HOT ROD Drag Week

HOT ROD Drag Week will be fairly close to home next week. Anyone go to watch?

I highly recommend if you like a variety of cars, there is always cool, unique, and fast stuff there. But get there early, lots of those cars make one pass then hit the road.

Ok, good to know. They start racing at 8AM.

Well worth the price of admission. A lot of cool stuff rolls through and its amazing how they haul everything in a racecar.

....There be some Bada$$ cars rows though the gate here.

Me and 3 other Mopar guys from Germany. We did not get starting places so we just came over to watch and to
follow the whole week. Maybe we can annoy the guys from HRDW so hard we get a pre regis for 2020.

Welcome to the USA and I hope you have a great time.

The only way anyone gets an early registration is to finish in the top three in their class or win the Spirit of Drag Week Award.

Anyone know of a valid link so I can watch this years DW on youtube?

Keep an eye on HotRod.com they will post the link everyday.

The only place I have seen mention of it being aired is on the Motor Trend App

Hope it is on Youtube again...

https://www.motortrendgroup.com/hot-rod-drag-week-2019-to-crown-fastest-street-car-in-america/

"Drag Week will also be viewable September 9-13 via livestream programming on the MotorTrend App, the only auto-dedicated subscription streaming service that boasts nearly 4,000 hours of world-leading automotive shows, including HOT ROD Garage, Roadkill, Fastest Cars in the Dirty South, and coverage of America’s most popular automotive events, such as HOT ROD Power Tour, Roadkill Nights, Barrett-Jackson, and much more."

Should still be available on youtube just like in years past.

Thanks a lot. So far we really enjoyed the trip!
Top three? We will arrive with a Toyota RAV rental car, so sounds feasible

Wow. I saw this on Facebook tonight. Some guys shouldn’t even bother signing up for a spot every year

Drag week friends who are on wait list. There emailing up to #250 on wait list. If your going show up.

Yeah I thought the east coast would actually be able to fill up the event with a real 400 cars.

I know Hot Rod Doesn't Care, they sold 400 spots at just under $400 in just a few minutes, now as those people drop out they are selling more spots.

I wanted to do a "Mopar's of Drag Week" thread but they have yet to publish an entrants list probably due to the massive drop outs. I guess those east coasters that begged the event to come east can't back it up lol .

Two strangest entrants I have seen are a 1919 air cooled Franklin, and a Modified Tesla. There is going to be people chasing E85, and people chasing parts, and the tesla guy is going to be on the hunt for extension cords!

Nah. A set of slicks and a diesel genset in the trailer and he's good to go.

Kevin

Fueling or charging a vehicle from the trailer is actually against the rules. With an electric car I think that breaks both rules lol.

Strapping a generator to the trunklid is legal and has been done lol.

I'm assuming that rule is for while in transit? I was thinking for fast charge at the track.

Seriously tho, what else would you need to carry? No maintenance between rounds other than top up the charge and depending on what model, 4 wheel traction. One of those set on kill could lay waste to a large portion of the field.

Kevin

Yes he could do that in the pits for sure.

I think i saw where he said it had "Ludicrous Plus" which has a better battery and he might have upgraded more on top of the weight loss I saw. Probably bottom 10s?

Drag Week on Youtube


>>>Day 1 LIVE FEED HERE <<<

Thanks for that link.

I was able to get the whole thing listened or watched by about 9:30 last night. Rain delay made for a crappy day but they got day one done.

The Franklin went a 30.XX@45 lol

The Tesla Went 10.47@124 and arrived at the hotel for the next day on the same charge he left with.

The Miller/Bowers/Shellehammer Dart went a 9.71 on its first pass.

Low ET was set by Tom Bailey with a 6.21@228 but the Swedes in the Opal went 6.43@230 so that should be a good battle.

The one pass only rule due to the rain ruined some peoples days for sure but plenty got it done. If you ran faster than your tech speed you got an automatic 20.00 ET.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn_Pimi6BDM

https://www.motortrendondemand.com/watch-live

This link should work all week. No subscription needed. Then you don't have to search for the link on Youtube every day.

