We took delivery of Drag Pak #24 Sept 30, 2009, after all of the chassis work was completed we brought the car back to Barberton on November 20.

We have stripped the car of all insulation and sound deadening (Dodge said it came without that stuff, but we tooks out between 10 and 14 lbs of it) Painted the roll cage, interior, trunk, underside, engine compartment, and hood. Now we are getting ready to begin assembly later this week... We made a lot of different choices than most other Drag Pak owners, but we are far more weight conscious than others... any if you are looking for some Drag Pak info, we have a daily blog started and as you will see we enjoy ourselves as we are getting this car ready. The car is mine, and my son is crew chief, and doing a fine job of it. You will see him in most of the pictures, since while he is working I have time to photograph. http://newhemiracing.blogspot.com

Living in the Akron Ohio area had benefits. In the "old days" I had Arlen Vanke do my engine work and watched as closely as I could, and I often stopped by Art Arfons shop just to be close to the action. Now we have folks dropping by our shop for the same reason. Funny how life goes in cycles...

David

Welcome to the Moparts! By the way nice car!

Looks good David and welcome to Moparts.


btw...Can I get one those DP Key Chains?? haha

Congratulations. In your honor, NHRA just added 5 HP to the 5.7L engine in stock with an automatic. Merry Christmas from NHRA!

http://www.nhra.net/content/sportsman_news.asp?articleid=39428&zoneid=85

I don't see anything for the Ford CJ Moosetangs.

Ok every body in n.e.ohio lets go visit lol

I am wondering how we have never been by your shop or seen your car.
i think we need to all stop by like theraif said!

No problem guys come on over.... Plenty of work to be done, and we can always use some extra help...

On Barber Road, In Barberton Ohio near Fred Martin SuperStore. See our web site http://www.newhemiracing.com for address and phone. Between now and Christmas, we will be working 12 hour days...

We truly expect to have the fastest 09 Drag Pak and after we get our feet wet in A/SA we will drop in a 5.7 that we are building (which doesnt yet have the extra hp added to it, but will after we show what we can make one of these new hemis do... ) and run in some lower classes.

Thanks for the encouragement too guys... It has already been a long haul as we had this car on order for 14 months, planning without enough specifics and then finding out almost all of our expections were wrong. So we started once we got the car and really appreciate all of the help from Mike at MPR Racing, who built the prototypes and has the rear end and roll cage, and everything else down to a science. We are still getting the last few items into the shop, have some special parts being fabricated right now, and our custom (but legal) ECU is nearly finished and will set some of the big name ecu folks on their ear. We promised our ECU guys we wouldnt let cat out of the bag until we are running strong, but the have had my 2008 SRT8 running with the drag pack manifold and injectors for a week already. After Christmas, we will head there and fit everything onto the Drag Pak car. Still a lot to do though, and I left my son and another one of our shop guys still working there at 7:30 as I had to take an emergency shipment to UPS, but we are fininish rubbing out the paint and will start putting it back together tomorrow, but I guess I don't need to tell you that, you can read the blog..

David

Welcome David. How about bringing it to our Moparts party at B E and A Feb 20th in Medina?? It would be great to meet you and check out the car..

https://board.moparts.org/ubbthreads/show...part=1&vc=1

Stock style Ford 9"

Sorry, would love to bring it out and show it off, and especially to meet you guys, but the car will be in Pomona, Ca for the WinterNationals and then to Vegas, and Texas, and Gainesville Fla. So it will be a while before we get back to Ohio with the car.

But we won't be leaving until right after Christmas, so come on by and touch and feel it. We are putting back together right now, will measure for our driveshaft, and then pull the engine to tear it down and make our final mods.

Other questions asked were: 1: What tranny and rear end? 2: And did we do class racing before?

We are running a 904 with some sweet internals by Paul at Trans Action. A lot of folks think a 727 Pro Trans is the way to go, but our 904 is in a truck case with extra ribbing and reinforcment that nobody knew existed until we found it wil hold up to the strain. We are also using a chrysler 8 3/4 rear end with lightened Richmond Pro Gears and gun drilled axles.

In both cases, we opted for lighter units than 727 and Dana 60, with a good understanding that we will be every bit as strong as the other guys in the classes we run. If we were all out in Super Stock class, we probably would have gone ProTrans, and Dand 60.

2. As for class racing before this.. Not since the 60's and it was all different then. I drove C/MP Ford Falcon and a 56 Chevy whose class I can't recall. But now that I am retired (atually have lung cancer from Asbestos) and had a few extra dollars I decided this is what I wanted to do. But we have two different National Class Winners in foot braking classes ready to drive for us, until we either get our points accumulated, or determine that they really are better drivers than we are.

David

mopar 8-3/4"

Hotrod/ stock style 9"

Correct, the Challengers can use a 9" housing w the third member pattern of an 8 3/4 third member. NHRA has blessed this.

How does that benefit the 8-3/4??

The rule was amended as the 8 3/4 housings are "hard to find".My understanding is the Moser housing is also legal to use.

It is a moser housing, no fab stuff though.