Our great friend and driver, David Pace, lost his brother Richard this morning. The entire Speed Merchants team offers our sincerest condolences to David and his family during this tough time.
Brad
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
New parts, new year
Preparing for the 2009 racing season has begun. A new set of billet aluminum cylinder heads from Don Webster at Billet Machine Technologies tops the list. We are also going to hone our cylinders .010 to make a 4.040 inch bore and get new pistons. Rods rings and bearings and we are ready to put our engine back together. The clutch also got new facings and certifications for another year. As far as the car goes things are coming along nicely and I'm very excited.
I start my new job with American Electric Power January 5th. Being a new employee with a rotating shift work schedule is probably not going to allow for as much racing as we did in 2008. So far it looks like some spring testing in maybe May and the Goodguys race at Indy are what the springs holds in store for the Speed Merchants. From there we will just have to see but I really want to book some one day/night match races at some of the tracks in our area. I have made contact with those tracks and hopefully we can work something out that will give us some opportunities to run the car locally and have some fun while continuing to tweak the engine and clutch.
To all my friends, family and readers of this blog HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!
Brad
I start my new job with American Electric Power January 5th. Being a new employee with a rotating shift work schedule is probably not going to allow for as much racing as we did in 2008. So far it looks like some spring testing in maybe May and the Goodguys race at Indy are what the springs holds in store for the Speed Merchants. From there we will just have to see but I really want to book some one day/night match races at some of the tracks in our area. I have made contact with those tracks and hopefully we can work something out that will give us some opportunities to run the car locally and have some fun while continuing to tweak the engine and clutch.
To all my friends, family and readers of this blog HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!
Brad
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Cover and feature in Vintage Fuel!
We made the cover and feature article in the latest online issue of Vintage Fuel magazine! Thank you so much Christy (editor) and Dave (photographer). It is a huge honor and I am extremely excited. You can see it at: www.vintagefuel.com
The cover is there and you can go to the article by clicking on the featured racer link on the right hand side of the page. Please check it out!
I also want to post a link to some of the neatest drag racing photos I have ever seen. Copy and paste the address in your browser and you will be amazed at what you see here:
http://markjrebilas.com/blog/2008/12/best-of-2008-best-drag-racing-photos/
Brad
The cover is there and you can go to the article by clicking on the featured racer link on the right hand side of the page. Please check it out!
I also want to post a link to some of the neatest drag racing photos I have ever seen. Copy and paste the address in your browser and you will be amazed at what you see here:
http://markjrebilas.com/blog/2008/12/best-of-2008-best-drag-racing-photos/
Brad
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