With you tube you can pause and rewind, I don't think the motortrend app allows that.

True, but sometimes I have trouble finding the Youtube link right away in the morning.

Jeff Lutz had a generator running to keep his car driving on the first leg in 2016. so I guess it would be legal.

Why is it Pro-Tree? I don't remeber them running it that was in years past.

Drag week has been pro tree for many years

Hemi_ Joel, I take it you didn't make it in this year?

No, I fouled up in the registration race, and ended up on the wait list. I never got the email offering me a chance to register.

Camaro ate cam

Brad now in first

Wow! That Camaros was bad fast! Saw that pass today and wondered how long they could keep that up! Forgot to put my wireless headphones on the charger, guess I’ll have to lug my phone around at work tomorrow

For some reason, I do not remember it that way....

I think it went pro tree in 2016, but I might be wrong.

I know Matt with the camaro has worked his tail off to be on drag week I hate to see him go out, his last in attempt in 2016 or 17 ended the same way unfortunately so something with his combo isn't happy.

Freiburger was saying yesterday that so many drop out that if you just show up that they wouldn`t turn you away. Apparently they never get the 400 needed on day 1.

>>> Moar Drag Week ~ Wednesday ~ DAY 3 YT Link <<<

Another 9.3 for the Bowers/Shellehamer/Miller boys....

They were actually amazed at the amount of cars that completed the first leg....

The LS ate a camshaft.

It's generally a 20-25% failure rate throughout the week. Only 10 cars dropped out after Day one. Still a lot of the week to go.

Brad ran another 9.3x today, 9.32 I think.

As long as they can keep doing what they are doing I think they have a lock on the class win.

I know they sure like to eat cam bearings too.

Found a good show of the Bowers entry on facebook

First days mileage was 160 with lots of stop and go traffic. Todays was 220 I think.Hope they can reach at least 900 miles for the week.Wife and I flew in to watch the action at Cecil yesterday.Caught up with most everyone we knew except red light Ross. He was in a second gen Corvette and not his RoadRunner.Hope its not a trend.I will say the number of spectators at Cecil County rivaled the number that Great Lakes Dragway is known for.

2014 was definitely the first year for the pro tree at Drag Week.

After seeing that 1917 Franklin make it to day three and make a pass has me thinking Joel needs to get the rebuild on that Duesy done.

I don't think I want to risk getting paired up with a 6 second Esconda, or some other out of control berserko!

And besides that, I love racing the coupe, and want to be competitive. In 1929, the Duesenberg was a rocket ship. In 2019, not so much.

Lets just say it was interesting checking out day 2.I think a few people were humbled.

I was one of the ones that dropped out at the last minute. Was extremely disappointed but I live in the very south east corner of Virginia Beach just above the North Carolina line. The last 2 years we have been affected by hurricanes during the time frame of Drag Week. This year it was right before the storm but had to completely stop working on the car and shift to storm prep and then storm clean up.

I'm sure I'm not the only that was affected, but for anyone living along the South East coastline September is not ideal.

I was surprised that everyone who entered,wait list and just showed up got in this year.

Day four.....

>>> Drag Week Day Four ~ YT link <<<

Thanks for the links John Brown

Speaking of links.... here's Day Five.

>>> Drag Week Day Five YT link <<<

Thank you John!!!! :-)

Lets keep our fingers crossed Billy's nephew Billy (Dale's son) is in first place in his class and has a decent lead with only one other car running in their class. Super street big block power adder. 9.883 avg to 11.378 Go Rusty Duster

I have a buddy that registered and headed that way only to have the trans in his car fail on the drive out.

Bailey just went 5.998 wow!!!

Now that’s more like it. With some of the fastest tracks in the United States I expected to see some crazy fast times. These are all “new best” caliber type of tracks with sub sea level conditions

Last I saw the air was like 1700 ft today. Not sub sea level but really good for drag week air.

