More testing May 12th
Back at it. The weather was great. Had some fuel issues that
cost us some pistons and rings. Had to rebuild at the track but we
got it done and made a good test lap after that. Then we loaded up
as we are ready for the first race in Woodburn Oregon.
May 5th Testing Came and Went
It was an interesting weekend. Weather was not great but OK. We
had some rain delays. Saturday we worked on the car all day and
made a couple passes on Sunday. Things were OK but we need
to do more testing. Here is a shot of the Rig in the rain.
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Special Thanks to Prostock
We would like to thank the great people of Prostock Performance
for stepping up and helping us out this year. Your attention to detail
has made such a difference. Thanks
Testing in two weeks
We are planning on testing May 5th weekend at Castrol Raceway in Edmonton.
This is weather permitting of course but our hopes are up for a good weekend.
Tomorrow (Saturday) we are going to put the motor back in the car and
fire it up. Also planning on getting the car in the new trailer to see if the tie downs
are going to work.
Wish us luck.
Double Trouble - April 2012
Both these bad boys are ready for the 2012
race season.
Made quite a few changes to the main motor. It will do one of
three things:
1 - Go real fast
2 - Be a handful to get down the track
(Like promod cars are not a lot to handle anyways LOL)
3 - Blow up.
Almost Ready - Mar 2012
The engine is all freash, Lots of head work done this year.
The intake needs some work. The trailer is ready to go.
Pro Awning is installed, every thing is set up and ready to go
can't wait. May 5th weekend is our first test weekend.
Remember to get your T Shirts
Special Thanks
I would like to thank all the people in the Medicine Hat Drag Racing Assocociation
for the very nice mounted picture award that was given to me.
I look forward to participating in the crew member for a day fund raiser again this year.
Update on stolen trailer
This guy has done it again. He now has stolen a 1969 Charger in the same manner
as stealing my trailer
Be on the look out for this guy.
Check out the new photos relating to this guy .
WANTED - THIS GUY HAS STOLEN FROM ME AND OTHERS!!
Wow 2012 is here.
Time to rebuild again.
Got the engine stripped down. Going to freshion the heads this year
as well as the normal rods, rings, bearings. Pistons need replacing
this year as well.
What’s new these days?
Dec - 2011
Preparations for the 2012 race season are underway.
The engine is out of the car awaiting parts as we are
freshening the motor and we discovered some compression
problems. After that we plan on booking some dyno time at Prostock
Performance in Edmonton to help us with some data for calculating
transmission gear ratios etc. No changes really to the car for 2012 other
than some gear changes and perhaps calculating some tune ups to run
4 stages of nitrous instead of 3 as we ran in the past.
A pro awning has been ordered for the new race trailer.
Should see that at the end of January sometime.
The new race trailer has been set up and is 90% complete and ready
for 2012.
Blast from the past
Posted some pictures of my original hot rod.
Car is in good hands in Nova Scotia.
Stolen Trailer Scam.
I had my 2003 32ft Haulmark Edge Stacker trailer stolen in a scam by some clever people.
The trailer was for sale and in came a buyer. He came and looked, asked the right questions, went away thinking about the deal. Called, came back to purchase it with a TD Bank Draft. I looked over the bank draft and it all checked out. His address added up to a person with his name etc so I let him take the trailer and gave him a bill of sale. I deposited it into my bank without question. It went off to the TD bank and a week later was marked as “Counterfit”. The address for this guy turned out to be bad and the phone was a pay as you go bought Cash.
He used the name of John Mills but I am sure that was not his name. He drove what seemed to be about a 1998 or so Dodge Dually I believe it was burgundy in color. This was a Caucasian man about 6 ft 2 or 6 ft 3. I would say in his late 40s or early 50s.
The trailer would stand out if you know stacker trailers or just plain trailers.
It had a man door on both sides as well as pit lights on both sides.
The “drivers side” had an RV awning at one point but was removed so the fastener holes and outlines are still there. It had a scrape on the “drivers side” rear as it must have brushed something hard on a turn some place in its lift time.
Trailer VIN #16HGB32393G053638
Pictures of the trailer can be found at this site:
New pictures
We would like to thank Paul Grant for some great pictures he took of us in Woodburn
this year. He is one of the best there is at his craft.
