exciting class.
All cars in class MUST run a Power Adder: NOS - SUPERCHARGED or TURBO'S.
Mufflers Not required. No limitations on chassis or suspension modifications.
No delay boxes or throttle stops allowed. All cars must be door car
and be capable of running a 8:80 or quicker ET to qualify for all
run field.
Pro Sportsman
Mid 7's at over 170 MPH plus is what you will see from some of the
cars in class.
Firebirds, Camaros, Mopars, Mustangs are just some of the very fast
cars you will see in this exciting class. All cars in this class must
be all motor, naturally aspired.
No limitations on cubic inches. No limitations on chassis or suspension
modifications.
Mufflers Not required : No Power adders allowed in this class.
No delay boxes or throttle stops allowed. All cars must be door cars
and be capable
of running a 9:50 or quicker ET to qualify for all run field.
July 20th results from Bud Park
Our July 20 event was one of our best events to date. The Canada
West Door Slammer cars put an awesome show. Across the line, big
smoky burn outs were the industry standard for the Door Slammer cars.
There was a lot of really quick door cars that the Edmonton race fans
hadn't seen previously. Low qualifier was Wayne Hofer with his awesome
Chevy II running 7:03 at 197 MPH. At the end of the day it was
Steve Ellis who had made the tow all the way from the State
of Washington lined up next to Gary Gummow's beautiful Firebird powered
by some very serious Sonny Leonard HP.
Brent Harris was handling the crew chief duties for Gary and it was
a close race but
Steve Ellis got the win with a 8.769 at 140.36 to Gary's 7:843 at
176.81. Congratulations to all the competitors in Door Slammer Car
class and thanks for putting on a great show.
Pro Street class had only 4 competitors: Unfortunately, Darrell
Weflen had a car destroying accident just after he passed through
the lights. Darrel was driving his
beautiful Pro Street Dodge Challenger and was making a qualifying
pass when something happened just as Darrell past the end of the quarter
mile. The car locked up one rear tire and took off at a 45 degree
angle going 128MPH. Darrell had no chance of saving the car and the
car hit the wall and bounced off the other guard wall and came back
over and climbed up the first wall and came to rest. Randy McNally
was the first individual on the scene, as he just happened to be going
up the return road to retrieve Pat McNally driving their very quick
Pontiac Grand Prix. Darrell was unconscious when Randy arrived on
the scene and then Eric from the Bud Park Safety team came smoking
up on the track's quad to help out. The roll cage in Darrell's Challenger
did what it was designed to do and saved Darrell from any serious
injury. Darrell regained consciousness and had to be cut out of his
racecar and was taken away in an ambulance for a battery of tests.
The Stars air ambulance was called and landed on the track but fortunately
wasn't necessary to take Darrell to have the Stars team take him to
the hospital. The good news is that Darrell was OK and actually back
at work at his place of business Monday. The bad news is that his
racecar's chassis is now junk. Darrell also has a back up racecar,
a Pro Street 68 Dodge Dart with a KB Hemi, with some serious nitrous
ready to go and hopefully we will see him out ripping off some low
8's or high 7's with that car. Darrell had already run some shakedown
passes just on motor only while rowing the 3 speed Lenco with his
Dart earlier on this year. All the best to you Darrell and we are
truly sorry for the loss of your racecar but are very thankful that
you were not hurt. The final in the Pro Street class saw Shawn Bulechowsky
who had just run his blown Chevy II to a career best of 7:83 in qualifying
lined up with Pat McNally. Pat had run an 8:26 in qualifying and knew
the only way he was going to win the race was a hole shot. That is
exactly what Pat achieved and Shawn's car got out of shape big time
off the line and Pat never relinquished his starting line advantage.
Super Street also had a limited car count of only 4 competitors.
Steve McIassac and his dad Doug had their hot looking, XX Vortech
Mondo supercharged Mustang out
but it wasn't their day as the car broke the transmission input on
the first qualifying pass.
I had my 90 Mustang out and confidence was high for a mid 8 second
run. My first qualifying pass was a decent 8:69 at 159.9 on a relatively
soft tune up pass. Unfortunately, when I came back to the pits I discovered
that by 91MM Precision Turbo had seized up. So I was done for the
day.The class of the field was clearly Dale Pederson who had made
the tow down from Ft.St. John, B.C. with his ultra clean Buick Regal
which is powered by a 400 cu. in. SBC that has twin Turbonetics turbos.
Dale just kept getting stronger as the day went on. Dale best qualifying
pass was a 8:31 and then in the final against Rick Barhart's very
sweet Ford Fairlaine, Dale ripped off a blazing 8:197 at 172.47. Rick's
blown- intercooled Fairlaine was running strong at 10:129 at 134.77
but couldn't come close to Dale's low 8 second run. Congratulations
Dale to you and your crew for the awesome runs that you laid down
at Bud Park.
Real Street: what can you say: Jeff Kennedy had the field
covered with his great looking Camaro. Now Kevin's McNabb's 10:14
second ride would have taken the win if Jeff had slept on the tree
big time, but Jeff wasn't to be denied as he repeated another Real
Street class win. Jeff clicked off a 9:549 at 141:30 to take the win
over Kevin McNabb with a
10:147 at 133.72.
Hot Street: Sometimes this class is affectionately called
Gerry Brown's class. Gerry's group put on a great show and the competition
was tight all day. At the end of the day we had Jerry Naggy with his
Hemi crate motor powered machined lined up next to a very tough competitor,
Dieter Holst. Dieter gave the win to Jerry courtesy of a red light
start and Jerry took the win with an easy 11:06.
MRP Job Rite Street Legal
July 11, 2003 Rash
Dhaliwal runs 7.90 at 177.97!!!
After a check-out 8.10et during Friday's afternoon test n tune, Rash
made a great 7.99 lap to end the afternoon testing. The "Smooth
Performance" owner was inching to run down the track during the
evening Friday Night Job Rite Street Legal event. He was ready to
put on a show. This event had all the ear marks for something special
as the pits were full and so were the stands. 225 cars were on the
premises to race, and the spectator parking lot was jammed. An estimated
2000+ spectators, got to witness THE 
run
of the year so far, from the wildly painted yellow and black supercharged
Mustang. The first lap just as the sun was starting to fade to the
west saw a huge bumper scraping wheelie from the 1200+ hp 'Stang that
had the fans going wild and the crew checking out the bottom end of
the car after the run. Only a couple small dents to the exhaust and
they were not serious. Danny Boudreau from Pro Gas Engineering did
a few chassis adjustments to tame down the Super Street beast and
they were ready for their next lap. At 9.40pm Rash launched with the
wheels only a foot off the ground and the car rocketed down track
to the career best 7.90 @ 177.97. The fans ate it up!! Great job Rash!
I can't wait for the next Pro Street Event in August.
Here, Rash gets set for his first lap of the year at Mission. He
goes 8.10 and then 7.99 during the afternoon test sessions. During
the Job Rite Night races, he did a huge wheelie that Larry Pfister
should have at HH tonight
or tomorrow. Then his great 7.90 lap shown at the top of the page.
