Ran the KOS race at Rockingham this past weekend. We had 8 cars in the race. There were a couple more that broke testing the day before.
My test run that morning didn't quite go as planned. Big wheelie, had to pedal, but no damage. Was running Lenny Melton driving Patrick Calvey's '70 road runner. It is Tony Scopa's old car from the old KOS days. He treed me bad...it had been over a year since I put the car in the beams, lol.
video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Dh4eZ7EL2I
fast fwd to 1 hour 57 minutes. It's a long video.

I lost first round to a low 8 sec hellcat. I made a stupid mistake and didn't put a fresh bottle in the car after my test run. Made a shock adjustment and kept the front down, but it was just slow.
I brought 4 bottles to the track and forgot that one of them only had enough for one hit. Of course that's the one I grabbed to put in the car that morning. After my first test run, I didn't change it out b/c I thought it should be good for another pass. Oh well.
I'm very outclassed in this race, but it's still fun to do. My car was 3760 lbs w/ me in it at the track scales on Saturday. Pretty sure my combo could be 2900 lbs by the rules or something like that, lol. I could remove the motor and still be overweight.
Still had fun even though the racing didn't quite work out the way I hoped. Family was there and had a great time.
Leon Hudson (very fast '65 cuda) won the race over track owner Dan VanHorn (very fast hellcat).



NEW VIDEO... https://youtu.be/K7V4wNWWX4g



Here are a few pics.

one more

Looks like Tony Scopa's old Road Runner in the other lane.

It is.

That’s getting up there, how quick do bring the spray on ? Doug

You don't look that outclassed at the finish line. Ever thought of hanging 10-15 pounds of lead in the nose of that thing for the sake of trying it?

Doug...that was a .3 sec delay and a 1.4 sec ramp from 10%. It just has way too much SLR. The last time I ran the car I had my full exhaust system on it, which really hurts the lowend torque. This time I just had the bullets off the collectors and the difference in lowend torque is crazy. This same "tuneup" w/ the quiet exhaust pulled a 2-3' wheelie and just carried it out 150-200 feet in much better air conditions. I knew the short exhaust would be faster, but I wasn't expecting that big of a difference.

smalltyredart...The fastest cars are at least 1/2 sec quicker than mine to the 1/8. I was running that lime RR down, but Lenny is still sorting out that car. I have definitely thought of adding nose weight, but I still have more shock adjustments and limiters to try. I don't get to the track much at all to run the car anymore, so I'm still sorting it out even though it's been years, lol.

Very cool event and looks like you had fun. Thanks for sharing!

Was this clocks on or clocks of. And if clocks on what times.

Clocks off. Apparently there are some big money grudge racers that run at these events (not sure where) that are scared someone will see their times and put a severe damper on their income for the remainder of the season.

8 cars seems like a decent turnout. It’d be a fun class to be competitive in.

Dennis

I heard 9 cars which stinks especially at a no clocks event. That would have a bye run in every round till the final.

8 cars, not 9.
1. Chip Owens (blue '70 cuda, 575" hemi on nitrous)
2. Lenny Melton (lime green '70 road runner, 572" wedge on nitrous) Tony Scopa's old KOS car from NY, now owned by Patrick Calvey
3. Leon Hudson (black '65 cuda, 440" R5P7 SB on nitrous) same car he's always run in KOS
4. David Robinson (silver Duster, BB wedge turbo)
5. Sheila Bowman (black '72 cuda, BB wedge on nitrous) Same black cuda they've always run in KOS, just a lot different now
6. David Smith (burgundy '75 Duster, BB wedge on nitrous) Roger Laudy's old KOS car
7. Dan VanHorn (black Hellcat, G3 hemi turbo)
8. Andy Wagner (black/blue/white lettered up Hellcat, G3 hemi supercharged)

There was a lime green duster that broke the transmission on Friday testing. Not sure what his name is or the combo.
Chris Dufresne has a twin turbo Gen 3 hemi in a '64 dodge I think. Pretty sure he came in too light.

I saw bits and pieces scanning thru this video but i didn't realize it was a Mopar only race? What are the class rules? It's good to hear some of these old names are still around!

Looks like it was a good race, Im bummed that i missed ANOTHER one, but thats how it goes. Im trying like hell to make the race in Ohio , but honestly i dont know for sure its going to happen

Dog gone Leon gave me bad info. Lol 😂

The list is a bit of a blast from the past.

Well it looked fun and any day you can make Lenny think he hears footsteps behind him is a good day.

Agreed, that list is definitely a blast from the past! I remember seeing almost all of those cars in the various mopar mags in the 90's/early 2000's. Super cool.

Awesome job on saving it from hitting the bumper. It got soooooo close to touching!

I should have went but a 12 hour tow one way by myself didn't sound fun.