Time to get ready for snow.
Time to unload and get everything
ready for winter. The car, spares
etc are in the shop nice and warm.
The RV is winterized and put away
till spring. Sad.
Ok, Testing now Sept 24th Weekend
We decided to do one more test weekend. There are a number
of things we did not get to try this year so there is one more weekend
open for us to test at Edmonton's Castrol Raceway. Come on down and say hi.
The 2011 year is done
Early finish again this year. Poor year for racing.
Weather, budgets play a big part in our
sport and did not play us a good hand this year.
We get an early start on a new direction for 2012.
On Display - Cancelled because of rain.
We will be putting the car on display at JB Power
Center in West Edmonton Friday July 22
for an open house event from 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Come on down - 116 ave and 170 Street
Edmonton, Alberta
New Race Rig - July /Aug
Purchased this NRC /Freightliner motorhome
as well as this 32ft stacker trailer from Georgia.
Off to pick it up in the next week and a half. Going to
be a long drive home.
Medicine Hat Promod Feature
Friday was qualifiying and boy it was a windy day.
We cut it down to an 1/8th mile becouse of the winds.
Saturday was eliminations. Again we made it to the semi
final and lost out do to tire spin at 300ft.
What a weekend in Edmonton 
Rain, Rain, Hail and more Rain. It was a tuff
weekend to make a call on a car set up to get
down the track. You check the track, tune the
car and it would rain. Go up to make a run and
blow the tires off. Come back, change for the
condition and go back up and it would rain again.
We made 2 bad qualifying attemtps then we got one right.
Ran a 6.37 at 216 mph to move up from #7 to #1 qualifier.
We won the first round eliminations and then decided we needed to
put a very conservative tune up in the car to ensure we did
not have to pedal the car as we have been doing. Our opponent
for the semi-finals had been running 6.6s so we thought we were in
good shape. This time Vern (our opponent) figured it out and ran a 6.2 to
our 6.5 so we lost out. It was a challenge for all of us due to the changes
in track and weather but we got it done and look forward to that event next year.
Pictures should be up later today.
NitroJam Edmonton around the corner
We have a plan for Edmonton that we think will gain us
a couple of 10ths. Getting ready for the largest event in Edmonton
and looking forward to racing at our home track.
Look for us racing with the West Coast Promods.
New pictures from Woodburn
We would like to thank the people from Grandstand Photos
from Albany Oregon for the pictures of us in Woodburn.
Woodburn was a blast.
Wow, Long hall but worth every mile of it. The people there
are great, the track was wonderful, the management was great
and the weather was just fine (up until the final).
We had our share of bugs but we got the bugs out and made some
runs. 6.408 was our best there but we had to soften up the car
just to get down the track. We lost out in the semi final do to a red light.
Ooops - I guess I should not do that. Thanks to all the fans and staff
in Woodburn for such a great weekend. Hope to go back next year.
Locked and Loaded for Woodburn
The car is all assembled, still some brake issues but I will deal with
those at the track. We are loaded and ready to head out tomorrow
for our first race of the year in Woodburn Oregon. We are meeting up with
some good friends who are also racing but they only become the competition
at the starting line only and the rivalry only last 6 seconds.
The race is the 36th Annual Rose Festival Drags set for June 11-12
featuring the West Coast Promods. Long drive but should be a lot of fun.
Wish us luck.
Time for a Fresh Start
We did some testing and were plagued with problems.
Started with some rev limiter issues causing some
bad things to happen when the nitrous came on.
We hurt some rings but no big deal. Then we had
a new expensive light weight oil line fail
(it was pressure tested and tagged) thankfully it
happened in the pits. The brake master cylinder decided
it had had enough and then I had no brakes.
Yikes, scary start to this new combination. Got back
home, replace the master cylinder and freshened up
the motor new rods, bearings, rings, went back to the
braided steel oil lines and we are hoping that our problems
are gone away. The ignition box is going back to MSD
for testing and our spare in installed.
Caught Testing May 2011
We would like to thank Darrell Sabrowsky for sending
us this great picture of us testing May 14th at
Castrol Raceway in Edmonton. Notice Colin in the
new Dads Gone Racing crew shirt.
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