Nova Kansas International Dragway Xtreme 275 Win June 30, 2015 / July 1, 2015 by John Heard Despite problems trying to qualify in the heat once again, we finally got our act together in 1st round of eliminations and made some progress and ended up in the winners circle again! No personal bests this time, I was focused on just getting the car from a > b. I think our best pass was in the final against my friend Tim Webb in his Turbo Big Block Malibu... Read more »
Nova Bash in the Backwoods Race Win June 15, 2015 / June 15, 2015 by John Heard Ol' Blue had a really good showing for her first time out in 2015, we won the Mickey Thompson "Bash in the Backwoods" Drag Radial class at Ozark Raceway Park June 6th, and we reset the class ET record as well! Sure can't complain about that for the 1st few passes on the car this year. Read more » Drag Radial ORP
Fabrication New Nitrous Bottle Water Heater April 16, 2015 / January 4, 2016 by John Heard fter many years of loading and unloading my home made Igloo Nitrous Bottle Heater from the truck bed at the track, I finally decided to make a new one that mounts permanently in the trailer. I didn’t have enough room for the bigger igloo setup so this narrower aluminum one will be really nice to have. Kurt Riffle from Riffle Motorsports had an old tank he had laying around since he used to run Nitrous and I talked him into modifying it a little for what I was wanting to do. He added some additional drain bungs, and a pad to mount a snap action safety temperature switch to the side. That safety switch is something I’ve been wanting after witnessing a controller malfunction due to a bad sensor and stay on causing the bath to get too hot, obviously that would be a very bad situation with nitrous bottles that we want to avoid. Read more » Bottle Heater Nitrous Water Tank