Better than RMRW Bandimere at 8800 ft.LOL

Billy won his class, pretty sure Dale got a podium finish in the Gremlin and Brian finished in the Barnyard Viper. I think MoparBilly is pleased.

Steve Morris and Tom Baily get it done.......The talent and the abilities of that guy is unreal. Wow! Developed his own billet engine, built it, raced it, and shattered all the records....incredible.

I wonder if its true the rumor he is working on a billet water Hemi next.

Brad Bower and his rider Brett Miller went on to win Super Street Small Block Naturally Aspirated. They made two runs on Friday, one was a 9.09. Congratulations on a job very well done. Photos from Brad's Facebook post.

PERFECT WAY to HONOR MoparBilly !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

9.09???

Hot damn. Holding back .3 all week to put the nail in the coffin!

The 4 week drag week build.
Car was basically a shell 4 weeks before drag week.
We finished putting it together at VMP first drive was about 7 pm that night.
Brad Bowers and I put about 8 miles on it that night and made its first pass after the rain cleared.

Then we set out to drive 1000miles in the heat on drag week.

You just don’t understand drag week until you “do it”

Our buddy tory Shellhamer did a bunch of fab work on the car in one week. (Headers in 2 days 😳)

We went on to win the class (SS SB NA)
The racing Gods rewarded our hard work with not much problems for the Craziness that is DRAGWEEK 😀👍🏻

The engine was built in 2011 for engine masters challenge.

410” we gave up 20” per the rules for small block.
Has over 150 dyno pulls and 100s of passes in my car.
Has had the cam and intake changed over the years.
But engine has not been apart from 2011.

I put a new set of valve springs on for the drag week deal.

Put a street oil pan on and pump in the pan for the drive.

We had no over drive and 28” tall tire with 4.30 gear engine was run 3500-4000 rpm all week on the 1000 + mile drive.
Super happy with the engine only thing done to engine all week was an oil change and cut/check filter.

We where shifting at 8700 rpm at the track 😉

I need a few good days of sleep to think about doing this again 😀

Wow and congratulations....!

Never short of envy when I see what you pull off.

Congratulations! Watched all week on live stream.

^^^^ THAT IS SUPER IMPRESSIVE ! ! !

CONGRATS FOR SURE, THATS A BAAAAD STREET CAR RIGHT THERE

Fine job.. what year was that when you won

They won their class this year. It was fun to watch. Thanks to John Brown, he posted links to the live feed every day.

Thanks

Congrats Brett, Tory and Brad you are badasses

If it hadn't been raining buckets Friday in Michigan, I'd have been on the road going to the Pure Stock Drags. You guys would have had to fend for yourselves. As it was, I wasted most of my day (week?) watching the live feed myself. Even when I had to go out, (for lunch, mainly) I ran the feed back so I could see what I missed. Glad to have done it. Now, where do I go to get paid.

some pictures i took at atco when they were there.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/92SVmZ8GqqpV18BW9






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Ok you guys that weren’t ready. HIT THE SHOP. Now!!!

yeah, that's me, I was not ready with my Barracuda this year. I had to take my Chevy. It worked just fine, although I was a second behind the badass Hemi in Mike Finnegan's 55. At least I got to race next to him on his last pass where he clinched the A/Gas win.

The only full on Pro Mod on Drag Week has head lights, they get covered up when he makes a pass on the strip, then uncovered for the driving portions. It's a really press worthy car, even if it's not your bag.

There is still a decent amount of coverage of the cars that we all build and race.

......Hope drag week doesn't turn into a promod race.

There ended up being only two cars in the 6s by the end of the week this year, it's not a pro mod race, by a long shot. There were 300 other cars that finished, including several black primer Darts

Had a blast on dragweek, plan to defend the title next year. Hope to make the car faster with some changes and testing . Wasn’t holding anything back was just figuring out what the car wanted and one track MIR we didn’t have a lot of fuel so we make a conservative hit to make sure it didn’t spin. Brett’s motor didn’t like my powerglide and Shiloh’s convertor had 2000 rpm fall back. But the whole set up worked really well on the street.

Nice job guys representing the Mopar banner!!