Prostock

Hi everyone I wanted to say hello its been awhile. I know most of you have given up on me and the hemi engine but I wanted to give some good news. I have made some unbelievable gains over the past 4 months. I think to put the hemi back on top in prostock. So keep a eye on us in indy i think we will surprise everyone.

Great news and good luck.

Excellent news! Best of luck in your return.

- EM

Good luck Alan, looking forward to see you running well.

It'll be interesting so see something different.
Doug

Good Luck!

Yeah ... like the NHRA is going to let that happen !!!

Keep up the good work ! Were all cheering for you !!

Used to be my favorite class....Always dreamed of driving one someday........Keep at it, and you can make it happen...

no matter how it turns out,kudos for the hard work it takes to compete at that level

Thanks for checking in!

I will be rooting for you at Indy and beyond!

I know you will be very busy when racing starts but any updates you can give us will be appreciated.

Badass! I really hope you can stir things up Alan

Thanks for the update Alan & good luck !!!!

If you can make get your engine program competitive, I just might watch Pro Stock again.

Roger that .. major GOOD LUCK ..

So who is making the bestest PS fiberglass these days ?

This is great news and can't wait to see what you have is store. Do you think you may found enough to outpace the teams who have surely been working hard on there programs ?
AG.

Probably nobody, I think everything is carbon fiber these days...

Excellent news, well done, will give me a reason to watch Pro Stock again......

Alan, we will NEVER stop rooting for you and supporting you!

You have fans all over the world!

Good luck!

Ragnar in Iceland

I stand corrected ..., CF .....

But when I was making some very select PS body parts way back some moons ago ....my PS hood weighed less than Don Ness’ part .... that was supposedly CF ..... those BIG OEM Camaro and Firebird pieces ....

Good luck Alan, we all know extra HP is hard to come by, keep up the fight, we are all your fans

I hope all your hard work has paid off good luck this wknd

I cant wait! I have been following you since I met you in Atlanta. Pre-sponser days I believe.. You did give me an ARC engine shirt.
Go MOPAR EM!

Qualified 16......

MPH is getting closer see they went 205 the faster cars are going 206 so there making progress

We got lucky today and got in. Ran OK in Q1 but we are not running good as we should. I think it has to do with the changes we have made to the pistons to gain power but the timing that we have run in the past isn't working. Its great to have another crack at it tomorrow. I went the save way in Q2 and that was ugly tomorrow I'm going to go fast or burn some pistons lol.

Good luck today Alan, you’ve got a whole bunch cheering you on. Great that you’re updating everyone on your progress.

best to you guys Allen were rooting u on. Go Hemi Power

Go for it Alan. Mow those Chebies down.

Good Luck !!

Knock it out of the park Alan !

Al,you may have brought back a few fans that were not really watching the Chevy show anymore!Hope you found enough to go some rounds!
We are watching!

Good luck today Alan.

Was hoping to see a respectable 1st round elimination run.
7.0

Looked like the engine laid down last half, MPH way off.

Keep at it.... we're rooting for you.

Joe

He said on Facebook that it started to get loose on top end and he pushed in the clutch.

We had a decent showing this weekend I think. The motor was probably hurt in Q2 on Saturday and that's why we slowed up. Jason was just pulling away from me at half track so I pushed the clutch in. The gains that we have found on a Dyno definitely showed up in q1. The oil pressure was low on the dyno before we left and at the track we only had 33 pounds on the chip and 42 pounds at the strip. We just ran out of time to take the motor back of part and find out what the problem was before we had to leave. .I don't think we have any major damage so we should be able to fix it pretty easily.
We should be able to get out and test before we race in Topeka to figure out what ratios the new engine combination likes. What I think is going on is that the motor is so much better above 10,000 I don't have to run as much gear in second third and fourth. Which is a good thing because then the mph will probably come up another one to one and a half at the finish line
By the time we race again the back up motor should beto.ust as good as the motor we ran on Saturday we're just waiting on some new Parts.
We also received a new Hogan's manifold just before we pulled out for Indy that we are excited to see what that's worth on the dyno and also try it when we go testing.
I know you always hear how you could have ran faster but I guarantee we could have easily gone 6.66 in q1 and that is very competitive compared to the fastest car. we have turned the corner that I will prove that the Mopar is just as good at the Chevy as we don't invest a quarter of the amount of R&D money that they have.
Another exciting part of this whole deal is. The car is actually is going down the race track straight as an arrow and I don't have to drive it all over the racetrack.

Alan,

Thanks for the update and please keep us posted.

What is your normal oil pressure?

45 on the chip 60 st the finish line

Awesome updates, thank you for checking in. We really eat this stuff up around here so don't be a stranger. The tech info is very cool.

Thank You

When you've been out of the game and irrelevant for over 25 years....

Good luck Alan, I wish you luck as I believe you are the only Mopar R&D division.

Thanks for the updates and good luck!

1/2 life! lol...

Good job, hope you keep finding more power.

Doc was very revelant when he was still working. Now retired and living in Paradise.We could combine our retirement accounts and NOT be near where he is!

LMAO. You are speaking on a subject of which you have no idea. Not unlike Doc.

those AsIaN babes DoC has HaNdY ain't CHEAP to maintain ! [or so i have been told. ]
ol DoC has quite a few bank accounts just for them !

Great interview with Brian Lohnes:

https://www.nhra.com/news/2020/dodg...alks-about-building-hemis-and-horsepower

Thanks it was probably the biggest interview for us. 40k views in one day great for a low budget team.

We had a great day today. I went to another teams dyno to test. I'm lucky to be able to do that just to compare there power to mine and we killed it. We were a tiny bit down at 9000 but from 9200 and up we have power to run with the best. I think the problem at 9000 is valve spring issue im pretty sure I can fix that with a .030 shim. Its funny when ever you got something going on around 9000 it always seems to be valve springs.

Great news!

I wonder if your valve spring or cam vendor could give you some spintron time to see what is going on at 9,000 rpm.

Good Luck at Indy-3

Alan, have you talked to Billy Godbolt at Comp Cams about valve springs? He seems to be the go to guy on that subject.

Alan,
When you’re testing on the dyno..... what’s the rpm range of the pull, and what rate are you using?

Most of the time 8600 to 10200. There are times I'll run it from 8600 the 10700 but not a lot of we don't like to tear up parts. 600 RPMs per second is the rate

Thanks.

Alan, thanks for keeping on keeping on, you do us proud!

Cool deal

[i][/i]Did the car race this weekend, I missed the tv coverage?

https://www.nhra.com/results/2020/n...-series/42301/qualifying-order/pro-stock

ouch.
Didn't qualify

1st session Alan rolled the lights...

2nd session they got shut off on the starting line with an oil leak.....

tough weekend...

I thought I was the only racer that had weekends like that