Needs more gear. Get that 60 down about another .05-.07.

Awesome car Al, give 'em hell!

You don't think 111" rollout and a 4.27 gear is the hot ticket

Very nice...everything. Thanks for sharing the vid!

Looks great Al.

Thanks for the video!

If you have the time could you give us the history on the car?

I have always liked it.

[quote=340Cuda]Thanks for the video!

If you have the time could you give us the history on the car?

I have always liked it. [/quote

The car is an RJ Racecars IHRA Pro Stock car. It was actually Ricks personal car. They only ran it at 5 races in pro stock over two seasons before switching to a Cavalier. They won one race with it in Milan in 04, his third ever Pro Stock event he ran. They also ran it in the NMCA old Pro Street class at Joliet once. The car was lightly used by Rick and then sat. He sold it to Art Hodges who tried his hand at Pro Stock as well with not a lot of success. He then ran it a few times in PSCA Pro Street a few times. Then he parked the car, eventually selling it to a guy in Wyoming, whom I purchased it from. SO now that I have it the car is running slower than it ever has Rick had two(04/05) paint jobs on it, Art put a refrigerator white paint scheme with Strange Engineering colors on it. We stripped it down to the bare carbon and started over. Car lost 84lbs in that process.

Hers is a picture of it with the first RJ paint job


Art Hodges


As I purchased it. Was not treated really nicely by Mr Hodges. Car was pretty beat up on the exterior. A lot of cracks from tire shake in the C pillar and front end, not to mention lots of mismatched paint and repairs.


The day we finally got it to the booth


Last guide coat


Sorta final product

Thanks Al!

Good Progress....

Badass pass Al, thanks!

18 degrees today,,,,

Could you please post up some more track/car stuff? since you're near vegas could you maybe also add a few show girls checking tire pressure? knees locked, valve stems near ground too?

DT, well its winter here too. Only 62 today Sorry no show girls or strippers as of yet but I am sure they could be rounded up Best I can do is another view of the car and it little tires...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dukCfWF_sr8

Al can you put this into perspective for us how would this car 60 ft given that it has a larger motor but yet a less efficient 2 speed tranny compared to a legal pro stock car. I believe they are in the sub 1 second range but do not know the exact number. Just curious

Pro Stockers are two tenths plus faster than me. So no chance of me getting there with this engine. EVER! My goal was a 1.00 60', and a sub 3.00 to 330', maybe in good/great air somewhere we can get there. Am pretty sure we can go 2.99 or better(been 3.03 in Vegas already) to 330, not sure it will make the 1.00 60' I set for a goal. Just need more power than this ole Mopar is making.

That looked solid Al.

At least I was looking at an attractive rear end in that one, even though it was black, lol.

I hate the winter.

Well its only looks black from that angle in that lighting I hear ya the last four years living in DC most the time and every winter sucked. But for a Midwest kid I am not gonna say I didn't enjoy some of it. But now I can drive to the snow in 20 minutes, look at it, step in it and then go home here

So what does it run ? 1/8 1/4 ? Sounds good.

That thing is a rocket! Sounds really good too.

We have not had an opportunity to run it 1/4 mile yet, not for lack of trying but the one time we went to a local bracket race the track made it no Bueno. Typical for LVMS bracket races IMO.

We have competed in a couple local 1/8 mile deals and that's it so far. We have been 4.70 at 149 best with a correction factor of .9746/1.0266(according to the weather station), so typical LVMS "good" air. So we should be able to run low low .60's/150 in better air as is.

Unfortunately the cam just aint happy. IMO Bullet just missed it, the reason I say this is some lash changes picked up 30hp. But to be fair we also dont have the piston to valve to put it where it wants/needs to be(6.5 retarded), only have 210lbs of cranking compression and feel it needs a fair amount more. We have the engine out now and are cutting the pistons to try and put it clower to its happy place. Not sure we can get there but have to try before I condemn the camshaft completely. But I got tired of "racing" the dyno and it went in the car, to sort it out some, which has proved a good idea with the little issues I have had. The end of this year we will be getting new pistons and likely another cam. Hopefully it surprises me and Im wrong on the cam, find out here soon. Not going back on the dyno just in the car and we will learn what we need to.

Still have some tuning to do, just been fighting some little "new car" issues. Trans has been out a few times already as we broke it on the 3rd pass and then broke an "unbreakable" input shaft two passes later(looks like it just had a flaw in material). No excuses at all just stating whats happened and pretty confident there is more there. I think realistically we can go 7.teens in good air and low .30's here as it is with some tuning. Hopefully we can get the cam happier this weekend and that shows a positive gain.