Dave sold road runner to Rick Calahan and raced the supper bee in pure stock but liked fast better so he sold the supper bee also to Rick and built another road runner for fast.

That is correct. All 3 cars are VERY nice, and detailed to the max. Dave does very nice work. Rick has been running the old RR in Drag Week the last couple years.

Almost every car in the fast class looks like a VERY NICE detailed stock resto at first glance. Make no mistake. There are some well thought out race cars here. There are some very smart guys running this class.
Doug

And probably as many secrets as the stock guys too.

how r these cars so fast/?

BIG cubic inches and crazy flow from the cylinder heads.


...and about 500 other details that are sweated over!

"Stock Appearing" in no way shape or form means these motors are anywhere near stock. They are large cubic inch, high compression, very trick heads, trick cams and a bunch of other things to extract every ounce of power they can. There is nothing trick about the chassis to make them work on junk tires. They just do the best they can and have learned how to drive them without blowing the tire off early, by using power management. They are fast because they make BIG power and are for the most part lighter than they look and work good.

Same principle as all the big HP stuff out there that hauls the mail on tiny drag radials. LESS tire, MORE power management

Look at it this way. Stock Eliminator racers make most average hot rodders look stupid. Stockers go crazy fast with basically stock but very well scienced out motors. Now take that same motor, make it lots bigger, fully port the heads, raise the compression, use lightweight internals and other things. A/Stock is where HEMI cars run. The class record is high nines at about 130mph. Dudeks car runs nearly 140. That's 10 mph on an A stock HEMI. That's a LOT of power

With the mph the car is running, he's giving up close to 5 tenths in e.t. due to the tire and suspension limitations.

Assuming (and it is just that, an assumption) that he's been able to get it down to 3,200 lbs. with driver, it's well over 700 HP at the crank! Even more impressive when you consider the restrictions of the stock style intake and exhaust manifolds!

Try well over 800hp. The latest article on Hot Rod.com is claiming 860hp.

Damn! Impressive!

Wait for the 1000 hp E body coming in the spring...

Where they going to hide the bottle? :-)

This is so true. Last time I was at a FAST race every car there looked like it just rolled off the showroom floor. And they sure do their homework when it comes to getting every ounce of power. Ron

Hello,
Just saw this post! Thanks everyone for the kind words. Dad and I had a great time and we're both ecstatic how the car ran. I was happy to bring the MPH record back home to the Mopar camp. As of now 4 different F.A.S.T. cars have reached a 9-second barrier. The Mopar camp are the only ones who breached it 5 passes in a row. Hoping for another three cars the breach the 9's next year....